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Money receipts from people building with AI.
One maker, one product, one number: what they earned, saved, sold or won, and how we know.
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Formula Bot adds ChatGPT-like AI to Excel and Google Sheets for formulas, analysis and charts.
Founder states about $26K/month in a Starter Story interview transcript; the $1M in the title refers to valuation, not revenue.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Bubble · OpenAI API · AI formula generation
- Cost
- Not stated
And during that time, it's reached about $26,000 a month in return.
Sources Starter Story transcript: I Built a $1M AI App [No Code]
Reported Oct 2026
PranithRabbit Holes AI
Rabbit Holes AI is a desktop canvas app for interacting with multiple AI models.
Founder states around $80K gross revenue with about 200 paying users in a Starter Story interview transcript; machine-transcribed with typos.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor · Vercel AI SDK · AI models
- Cost
- Not stated
It's like around 80kish in Gras Revenue, as we speak, and about 75 around profits and minus the refunds and everything.
Sources Starter Story transcript: My app failed, then I changed one thing, and made $80K
Reported Oct 2026
Piotr ObidowskiVisualizee.aiSite
Visualizee.ai turns sketches and floor plans into photorealistic architectural renders in seconds.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification dated Oct 7 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not an audited filing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI architectural rendering · AI image generation
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR Visualizee.ai
Reported Oct 2026
MimikFlow is a LinkedIn AI agent that finds buying signals and books sales calls.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification dated Oct 7 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not an audited filing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI prospecting agent · AI LinkedIn outreach · AI lead scoring
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR MimikFlow
Reported Oct 2026
SEOBOT is an AI agent that automates SEO keyword research, content, and link building.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification dated Oct 7 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not an audited filing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI SEO agent · AI keyword research · AI blog generation
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR SEOBOT
Reported Oct 2026
LocalRank.so is an AI local SEO tool that helps agencies rank clients first on Google.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification dated Oct 7 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not an audited filing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI local SEO software · AI content optimization
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR LocalRank.so
Reported Oct 2026
NotFair is an AI agent that analyzes and optimizes Google Ads campaigns with approval-gated execution.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification dated Oct 7 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not an audited filing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI ads management agent · AI campaign analysis · OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR NotFair
Reported Oct 2026
BennettBacklinker AISite
Backlinker AI automates backlink outreach to win high-authority mentions at scale.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification dated Oct 7 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not an audited filing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-powered outreach · OpenAI · AI response drafting
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR Backlinker AI
Reported Oct 2026
Sanskar TiwariMagicSlides.appSite
MagicSlides.app is a Google Slides addon, with PowerPoint and Figma plugins, that generates presentations with AI in seconds.
The MRR is a Stripe-verified TrustMRR snapshot, and the founder states the lifetime total beside it.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo, no employees
- Tools
- AI slide generation · Gemini AI
- Cost
- Not stated
Launched Jan 2023, $700k+ lifetime revenue, all verified via Stripe here.
Sources TrustMRR MagicSlides.app MagicSlides.app
Reported Oct 2026
UXMagic.AI is a Figma plugin and AI UI generator that turns prompts, screenshots and URLs into editable Figma designs.
The MRR is a Stripe-verified TrustMRR snapshot, though the page does not disclose team size.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI UI generation · AI design editing
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR UX Magic Inc. UXMagic.ai
Reported Oct 2026
TrustMRR lists founders’ Stripe-checked revenue and grew into a marketplace for buying and selling small online businesses.
Took about six hours for the first version
The MRR is a dated snapshot of TrustMRR's own Stripe-verified listing, and the AI build is described by the maker.
Details
- Time
- about six hours for the first version
- Team
- 1 person
- Tools
- Cursor
- Cost
- Not stated
So I opened Cursor and asked it to build a place where founders could verify their revenue with a read-only Stripe key.
Sources Marc Lou newsletter TrustMRR listing
Reported Oct 2026
Postiz is an agentic AI social media scheduler that plans, generates, and schedules posts.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification updated Oct 5 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not audited financials.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI agents · AI post generation · AI scheduling
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR Postiz Postiz
Reported Oct 2026
AEO Engine is an AI SEO agency that makes brands the answer in AI search.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification updated Oct 5 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not audited financials.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI SEO · AI search visibility · ChatGPT optimization
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR AEO Engine AEO Engine
Reported Oct 2026
Speel.co generates realistic AI UGC-style videos and images for ads and socials.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification updated Oct 5 2026, but the founder is listed only as Yann and the MRR is a platform snapshot.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI video generation · AI avatar videos · AI images for ads
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR Speel.co Speel.co
Reported Oct 2026
Mateo Starcevic FilipovicPromptwiseSite
Promptwise is a generative AI platform for AI video, image, and audio generation.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification updated Oct 5 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not audited financials.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 11-25 people
- Tools
- AI video generation · AI image generation · AI audio generation
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR Promptwise Promptwise
Reported Oct 2026
Vid.AI turns ideas or scripts into ready-to-post videos with AI voiceovers and editing.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification updated Oct 5 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not audited financials.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 2-5 people
- Tools
- AI voiceovers · AI visuals · AI video editing
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR Vid.AI Vid.AI
Reported Oct 2026
Traxy.ai builds lead lists from social media listening for B2B sales teams.
TrustMRR shows live Stripe verification updated Oct 5 2026, but the MRR is a platform snapshot, not audited financials.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 2-5 people
- Tools
- AI lead discovery · social listening AI
- Cost
- Not stated
Revenue is verified with Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR traxy.ai traxy.ai
Reported Oct 2026
AbMaxx builds a custom abs plan with premade ab training programs for each user.
Took second version built in about one month
The maker shows a RevenueCat dashboard on video, so the figure is self-reported rather than independently verified.
Details
- Time
- second version built in about one month
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
I launched my first app AppMax about five months ago and now we're on pace to hit 60k this month
Sources Starter Story video: This unbelievable app idea makes $50K/month AbMaxx on the App Store
Reported Oct 2026
Nikolay ShestakThe First Honest Day
An AI-assisted short film that won the $450,000 Grand Prix at the first Astana AI Film Festival.
The result was reported by Kazakhstan's state news agency and the same figure and winner appear in other outlets; the festival says it is for AI-created films.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-assisted filmmaking
- Cost
- Not stated
The festival's Grand Prix and $450,000 prize, equivalent to around 201.5 million tenge, went to Latvian filmmaker Nikolay Shestak for The First Honest Day.
Sources Kazinform: Astana AI Film Festival crowns winners Kazinform: AAIFF 2026 winners share stories
Reported Oct 2026
Abhik BanerjeeSITARA
An AI-made short film that took second place at the first Astana AI Film Festival.
The prize and winner are stated by the state news agency reporting the official AAIFF results; the film was part of a festival exclusively for AI-created films.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-generated film
- Cost
- Not stated
Indian director Abhik Banerjee took second place and $200,000 for Sitara.
Sources Kazinform: AAIFF 2026 winners share stories Kazinform: Astana AI Film Festival crowns winners
Reported Oct 2026
Ernest DesumbilaLooking for Perseida
An AI-made short film, completed in ten days, that won third place at the first Astana AI Film Festival.
Took 10 days
Official results reported by the state news agency; Desumbila says he made the whole film alone at home in ten days after learning of the deadline.
Details
- Time
- 10 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-generated film
- Cost
- Not stated
The third-place prize of $100,000 went to Spanish filmmaker Ernest Desumbila for Looking for Perseida.
Sources Kazinform: AAIFF 2026 winners share stories Kazinform: Astana AI Film Festival crowns winners
Reported Oct 2026
ReelDrop turns ideas and footage into carousels, captions, and social actions.
The figure is a dated public snapshot, even though TrustMRR reports Stripe verification.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- 2-5 people
- Tools
- AI carousel generation · AI caption generation · AI social-action automation
- Cost
- not disclosed
Revenue verified with a Stripe API key.
Sources TrustMRR ReelDrop ReelDrop
Reported Oct 2026
Eyal and YaliPropGPT
PropGPT is a sports betting analytics app that gives users pre-screened AI-analyzed picks.
Makers state $30K MRR after relaunch via a podcast summary of the Starter Story interview; no dashboard shown and founders are first-names-only.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Machine learning · LLMs
- Cost
- Not stated
After their rebuilt app launched, Eyal and Yali hit $30,000 MRR in just 10 weeks.
Sources Starter Story via Vuci: Why Product Is Better Than Distribution ($30K/Month Mobile App)
Reported Oct 2026
SocialKit is an API that returns transcripts, AI summaries, comments and engagement stats from social platforms.
TrustMRR shows an $85,000 exit for this AI data API; the testimonial credits Jonathan Geiger while the startup page lists founder Sam P, so maker attribution is uncertain.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI video summaries · AI-ready transcript data · MCP server for AI agents
- Cost
- Not stated
My startup SocialKit was acquired on TrustMRR.
Sources TrustMRR - Why sell on TrustMRR TrustMRR - SocialKit
Reported Oct 2026
Fernando PessagnoAIcarousels and ResumeMaker.onlineSite
AIcarousels and ResumeMaker.online are two AI apps for social carousels and resumes.
Founder states combined $15K MRR across two apps in a Starter Story interview transcript; self-reported with no dashboard.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- AI carousel generation · AI resume building
- Cost
- Not stated
I reached this point when I'm earning 15k out of my products.
Sources Starter Story transcript: I Make $15K/Month With 2 AI Apps
Reported Sep 2026
Jeff SynthesizedThe Gifted
An AI-produced short film that won the first Google, XPRIZE and Range Media Future Vision XPRIZE.
The headline prize is the $2.5M, structured as an equity investment into the feature; the film also took $100,000 cash for screenplay development and a $50,000 audience award.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-produced film
- Cost
- Not stated
The Gifted, directed by Jeff Synthesized, received $2.5 million as an equity investment towards the production of the full-length feature film.
Sources Deadline: The Gifted wins inaugural Future Vision XPRIZE
Reported Sep 2026
Polyfork sells customizable AI-generated 3D models produced by an AI-agent factory.
Took 90 days
The organizer announced the prize on its official results page and independent press corroborated it, so the number is solid.
Details
- Time
- 90 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Google Gemini · AI agents
- Cost
- Not stated
Polyfork received the $500,000 first-place prize.
Sources Pulse2 Polyfork wins $500,000 XPRIZE Polyfork wins announcement
Reported Sep 2026
José Edgar Peña RamírezTician CierreSite
Tician Cierre uses AI to help Mexican businesses recover VAT credits by automating tax claims.
Took 90 days
The organizer listed the same placement and prize on its official results page, so the number is solid.
Details
- Time
- 90 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Google Gemini
- Cost
- Not stated
Second place and $200,000 went to Tician Cierre, created by José Edgar Peña Ramírez of Mexico.
Sources Pulse2 Polyfork wins $500,000 XPRIZE Polyfork wins announcement
Reported Sep 2026
Jane Chukwuyem Odum and Ayodele DadaMyFixAmSite
MyFixAm is an AI-powered marketplace connecting Nigerian artisans with paying work.
Took 90 days
The organizer listed the same placement and prize on its official results page, so the number is solid.
Details
- Time
- 90 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Google Gemini
- Cost
- Not stated
MyFixAm, created by Jane Chukwuyem Odum and Ayodele Dada of Nigeria and the United States, received $100,000 for third place.
Sources Pulse2 Polyfork wins $500,000 XPRIZE Polyfork wins announcement
Reported Sep 2026
Frank Michael SmithGeoSports
GeoSports is a daily sports geography web game where players tap the map where a moment happened.
Took 8 hours over a weekend
The ~$40K/month is spoken by the maker in an interview and covers GeoSports plus its spin-offs; no dashboard is shown.
Details
- Time
- 8 hours over a weekend
- Team
- 1 person, no coding background
- Tools
- Claude
- Cost
- Not stated
Three months in, GeoGames (GeoSports plus spin-offs) has ~700K MAU and makes ~$40K/month, mostly programmatic ads plus ~1,800 Pro subs.
Sources GTM Sauce GeoSports episode breakdown
Reported Sep 2026
Ayushi AnandAyushi Anand AI digital twinSite
Anand shares her social accounts with an AI twin of herself that models, promotes brands and generates client leads for Kalpanik Films.
The figure is the maker's unaudited claim for the joint human-plus-avatar account, not verified statements.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenART · AI voice cloning
- Cost
- Not stated
The 'hybrid' account makes up to £6,600 a month from brand collaborations and bringing in new clients.
Sources Metro: I earn £6,600 every month - and I don't even exist
Reported Sep 2026
Luis Carlos Reyes Vanegas with Gianfranco, Najem, and Johan SebastianTRAMA AI, Corp.Site
TRAMA is an AI agent on WhatsApp that runs inventory and orders for mid-size textile companies without an ERP.
The $50,000 prize comes from XPRIZE's official results page; the project page confirms the named maker and the AI-native agent.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Gemini · WhatsApp AI agent
- Cost
- Not stated
Five category prizes of $50,000 each were awarded to the highest-grossing project in each category:
Sources XPRIZE winners announcement TRAMA AI, Corp. project page
Reported Sep 2026
Francs SilvaBarber CopilotSite
Barber Copilot pairs a small human team with specialized AI agents to give hundreds of barbershops customer retention as an AI workforce.
The $50,000 runner-up award is from XPRIZE's official results page; the project page names the maker and the AI-agent product.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Gemini · specialized AI agents
- Cost
- Not stated
Fifteen runner-up awards of $50,000 each went to:
Sources XPRIZE winners announcement Barber Copilot project page
Reported Sep 2026
Pam PolyakPolyak Trucking AI telematics audit
A third-generation trucking owner fed fleet data into Claude and recovered labor costs from idle-driver time.
The figure is the owner's estimate of cumulative payroll lost to one driver's idle time, quoted in a FreightWaves interview.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude
- Cost
- Not stated
That right there easily saved me $53,000 worth of time and money because of him getting paid hourly.
Sources CoVar Transport (FreightWaves) FreightWaves original
Reported Sep 2026
Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul MainiHacktron OpenAI security researchSite
Hacktron published security research that led to an OpenAI bounty.
Took about 2 months for the broader project · Cost under $3,000 in tokens, as stated by the authors
The bounty is claimed by the researchers, and no payment record is shown.
Details
- Time
- about 2 months for the broader project
- Team
- 3 researchers
- Tools
- Claude Opus 4.8
- Cost
- under $3,000 in tokens, as stated by the authors
OpenAI also paid us a $6,500 bounty.
Sources Hacktron report Harsh Jaiswal Mohan Pedhapati Rahul Maini
Reported Sep 2026
Nicole CheungGlam Up
Glam Up is an AI beauty app that reached 1M users and top #3 in the US App Store Lifestyle category.
Founder-reported peak MRR for Glam Up in a Starter Story interview; portfolio total is stated as $400K/mo but only the $150K component is directly quoted.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI beauty generation
- Cost
- Not stated
My first app, Glam Up (AI beauty app), got 1M users, peak 150K MRR, and top #3 on the US App Store Lifestyle category within 6 months of launch.
Sources Starter Story: How I Launched Two AI Consumer Apps To $400K/Month In Revenue
Reported Sep 2026
Duncan RogoffClaude Code ClubSite
Duncan Rogoff teaches non-developers to build real tools with Anthropic Claude Code.
The monthly figure is a Skool leaderboard estimate published by a third party, not a payment record from the creator.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · Anthropic Claude · AI prompts and skills
- Cost
- not disclosed
Claude Code Club Skool has 8,515 members at $9 a month and $38,073 MRR.
Sources Skool Files: Claude Code Club Claude Code Club on Skool
Reported Sep 2026
Charles FloateAI SEO RainmakersSite
Charles Floate teaches search marketers to win with AI-assisted SEO systems and his CharlesGPT tooling.
The monthly figure is a Skool leaderboard estimate published by a third party, not a payment record from the creator.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- not stated
- Tools
- CharlesGPT · AI SEO tools · ChatGPT
- Cost
- not disclosed
It was created on 10 August 2026 and by 2 September it held rank 77 on Skool's global leaderboard with $60,144.42 of monthly recurring revenue from 300 members.
Sources Skool Files: AI SEO Rainmakers AI SEO Rainmakers on Skool
Reported Sep 2026
Ryan YaoCat on Chair
Cat on Chair is a cat-themed Pomodoro focus timer with collectible cats, gifts, and furniture.
Took about three months to first version
The number is founder-shared with a sales-dashboard screenshot, but the screenshot itself was not independently verified.
Details
- Time
- about three months to first version
- Team
- two people
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
In the 30-day period Ryan shared, it had produced more than $18,000 in sales, alongside about 24,000 first-time downloads.
Sources StackStarts Cat on Chair interview Starter Story Cat on Chair video
Reported Sep 2026
Sky LubreskiScratch Golf Command CenterSite
Scratch Golf owner Sky Lubreski rebuilt his store's back office with Bolt.new and cancelled its SaaS stack and ad agency.
Took one or two months
The $36,000 is the maker's nearly $3,000 a month in cancelled tools and services times twelve, told in a customer story published by Bolt, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- one or two months
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Bolt.new · AI agents
- Cost
- Not stated
Now Scratch Golf runs on his own system, the Command Center, and he's canceled nearly $3,000 a month in software and services.
Sources Bolt: How one owner replaced almost $3,000 a month ShopScratchGolf
Reported Aug 2026
Paul L.TradeWeaveSite
Trucking-software consultant Paul L. built the TradeWeave EDI platform with his two sons on Bolt.new.
The $70,000 is the yearly price of the industry-standard software they did not buy, told in a customer story published by Bolt, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 3 people
- Tools
- Bolt.new
- Cost
- Not stated
The industry-standard EDI software, Dell Boomi, runs about $70,000 a year.
Sources Bolt: TradeWeave saves clients from a $70K subscription TradeWeave
Reported Aug 2026
CalBuddy is a Hebrew AI calorie tracker that logs meals from food photos.
Took two weeks to working version
Founder's own revenue chart shown on video, unaudited and unconfirmed outside the interview.
Details
- Time
- two weeks to working version
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor · Claude
- Cost
- Not stated
Grew from $1K first month (June 2025) to $81K/month
Sources Starter Story transcript on CalBuddy
Reported Aug 2026
AutoShorts.ai generates, schedules, and auto-posts faceless short-form videos to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.
The $103K figure comes from the founder's X bio as captured by a third party, not a payment-verified dashboard, and the documented timeline only reaches $40K MRR.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- OpenAI · Replicate
- Cost
- Not stated
AutoShorts.ai reports $103K MRR as of August 2026.
Sources How AutoShorts.ai reached $40K MRR with faceless-video automation - Startup Founder Stories Bootstrapping an AI Faceless Video Tool to $40K MRR - MRR Story
Reported Aug 2026
Stella is a manifesting app that creates custom visualizations and daily affirmations.
Took two to three months full build, MVP in about two days
The maker states the figure on video while showing revenue screenshots, so it is self-reported rather than independently verified.
Details
- Time
- two to three months full build, MVP in about two days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · Cursor · Google AI Studio
- Cost
- Not stated
So within the first two months since launching we hit 300K MRR and I think this is a little lower than it actually is
Sources Starter Story video: She Built This $300K/Month App in 60 Days Stella on the App Store
Reported Jul 2026
Saeed EzzatiSuperpower ChatGPTSite
Superpower ChatGPT is a Chrome and Firefox extension that turns ChatGPT into an organized AI workspace with folders, search, prompts and exports.
Maker-stated MRR in an Indie Hackers interview; no processor verification shown.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- AI prompt management · AI conversation search
- Cost
- Not stated
The business is now at 5-figure MRR, and I still run it as a solo founder.
Sources Indie Hackers Superpower ChatGPT Superpower ChatGPT
Reported Jul 2026
Andreas, Isabel and EricKlar
Klar is an AI learning platform that generates practice exams, flashcards and podcasts from course material.
Took a few weeks
Founder first names only; the ARR figure comes from an ARR directory listing linked to a Lovable founder showcase, with no dashboard shown.
Details
- Time
- a few weeks
- Team
- 3 founders
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
Klar, founded by Andreas, Isabel, and Eric, achieved a notable €130K ARR just 30 days after launching its AI-powered learning platform, tentatively named Tentaklar and later rebranded to Klar.
Sources ARR Club Klar milestone Lovable Klar founder story
Reported Jul 2026
Albert is a private multi-agent B2B sales workforce wired into a CRM, inbox, and operating tools.
Cost $15.85 lifetime running cost
$460 is an avoided-cost comparison, not cash received.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- one operator
- Tools
- Claude · custom sales agents · HubSpot · Outlook
- Cost
- $15.85 lifetime running cost
It replaced a $460 invoice and a team I never hired.
Sources Maker's DEV post Original site
Reported Jul 2026
Erly is an alarm clock app that switches the alarm off only after the user does push-ups.
Took 19 days from first commit to the App Store
The maker shows a last-28-days sales dashboard on video, so the figure is self-reported rather than independently verified.
Details
- Time
- 19 days from first commit to the App Store
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
My name is Jake and I built an app that does over 50 000 in revenue per month
Sources Starter Story video: This Insanely Simple App Makes $50K/Month Erly
Reported Jul 2026
A. BestThe June
A short story generated by a prompt-and-harness system that won a $10,000 contest for AI-written fiction.
The credited author 'A. Best' appears to be a pen name; the contest required the story to come from the entrant's prompt/harness rather than hand editing.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · LLM prompt harness
- Cost
- Not stated
An AI fiction contest awarded a $10,000 grand prize to A. Best's 'The June,' after judges reviewed stories created through prompts and model harnesses rather than hand-edited prose.
Sources LavX News: Unslop contest tests whether AI can write fiction worth reading Unslop results (source cited by LavX)
Reported Jul 2026
Timo Kohler and Patrick KohlerChartDetector AISite
ChartDetector AI analyzes photos of stock or crypto charts and returns AI trading direction guidance.
The figure is founder-reported across interviews with no independent audit, and it runs on about $18,000 a month in TikTok ad spend.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- two brothers
- Tools
- Cursor AI · OpenAI · RevenueCat
- Cost
- Not stated
Timo reported that ChartDetector AI was generating about $56,000 per month at the time discussed.
Sources StackStarts ChartDetector AI interview Starter Story episode with Timo
Reported Jul 2026
Nate HerkAI Automation Society Plus
Nate Herk teaches beginners to build AI automations with Claude Code and land agency clients on monthly retainers.
The monthly figure is a Skool leaderboard estimate published by a third party, not a payment record from the creator.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · n8n · AI agents
- Cost
- not disclosed
a Skool community earning $241,673 per month from 3,943 members.
Sources Skool Files: AI Automation Society Plus Nate Herk on Skool
Reported Jul 2026
Jack RobertsAI Automations by JackSite
Jack Roberts teaches members to build and sell AI automations with plug-and-play Claude Code systems and unlimited support.
The monthly figure is a Skool leaderboard estimate published by a third party, not a payment record from the creator.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · Hermes OS · n8n
- Cost
- not disclosed
AI Automations by Jack, a top-ten earner on Skool at roughly $205,821 per month.
Sources Skool Files: AI Automations by Jack AI Automations by Jack on Skool
Reported Jul 2026
Daniel RileyAI Video BootcampSite
Daniel Riley teaches creators to make and monetize AI video, AI influencers, and UGC ads.
The monthly figure is a Skool leaderboard estimate published by a third party, not a payment record from the creator.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- not stated
- Tools
- AI video generators · AI image generators · AI prompting
- Cost
- not disclosed
With 25,957 members it is the #1 AI video community on Skool and earns around $197,112/month in tracked MRR.
Sources Skool Files: AI Video Bootcamp AI Video Bootcamp on Skool
Reported Jul 2026
Samuel RondotStoryShort.ai
StoryShort.ai is an AI short-video generator that turns topics into scripts, voiceovers and ready-to-upload videos.
An Indonesian-language case study (quote translated) reports the TrustMRR figure, which is connected to the maker's Stripe account.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · AI short-video generation · AI API
- Cost
- Not stated
TrustMRR, connected directly to his Stripe account, shows $22,309 MRR, 391 paying customers, and $513,973 total revenue as of July 2026
Sources How To Make Money Indonesian Samuel Rondot case TrustMRR StoryShort
Reported Jul 2026
Plinq gives women instant background checks from public criminal and legal records.
Took 45 days to MVP
A third-party article restating the founder's unaudited ARR, so treat it as a founder claim.
Details
- Time
- 45 days to MVP
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
Three months after launch, Plinq had crossed 10,000 users and reached R$2.2 million in annual recurring revenue, around $456K.
Sources AI Eating The World on Plinq Lovable case study on Plinq
Reported Jun 2026
Alex FioreAI CentralSite
Alex Fiore teaches busy senior professionals to use AI at work through hands-on tutorials and a daily newsletter.
beehiiv case study with maker quotes and platform data; ad-network portion only, total business is bigger.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · n8n · Notion
- Cost
- not disclosed
Generated $150,000+ in revenue through the beehiiv Ad Network.
Sources beehiiv case study: AI Central AI Central
Reported Jun 2026
Ilya Fashion and BekaAI-assisted YouTube Shorts experimentSite
The channel uses AI-generated characters and backgrounds to make animated YouTube Shorts.
Took 15 monetised days
The earnings are maker-reported and monetisation may depend on platform review.
Details
- Time
- 15 monetised days
- Team
- 2 people
- Tools
- Google AI/Gemini · After Effects
- Cost
- not stated
After 15 days of monetization, they earned $1,652.
Sources Original YouTube video TubeSum result summary YouTube channel
Reported Jun 2026
Bryan Dong, Ray Kasichainula, Subha Vadlamannati and Gino ChiaranaipanichSPED (Training-Free Interactive World Models)Site
SPED makes autoregressive video diffusion interactive, letting a user retarget a generating video mid-stream at real-time speed.
Took 24 hours
The $50k figure is stated by the winning team on their own public repo, and the event's Devpost page lists the same $50,000 top prize.
Details
- Time
- 24 hours
- Team
- 4 people
- Tools
- Gemini · FlashAttention 3
- Cost
- Not stated
$50k Grand Prize Winner @ Inference Time Compute Hackathon by Etched x Mercor x Cognition x Anthropic
Sources SPED repository Inference-Time Compute Hackathon 2026
Reported Jun 2026
Robert GaudetteA Face Only a Mother Could LoveSite
A Face Only a Mother Could Love is an eight-minute AI-generated short film about a lonely Parisian dancer.
Cost $5,000 production budget
The festival archive names the winner and lists the Grand Prix as $50,000 plus one million Runway credits.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Grok · Nano Banana · Seedance · ElevenLabs · Suno
- Cost
- $5,000 production budget
The Grand Prix went to Robert Gaudette's "A Face Only a Mother Could Love," with Dorian & Daniel's "The Well" taking Gold and Mathery's "Where Knights Fall" the Silver.
Sources AI Film History AIFF 2026 Runway AIF 2026 official winners FilmFreeway A Face Only a Mother Could Love AI Film Flix A Face Only a Mother Could Love
Reported Jun 2026
Martin Ebonguemartinebongue.com content studio (five free Claude skills)
A solo creator replaced his five-person content team with five free Claude skills.
Took one afternoon of setup, a few days to learn
The maker's own figure for avoided team cost ($8,000/month, $96,000/year), and he sells a related $9/month membership, so treat the number as his estimate.
Details
- Time
- one afternoon of setup, a few days to learn
- Team
- one person
- Tools
- Claude · NotebookLM skill · Nano Banana · Remotion skill · Stitcher skill · Humanizer skill
- Cost
- Not stated
My old studio bill was $8,000 a month.
Sources Martin Ebongue blog
Reported Jun 2026
Tiago CostaAutomarticles
Automarticles is a SaaS that writes, formats and publishes blog articles with AI.
The quote is our English translation of a Portuguese-language source, and the figure is the founder's own claim.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI article generation · Vibe Coding · Lovable · Cursor · Supabase
- Cost
- Not stated
Today Automarticles has more than 600 paying customers and earns R$130 thousand per month
Sources ibe.IA Tiago Costa Automarticles
Reported May 2026
ChatSEO is an AI-powered SEO assistant that connects to Google Search Console and tells you what to fix.
Third-party case study compiled from public founder statements, not a payment-verified dashboard.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 3 co-founders
- Tools
- Claude · Claude Code
- Cost
- Not stated
We have grown to around €14,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) in just about 3 months (roughly 87 days)
Sources How ChatSEO Grew to 14K MRR Using Only Organic Traffic - MRR Story
Reported May 2026
Pep AI is a mobile app for tracking peptide and GLP-1 doses, side effects, meals, and injection sites.
A research-based case study of the 22-year-old student's public claims; the $60K figure has no shown dashboard.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- Replit · Claude · AI meal scanner
- Cost
- Not stated
We launched in early 2026. In just a few months, we scaled the app to $60,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR).
Sources MRR Story Pep AI case study Startup Founder Stories Pep AI
Reported May 2026
Trave HarmonTriton Technologies internal automation (38 Claude-built projects)
The CEO of a small managed-IT firm used Claude to build 38 internal projects that replaced paid software and labor.
Took 50 days · Cost $563.30 in Claude AI
Numbers are self-reported but the maker says they are backed by invoices, ACH records and operational measurements; the first-year value including one-time cost avoided is put at $767,983.
Details
- Time
- 50 days
- Team
- one person
- Tools
- Claude AI
- Cost
- $563.30 in Claude AI
Annual recurring savings: $364,858 (mid)
Sources Triton Technologies case study
Reported Apr 2026
Devon CanupAcross the Globe and Nutty History
Canup runs the faceless YouTube channels Across the Globe and Nutty History through an AI-assisted scripting and voiceover pipeline.
The page shows YouTube analytics dashboard screenshots behind the AdSense figures, though they are still self-published.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- ChatGPT · ElevenLabs
- Cost
- Not stated
My channels grossed $32,149 last month.
Sources BecomeViral: Faceless YouTube Channels Complete Guide 2026
Reported Apr 2026
Romayrohghost-niche faceless YouTube channels
Romayroh runs faceless YouTube channels in low-competition niches with AI-written scripts and AI voiceover.
The lifetime total is self-reported in-video without independent audit, and the maker goes by a single creator name.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude · ElevenLabs
- Cost
- Not stated
Across all of my YouTube channels, I've made over $2 million in just YouTube ad revenue.
Sources SozAI transcript: Boring faceless channels $31,364 in 90 days
Reported Apr 2026
LeadFlow is an AI-powered cold email automation tool for non-technical sales teams and agencies.
The figure is the founder's own statement with no screenshot or processor verification shown.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI cold-email automation
- Cost
- Not stated
Today, LeadFlow brings in around $100K/month in revenue.
Sources Starter Story: My AI App Makes $100K/Month (LeadFlow) LeadFlow
Reported Apr 2026
Dmytro NegodiukNegodiuk AI ConsultingSite
Negodiuk AI Consulting builds AI voice agents, email workflows, and reporting bots inside small and mid-size businesses.
Self-reported figure in a founder interview with no dashboard or processor proof; the $132K/year line implies the $11K/month headline.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 1 founder, 0 employees
- Tools
- AI customer service agents · AI voice bots · AI email workflows
- Cost
- Not stated
Dmytro Negodiuk started the business in 2025, and currently makes an average of $132K/year.
Sources Starter Story interview
Reported Apr 2026
ForgeGUI is an AI design studio that generates game-ready UI assets for Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, Unity, and Unreal developers.
The figure comes from a research-based case study compiling the teen maker's public posts, not from a shown dashboard.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- AI image generation models · reference-guided style transfer
- Cost
- Not stated
Around the 6-week mark, we officially crossed the $100K ARR milestone (over $8.3K+ MRR).
Sources MRR Story ForgeGUI case study
Reported Apr 2026
Max VotekPersonal CRM built with Claude Code
A solopreneur replaced HubSpot, Monday.com, Notion and Zapier with a CRM he built in Claude Code.
Took about 20 hours · Cost $200/month for Claude Code
His own claim; he also reports Claude estimated a traditional team would need 516 hours and $66,400 to build the same tool, but the ongoing saving is the replaced $2,000/month stack.
Details
- Time
- about 20 hours
- Team
- one person
- Tools
- Claude Code
- Cost
- $200/month for Claude Code
How I replaced $2,000/month in SaaS with a $200 Claude Code subscription.
Sources Max Votek on Substack
Reported Mar 2026
DM Champ sells AI sales agents that talk to leads and close deals for clinics and local businesses over chat apps.
Founder-reported revenue in an interview; it is a productized AI service rather than a pure agency, so the angle fit is partial.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 3 founders, 1 employee
- Tools
- AI sales agents · WhatsApp automation · Instantly
- Cost
- Not stated
Today we bring in around $10K per month, serving over 150 businesses worldwide.
Sources Starter Story interview
Reported Mar 2026
Ben McMillanIDX Advisors in-house legal and software automation
The CIO of a small investment firm used LLMs to run an in-house paralegal function and replace outsourced developers.
The founder's own estimate in a paid interview, not an audited figure; he gives a $75,000 LP-docs example and $7 in AI compute for a task that used to take 40 hours.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 10-person firm
- Tools
- ChatGPT · Claude · Claude Code · Codex · OpenClaw
- Cost
- Not stated
I did the math: we easily saved a million dollars in legal bills since the launch of LLMs, which is material.
Sources AI Street interview
Reported Mar 2026
Photo AI generates realistic photos and videos from trained models.
The monthly revenue figure is maker-reported and unaudited.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- solo maker
- Tools
- AI image generation (product) · AI-assisted coding (video editor)
- Cost
- not disclosed
$105,000/mo revenue
Sources Levels' Photo AI revenue post Levels' Photo AI video-editor post Photo AI product
Reported Mar 2026
Christian Rac and Braylin Byrd3AK TrackSite
3AK Track is a track-and-field training app with AI stride analysis, workouts, and an AI coach.
Took built with 8-10 hours a day before the January 2026 launch
Rork shows a RevenueCat verification badge and screenshot, but the claim still rests on founder-shared dashboards.
Details
- Time
- built with 8-10 hours a day before the January 2026 launch
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Rork · ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
Now it's doing $17,460 in the last 28 days - verified by RevenueCat - and still climbing.
Sources Rork 3AK Track case study 3AK Track on the App Store
Reported Mar 2026
Allan PatersonBenders Paper Cups automation (Claude Cowork)
A manufacturing technical manager showed a Claude Cowork workflow could replace an enterprise automation quote at a fraction of the price.
Cost £18/month per user for Claude Pro
The maker is upfront that the original SCADA-triggered automation is not yet fully replicated; the $116,000 is the 2017 Softomotive quote he says a £18/month Claude workflow now approaches.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude · Claude Cowork
- Cost
- £18/month per user for Claude Pro
That is over $116,000 before you add training, professional services, or annual support renewals.
Sources Allan Paterson on Substack
Reported Feb 2026
AudioPen turns fuzzy spoken thoughts into clear text.
Maker-reported range in an Indie Hackers interview with no dashboard or processor proof shown in the excerpt.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- voice-to-text AI
- Cost
- Not stated
It currently generates between $15k and $20k per month.
Sources Indie Hackers: Building an AI tool in a half-day hackathon and hitting $20k/mo AudioPen
Reported Feb 2026
Chat Agency AI builds bespoke AI systems that automate workflows inside clients' existing infrastructure.
Founder's self-reported figure in an interview; no revenue screenshot or third-party verification is shown.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 2 founders, 2 employees
- Tools
- LLMs · custom AI systems
- Cost
- Not stated
We're at the $10K revenue mark.
Sources Starter Story interview
Reported Feb 2026
Gabe LarsenAtonom internal CRMSite
Atonom's internal CRM tracks leads, pipeline, and revenue and triggers its AI sales agent.
Took a working prototype in three hours · Cost about $1,200 a year
The $40,000 is the yearly CRM bill the team says it dropped, told in a customer story published by Lovable, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- a working prototype in three hours
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- about $1,200 a year
It was 40 grand a year for 25 or 30 people.
Sources Lovable: startup replaces $40,000 Salesforce contract
Reported Feb 2026
George LampropoulosWrestle AISite
Wrestle AI turns wrestling match videos into AI scores, strengths, weaknesses, drills, and strategy notes.
Took about a month to build
The number comes from a Rork case study with a revenue-chart screenshot, so it is maker-shown rather than independently audited.
Details
- Time
- about a month to build
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Rork · ChatGPT · OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
That app has earned $131,863 in total revenue over 6 months - with current MRR at $23K and total monthly revenue hitting $39.4K when you include yearly subscriptions.
Sources Rork Wrestle AI case study Wrestle AI on the App Store
Reported Feb 2026
Justin LobAI automation agency services
Justin Lob runs a solo AI automation agency building Make.com workflows and automations for clients.
Figure comes from an interview summary page rather than a dashboard screenshot; the number itself is founder-reported.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- Make.com · Airtable · Instantly
- Cost
- Not stated
Nick Saraev interviews Justin Lob, an AI automation agency owner who grew his business to $20,354 per month in February 2026 while simultaneously holding a full-time supply chain consulting job.
Sources Frontier Models interview summary
Reported Feb 2026
Directify is a no-code directory builder with AI doing the boring work.
Maker-reported sale price on his own newsletter with no independent verification; the $2,000 MRR figure comes from the same maker.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo
- Tools
- AI directory building
- Cost
- Not stated
Back in February, I sold Directify for $85,000.
Sources Fast Makers: How I Sold Directify for $85,000
Reported Feb 2026
Late is an API that lets SaaS products and AI agents publish to social platforms through one integration.
The quote is our English translation of a Spanish-language source, and the figure is the founder's own claim.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code · AI agents · MCP server
- Cost
- Not stated
to cross $40,000 in MRR in about eight months, with about 900 paying users and a team of three people
Sources Desde el Barro Late episode
Reported Feb 2026
IACrea stages real estate photos with AI virtual furniture in seconds.
Founder-reported portfolio ARR on Indie Hackers with AI product described but no payment verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-powered image processing
- Cost
- Not stated
she now has a portfolio of SaaS products bringing in over $100k ARR.
Sources Indie Hackers Pauline portfolio Starter Story IACrea breakdown
Reported Jan 2026
Sleek designs mobile apps through chat with AI.
Took three weeks
Maker-reported MRR in an Indie Hackers interview, corroborated by the founder replying in the comments.
Details
- Time
- three weeks
- Team
- 3 people
- Tools
- AI design chat
- Cost
- Not stated
Within a month of launch, we reached $10k MRR without spending a single dollar on marketing.
Sources Indie Hackers: Hitting $10k MRR in six weeks with an AI design tool Sleek
Reported Jan 2026
LaunchFast finds, validates and sources Amazon private-label products in minutes.
Took 48 hours to MVP
Founder-stated MRR on video with no dashboard or processor verification.
Details
- Time
- 48 hours to MVP
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor
- Cost
- Not stated
I pitched it to a coaching company with a massive audience and now we're earning 20K plus MRR
Sources Starter Story on Hassam and LaunchFast
Reported Jan 2026
Promptmonitor tracks how a brand shows up in AI answers across OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude.
The sale price is stated consistently by two sources, though the maker is identified only by first name and handle.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI · Gemini · Claude
- Cost
- Not stated
On January 14, nine days later, he sold it for $85,000 to a buyer building a small SaaS portfolio.
Sources No-Code Exits on Promptmonitor sale FounderSold Promptmonitor exit
Reported Jan 2026
Arcstory is an AI comic maker for creating comic strips, sold to rounds.com.
Maker-reported price for a private sale to rounds.com closed via escrow; no independent verification of the amount.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo
- Tools
- AI comic generation
- Cost
- Not stated
I just sold my first app for $42,000!
Sources Nayan Dhabarde LinkedIn sale post
Reported Jan 2026
MeetOscar is an AI email assistant that drafts replies in the user's own voice.
Took first version over a single weekend
The maker's own account with no independent verification, and the Lovable MVP was later replaced by a custom LLM stack.
Details
- Time
- first version over a single weekend
- Team
- founder plus a technical co-founder
- Tools
- Lovable · ChatGPT API
- Cost
- Not stated
Here is the exact framework I used to scale Meet Oscar to $45,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) in just 60 days.
Sources SaaS AI Launch Framework - Giovanni Brees
Reported Jan 2026
Kleo is a LinkedIn growth tool rebuilt in four weeks.
Team-reported MRR in an Indie Hackers interview, with AI tooling evidence resting on the maker's own pro-AI-code-editors section.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 4 cofounders
- Tools
- AI code editors
- Cost
- Not stated
Kleo is at $62k MRR and Mentions is at $20k MRR.
Sources Indie Hackers: From $0 to $62k MRR in three months Kleo
Reported Dec 2025
Adavia DavisBoring History and faceless YouTube channel network
Davis runs a network of five faceless AI-generated YouTube channels, led by a long-form history sleep channel.
Fortune says it reviewed dashboard screenshots and AdSense payout records, but the figures remain self-reported gross revenue, not an audit.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude · ElevenLabs · TubeGen
- Cost
- Not stated
Davis told Fortune that his network of videos generates roughly $40,000 to $60,000 a month in revenue.
Sources Fortune: 22-year-old college dropout AI YouTube empire
Reported Dec 2025
Vectal is an AI productivity app combining a reasoning chat model with a notes workspace and AI agents that execute work.
Took 14 months from founding to acquisition
The $1.8M figure comes only from the founder's own announcement of a merger into open-source Agent Zero.
Details
- Time
- 14 months from founding to acquisition
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor · Codex · Claude Code
- Cost
- Not stated
I just sold my AI startup for $1.8 million, but it wasn't some large corporation or a private equity firm that bought it.
Sources Rosetta: I sold my AI startup for $1,800,000 VibeCoderHQ: David Ondrej success story
Reported Dec 2025
Jonathan Perry and Alex NaghaviRailboundSite
Railbound animates Mike Brodie's freight-train photographs into a narrative short film built with Google Flow and Nano Banana.
Took six weeks
The prize tier and the winner are both on official Devpost pages, but the actual cash payout is not independently confirmed.
Details
- Time
- six weeks
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Google Flow (Veo 3) · Google AI Studio (Nano Banana) · Topaz AI
- Cost
- Not stated
$6,000 in cash
Sources Chroma Awards on Devpost Devpost submission: Railbound
Reported Dec 2025
Aaron LibermanBefore Mount Rushmore: The Story of Spotted TailSite
A cinematic AI tribute to Lakota leader Spotted Tail made with Veo 3, Midjourney, ElevenLabs and Suno.
Took 110 hours
The prize tier and the winner are both on official Devpost pages, but the actual cash payout is not independently confirmed.
Details
- Time
- 110 hours
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- ChatGPT · Google Veo 3 · Midjourney · ElevenLabs · Suno
- Cost
- Not stated
$6,000 in cash
Sources Chroma Awards on Devpost Devpost submission: Before Mount Rushmore
Reported Dec 2025
Richard WangLeadmore AISite
Leadmore AI automates B2B marketing with AI.
Maker-reported MRR in an Indie Hackers interview with no independent verification in the excerpt.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI marketing
- Cost
- Not stated
Leadmore AI is currently doing over $30k MRR, and it's still growing very quickly.
Sources Indie Hackers: Hitting $30k MRR with an AI marketing product Leadmore AI
Reported Dec 2025
Patryk MarketerEtsy AI-JPG shops (clipart, digital prints, VTuber characters)
Patryk Marketer sells AI-generated clipart, digital prints and VTuber characters across several Etsy shops.
Self-reported monthly income report with a per-shop profit breakdown, but no independent verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- works with outsourcers and partners
- Tools
- Kreatorium AI · AI art generation · AI mockups
- Cost
- Not stated
That puts the month at just over $7,000 in profit, mostly from AI-generated JPGs and digital designs, plus one POD shop that's chugging along in the background.
Sources Krafie: How I made over $7,000 in one month selling AI JPGs on Etsy
Reported Dec 2025
Alexia Jolicoeur-MartineauTiny Recursive Model (TRM)Site
A paper on the 7M-parameter Tiny Recursive Model won the top paper award at ARC Prize 2025.
The official ARC Prize results page publishes the author, paper and prize, which is the contest's public record.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Tiny Recursive Model (7M-parameter recursive network) · deep supervised refinement
- Cost
- Not stated
1st Place - $50k
Sources ARC Prize 2025 results TRM paper on arXiv
Reported Dec 2025
Daniel Franzen, Jan Disselhoff and David HartmannThe ARChitects recursive diffusion ARC solverSite
An open-source recursive masked-diffusion LLM solver that scored 16.5 percent on ARC-AGI-2.
The official ARC Prize results page lists the team second with $10k, and their report names the three members.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- LLaDA-8B masked diffusion LLM · Mistral-NeMo-Minitron-8B · Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct
- Cost
- Not stated
$10k
Sources ARC Prize 2025 results The ARChitects technical report
Reported Dec 2025
Oskar Munck af RosenscholdFrameSage
FrameSage is a marketplace matching European filmmakers with financiers, built by a first-time coder.
Took 10 days
At the $50K-total boundary (about $8K/month pace over six months); the figure is reported by Lovable and Forbes, not independently verified.
Details
- Time
- 10 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
With Lovable, he built a marketplace to match European filmmakers with financiers, generating $50k in revenue within the first six months.
Sources Lovable age-of-the-builder showcase Forbes Australia on Lovable builders
Reported Dec 2025
Max Artemov28-app mobile portfolio
Max ships single-feature mobile apps in volume and keeps the winners.
Took eight months of off-work hours
The figure is founder-stated in a video transcript, and his full surname comes from a separate Indie Hackers profile of the same portfolio.
Details
- Time
- eight months of off-work hours
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- ChatGPT · Gemini · Cursor · Claude · OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
During my off work hours in eight month time I've built a portfolio of 28 simple mobile apps that are now bringing me 10 000 monthly revenue
Sources Starter Story Max episode Indie Hackers Max Artemov interview
Reported Dec 2025
Chatbase is an AI chatbot builder that lets websites add a ChatGPT-powered chatbot trained on their own content.
The maker built Chatbase as a 4th-year college student and states the revenue figure himself; no processor verification is shown.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- OpenAI API · ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
Now at $8M ARR, 100% bootstrapped, with over 10,000 customers.
Sources Startup Founder Stories Chatbase
Reported Dec 2025
Letterly turns speech into polished text for notes, messages, emails and meeting records.
The figure is the founder's own statement with subscriber detail but no screenshot or processor verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 10 people
- Tools
- ChatGPT · OpenAI transcription
- Cost
- Not stated
My name is Anton and my app makes 250 000 a month
Sources Starter Story video: How he makes $250K per month from a simple app (Letterly) Letterly
Reported Nov 2025
Ricardo Vice SantosDreamStories.ai
DreamStories.ai turns a child's photo into a personalized printed children's book through a generative-AI content platform.
The total is the founder's ballpark in an interview, with Latka noting some figures were worked out live, not audited.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 7 full-time staff
- Tools
- generative AI storytelling · generative AI image creation
- Cost
- Not stated
At a standard price of $60 per book and accounting for discounts, Ricardo confirmed lifetime revenue is over $3 million.
Sources GetLatka: DreamStories.ai crossed $3M with 100,000 sales
Reported Nov 2025
DropMagic builds AI-generated online stores for beginners.
Took 154 days
Founder's X milestone aggregated by a directory, with no audit behind it.
Details
- Time
- 154 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor · Claude Code
- Cost
- Not stated
Dropmagic has achieved a significant milestone by reaching $46K MRR after 154 days of building in public.
Sources Arrfounder on DropMagic $46K MRR BetterLaunch playbook on DropMagic stack
Reported Oct 2025
STOPPR is a mobile app that helps Gen Z women stop sugar cravings.
Took about a month
Monthly revenue is stated by the maker in a Starter Story interview, with no dashboard shown.
Details
- Time
- about a month
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor
- Cost
- Not stated
I made an app that makes 12 000 per month
Sources Starter Story STOPPR interview
Reported Oct 2025
Robb ClarkeRB2B AI support agent
An AI support agent that handles tickets for RB2B and replaces a full-time support hire.
The maker shows ticket and hour counts behind the figure, but the salary comparison is his own math.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- small team
- Tools
- AI support agent · AI ticket resolution · AI documentation lookup
- Cost
- not disclosed
The financial impact: $59,915 saved in 2025 compared to a salaried employee.
Sources Robb Clarke AI support savings
Reported Oct 2025
Payout helps people find class-action settlements and submit claims.
Took 10 days for v1
The revenue is a public organiser result, not a processor statement or independent audit.
Details
- Time
- 10 days for v1
- Team
- one maker
- Tools
- Claude Code · Cursor
- Cost
- not stated
this app was entirely written using Claude Code and Cursor, not one line of code written by hand.
Sources Payout maker submission Payout App Store listing Official Payout site
Reported Oct 2025
Henrik Skagerlind Fasth and Peter ThorngrenLumooSite
Lumoo generates fashion imagery, virtual try-on and campaign content for retail brands.
Took 9 months
Lovable's case study reports the founders' ARR without independent verification.
Details
- Time
- 9 months
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
Reached €700K ARR in 9 months, targeting €1M ARR by November 2025
Sources Lovable case study on Lumoo Lovable Series B builder roundup
Reported Oct 2025
Adrian HumphreyTailored LabsSite
Tailored Labs is an AI-powered video timeline editor that turns raw footage into polished edits with natural-language commands.
Took four weeks
Bolt names the winner; the $100,000 cash amount is from the hackathon prize list on Devpost, which adds $25,000 in AWS credits.
Details
- Time
- four weeks
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Bolt.new
- Cost
- Not stated
Tailored Labs, the Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Bolt Hackathon, is an AI-powered video timeline editor that transforms raw, chaotic footage into polished, professional edits using natural language commands.
Sources Bolt Hackathon 2025 Winners Bolt Worlds Largest Hackathon recap Worlds Largest Hackathon prizes
Reported Aug 2025
Superdev generated full-stack app front-end and back-end code from a single interface.
Took 6 months from launch to sale
The price comes from the founder's own public account of the Acquire.com sale, retold by two outlets.
Details
- Time
- 6 months from launch to sale
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI code generation
- Cost
- Not stated
Launched February 2025, scaled to just below $7K MRR in about two months, sold for $350,000 through Acquire.com in August 2025.
Sources No-Code Exits: How Itay Elgazar sold Superdev for $350K Acquire.com: The Secrets Behind This Bootstrapped AI App Exit
Reported Aug 2025
Maor ShlomoBase44
Base44 lets non-programmers build complete applications with database, storage, authentication, and integrations from text prompts.
TechCrunch reports Wix confirmed an $80M cash deal, though $25M of it is employee retention bonuses.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Anthropic Claude
- Cost
- Not stated
Shlomo sold his 6-month-old, bootstrapped vibe-coding startup Base44 to Wix for $80 million
Sources TechCrunch: Base44 sells to Wix for $80M cash
Reported Jun 2025
Zohar VanunuMagiCan
MagiCan is an AI content platform Zohar Vanunu built himself instead of paying developers.
Took 1,500 prompts in two days for the first build
A counterfactual estimate of developer fees avoided, in a post published by Lovable, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- 1,500 prompts in two days for the first build
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
Lovable saved me at least $200K in dev costs.
Sources Lovable Zohar Vanunu story
Reported Apr 2025
Rihab L. and BadisCEO Assistant Agent / AI Chief of StaffSite
The CEO Assistant Agent summarises calls, drafts follow-ups, tracks priorities, and sends nudges.
The $5,000 monthly saving is the founder's estimate, not cash received.
Details
- Time
- not stated
- Team
- two-person founding team
- Tools
- Custom AI agent
- Cost
- not stated
Replaces: VA + part-time Chief of Staff Saves: ~$5,000/month
Sources Rihab's post Rihab profile Badis profile
Reported Oct 2025
Magai lets users chat with many top AI text, image and video models in one subscription dashboard.
The figure is the founder's own claim in a Starter Story video interview, with no independent verification shown.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Bubble · OpenAI GPT-5 · Anthropic Claude · OpenRouter
- Cost
- Not stated
So two and a half years later we're doing well over a million dollars in revenue over almost 100 000 a month
Sources Starter Story: I built a $100K/month AI app Magai
Reported Oct 2025
Social Wizard is an AI-powered dating assistant that helps people reply to Instagram stories and craft better conversations.
Revenue is self-reported by the founder in the interview, with no independent verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI LLMs · React Native · NestJS · Firebase
- Cost
- Not stated
I think by month six we had cash collected about 250 000
Sources Starter Story: My 2 apps made $1.5M Starter Story on YouTube: My 2 apps made $1.5M
Reported Oct 2025
Rudy Arora and Sarthak DhawanTurbo AI
Turbo AI is an AI study app that turns lectures, PDFs, and videos into notes, flashcards, and quizzes.
The student founders state only a range (eight-figure ARR), so the amount records its lower bound; no precise figure is given.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 15 people
- Tools
- AI lecture capture · AI-generated notes, flashcards, and quizzes
- Cost
- Not stated
Five million users. Eight-figure annual recurring revenue.
Sources Complete AI Training Turbo AI B17 News Turbo AI
Reported Oct 2025
Scott TemplemanSweetest IllusionSite
An AI-produced R&B track that won first place at the first Future Sound Awards.
The awards site states the $7,000 top prize and lists the win; Templeman's own release names him and says he used Suno to produce the track.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Suno
- Cost
- Not stated
The prize for the winning track is $7,000 USD.
Sources Future Sound Awards prize terms Future Sound Awards winners Sword For Hire: Herndon entrepreneur wins first place
Reported Sep 2025
Telisha JonesXania Monet
Jones writes lyrics and uses Suno to turn them into songs for the AI R&B persona Xania Monet.
The $3M is a reported deal value via Billboard, not a verified cash payout received by Jones.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Suno
- Cost
- Not stated
The deal is reportedly worth $3 million and comes from Hallwood Media.
Sources Consequence: AI Artist Signs Million-Dollar Record Deal Radio 88.8/Billboard: Xania Monet streams worth
Reported Sep 2025
Kevin PowerDrop the Guardrails
Drop the Guardrails compares refusal behavior between plain-text prompts and tool-primed variants of OpenAI gpt-oss-20b.
The figure is the maker's own award page, but it links the official Kaggle challenge with its $500,000 fund.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI gpt-oss-20b
- Cost
- Not stated
Kaggle awarded Kevin Power a $50,000 first prize in the OpenAI gpt-oss-20b Red-Teaming Challenge for "Drop the Guardrails," a project examining differences between model-level and tool-using agent behavior.
Sources Trade Lab award record Kaggle gpt-oss-20b Red-Teaming Challenge
Reported Sep 2025
George SaundersBordeaux & Burgundy (B2B marketing agency)
A creative director's multi-client agency trained private Exactly.ai styles to stop paying for stock search and design time.
A vendor case study, so the figure mixes recovered design hours valued at £54/hr with avoided stock and tool spend rather than being a single invoice.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 20+ person agency
- Tools
- Exactly.ai
- Cost
- Not stated
£62k in annualised design-time savings, based on recovered hours and avoided stock/tool costs
Sources Exactly.ai case study
Reported Sep 2025
Cal AI is a calorie-tracking app where users photograph food and AI estimates the calories and macros.
CNBC reports the figures from documents it reviewed, but the underlying documents are not public.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI GPT models · Swift · Firebase
- Cost
- Not stated
Cal AI brought in more than $28,000 in revenue for its first month, and then $115,000 for the next month.
Sources CNBC Make It: 18-year-old CEO learned to code at age 7 CNBC Make It on YouTube: How I Built A $1.4 Million/Month AI App At Age 18
Reported Sep 2025
Said Korkmaz and Esra SinmazAppify MobileSite
Appify Mobile is a studio of AI-powered beauty and effects apps that grew through App Store Optimization.
Acquire confirms the September 2025 sale and the AI apps while the $70,000 price comes from the FounderSold exit database.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 2 founders
- Tools
- AI-powered beauty apps · AI-powered effects apps
- Cost
- Not stated
The $70,000 sale price puts it in the upper half of the 597 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000.
Sources FounderSold: Appify Mobile exit details Acquire.com: Bootstrapped, Viral Growth, and a 2-Week Exit
Reported Sep 2025
Sokaina Kanwal Shah28-page AI-written eBook sold on Gumroad
Sokaina Kanwal Shah sells a 28-page AI-written eBook and templates on Gumroad.
Took 90-minute AI draft plus human edit
Dashboard evidence is claimed via a tweet thread, not shown on the page, so the figure is unverified.
Details
- Time
- 90-minute AI draft plus human edit
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- GPT-4o · Claude 3.5 · Canva
- Cost
- Not stated
Last month, I posted a single tweet thread showing my Gumroad dashboard: $11,190 in 30 days from a 28-page eBook I didn't write.
Sources Medium: 90-minute AI-written eBook into $373/day in passive income
Reported Aug 2025
Sergiy DybskiyWeight Coach
Weight Coach is an AI meal-planning app that scans groceries with a phone camera and plans meals by voice.
Bolt names the winner; the $75,000 cash amount is from the hackathon prize list on Devpost, which adds $25,000 in AWS credits.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Bolt.new
- Cost
- Not stated
Weight Coach, our second place winner, is AI meal planning meets real-life grocery scanning.
Sources Bolt Hackathon 2025 Winners Worlds Largest Hackathon prizes
Reported Aug 2025
KeyHaven is a secure platform for storing, rotating, and monitoring API keys with encryption, analytics, and alerts.
Bolt names the winner; the $50,000 cash amount is from the hackathon prize list on Devpost, which adds $25,000 in AWS credits.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Bolt · Claude · ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
KeyHaven, the third place winner, tackles a problem every developer and engineering team runs into eventually: API key chaos.
Sources Bolt Hackathon 2025 Winners KeyHaven Devpost Worlds Largest Hackathon prizes
Reported Aug 2025
Rebecca BeachMom Beach printables and vibe-coded digital products
Rebecca Beach sells PLR printables, templates, courses and vibe-coded workbooks on Shopify and Etsy.
Took printable workbook in under 20 minutes; course and app in under 90 minutes
As-told-to essay with no independent verification stated in the article, so the figure rests on the maker's word.
Details
- Time
- printable workbook in under 20 minutes; course and app in under 90 minutes
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- ChatGPT · Midjourney · Ideogram · Recraft · Canva AI features
- Cost
- Not stated
I was making $10,000 a month until I started vibe coding, which enabled me to double my income to up to $20,000 a month.
Sources Business Insider: I earn up to $20,000 a month by vibe coding products
Reported Aug 2025
Joshua WöhleMindstone community connection toolSite
A custom community tool that connects Mindstone members by complementary problems and skills.
Took about three hours
Founder's own account of a contract he chose not to sign, so the saving assumes the deal would otherwise have closed.
Details
- Time
- about three hours
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI code generation
- Cost
- Not stated
I nearly signed a $50,000 SaaS contract until I realized I could build the whole thing myself in about three hours.
Sources Every: 12 people who ditched expensive software for AI-built tools
Reported Aug 2025
Neural Frames is an AI music video generator built for musicians.
The figure is the founder's own statement with user detail but no screenshot or processor verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 5 people
- Tools
- Cursor · AI video generation
- Cost
- Not stated
And now we are a team of five and last month we made 100 000
Sources Starter Story video: My AI App Makes $100K/Month (Neural Frames)
Reported Jul 2025
Jaleel MilesQuickTablesSite
QuickTables gives independent restaurants websites, ordering, SMS campaigns and loyalty tools.
Took two months
Forbes quotes the founder's sales figure with no independent verification.
Details
- Time
- two months
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
He has booked over $120,000 in sales from the site since May.
Sources Forbes Australia on QuickTables Lovable Series B builder roundup
Reported Jul 2025
Mahmoud HalatGiveFeedback.devSite
GiveFeedback.dev is a SaaS platform that structures client feedback into controlled rounds, protects scope, and generates AI-powered reports.
The maker reports the win on his own blog with judging-panel feedback quoted, but no independent results page is cited in sources.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
GiveFeedback.dev won the $100,000 grand prize at Lovable Shipped Season 1.
Sources Winning the $100K Lovable Shipped Grand Prize
Reported Jul 2025
Kanika (Muskan) BhattGoStudio.aiSite
GoStudio.ai generates AI headshots.
Took about six months
The monthly revenue is a public founder claim without independent payment data.
Details
- Time
- about six months
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- AI headshot generation
- Cost
- not stated
as of now, we're doing around $1500/month in revenue.
Sources Indie Hackers founder post GoStudio.ai GoStudio.ai company profile
Reported Jul 2025
Tanya Van GastelThe Multiverse AISite
The Multiverse AI turns selfies into professional AI-generated headshots for individuals and teams.
Cost $2,100 total ($700 each)
Price stated by co-founder Zeeshaan Lakdawala on LinkedIn while Flippa confirms the all-cash 2025 sale but omits the price.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 3 co-founders
- Tools
- AI headshot generation
- Cost
- $2,100 total ($700 each)
We sold The Multiverse AI last week for 115,000 USD.
Sources Zeeshaan Lakdawala LinkedIn post Flippa success story: Tanya Van Gastel
Reported Jul 2025
Lennert JansenAirweave
Airweave connects apps like Gmail to AI agents and won a Y Combinator spot with a Lovable-built prototype.
The Lovable-built prototype won the YC spot, but the backend was later hand-coded, so current revenue comes from a rewritten product.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 2 cofounders
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
Now Airweave is making $17,000 a month and just landed $6 million in funding.
Sources Forbes Australia on Lovable builders
Reported Jul 2025
AppAlchemy lets users build mobile app designs fast using AI.
Took MVP in about two weeks
Founder-reported on video with no independent payment verification.
Details
- Time
- MVP in about two weeks
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Cursor
- Cost
- Not stated
My name is Diego and I built an AI SaaS that makes me around 17K per month
Sources How I Used Reddit to Hit $17K MRR (With ZERO Audience) - Starter Story
Reported Jul 2025
JAILBIRD is an experimental AI documentary that shows a chicken being sent to a human prison.
Gold win is maker-documented on Devpost with Sora listed as built-with, and $10,000 Gold prize from the festival prize table.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Sora · AI video generation
- Cost
- Not stated
JAILBIRD won Gold at Runway AIFF 2025
Sources JAILBIRD Devpost JAILBIRD filmmaker page Runway AI Film Festival 2025 prizes
Reported Jun 2025
Jacob AdlerTotal Pixel SpaceSite
Total Pixel Space is a nine-minute AI essay film exploring every possible digital image.
Grand Prix win and $15,000 prize are reported by GIGAZINE with the winner named in the same article, corroborated by the festival winner list.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI-generated video · AI-generated visuals
- Cost
- Not stated
The Grand Prix winner will receive a prize of $15,000 (approximately 2.16 million yen) and 1 million credits to be used on Runway.
Sources Runway AIFF 2025 winners report Valley native wins 2025 Runway AI Film Festival AIFF 2025 winner list Runway AI Film Festival 2025 prizes
Reported Jun 2025
Ahmad GeorgeSkincare company custom ERP
A custom ERP covering inventory, manufacturing, and sales, built for a skincare company.
Took 2 weeks · Cost $400
The number is a third-party summary of a NetSuite quote the maker avoided, not a documented payment.
Details
- Time
- 2 weeks
- Team
- 1 person
- Tools
- Replit · ChatGPT · Firebase
- Cost
- $400
An operations manager named Ahmad George at a skincare company in DC received a $132,000 quote from NetSuite to automate a workflow, built it on Replit for $400.
Sources TBPN Digest Replit Ahmad George MakerThrive Ahmad ERP story
Reported Jun 2025
Atharv TatheVBA Code GeneratorSite
VBA Code Generator instantly generated complex VBA macro code from simple text instructions using AI.
The price was reported by the Microns marketplace newsletter while the maker confirms the sale without naming the price.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
The startup was acquired for $2,223.
Sources Microns: 9 startups sold in June worth $45k Atharv Tathe: portfolio
Reported Jun 2025
Ricardo Villavicencio and Edward SaatchiONE
ONE is an AI short film that earned Silver at the 2025 Runway AI Film Festival.
Silver win is listed in the AI Film History winner table, with $5,000 Silver prize from the festival prize table.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- generative video AI · Runway
- Cost
- Not stated
'ONE' by Ricardo Villavicencio & Edward Saatchi earns Silver.
Sources AIFF 2025 winner list Runway AI Film Festival 2025 prizes
Reported Jun 2025
Supermeme is an AI meme generator that turns a text prompt into captioned meme images.
Lifetime revenue is self-reported by the founder in the interview, with no independent verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI · Anthropic · Cursor · Windsurf
- Cost
- Not stated
Superme has done lifetime revenue of about 130k USD and question is around 100k USD.
Sources Starter Story on YouTube transcript: I Make $100K/Year From 2 AI Side Projects Starter Story on YouTube: I Make $100K/Year From 2 AI Side Projects
Reported Jun 2025
Marcel Roth and Micha NowakVesuvius first-title ink detectionSite
The pair recovered the title of a sealed Herculaneum scroll with an AI ink-detection model.
The contest organizer's own announcement names the pair and the $60,000 prize.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- UNETR transformer model · AI ink detection
- Cost
- Not stated
For this discovery, Marcel and Micha are winning the first First Title Prize of $60,000!
Sources Vesuvius Challenge prize announcement Heise report on the decipherment
Reported May 2025
Fly is a free multiplayer flight simulator monetized with an in-app plane and ads.
Took about 3 hours for the initial prototype
The amount is a public maker report, and ARR is only a run-rate calculation.
Details
- Time
- about 3 hours for the initial prototype
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- Cursor AI · GPT-4 · Grok 3 · Claude 3.7 Sonnet
- Cost
- not stated
$12,000 MRR / $144,000 ARR as of May 2025.
Sources Indie Hackers case record Fly
Reported May 2025
Vibe Sail is a multiplayer 3D sailing simulator monetized with ads, branded yachts, and sponsored islands.
Took about two months to monetization
The amount is a public maker report, and ARR is only a run-rate calculation.
Details
- Time
- about two months to monetization
- Team
- solo founder
- Tools
- GPT-4 · GitHub Copilot · Cursor
- Cost
- not stated
$8,000 MRR / $96,000 ARR as of April 2025.
Sources Indie Hackers case record Vibe Sail Maker build post
Reported Apr 2025
Pranay Agarwal and Mofid AnsariMockeySite
Mockey generates product mockups with AI.
Maker-reported monthly revenue in an Indie Hackers interview mixing subscriptions and ads, with no independent verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI mockups
- Cost
- Not stated
Currently, my cofounder, Mofid Ansari, and I are working on Mockey.ai, an AI-powered online mockup generator that generates approximately $12k in monthly revenue.
Sources Indie Hackers: Hitting $12k MRR just 11 months after turning a free side project into an AI business Mockey
Reported Mar 2025
BoltAI is an all-in-one AI chat client for Mac.
Maker-reported range in an Indie Hackers interview, explicitly non-recurring perpetual-license sales rather than MRR.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI chat clients
- Cost
- Not stated
BoltAI: An all-in-one AI client for Mac. Revenue: $15k-$30k/mo
Sources Indie Hackers: Making $30k/mo from an AI product with a perpetual license BoltAI
Reported Mar 2025
Minutes recorded voice notes and transcribed and organised them with AI, with RAG-powered search over past notes.
The sale is self-reported on the maker's own blog with no buyer or paperwork evidence shown.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI transcription · RAG-powered search
- Cost
- Not stated
I Sold My First App for $25,000
Sources Abdullah Riaz: I Sold My First App for $25,000
Reported Mar 2025
Colin McIntoshSheets AI Resume BuilderSite
Sheets AI Resume Builder is a suite of AI tools that helps job seekers build resumes, cover letters and practice interviews.
Took about 4 months of nights and weekends
The figure is the founder's self-reported revenue in his own Starter Story post, not independently verified.
Details
- Time
- about 4 months of nights and weekends
- Team
- 2 people
- Tools
- OpenAI · Gemini · PHP (Laravel) · AWS
- Cost
- Not stated
Our paid memberships are now generating $30,000+ per month.
Sources Starter Story: We Built A $20K/Month AI Resume App Starter Story on YouTube: How I Built It - $20K/Month AI App
Reported Mar 2025
Creator Buddy is an AI content tool that helps X creators write posts that grow their audience.
Took about seven months
The $235K is annual recurring revenue from launch-week signups, stated by the maker; it is not twelve months of collected cash.
Details
- Time
- about seven months
- Team
- 1 person
- Tools
- Cursor
- Cost
- Not stated
In just 3 days we had 400 people pick up Creator Buddy which generated $235,000 of annual recurring revenue.
Sources Alex Finn launch post Alex Finn creator playbook post
Reported Jan 2025
Vasco MonteiroJournalist AISite
Journalist AI writes SEO articles automatically.
Maker-reported MRR in an Indie Hackers interview with no independent verification in the excerpt.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI SEO writing
- Cost
- Not stated
After selling his SEO marketplace, Vasco Monteiro built Journalist AI and grew it to $70k+ MRR within a year.
Sources Indie Hackers: Growing an AI product to $70k+ MRR within a year via YouTube Journalist AI
Reported Jan 2025
ParakeetAI is a real-time AI interview assistant that transcribes calls and drafts answers.
Took MVP over a weekend, selling within three weeks
The page badge reports $16,000 a month while the text cites a first revenue day of one thousand euros, both self-reported.
Details
- Time
- MVP over a weekend, selling within three weeks
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
We launched about three months ago and just hit our first €1,000 revenue day.
Sources Starter Story: My Weekend AI Project Hit $16K/Month In Just 3 Months ParakeetAI
Reported Jan 2025
Janeen (Love Eat Travel Repeat)Etsy print-on-demand shop
Janeen sells print-on-demand apparel and gifts on Etsy using AI-generated designs.
Revenue is shown with dashboard screenshots, though the seller publishes under her first name only.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Midjourney · Canva · Printify
- Cost
- Not stated
In 2024, I have made over $100,000!
Sources Love Eat Travel Repeat: Etsy print-on-demand income report October 2024 Love Eat Travel Repeat: about Janeen
Reported Dec 2024
Jenni AI is an AI writing assistant that helps students and researchers draft, edit and cite academic work.
The monthly figure comes from a Starter Story business breakdown, not from a dashboard the maker published.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- GPT-2 · GPT-3 · OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
David Park's business makes an average of $668K/month.
Sources Starter Story: How a 27-Year-Old Grew Jenni AI To $5M ARR in 2 Years Starter Story on YouTube: The $10M AI SaaS Playbook
Reported Dec 2024
Anas AndaloussiEscribelo.AI
Escribelo.AI is an AI platform that automatically generates SEO-optimized articles for businesses.
The quote is our English translation of a Spanish-language source, and the figure is the founder's own claim.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI article generation · AI model
- Cost
- Not stated
Escribelo generates between 50,000 and 60,000 euros per month, reaching annual revenue of about 600,000 euros
Sources Business Insider Espana Anas Andaloussi
Reported Dec 2024
Makeweb.ai is a website builder that lets users create websites by chatting with AI.
Took 50 days from launch to acquisition
The price is confirmed by both a news report and an exit database, though neither shows the underlying sale contract.
Details
- Time
- 50 days from launch to acquisition
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI chat website builder
- Cost
- Not stated
Makeweb.ai has been acquired for $60,000 just 50 days after its launch.
Sources AlternativeTo on MakewebAI acquisition FounderSold Makeweb.ai exit
Reported Sep 2024
TalkNotes used AI to transcribe voice memos and reformat them into any kind of content.
Took 11 months from MVP to sale
The founder says the $200,000 wire arrived, but shows no receipt or escrow record in the post.
Details
- Time
- 11 months from MVP to sale
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI transcription
- Cost
- Not stated
I received the $200,000 wire from the buyer a couple of days ago
Sources Indie Hackers: I just sold my app for $200,000 after 11 months
Reported Jul 2024
Barua AI is an AI email writer for cold outreach campaigns.
Took about 1 year
The price comes from a secondary exit database rather than a primary sale document, so it is reported but not independently verified.
Details
- Time
- about 1 year
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
The $260,000 sale price puts it in the top quarter of the 597 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000.
Sources FounderSold Barua AI exit
Reported Jul 2024
Ricardo Ghekiere and Miguel RaseroBetterPicSite
BetterPic turns customer selfies into professional AI headshots in under 60 minutes.
The founders published a detailed month-by-month breakdown with screenshots, but the revenue is self-reported.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- GPT-3 · Stable Diffusion · ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
In July 2024 we closed the month with +/- 20k$ of gross revenue, increased our team to 5 people (+2 founders) and generated over 11M+ headshots.
Sources Starter Story: A Complete Breakdown To How We Built A $20K MRR AI App
Reported Jul 2024
Joseph PopelasAI Publisher Pro
Popelas generates e-book brands with ChatGPT and sells them with Pinterest ads aimed at middle-aged moms.
The $1M/year is a Starter Story estimate from public sources, not audited financials.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- ChatGPT
- Cost
- Not stated
Joseph Popelas started the business in 2022, and currently makes an average of $1M/year.
Sources Starter Story: How Joe Popelas Built A $1M Business
Reported May 2024
LogoAI is an AI logo generator with more than 50,000 designs created.
Took about 1 year
The price comes from a secondary exit database rather than a primary sale document, so it is reported but not independently verified.
Details
- Time
- about 1 year
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI
- Cost
- Not stated
The $310,000 sale price puts it in the top quarter of the 597 deals with a disclosed price here, where the median is $20,000.
Sources FounderSold LogoAI exit
Reported May 2024
Hugo Caselles-Dupre, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier VernierEdmond de BelamySite
Edmond de Belamy is a GAN portrait print made by the Obvious collective and sold at Christie's.
Christie's 2018 auction price is widely reported and the page cites NYT, CNN and Artnet, so this is a solid public-record sale.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- generative adversarial network · AI portrait algorithm
- Cost
- Not stated
The print is known for being sold for US$432,500 during a Christie's auction.
Sources Wikipedia Edmond de Belamy
Reported Oct 2018
Kenny NwokoyeKenny's in-house AI agentSite
Kenny's in-house AI agent handles personal-assistant, IT, community, social-media, and developer work.
Cost ₦31,500/month AI cost versus ₦1,050,000/month staff cost
The official page partly redacts the statement, and the savings are not independently audited.
Details
- Time
- first agent built 2026-01-29; duration not stated
- Team
- solo operator
- Tools
- Custom AI agents · ChatGPT Plus
- Cost
- ₦31,500/month AI cost versus ₦1,050,000/month staff cost
That is ₦1,018,500 back in my pocket. Every single month.
Sources Maker's official page Maker's LinkedIn profile
Date not stated in the source
Jason LemkinSaaStr speaker and content grader
An app Jason Lemkin built to automatically review thousands of speaker submissions instead of paying an agency.
Took about 3 months
The savings figure is spoken by the maker in a customer story published by Replit, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- about 3 months
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Replit
- Cost
- Not stated
We're saving over $200,000 a year, which is interesting.
Sources Replit SaaStr customer story
Date not stated in the source
Paul Baker and Raj VangalaProDocks
ProDocks is a dock-scheduling app Productiv built for its own warehouses instead of buying a vendor tool.
Took 10 days
The $36K is the annual price of the vendor tool they skipped, as told in a customer story published by Lovable, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- 10 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
In 10 days, they built ProDocks, which eliminated that $36K expense entirely.
Sources Lovable Productiv customer story
Date not stated in the source
Justin Handler and James ClairDialed
Dialed is a resource-planning app O3 World built in-house to replace its old planning software.
The savings estimate comes from a customer story published by Lovable, the tool vendor.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 2 people
- Tools
- Lovable
- Cost
- Not stated
Dialed now saves O3 approximately $35,000 per year and growing, plus an estimated five to 10 hours each week across project management and finance.
Sources Lovable O3 World customer story
Date not stated in the source
AI Boost lets users upload photos and generate personalized AI-transformed images in seconds.
The price is self-reported in a Flippa broker-assisted founder success story with no independent verification.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Stable Diffusion · AI image generation
- Cost
- Not stated
The sale closed at $450,000, almost exactly matching the amount Aleksei's team had invested in building the product.
Sources Flippa: Aleksei's $450K exit story
Date not stated in the source
NameSnag scans expired .com domains to help users find available names for new projects.
Took about 12 hours to build
The sale is reported by the maker via his project page and an interview write-up, without escrow proof.
Details
- Time
- about 12 hours to build
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Claude Code
- Cost
- Not stated
Sold for $15,000 a few weeks later
Sources Solveo: Real Products, Real Revenue Josh Pigford: NameSnag project page
Date not stated in the source
ChatNode is an AI SaaS chatbot platform that Sacha Dumay bootstrapped solo and exited in under a year.
Took about 1 year
The source states the sale exceeded $200,000 without giving an exact figure, so the amount is a floor rather than a precise price.
Details
- Time
- about 1 year
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI chatbot platform
- Cost
- Not stated
Sacha co-founded ChatNode in 2023 and successfully exited in mid-2024 with a sale exceeding $200,000.
Sources Fake Mayo profile of Sacha Dumay FounderSold ChatNode exit
Date not stated in the source
GenAIPI is an online school that trains business teams to use AI tools.
Took a weekend · Cost under $400
One-time avoided agency quote reported in a vendor case study, not an audited invoice.
Details
- Time
- a weekend
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Replit
- Cost
- under $400
I built GenAIPI with Replit for less than $400 and in a weekend.
Sources Replit customer story: GenAIPI Wealthy Tent profile of John Cheney
Date not stated in the source
Dr. Fahim HussainMy Doctor / Health CompassSite
My Doctor is a private healthcare platform with telemedicine booking, prescriptions, and a wearable-connected health subscription.
Took 4 days · Cost £175
One-time avoided agency quotes reported in a vendor case study, not audited invoices.
Details
- Time
- 4 days
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Replit Agent
- Cost
- £175
What sealed the deal was the cost structure—a fraction of traditional development at just £175 total versus £75,000-£100,000 for agency development.
Sources Replit customer story: Northern Health
Date not stated in the source
Preston ZellerBatchData internal tools (CPQ, calculators, Social Pulse)Site
Three internal BatchData tools for quoting, real-estate math, and social listening.
Took 1-2 hours per tool
Vendor case study math from the maker's per-tool build costs versus enterprise list prices.
Details
- Time
- 1-2 hours per tool
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Replit
- Cost
- Not stated
Over the course of several months, Preston created three impressive applications that collectively save his company tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Sources Replit customer story: BatchData
Date not stated in the source
Aitana Lopez is an AI-generated virtual influencer run by The Clueless agency for brand deals and Fanvue subscriptions.
Wikipedia summarizes press reports without inline citations and calls the total estimated, so treat it as a maker-reported claim rather than verified accounts.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI image generation
- Cost
- Not stated
Media and brand assets associated with the character have been estimated to generate between US$800,000 and US$1 million in revenue.
Sources Wikipedia Aitana Lopez Business Insider Aitana Lopez
Date not stated in the source
Refik AnadolLiving Architecture: Casa Batlló
Living Architecture: Casa Batllo is an AI painting trained on Gaudi sketches, building archives and public photos.
Christie's auction result reported on Wikipedia with a citation, so the price is a public sale record even though the exact sale date is not stated in the sentence.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI image generation · machine learning
- Cost
- Not stated
Living Architecture: Casa Batlló sold for $1.38 million at auction at Christie's.
Sources Wikipedia Refik Anadol
Date not stated in the source
1SecondCopy is an AI-augmented content agency producing client copywriting with GPT-assisted production.
Third-party case study repeating the founder's self-reported GPT-3-era turnover; no audited financials are shown and the peak predates 2025.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- fewer than 3 operators
- Tools
- GPT · Make.com · Apify
- Cost
- Not stated
This system helped him scale his content company to earn over $90,000 a month.
Sources Apify blog case study LeftClick 1SecondCopy case study
Date not stated in the source
Ritesh VermaAI agency services
Ritesh Verma runs a solo AI agency implementing AI systems and infrastructure for client businesses.
Self-reported on the founder's own mentorship sales page with no independent verification; the same page also claims a $60K best month.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI systems · AI agents
- Cost
- Not stated
But while working my 9-5, my 5-9 consisted of me growing my own AI Agency to over $30k MRR.
Sources Agent Rise founder page
Date not stated in the source
Jeff HojkaMarathon help portal
A searchable 43-page help portal documenting more than 1,250 items in the Marathon insurance system.
Took 10 days
The figure is the low end of the maker's own estimated agency-cost range, not an invoice.
Details
- Time
- 10 days
- Team
- 1 person
- Tools
- Claude · AI-generated HTML · AI-generated documentation
- Cost
- not disclosed
In 10 days, Jeff Hojka accomplished what a professional team would have taken 3-6 months and $100,000-$160,000+ to deliver.
Sources Khojant Marathon AI case study
Date not stated in the source
Nabanita DePrivacy Guardian Agents
Privacy Guardian Agents is a multi-agent governance system that automates privacy compliance for codebases.
The organizer names the maker, project and prize, but publishes no disbursement proof.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AWS GenAI · multi-agent AI governance
- Cost
- Not stated
First prize: $10,000
Sources Impetus GenAI Hackathon winners Devpost winners announcement
Date not stated in the source
Revid turns blog posts, long videos, and songs into ready-to-publish short-form videos.
The number is founder-reported with no public Stripe verification, though the site's traffic and usage scale make it plausible.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- 4-5 people
- Tools
- Cursor · GPT-5.4 · Gemini 3.1 Pro
- Cost
- Not stated
Founder Tibo Louis-Lucas has most recently described it around $600,000 MRR after previously reporting $680,000.
Sources Which Cursor-built SaaS are making money now? - Steal What Works Revid - ProvenStartups
Date not stated in the source
Meng ToAura
Aura is a bootstrapped, all-vibe-coded design product.
Third-party summary of the founder's LinkedIn disclosure with no payment verification, and no newer exact figure was found.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- vibe coding · AI code generation
- Cost
- Not stated
Aura's latest founder disclosure puts it above $50K MRR, and Meng To said roughly half of that revenue had been added during the preceding month.
Sources Which vibe-coded apps make over $10K/month? - Steal What Works
Date not stated in the source
Pierre MeynadierThe Legend of Akam (wildlife feature)
A French producer-director used AI dubbing to cut per-language localization cost by 90% and get his film released abroad.
Vendor case study dated around the May 2024 Portuguese release; the $45,000 saved is per language from the stated $50K-to-$5K drop, not an annual figure.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- Rask AI dubbing · AI voice cloning · automated translation
- Cost
- Not stated
AI-driven dubbing cut per-language expenses by 90%, transforming a $50K cost center into a $5K investment.
Sources Rask AI customer story
Date not stated in the source
MakeLogo.ai generated logos with AI and was sold about three months after launch.
A clear AI-product sale, but maker Nico Jeannen already appears in existing.txt via TalkNotes.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- AI logo generation
- Cost
- Not stated
I just sold makelogo.ai for $65,000.
Sources AI & No-Code Exits - Three Exits for $290,000 Indie Hackers - MakeLogo.ai sold
Date not stated in the source
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Case files
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A manufacturer found CHF 1.05M a year leaking through freight invoices
Freight invoices get checked by hand or not at all. Intellyse audits every line against the carrier contract — and keeps what it finds separate from what has actually been recovered.
Case file · September 28, 2026
Smallpdf's chargeback problem — and the machine that won back $55K
A file-conversion company was writing off disputed payments. An AI evidence machine turned the disputes into a system — and the result is measured in recovered dollars and returned hours.
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