MONEY · 37 RECEIPTS
Apps and projects built with Claude that make money
37 sourced receipts name Claude. The biggest: Base44 ($80M acquisition price).
Claude is a family of large language models and AI assistants from Anthropic.
Receipts naming Claude
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
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- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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- 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
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
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
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
CJ ZafirCodeGuide
CodeGuide generates structured project documentation that developers attach to AI coding assistants to reduce hallucinations.
The MRR is founder-stated; the source does not explain how discounted yearly plans are counted.
Details
- Time
- Not stated
- Team
- Not stated
- Tools
- OpenAI API · Anthropic API
- Cost
- Not stated
in just last 3 months we've grown code guide to 42k MRR with a community of more than 4,800 AI developers and we're projecting to cross around 90K this month
Sources IncomeIdeaLab: CodeGuide $42K MRR
Reported May 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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