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He Built a $14K/month SaaS Using Discord

A full breakdown of how Sam, a university student with zero coding background, used Discord to validate demand, land his first 400 users and reach $14K MRR in six months

1/17/2026
#044

How Kleo Made $30K in 4 Days: The Complete SaaS Launch Playbook

Lara Acosta shares how Kleo reached $30K MRR in 4 days with an unusual launch strategy and grew from $0 to $60K a month in under two months. A complete SaaS launch guide built on content marketing, a waitlist and webinars

1/12/2026
#043

How I built my first SaaS without an audience ($25K/month)

Zero followers, zero tech skills, a SaaS built in 48 hours. He traded equity for distribution and hit $25K a month in 90 days

1/7/2026
#042

How I Grew My App to $13K/month (Even Though I Hate Marketing)

An engineer who hates marketing built 50 free tools and reached $13K a month with zero-cost customer acquisition.

1/8/2026
#041

How to Validate Your App Idea Before Building Anything ($30K/month)

Without writing a single line of code, these two guys make $30K a month off one fake video

1/4/2026
#040

How I Used Twitter to Hit $10K/Month

Posting on X is enough to make $10K a month? This guy's build-in-public game genuinely won me over.

1/2/2026
#039

How We Built It: $900K Open Source SaaS

Open source can make money? This couple kept their code public and made 6 million in 18 months!

12/21/2025
#029

I Found a Business for Sale and Rebuilt It Into $20K/Month

Copying someone else's homework and still making 140K a month? This guy cloned another product outright and now the money comes in on its own!

12/16/2025
#028

How I Grew My Mobile App to $17K per Month

An 18-year-old college student with no coding background used AI to build a wrestling-coach app in one month, then grew it to $17K a month with an influencer marketing strategy

12/15/2025
#027

I make $10K/month from 28 apps

The \"play the field\" approach: 28 apps in 8 months to hit the small goal of $10K a month.

12/13/2025
#026

My 2 Apps Made $1.5M

A 22-year-old from Nigeria came to the US with $100, built 2 apps in a year and made $1.5M! His growth strategy is unreal

12/15/2025
#025

I shipped my app in 12 hours and now it makes $15K/month

A $15K/month app built in 12 hours? After 15 failures, this Indian founder finally figured it out

12/10/2025
#024

I Built 4 SaaS Apps to $100K MRR: Here's My Exact Playbook

4 SaaS apps, each making $100K a month! I dug out his 12-step playbook!

12/8/2025
#023

I Vibe Coded a $12K/Month Mobile App (Stoppr Breakdown)

A French founder copied an app outright, swapped the colour and the niche, and now makes $12K a month.

12/15/2025
#022

I make $120K/year from 3 mobile apps

This guy straight-up copies apps, swaps the colour and the niche, and now makes $12K a month???

12/7/2025
#022

How I Built It: $30K/Month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)

The product didn't exist yet and he had already made 140K? I'm genuinely impressed by this guy's pre-sale play

12/15/2025
#021

How He Makes $250K per Month from a Simple App (Letterly Breakdown)

Fifteen years of founding, seven failed projects, and now 1.8 million a month, all because he finally subtracted instead of adding.

12/15/2025
#020

My Apps Failed Until I Discovered This Playbook ($35K/month apps)

15 years of serial entrepreneurship, 7 failed projects, and now 1.8 million a month. He says all he did was subtract....

12/5/2025
#020

I built a $100K/month AI app

A struggling actor with no money and no technical background built a $100K/month AI product in 8 weeks!

11/20/2025
#018

Why Product Is Better Than Distribution: $30K/Month Mobile App

Make the product genuinely good, get users genuinely willing to pay, and only then scale

11/19/2025
#018

How to make money with mobile apps

Success has nothing to do with writing code.

11/19/2025
#017

My website makes $34K/month (built in 3 hours)

How do you pull it off in 3 hours? Here is the truth

11/18/2025
#016

I made $65K in 3 days (with ZERO audience)

Zero followers, $65K in 3 days: this guy took off with a Lifetime Deal

11/17/2025
#015

I Built 3 SaaS Apps to $200K MRR: Here's My Exact Playbook

Alex Petousis built a venture syndicate with $1,000 while working a full-time job and invested in more than 275 companies.

11/15/2025
#014

How I Built It: $400K/Month Mobile App

He found a broken app at the gym, copied it, and now makes $440K a month

11/14/2025
#013

i vibe coded a 20K per month mobile app in 14 days

A 23-year-old wrote the code with AI and built a $20K/month app in 14 days.

11/11/2025
#012

How I Built 1M Business in 117 Days

Started with 16 followers, reached $6.8 million a year in 117 days

11/14/2025
#011

He Makes $125,000/year As A Niche YouTuber

Software engineer Sherman quit his six-figure job to focus on a niche YouTube channel and now earns $125,000 a year.

10/24/2025
#010

He Made $10M with 3 iPhone Apps

Blake Anderson taught himself to code with `ChatGPT` and, in under two years, co-founded three AI apps with combined revenue of nearly $20 million a year.

10/23/2025
#009

He Built A $600,000 One Person Business (with video editing)

Scott, a 24-year-old college dropout, built a video editing business making over half a million dollars a year by producing short video ads for B2B SaaS companies.

10/22/2025
#008

He Built A $2.5M,Year Business In 2 Years

Andrea, a freelance designer from Italy, productized his service of converting `Figma` designs into `Webflow` websites and grew the business from $6,000 a month to $2.5 million a year in two years.

10/21/2025
#007

From Zero to $42K,Month in 90 Days with AI

Founder Levelsio automated an AI headshot service and grew an AI business from zero to $42,000 in monthly revenue within 90 days.

10/20/2025
#006

Faceless From Immigrant to $1M/Year

Indian immigrant Nick Buzz makes $1.2 million a year doing design work anonymously on X.

10/19/2025
#005

How I Built A $1M Business From This Starbucks

Pat Walls, founder of `Starter Story`, built a million-dollar-a-year business while working a full-time job by doing two hours of focused work at a Starbucks every day.

10/28/2025
#004

I built a $15K/month app to quit my 9-5 (you can too)

After a string of failed side projects, software developer Ben built an audience first, then solved his own problem with `Tech Lockdown`, a platform that blocks distracting websites and apps, and now makes over $15,000 a month.

11/13/2025
#003

I Made $2.5M Selling A Digital Product

Thomas Frank turned his expertise in productivity and organization into digital products such as `Notion` templates, marketed them through a niche YouTube channel, and generated over $2.5 million in sales.

11/14/2025
#002

I cloned 3 apps and now make $35K,month

Samuel, a former optician, taught himself to code, followed one rule (\"never build something that doesn't already exist\"), cloned three successful SaaS apps and built a portfolio that makes $35,000 a month.

11/12/2025
#001

Our Mobile App Made $85K in 8 Months

Content first, product second? These two brothers made $85K in 8 months

12/15/2025