Sep 9, 2026
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9 min read
Dylan Jacob had already built and sold two companies before BruMate. A frustrating search for a koozie that fit his beer of choice became a patented product line doing over $1.1M a month by his early twenties.
Sep 7, 2026
6 min read
Anatoly Pashias had a five figure business and a steady forex company salary. Then a favor for a friend turned into Motionvid, and he quit to go all in. The portfolio now clears more than $18k a month across three products.
Sep 6, 2026
Antonio Escudero quit his CS degree, failed three prior projects, and flew to Vietnam on his last $4k. RankInPublic went from under $300 a month to a $17k month once one specific growth lever clicked.
Sep 4, 2026
2 min read
Turn on Computer Use in Claude desktop and hand it a real task. Plus today's biggest AI headlines and four tools worth a look.
Sep 3, 2026
Vitalii Dodonov left a senior engineering job at eBay to cofound Stan with a stranger's introduction. Three years later the company is at $40M ARR with fewer than 50 people. Here is how the growth actually happened.
Sep 1, 2026
5 min read
Petar Georgiev needed a social media scheduler, tried the options on the market, and found them either overpriced or badly built. He built his own instead. PostFast hit profitability in about six months and now clears more than 5k MRR.
Aug 30, 2026
Matt Brown got laid off from Vox Media in April 2020, during a pandemic when nobody in sports journalism was hiring. He launched Extra Points 72 hours later out of pure necessity. It now clears more than $25k MRR across four distinct revenue lines.
Aug 29, 2026
1 min read
Plus: an AI that scores your writing while you type, and an agent that fixes production issues on its own.
Aug 28, 2026
Learn how to set up AI Bots for meeting prep, inbox management, prospecting, forecasting, sales coaching, and more — plus a few useful AI tools to try this week.
Aug 27, 2026
7 min read
Aryan Mahajan flew to Dubai with $4k left to his name, lived off canned tuna for four months, and built his first chatbot at 2am out of pure necessity. Two years later, Zoro and his portfolio clear $100k a month.
Aug 26, 2026
Plus: an AI source of truth for your team, agents that run real business tasks, and sticker packs made from your photos.
Aug 25, 2026
4 min read
Emanuele Di Pietro built ten iOS apps from his parents' house, and one of them, Remodex, hit $9k a month before OpenAI shipped a native competitor. He built it in two weeks knowing it would not last forever, and it still paid off.
Aug 23, 2026
10 min read
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.
Aug 9, 2026
Derrick Reimer sold Drip, watched Level fail, sold StaticKit quietly, then spent months auditing markets before starting SavvyCal. Six years later, it is two products at five figure MRR. Here is how he chose the market and what came after.
Aug 8, 2026
Plus: a vendor-neutral standard for agents, Alibaba's new video model, and a prompt that writes your invoices for you.
Aug 6, 2026
David Stepania ran his talent marketplace at a loss for two years, funded on personal credit cards. ThirstySprout has since crossed $2.5M in annual revenue and landed on the Inc. 5000. Here is the full path.
Aug 4, 2026
Ramsri Goutham Golla builds three AI products alongside a full-time data science job. The portfolio has crossed 2.5 million registered users and once hit $100k ARR. Here is the launch-and-iterate system behind it.
Aug 2, 2026
Ivan Nedelkovski scaled a dev agency to seven figures, sold it, and validated his next idea against a strict rubric before writing a line of code. Lancer hit $10k MRR in two months and now sits at $20k with a two-person team.
Jul 30, 2026
Jonathan Geiger sold products for $7k and $15k, refunded one he didn't want to build, and open-sourced another. Products five and six finally hit traction. He quit only once they cleared $3k a month. Here is the full framework.
Jul 28, 2026
8 min read
Adi Leviim and his cofounder were drowning in their own ChatGPT history. So they read where people complain unprompted, built the sharpest fix, and quit their jobs. Two years later: 35,000 users and a five-figure MRR on $45 a month.
