MONEY · 19 RECEIPTS
Apps and projects built with Cursor that make money
19 sourced receipts name Cursor. The biggest: Vectal ($1.8M acquisition price).
Cursor is a code editor with AI features for writing and changing software.
Receipts naming Cursor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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