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Aug 23, 2026
Aurelien Amacker spent $200k of his own money, lost a year to a bad agency, and still bootstrapped systeme.io to $1M ARR in two years with no funding and no paid ads. He now runs 90 people while working four hours a day.
Aug 20, 2026
Cecilia Razak built Slides With Friends to solve her own team's pandemic problem of running engaging remote meetings. It crossed $40k MRR through word of mouth and bottom of funnel content. Now she is adapting to a changed search landscape.
Aug 18, 2026
Ruslan Leteyski bootstrapped a Shopify checkout app to $8M ARR, then watched it die overnight when the platform changed its rules. His fourth business, Zipchat, is now nearing $2M ARR in a brutally crowded space.
Aug 16, 2026
Lukas Bohler ran a software agency in Austria, and Gleap started as an internal tool to fix vague bug reports from clients. It is now bootstrapped, profitable, and past 7 figure ARR, used by teams at Microsoft and UNICEF.
Aug 13, 2026
Jakub Muzik has spent years building side projects around a Salesforce day job that bores him. Most made nothing. Then Leadverse clicked almost immediately, and it is now past $20k in gross revenue with 130 plus paying customers.
Aug 11, 2026
Sergiu Chiriac kept manually submitting his own products to startup directories, so he built a tool to save himself the trouble. Other founders asked for the same help. Now AI Directories carries the bulk of his $10k plus monthly portfolio.