{ "site": "https://shippedandpaid.com", "license": "Summaries CC BY 4.0; link the case page and the original source", "generated": "2026-10-22", "categories": [ { "slug": "saas-tools", "name": "SaaS & tools", "description": "Subscription software and small paid tools. 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By month: about $4,152 in May 2026 (launch month), $17,996 in June, $26,161 in July, $23,482 in August, $48,741 in September and $33,616 so far in October. Daily sales have eased from $2,000 to $3,000 in late September to about $1,000 to $1,800 in mid-October. Plans are $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year, so many subscribers pay yearly up front, which is why 30-day revenue is above MRR. On Oct 15, 2026 the founder posted that the boxing app \"does $60k/mo\"; the verified figure is a little lower. In a July 17, 2026 interview he put the boxing app at $23,000 lifetime, which matches May and June on TrustMRR.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/brawler", "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Rork" ], "channels": [ "Influencers", "Meta ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Paid creator posts and Meta ads. TrustMRR lists Influencers and Meta Ads as the channels. In a July 2026 interview with Chris Koerner, he described paying combat-sports creators for organic posts at about a $2 CPM and walked through his Meta ads setup; his earlier app, Wrestle AI, grew the same way through a 50/50 partnership with a large wrestling creator.", "source_url": "https://x.com/GeorgeLampro20/status/2110854380845195411", "source_author": "@GeorgeLampro20 (George Lampropoulos, founder)", "posted": "2026-10-15", "added": "2026-10-22", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 13.1K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure); his earlier app Wrestle AI grew through a large wrestling creator", "source_url": "https://x.com/GeorgeLampro20" }, "name": "Brawler", "one_liner": "An iPhone AI boxing coach: upload shadowboxing, bag or sparring footage and the AI scores stance, guard, footwork, combinations and head movement, with training programs, punch callouts, a round timer and nutrition tracking.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/brawler-ai-boxing-coach-app-55k-month-rork/" }, { "slug": "laper-ai-screenwriting-software-48k-month-claude-code-codex", "app_name": "Laper", "title": "Laper: AI screenwriting software at $46,509 MRR (Stripe-verified), written 100% with Claude Code and Codex", "claimed_revenue": "$48,641 in the last 30 days, $46,509 MRR and $180,032 all-time (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 22, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key, synced Oct 22, 2026) shows $48,641 in the last 30 days, $46,509 MRR from 1,433 active subscriptions and $180,032 all-time. By month: $760 in December 2025, then $162 to $1,334 a month until April 2026, $5,136 in May (the public launch), $15,857 in June, $27,108 in July, $45,999 in August, $46,079 in September and $36,507 so far in October. In his Jun 23, 2026 article the founder gave $7,609 MRR and $10,031 for the past four weeks, which fits the May and June figures. Plans run from $20 to $400 a month. Laper is listed for sale on TrustMRR (asking about $1.47M).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/laper", "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "X", "SEO", "Google ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Mostly his own X account and search. He posts about Laper to about 46,700 followers on X, and TrustMRR lists SEO, content marketing, a blog, a newsletter, X, Google Ads, X Ads, cold email, Hacker News and partnerships as channels. He says his partner Liang Shizhi learned growth from scratch and runs go-to-market while he handles the product.", "source_url": "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/jAaANyCgbPEURRpde1EBRA", "source_author": "赵纯想 (Zhao Chunxiang, founder)", "posted": "2026-06-23", "added": "2026-10-22", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "About 46.7K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/chunxiangai" }, "name": "Laper", "one_liner": "Screenwriting software for writers, directors and storyboard artists: it formats scripts to industry standard, maps story structure and builds cast, location, scene and shot lists from the script, with AI agents that help without writing for you.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/laper-ai-screenwriting-software-48k-month-claude-code-codex/" }, { "slug": "claudekit-claude-ai-workspace-extension-279-total-claude-code", "app_name": "ClaudeKit", "title": "ClaudeKit: a Claude.ai workspace extension with 2,000+ users and $279 in Dodo Payments-verified sales, built with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$279 all-time and $62 in the last 30 days, with $10 MRR (TrustMRR, Dodo Payments-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Dodo Payments API key) shows $62 in the last 30 days, $274 in the last three months and $279 all-time, with $10.33 MRR from three active subscriptions (synced Oct 21, 2026): $5 in July 2026, $122 in August, $94 in September and $58 so far in October. Pricing is free, $4 a month or $28 lifetime, so most sales are lifetime licenses. The founder posted on Oct 13, 2026 that ClaudeKit had passed 2,000 users.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/claudekit-1", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Blog content", "Chrome Web Store" ], "customer_acquisition": "SEO and a blog are the channels on its TrustMRR listing (about 6,000 visitors in the last 30 days), plus the Chrome Web Store, since ClaudeKit is a free Chrome extension with a paid Pro tier. It needs no account and doesn't track users, which is part of the pitch to Claude.ai power users.", "source_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/claudekit-1", "source_author": "Avish Shah (founder), TrustMRR profile", "posted": "2026-10-21", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 12 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/itsavishshah" }, "name": "ClaudeKit", "one_liner": "A free Chrome extension that adds a workspace inside Claude.ai: prompt library, conversation forks, pins and notes, reference chats, token counts, exports and usage warnings before a session cuts off, with a $4/month or $28 lifetime Pro tier.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/claudekit-claude-ai-workspace-extension-279-total-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "zenmode-linkedin-outreach-automation-1-7k-mrr-claude-code", "app_name": "ZenMode", "title": "ZenMode: a LinkedIn outreach desktop app at $1,729 MRR and $9,447 in Stripe-verified revenue, built by a former Google employee with Claude and Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$1,729 MRR and $1,724 in the last 30 days; $9,447 all-time since an April 2026 launch (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $1,729 MRR, $1,724 in the last 30 days, $4,584 in the last three months and $9,447 all-time (synced Oct 21, 2026). Monthly revenue: $1,873 in April 2026 (launch month), then $808, $924, $1,466, $1,320 and $1,737 in September, with $1,319 so far in October. On Oct 18, 2026 the founder wrote that ZenMode had made $9.6K in six months with almost 50 active users, which matches the verified total. In September he put MRR at about $2K to $2.5K; TrustMRR's current figure is lower, at $1,729, so we use the verified number.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/zenmode", "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Claude" ], "channels": [ "LinkedIn", "Reddit", "X", "Building in public", "SEO" ], "customer_acquisition": "He uses ZenMode to sell ZenMode: it scrapes target customers on LinkedIn and runs connection requests and follow-ups, which he says books about five meetings a week. He also posts build-in-public stories on Reddit, LinkedIn and X, and works on SEO with \"alternative to\" comparison pages, a regularly updated blog, reviews and directory listings. Early on he sold lifetime deals to get testers.", "source_url": "https://x.com/ZenModeJon/status/2111850827799224679", "source_author": "@ZenModeJon (Jonathan Lis, founder)", "posted": "2026-10-18", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 1,519 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/ZenModeJon" }, "name": "ZenMode", "one_liner": "A Mac and Windows desktop app that automates LinkedIn outreach from your own computer and IP: it finds target profiles, sends connection requests and follow-up sequences, and syncs the inbox, from $15 a month.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/zenmode-linkedin-outreach-automation-1-7k-mrr-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "vibeling-vocabulary-app-1k-month-vibe-coded", "app_name": "VibeLing", "title": "VibeLing: a vocabulary app at $1,037 a month (RevenueCat-verified), vibe coded by a solo founder who hand-wrote only the core", "claimed_revenue": "$1,037 in the last 30 days and $410 MRR from 98 subscriptions; $2,794 all-time (TrustMRR, RevenueCat-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (RevenueCat API key) shows $1,037 in the last 30 days, $2,084 in the last three months and $2,794 all-time, with $410 MRR from 98 active subscriptions (synced Oct 21, 2026). Revenue grew from about $23 a month in late 2025 to $512 in August 2026, $699 in September and $855 so far in October. On Oct 19, 2026 the founder posted that he made $200 in one day after adding an MCP server to the app.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/vibeling", "category": "education", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "Reddit", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "Reddit is his main described channel: he joins language-learning subreddits as a helpful member and mentions VibeLing sparingly, and he automated the commenting with Claude Code using a persona built from his own backstory. He also builds in public on X, a Telegram channel and Habr. A recent MCP server lets people connect VibeLing to Claude Code or ChatGPT, which he says brought $200 in a day. The app is free, in 15 languages, with a paid subscription.", "source_url": "https://x.com/vital_pavlenko/status/2110734827318022435", "source_author": "@vital_pavlenko (Pavlenko, founder)", "posted": "2026-10-15", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 766 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/vital_pavlenko" }, "name": "VibeLing", "one_liner": "A free iOS and Android vocabulary app: save words and phrases you come across and it turns them into short daily practice with translations, examples, audio and spaced repetition, in 15 languages.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Education & learning", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/vibeling-vocabulary-app-1k-month-vibe-coded/" }, { "slug": "spaceplanner-browser-floor-plan-tool-711-month-claude-code", "app_name": "SpacePlanner", "title": "SpacePlanner: a free browser floor-plan tool with $711 in Stripe-verified sales in its first paid month, built by one founder with Claude Code agents", "claimed_revenue": "$711 in the last 30 days and $747 all-time from $9 credit packs (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $711 in the last 30 days and $747 all-time (synced Oct 21, 2026): $2 in September 2026 and $709 so far in October, with no subscriptions because SpacePlanner sells $9 packs of 10 credits for exports and extras on top of a free editor. The founder reports 114,077 users in September and 25,105 people on its best day, after a creator featured it unprompted in an Instagram video that passed 424K views. Usage figures are his own; the revenue is Stripe-verified.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/spaceplanner-co", "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Creator content", "Instagram", "TikTok", "SEO", "Localization" ], "customer_acquisition": "No signup wall: anyone can draw a plan as a guest, and an account is only needed to save across devices or export. A creator put SpacePlanner in a \"powerful websites\" series on Instagram without being asked (424K views), and his onboarding survey says most users found it on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube; almost none came from X. About 30% of sessions come from Google, mostly people searching the name after seeing it on social. He translated the app into Spanish, Indonesian, German, Polish and Italian with an LLM, and the app records its own tutorial videos every night for social posts.", "source_url": "https://x.com/jimymass/status/2108573026128118011", "source_author": "@jimymass (Jimmy Mass, founder)", "posted": "2026-10-09", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 16 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/jimymass" }, "name": "SpacePlanner", "one_liner": "A free floor-plan and space-planning editor that runs in the browser with no signup: draw rooms, homes and gardens, drop in real-size furniture, and buy credit packs for exports and extras.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/spaceplanner-browser-floor-plan-tool-711-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "uidrop-design-system-chrome-extension-115-total-claude-cursor", "app_name": "UIDrop", "title": "UIDrop: a design-system Chrome extension with 12K users and $115 in Polar-verified sales, a 20-year-old's first project built with Claude", "claimed_revenue": "$115 all-time from $4 one-time Pro upgrades (TrustMRR, Polar-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Polar API key) shows $115 all-time and $9.45 in the last 30 days (synced Oct 21, 2026): $92 in August 2026, $20 in September and $3 so far in October. There are no subscriptions; Pro is a $4 one-time upgrade. The founder's X bio says \"108$, 11k users\" and the site says 12K+ users, so this is a big free user base with very little revenue so far.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/uidrop", "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude", "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Reddit", "X", "Chrome Web Store" ], "customer_acquisition": "A free Chrome extension aimed at vibe coders and frontend designers, promoted on Reddit and X (the two channels on its TrustMRR listing), with growth through the Chrome Web Store. He planned launch-directory listings and a Product Hunt launch for his next app based on what he learned from UIDrop.", "source_url": "https://x.com/tudorxjh/status/2103241027578650942", "source_author": "@tudorxjh (tudorbuildsai, founder)", "posted": "2026-09-24", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 520 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/tudorxjh" }, "name": "UIDrop", "one_liner": "A Chrome extension that reads any website's design system (colors, fonts, spacing, component styles) in one click and sends it, with a screenshot, as a ready prompt to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable and other AI tools.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/uidrop-design-system-chrome-extension-115-total-claude-cursor/" }, { "slug": "aidelly-ai-social-media-agent-agencies-655-mrr-claude-code", "app_name": "Aidelly", "title": "Aidelly: a social media platform for agencies at $655 MRR (Stripe-verified), rebuilt from a Bubble app with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$655 MRR and $625 in the last 30 days; $4,574 in the last 12 months and $7,137 all-time (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $655 MRR, $625 in the last 30 days, $2,631 in the last three months, $4,574 in the last 12 months and $7,137 all-time (synced Oct 21, 2026). The all-time figure includes revenue from the first, Bubble-built version; the founder says the Claude Code rebuild went live by the end of 2025. Monthly revenue in 2026: $99 in February, $246 in May, then $937, $941, $644 and $966 from June to September, and $522 so far in October. He also says revenue stayed flat right after the rebuild and grew in 2026.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/aidelly", "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "The founder hasn't published a detailed acquisition breakdown. He posts about the business and the rebuild on X, graduated from Founder Institute, submitted Aidelly as a connector for AI assistants, and in October 2026 launched Agency Listed, a free directory for agencies that links back to their sites. Pricing is per workspace and team rather than per seat, from $39 a month.", "source_url": "https://x.com/wilzerjb/status/2102428068631429249", "source_author": "@wilzerjb (Wilzer Jean-Baptiste, cofounder)", "posted": "2026-09-22", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 141 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/wilzerjb" }, "name": "Aidelly", "one_liner": "A social media platform for agencies that AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT can run through MCP, CLI and API: it drafts, schedules and publishes across 11 networks with team approvals and white-labeling, from $39 a month.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/aidelly-ai-social-media-agent-agencies-655-mrr-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "appthetics-ai-mobile-app-design-2-3k-total-cursor", "app_name": "Appthetics", "title": "Appthetics: an AI mobile app design tool with $2,292 in verified sales, vibe-coded with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "$2,292 all-time and $136 in the last 30 days (TrustMRR, Polar and Dodo Payments-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Polar and Dodo Payments API keys) shows $2,292 all-time, $792 in the last three months and $136 in the last 30 days, with about $121 in recurring revenue from 11 active subscriptions (synced Oct 21, 2026). TrustMRR gives a founded date of Feb 2, 2026. On Aug 4, 2026 the founder posted that it took him a year to make his first $2K from his vibe-coded startups; his X bio lists Appthetics at $2.2K. Plans are Lite $9/month, Pro $20/month or $79 lifetime.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/appthetics", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "Building in public on X, where he has a large following and posts design demos and feature previews.", "source_url": "https://x.com/AdityaShips/status/2084673021571399724", "source_author": "@AdityaShips (Aditya, founder)", "posted": "2026-08-04", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 17.6K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/AdityaShips" }, "name": "Appthetics", "one_liner": "Design mobile app screens just by chatting with AI, with no design skills needed.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/appthetics-ai-mobile-app-design-2-3k-total-cursor/" }, { "slug": "inspoai-ai-ui-design-tool-6-3k-total-vibe-coded", "app_name": "InspoAI", "title": "InspoAI: an AI UI design tool with $6,281 in verified sales, 100% vibe-coded by a designer", "claimed_revenue": "$6,281 all-time and $2,599 in the 30 days to Sep 6, 2026 (TrustMRR, Lemon Squeezy and Dodo Payments-verified; last synced Sep 6, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Lemon Squeezy and Dodo Payments API keys) shows $6,281 all-time, $6,045 of it in the six months to its last sync, and $2,599 in the last 30 days before that sync, including about $2,473 in August 2026. The data was last synced on Sep 6, 2026, when the Lemon Squeezy key expired, so revenue after that date is not shown. On Aug 3, 2026 the founder posted that InspoAI had passed 2,000 users and 1,700 UI generations.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/inspoai", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public", "Cold calling" ], "customer_acquisition": "Building in public on X, replying in threads about vibe-coded startups with the link. The TrustMRR listing also names cold calling.", "source_url": "https://x.com/AL_Nick_/status/2084222621668049239", "source_author": "@AL_Nick_ (Farhanism, founder)", "posted": "2026-08-03", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 250 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/AL_Nick_" }, "name": "InspoAI", "one_liner": "An AI design tool that generates interactive React and Tailwind interfaces from a prompt in your brand's style, with a library of 200K+ real designs for inspiration and brand-consistency checks.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/inspoai-ai-ui-design-tool-6-3k-total-vibe-coded/" }, { "slug": "getebook-ai-ebook-generator-35k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "GETebook.ai", "title": "GETebook.ai: an AI ebook generator with $35,469 in verified revenue in the last 30 days, built by a non-technical founder with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$35,469 in the last 30 days and $141,933 all-time (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $35,469 in the last 30 days, $141,933 all-time and about $9,375 in recurring revenue from 199 active subscriptions (synced Oct 21, 2026). By month: about $19,300 in July 2026, $47,600 in August, $47,700 in September and $22,500 so far in October. On Aug 14, 2026 the founder posted \"$28K in the last 30 days\", which fits the Stripe data for that window. TrustMRR gives a founded date of Jul 29, 2025; plans start at $29/month.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/getebook-ai", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Meta ads", "TikTok", "Instagram", "Google ads", "SEO", "Blog content", "Email list" ], "customer_acquisition": "Mostly paid and social: the TrustMRR listing names Facebook, Instagram and TikTok (organic and ads), Google Ads, a blog with SEO, and email. On X he says the ads sell the transformation (\"person with an idea\" to published author) rather than an \"AI ebook generator\", and that he runs A/B tests and analytics he built into the product himself.", "source_url": "https://x.com/bogdan_ai/status/2081280713731559453", "source_author": "@bogdan_ai (Bogdan Dragomir, founder)", "posted": "2026-07-26", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 2,800 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/bogdan_ai" }, "name": "GETebook.ai", "one_liner": "An AI tool that turns an idea into a publish-ready ebook in minutes: pick a topic, audience and tone, and it writes the outline, the chapters and the cover, then exports to PDF, EPUB and Word.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/getebook-ai-ebook-generator-35k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "interni-ia-ai-interior-design-photos-396-total-replit", "app_name": "Interni IA", "title": "Interni IA: an AI interior design photo app with its first $396 in verified sales, built 100% with Replit", "claimed_revenue": "$396 all-time, about $39 MRR from 2 subscriptions (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $396 all-time, almost all since July 2026 (about $18 in July, $6 in August and $368 in September), $9 in the last 30 days and about $39 in recurring revenue from 2 active subscriptions (synced Oct 21, 2026). On Jul 7, 2026 the founder posted that organic traffic was starting but the app was still at $0 MRR, which fits the Stripe data. Plans cost €9.90, €29.90 or €69.90.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/interni-ia", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Replit" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Blog content", "Instagram", "Pinterest" ], "customer_acquisition": "Organic search for the Italian market: he says he uses Outrank for blog posts and backlinks and Fastlane for social posts. TrustMRR also lists Instagram and Pinterest.", "source_url": "https://x.com/mrgriggio/status/2074410575916892626", "source_author": "@mrgriggio (Mr. Griggio, founder)", "posted": "2026-07-07", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 1,200 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/mrgriggio" }, "name": "Interni IA", "one_liner": "An Italian AI photo app for interiors and real estate: furnish empty rooms, restyle a room in 15+ styles, remove furniture, turn 3D renders into photos, repaint facades or make a video tour from one image.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/interni-ia-ai-interior-design-photos-396-total-replit/" }, { "slug": "dial-moments-audio-guestbook-1k-month-replit", "app_name": "Dial Moments", "title": "Dial Moments: an audio guestbook app with $7,686 in verified sales, built in a weekend with Replit", "claimed_revenue": "$1,005 in the last 30 days and $7,686 all-time (TrustMRR, RevenueCat and Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (RevenueCat and Stripe API keys) shows $1,005 in the last 30 days and $7,686 all-time (synced Oct 21, 2026). By month: about $30 in March 2026, $451 in April, $909 in May, $1,185 in June, $1,223 in July, $1,915 in August, $1,298 in September and $676 so far in October. Sales are per event ($9.99, $24.99 or $49.99), so there is no recurring revenue. On May 8, 2026 the founder posted that he had \"made over $400 in the first month\", which matches April.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/dial-moments-audio-guestbook", "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Replit" ], "channels": [ "TikTok", "Building in public", "X" ], "customer_acquisition": "Short videos: he says he focused marketing on TikTok and Lemon8, aimed at people planning weddings and parties. He also builds in public on X, tagging Replit, which has shared his posts.", "source_url": "https://x.com/eliasxreyes/status/2052603221323968800", "source_author": "@eliasxreyes (Elias Reyes, founder)", "posted": "2026-05-08", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 420 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/eliasxreyes" }, "name": "Dial Moments", "one_liner": "An audio guestbook for weddings and parties: create an event, share a link or QR code, and guests leave voice messages from any phone, no app needed, saved for the hosts to keep.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/dial-moments-audio-guestbook-1k-month-replit/" }, { "slug": "karvi-linkedin-profile-analyzer-8-6k-total-vibe-coded", "app_name": "Karvi", "title": "Karvi: a LinkedIn profile analyzer with $8,577 in Stripe-verified sales, vibe-coded in 3 days", "claimed_revenue": "$8,577 all-time and $18.81 in the last 30 days (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $8,577 all-time and $18.81 in the last 30 days (synced Oct 21, 2026). Sales peaked at launch, with about $1,868 in February 2026, and have fallen to about $88 in September and $13 so far in October. Karvi is a $9 one-time purchase. A week after launch, on Feb 11, 2026, the founder posted \"R$ 7k faturados\" (about $1,300), which fits the February Stripe total. On TrustMRR he adds that most of Karvi's sales are Brazilian PIX payments through Mercado Pago and Woovi, which TrustMRR cannot read, and puts the real lifetime total at about $49.8K; that larger figure is not verified, so we only report the Stripe amount.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/karvi", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "A launch post on X to his Brazilian developer audience (he runs the codar.me community), promising a thread on the build in public. Karvi is listed for sale on TrustMRR.", "source_url": "https://x.com/brunobertolini/status/2021667697927610743", "source_author": "@brunobertolini (Bruno Bertolini, founder)", "posted": "2026-02-11", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 9.3K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure); he runs the codar.me developer community", "source_url": "https://x.com/brunobertolini" }, "name": "Karvi", "one_liner": "A Brazilian career tool that reads your LinkedIn profile, scores how visible you are to recruiters and tells you what to fix, for a $9 one-time payment.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/karvi-linkedin-profile-analyzer-8-6k-total-vibe-coded/" }, { "slug": "frameliq-script-to-video-ai-studio-631-mrr-codex-claude-code", "app_name": "Frameliq", "title": "Frameliq: a script-to-video AI studio at $631 MRR (Stripe-verified), built mostly with Codex and Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$631 MRR from 23 subscriptions, $613 in the last 30 days and $1,539 all-time (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows about $631 in recurring revenue from 23 active subscriptions, $613 in the last 30 days, $1,187 in the last three months and $1,539 all-time (synced Oct 21, 2026). TrustMRR gives a founded date of Nov 23, 2025. Plans are free, Creator at $19/month and Studio at $49/month, with users bringing their own fal.ai and ElevenLabs keys for generation. Frameliq is listed for sale on TrustMRR, where the founder reports 389 sign-ups in 90 days from Mixpanel (not verified).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/frameliq", "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "OpenAI Codex", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Blog content", "X" ], "customer_acquisition": "Organic: TrustMRR lists SEO, content marketing, a blog and X. He posts his build workflow on X.", "source_url": "https://x.com/tinkerersanky/status/2018567848067821943", "source_author": "@tinkerersanky (founder)", "posted": "2026-02-03", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 3K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/tinkerersanky" }, "name": "Frameliq", "one_liner": "A script-to-video AI studio: import a screenplay or let AI write one, generate a storyboard scene by scene, then render video with models like Kling, Veo and Seedance, with AI dialogue and music.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/frameliq-script-to-video-ai-studio-631-mrr-codex-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "ai-renamer-file-renaming-app-7-6k-total-cursor", "app_name": "AI Renamer", "title": "AI Renamer: a desktop app that renames files with AI, $7,625 in verified sales, 100% vibe-coded with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "$7,625 all-time and $169 in the last 30 days (TrustMRR, Polar-verified, Oct 21, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Polar API key) shows $7,625 all-time, $4,866 in the last 12 months and $169 in the last 30 days (synced Oct 21, 2026). Sales peaked at about $1,000 a month in November and December 2025 and are now around $90 to $125 a month. On TrustMRR the founder says he stopped marketing it in 2026 to build another app, and lists AI Renamer for sale. Pricing is $19 one-time for local mode or $10 per 200 cloud credits.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/ai-renamer", "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Blog content", "Reddit", "Open source" ], "customer_acquisition": "Content and search: TrustMRR lists a blog, SEO, content marketing and Reddit. Before the paid desktop app he released an open-source AI file renamer, and he posts updates on X. He says customers kept coming in 2026 without any marketing.", "source_url": "https://x.com/ozgrozer/status/1954998286365950194", "source_author": "@ozgrozer (Ozgur Ozer, founder)", "posted": "2025-08-11", "added": "2026-10-21", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 2,400 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/ozgrozer" }, "name": "AI Renamer", "one_liner": "A desktop app that looks at your images, videos and documents and renames them with AI, either privately with local models (Ollama, LM Studio) or with cloud credits.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/ai-renamer-file-renaming-app-7-6k-total-cursor/" }, { "slug": "vectosolve-png-to-svg-converter-2-7k-month-claude-code-manus", "app_name": "VectoSolve", "title": "VectoSolve: a PNG-to-SVG converter at $2,695 a month (Stripe-verified), built by a former landscaper with Claude Code and Manus", "claimed_revenue": "$2,695 in the last 30 days, with $1,676 MRR from 253 subscriptions plus one-time credit packs (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 20, 2026); $21,051 all-time", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $2,695 in the last 30 days, $8,788 in the last three months, $18,492 in the last six months and $21,051 all-time, with $1,676 MRR from 253 active subscriptions (synced Oct 20, 2026). In the AI Bites interview (posted Oct 12, 2026) Rob screen-shared Stripe and said VectoSolve makes about $3K a month but only about $1,500 of it is MRR, because roughly half of buyers take a one-time credit pack instead of a subscription. He says the first payment came at the very end of February 2026, after he cut the free tier from 25 conversions to 3. TrustMRR lists VectoSolve as founded Oct 7, 2025, based in France.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/vectosolve", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Manus" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Blog content", "Reddit" ], "customer_acquisition": "Almost entirely SEO. He translated the site into 12 languages and generated about 1,000 landing pages for conversion pairs (PNG to SVG, JPG to SVG and so on), then wrote about 200 blog articles. Launches on Peerpush, Product Hunt and Reddit brought early backlinks; later he swapped backlinks with niche blogs. New export formats for Cricut, laser, CNC and embroidery users came from customer requests and each got its own landing page.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FJWqmZY8u8", "source_author": "Rob (founder), AI Bites", "posted": "2026-10-12", "added": "2026-10-20", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "VectoSolve", "one_liner": "A web app that turns PNG, JPG and WEBP images into editable SVG vectors and machine-ready files (DXF, G-code, embroidery formats and more) for Cricut, laser and CNC users, sold by subscription or one-time credit packs.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/vectosolve-png-to-svg-converter-2-7k-month-claude-code-manus/" }, { "slug": "socialcrawl-social-media-data-api-35k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "SocialCrawl", "title": "SocialCrawl: a social media data API at $35,135 a month (Stripe-verified), built in about three weeks with Claude Code and Grok", "claimed_revenue": "$35,135 in the last 30 days and $95,630 all-time since an April 2026 launch (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 20, 2026); $26,000 in August 2026 per the founder", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $35,135 in the last 30 days, $81,126 in the last three months and $95,630 all-time (synced Oct 20, 2026). Most of it is usage-based credit and enterprise revenue rather than subscriptions: TrustMRR's MRR figure is only $1,081, from one active subscription. In the AI Bites interview (posted Oct 1, 2026) Selene Lee says they made about $300 in April and closed August at $26,000 (one auto-caption reads $6,000; the intro clip of the same line and TrustMRR support $26K). Indie Hackers reported $12.5K a month on Sep 10, 2026. She puts the profit margin at about 50%, nearer 40% on enterprise deals.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/socialcrawl", "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Grok" ], "channels": [ "Reddit", "X", "Threads", "SEO", "Google ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "The first sale came within 48 hours of launch, from indie-hacker WhatsApp and Discord groups where she had been active and helpful for months. Reddit then became the main source of paying and enterprise customers (she models each post on the subreddit's top posts), alongside building in public on X and Threads. SEO/GEO followed, and once revenue came in they reinvested in Google search ads.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQQb5wUZ3o", "source_author": "Selene Lee (cofounder), AI Bites", "posted": "2026-10-01", "added": "2026-10-20", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 5,000 followers on Threads before launch, per the interview; 2,650 followers on X is an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQQb5wUZ3o" }, "name": "SocialCrawl", "one_liner": "A single API that gives developers and AI agents social media and web data from 60+ platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, X and more) in one consistent format, paid mostly through usage credits.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/socialcrawl-social-media-data-api-35k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "tucket-mac-clipboard-manager-1-3k-total-claude-code", "app_name": "Tucket", "title": "Tucket: a Mac clipboard manager with $1,293 in verified sales in two months, built by a designer with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$672 in the last 30 days and $1,293 all-time from $10 one-time licenses (TrustMRR, Dodo Payments-verified, Oct 20, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Dodo Payments API key) shows $672 in the last 30 days and $1,293 all-time (synced Oct 20, 2026): $62 in August 2026, $944 in September and $287 so far in October, with no recurring revenue because Tucket is a $10 one-time purchase. Daily sales have slowed in October, including several zero days while the founder was on vacation. On Sep 16, 2026 he posted that Tucket had passed 50 customers in its first month, which fits the September total. TrustMRR gives a founded date of Aug 22, 2026; his first launch posts are from early August.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/tucket", "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public", "YouTube", "Blog content" ], "customer_acquisition": "Building in public on X: a numbered \"Day 1, Day 2\" series showing one feature per post, weekly release notes, and replies to designers and Mac users with the link. He also posted short YouTube walkthroughs and Medium lists such as \"5 Mac apps every designer needs\" that include Tucket. The pitch is aimed at designers, who copy hex codes, SVGs and images all day.", "source_url": "https://x.com/ArpitChandak18/status/2103934171802693691", "source_author": "@ArpitChandak18 (Arpit Chandak, founder)", "posted": "2026-09-26", "added": "2026-10-20", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 206 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/ArpitChandak18" }, "name": "Tucket", "one_liner": "A clipboard manager that lives in the MacBook notch: it saves text, links, colours, images, SVGs and files, sorts them by type, reads text in screenshots, and runs fully offline for a one-time $10.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/tucket-mac-clipboard-manager-1-3k-total-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "cnvs-voice-controlled-ai-agent-canvas-50k-total-claude-code-codex", "app_name": "CNVS", "title": "CNVS: a voice-controlled Mac app for AI coding agents, $49,986 in Stripe-verified sales since its June 2026 launch, built with Claude Code and Codex", "claimed_revenue": "$49,986 all-time revenue since a June 2026 launch (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 19, 2026); $3,980 in the last 30 days", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows $49,986 all-time revenue, $12,935 in the last three months and $3,980 in the last 30 days (synced Oct 19, 2026). By month: $23,718 in June 2026 (launch month), $15,920 in July, $3,980 in August, $3,781 in September and $2,587 so far in October, so sales have fallen sharply since launch. It is a one-time purchase ($199 on TrustMRR), so MRR is $0. The founder's own posts match the launch spike: \"$8k in 8 days\" (Jun 19), \"$13k in 9 days\" (Jun 20) and \"over 20 thousand dollars\" 12 days after launch (Jun 24).", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/cnvs", "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public", "YouTube" ], "customer_acquisition": "Building in public on X, where he has about 24.8K followers, with daily revenue and feature posts, and by live-streaming himself building CNVS on X and YouTube for four to eight hours a day. He also posts tutorials on his AI coding workflow that end with the app.", "source_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/cnvs", "source_author": "Max Blade (founder)", "posted": "2026-10-19", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 24.8K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure); he says he had made over $100K shipping earlier projects with AI", "source_url": "https://x.com/_MaxBlade" }, "name": "CNVS", "one_liner": "A macOS app that puts AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) on an infinite canvas per project, controlled by voice, with terminals and live browsers, locally or on a remote server; sold as a one-time purchase.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/cnvs-voice-controlled-ai-agent-canvas-50k-total-claude-code-codex/" }, { "slug": "basincheck-oilfield-safety-audit-saas-5-6k-total-vibe-coded", "app_name": "BasinCheck", "title": "BasinCheck: an oilfield safety audit SaaS at $895 MRR and $5,576 in Stripe-verified revenue, built by a self-described vibe coder", "claimed_revenue": "$895 MRR from 5 active subscriptions; $5,576 all-time revenue (TrustMRR, Stripe-verified, Oct 19, 2026)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR (Stripe API key) shows current MRR of $895 from 5 active subscriptions, $5,576 all-time revenue, $2,226 in the last 30 days and $3,608 in the last six months (synced Oct 19, 2026). Revenue is lumpy: $1,800 in February 2026 and $2,221 on a single day (Sep 30), with $155 to $405 in the months between, which suggests larger or longer-term payments, though the page doesn't say. Plans are listed at $125, $250 and $500 a month. TrustMRR gives a founded date of Dec 21, 2025.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/basincheck", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "Not specified" ], "customer_acquisition": "The founder hasn't said how he gets customers. On X he replies to posts about safety-audit paperwork to mention BasinCheck, and its TrustMRR profile lists memberships in ASSP and the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.", "source_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/basincheck", "source_author": "jayCobski (founder)", "posted": "2026-10-19", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 110 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/jay_cobski" }, "name": "BasinCheck", "one_liner": "A mobile-first safety audit app for oil and gas contractors that replaces paper checklists with inspections, offline mode, tracked corrective actions and OSHA-ready exports.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/basincheck-oilfield-safety-audit-saas-5-6k-total-vibe-coded/" }, { "slug": "harpagia-idle-rpg-mobile-game-155k-year-cursor-chatgpt", "app_name": "Harpagia", "title": "Harpagia: a text-based idle RPG at about $13K a month ($155K in a year, Firebase shown), built by an ex-Meta manager with Cursor and ChatGPT", "claimed_revenue": "About $13,000 a month on average, over $150,000 in the past year (Firebase dashboard shows $155K total revenue; Starter Story interview, September 2026)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted Sep 13, 2026) Ken says the game has averaged around $13,000 a month, totaling over $150,000 in the past year, from over 50,000 downloads across iOS and Android with roughly a 6% conversion rate and over $3 in revenue per active user. The Firebase overview shown on camera reads $155K total revenue, $149K purchase revenue and $5.9K in a third revenue line, with $3.11 per user. He says a single Reddit post took revenue from about $1,000 to $10,000 a month, and that he spends nothing on ads and about $500 a month to run it. His June 2026 Reddit post gives the same totals ($150K+, 50K+ downloads), and an earlier Starter Story written interview put it at about $10K a month with 40K downloads.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "games", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "ChatGPT" ], "channels": [ "Reddit", "Word of mouth" ], "customer_acquisition": "Reddit: six months after launch he posted the game to an incremental-games community. The response was mostly critical, but the post put the game in front of thousands of players and revenue went from about $1,000 to $10,000 a month almost overnight. A Discord community and player feedback keep retention up; he has not spent on ads.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axH1e2cZSrw", "source_author": "Ken Law (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-09-13", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "none", "detail": "Says he had no audience, no publisher and no marketing budget", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axH1e2cZSrw" }, "name": "Harpagia", "one_liner": "A text-based offline idle RPG for iOS and Android where players battle, level up, collect gear and trade, monetized with in-app purchases.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Games", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/harpagia-idle-rpg-mobile-game-155k-year-cursor-chatgpt/" }, { "slug": "erly-push-up-alarm-app-50k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "Erly", "title": "Erly: a push-up alarm app at over $50K a month four months after launch, built in 19 days with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "Over $50,000 per month, about four months after a late-2025 launch; App Store Connect shows $61.2K in sales over 28 days (Starter Story interview, July 2026)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted Jul 5, 2026) Jake says Erly makes over $50,000 a month and went from zero to $50,000 a month in four months after launching at the end of 2025. The App Store Connect Analytics screen shown on camera reads $61.2K in sales for a 28-day period (about Apr 19 to May 17). He says the app got 50,000 downloads in 30 days and over 200,000 downloads in 2026. Pricing is $29.99 a year or $9.99 a month. The App Store lists Erly: Wake Up Early from Glacier Labs LLC with 4.8 stars from about 16,000 ratings.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Influencers", "TikTok", "Instagram", "UGC videos" ], "customer_acquisition": "Creators on TikTok and Instagram making day-in-the-life style videos with the app. He pays them on view-guarantee deals that work out to about $2 to $3 per thousand views, tracks every creator's results, and puts marketing ahead of building.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/this-insanely-simple-app-makes-50k-month", "source_author": "Jake Glacer (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-07-05", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Erly", "one_liner": "An iPhone alarm that only turns off after you do push-ups, built to help people wake up early and keep the habit.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/erly-push-up-alarm-app-50k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "scanemon-pokemon-card-scanner-17k-mrr-cursor", "app_name": "Scanémon", "title": "Scanémon: a Pokémon card scanner app at $17,165 MRR (RevenueCat dashboard shown), MVP built in a day with Cursor's agent", "claimed_revenue": "$17,165 MRR, 3,462 active subscriptions (RevenueCat dashboard shown in a Starter Story interview, June 2026)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (YouTube, Jun 7, 2026) Kyle Fowler says Scanémon is at \"about 3,400 active subscriptions, 17K monthly recurring revenue, about 16,000 new customers a month\", about a year after launch. The RevenueCat overview he shows on camera, with the Scanémon project selected, reads MRR $17,165, 3,462 active subscriptions, 220 active trials, $29,198 revenue in the last 28 days, 16,340 new customers and 19,792 active customers. The same team's older app, Cardstock, is at about 15,000 subscriptions and $75K MRR; the two together are the video's \"$120K/month\". The app is free to download with subscriptions.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "TikTok", "UGC videos" ], "customer_acquisition": "TikTok slideshows: a simple, repeatable format tested for both views and conversions. They distribute the slideshow templates to creators through UseNoise and pay per view; he suggests starting on your own accounts to validate a format first.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnqY2Mav4s", "source_author": "Kyle Fowler (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-06-07", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "The same team already ran Cardstock, a sports card scanner with about 15,000 subscriptions, ~$75K MRR and about 13,000 downloads a month", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnqY2Mav4s" }, "name": "Scanémon", "one_liner": "An iPhone app that identifies Pokémon and other trading cards from the camera, shows market value and recent sales, and tracks a collection's value, sold by subscription.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/scanemon-pokemon-card-scanner-17k-mrr-cursor/" }, { "slug": "tarsi-budget-tracker-app-20k-first-month-codex", "app_name": "Tarsi", "title": "Tarsi: a budget tracker built in a weekend with Codex that made about $20K in its first month as a paid app", "claimed_revenue": "About $20,000 in its first month across iOS and Android as a paid-upfront app; App Store Connect shows $14.7K in iOS sales (Tap & Swipe podcast, May 2026)", "revenue_details": "On the Tap & Swipe podcast (May 23, 2026) Bryl says iOS sales were sitting at about $14.9K after a little over a month and that iOS plus Android came to around $19K to $20K, with Android live for only about three weeks. The App Store Connect Trends screen he shared on camera shows $14.7K in lifetime sales and 3.37K units for Tarsi - Budget Tracker (Apple ID 6760278399) through April 2026. The app launched at $4.99 paid upfront on iOS, about $2 less on Android, with no free trial and no paid ads. Tarsi later switched to free with Pro plans ($2.99 a month, $29.99 a year or $29.99 lifetime); TrustMRR, connected to RevenueCat, shows that newer subscription revenue separately: $869 MRR, 339 active subscriptions and $4,357 all time (checked Oct 19, 2026).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "finance", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Codex" ], "channels": [ "Word of mouth", "Social media", "App Store search (ASO)" ], "customer_acquisition": "No paid ads. Tarsi went viral after he demoed it at a university talk on vibe coding and shared it on his socials, then climbed to #1 in the paid charts in several countries. A link in the app's settings sends users to a public Facebook group for questions and feedback, and because the group is public their posts show up in their friends' feeds.", "source_url": "https://tap-and-swipe.com/episodes/bryl-lim-tarsi", "source_author": "Bryl Lim (founder), Tap & Swipe podcast", "posted": "2026-05-23", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "His X bio calls him a \"300k+ creator\" (about 1.8K followers on X itself); he first showed Tarsi as a live demo at a university talk", "source_url": "https://x.com/bryllim_" }, "name": "Tarsi", "one_liner": "An offline-first budget tracker for iPhone and Android with a tarsier mascot: log spending, track balances across cards and accounts, and plan bills without an account or a server.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Finance & money", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/tarsi-budget-tracker-app-20k-first-month-codex/" }, { "slug": "algrow-youtube-format-research-saas-10k-gbp-month-cursor", "app_name": "Algrow", "title": "Algrow: a YouTube format research SaaS at £10,250 in four weeks (Stripe shown), vibe coded with Cursor by a student with no coding background", "claimed_revenue": "£10,250.61 gross volume in the last four weeks, which he describes as over $14,000 in the last 30 days, about six months after launch (Stripe dashboard shown, Starter Story interview, January 2026)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted Jan 14, 2026) Sam says he vibe coded his first SaaS, Algrow, six months earlier and that it has over 10,000 users and made over $14,000 in revenue in the last 30 days. The Stripe 'Your overview' screen he shows on camera reads £10,250.61 gross volume and £9,537.38 net volume for the last four weeks (November 2025), with 480 new customers. Plans are 25, 45 and 80 a month. On X he posted on May 28, 2025 that Algrow had passed 8k MRR and on Jul 23, 2025 that it was doing five figures MRR; on Mar 3, 2026 he wrote that he had taken the company past five figures MRR solo before hiring a lead developer.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "GBP", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "ChatGPT", "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Discord communities", "Word of mouth", "X" ], "customer_acquisition": "Discord first: he joined small communities of YouTube creators, muted his mic and shared his screen to demo the tool live, and got his first 400 users that way. Members told their friends, and he kept posting in the same communities as he shipped updates.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r0qPeSJGog", "source_author": "Sam Adeniyi (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-01-14", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Restarted an X account he had used for two years as a thumbnail designer, which he says had some \"dead followers\" (size not stated)", "source_url": "https://x.com/samgrows/status/1920190551879458823" }, "name": "Algrow", "one_liner": "A research tool for YouTube creators that surfaces channels and video formats going viral right now, with subscriber and average-view data, and helps them replicate those formats.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/algrow-youtube-format-research-saas-10k-gbp-month-cursor/" }, { "slug": "kleo-linkedin-ai-writing-tool-62k-mrr-claude-code", "app_name": "Kleo", "title": "Kleo: an AI LinkedIn writing tool at $61,910 MRR (Polar shown) about 90 days after a rebuild with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$61,910 MRR on the Polar card shared by the cofounder (Nov 2 to Dec 1, 2025); $62k MRR about three months after relaunch (X and Indie Hackers, December 2025)", "revenue_details": "On Dec 15, 2025 cofounder Cameron Trew posted on X: 'We built a $62k MRR SaaS in 90 days. (Without ads or launching)', with a Polar card reading $61,910 monthly recurring revenue for Nov 2 to Dec 1, 2025. Indie Hackers (Dec 31, 2025) independently reports Kleo at $62k MRR, plus $20k MRR for his second product, Mentions. Kleo 2.0 filled 500 beta spots with a lifetime discount on Oct 6, 2025 (filled in 4 days, per cofounder Jake Ward), then 500 more (filled in 9 days). Cameron's current X bio says the company passed $1m in revenue by September 2026.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Waitlist", "Email list", "LinkedIn", "Webinars" ], "customer_acquisition": "The waitlist did all the work: Kleo 1.0, a free Chrome extension, had 60K to 70K users, and cofounders Jake Ward and Lara Acosta brought large LinkedIn audiences. They emailed the waitlist with 500 beta spots at a lifetime discount, sold out in four days, then opened 500 more, and Lara ran webinars showing features and testimonials. No ads.", "source_url": "https://x.com/camtrew/status/2000550729447043420", "source_author": "Cameron Trew (cofounder), X", "posted": "2025-12-15", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Kleo 1.0 had 60K+ users, and cofounders Jake Ward (100K LinkedIn followers in a year) and Lara Acosta brought large LinkedIn audiences", "source_url": "https://x.com/jakezward/status/1975183615257411704" }, "name": "Kleo", "one_liner": "An AI writing tool for LinkedIn posts that learns your writing style, finds what's trending, suggests ideas and drafts posts with you in a chat, pitched as 'Cursor for LinkedIn posts'.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/kleo-linkedin-ai-writing-tool-62k-mrr-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "cursor-directory-community-plugins-35k-mrr-cursor", "app_name": "Cursor Directory", "title": "Cursor Directory: a community site for Cursor rules and plugins at $35K+ MRR from ads and listings, a 3-hour hack coded with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "$35K+ MRR from ads and listings and $150K+ in profit, about a year after a 3-hour build (founder, X, September 2025)", "revenue_details": "On Sep 12, 2025 Pontus Abrahamsson posted on X that cursor.directory, 'a 3-hour hack', makes $35k a month: $35k+ MRR from ads and listings, $150k+ in profit and 55.5k registered users. In the Starter Story interview (posted Nov 16, 2025) he says 'we built it in a weekend and now it makes 35k per month', the host puts it at $34,000 a month, and the founders give a 99.8% gross margin, operating costs under about $500 a month, 49,000 registered users and 2.2 million unique visitors since launch. Revenue comes from paid job listings, featured placements and ads; payments run through Polar.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "X", "Open source", "SEO" ], "customer_acquisition": "They posted the site on X the day it was built and it took off; Pontus already had a large developer audience there. Every rule is open source and merged on GitHub, so the community keeps adding content, which brings search traffic and the sponsors and job posters who pay for listings.", "source_url": "https://x.com/pontusab/status/1966470564601835963", "source_author": "Pontus Abrahamsson (cofounder), X", "posted": "2025-09-12", "added": "2026-10-19", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "About 31K followers on X; cofounder of the open-source Midday app before building the directory", "source_url": "https://x.com/pontusab" }, "name": "Cursor Directory", "one_liner": "A free community site where developers share and find Cursor rules, MCP servers and plugins, paid for by job listings, featured placements and ads.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/cursor-directory-community-plugins-35k-mrr-cursor/" }, { "slug": "vaultaire-private-photo-vault-app-41k-month-codex-claude-code", "app_name": "Vaultaire", "title": "Vaultaire: a private photo vault iPhone app at $41K a month, built in three weeks with coding agents", "claimed_revenue": "$41,425 in gross App Store sales in August 2026 (up from $26,384 in July)", "revenue_details": "In an Indie Hackers interview (Oct 8, 2026) the founder says Vaultaire did $26,384 in gross App Store sales in July and $41,425 in August. He says most revenue comes from lifetime purchases, so he does not call it MRR; the recurring part is much smaller. July breakdown he gives: 17,100 downloads, 1,287 purchases (7.53% download-to-paid), 545 annual plans at $9.99, 47 monthly at $1.99 and 695 lifetime at $29.99; lifetime was about 54% of customers and 79% of revenue. It made $66 in its first partial month after the March 13, 2026 launch. These are gross sales before Apple's 15% commission. On X (Sep 3, 2026) he wrote it was 'currently stuck at $2k/day'.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "OpenAI Codex", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "App Store search (ASO)", "Localization", "SEO", "Pinterest", "Apple Search Ads", "Building in public", "Free tools" ], "customer_acquisition": "No formal launch: he put up the website, published the app, measured everything and ran small experiments. ASO became the biggest channel at about 60% of downloads, and localizing the app and site made Japan a major market. SEO only took off after backlinks from directories and republishing articles on Medium, Blogger and WordPress.com. LinkedIn, X and Reddit did little; one Pinterest push brought 311 visits, 244 downloads, 51 paying customers and $1,122. Apple Search Ads (about $650) returned about $2,400 in attributed sales before he paused them. He also built free browser tools on the site.", "source_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/how-rasty-turek-built-vaultaire-in-three-weeks-and-grew-it-to-40k-month-1BjFvs2akwfIVjMGYO54", "source_author": "Rasty Turek (founder), Indie Hackers interview by Channing Allen", "posted": "2026-10-08", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Vaultaire", "one_liner": "A privacy-first iPhone and iPad app for hiding photos, videos and files: everything is encrypted on the device, there are no accounts, and different unlock patterns open separate vaults.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/vaultaire-private-photo-vault-app-41k-month-codex-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "dropmagic-ai-ecommerce-store-builder-120k-mrr-cursor-claude-code", "app_name": "Dropmagic", "title": "Dropmagic: an AI store builder for e-commerce beginners at $120K MRR, developed with Cursor and Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$120K MRR (founder on X, October 2026); over 45K MRR within the first four months (Starter Story, Nov 2025)", "revenue_details": "On October 6, 2026 the founder posted on X: 'I scaled Minea to $750K MRR and Dropmagic to $120K MRR'. His X bio at the time read '€106k/300k', a progress bar toward a 300k goal shown in euros, so the company may track revenue in euros; the dollar figure from his post is the one used here. In a Starter Story interview published November 30, 2025 he said Dropmagic was 'growing to over 45K MMR within the first four months', with no currency given. Minea is his earlier company and is not counted here.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "YouTube creators", "Affiliates" ], "customer_acquisition": "Mostly YouTube creators: the founder says more than 60% of new customers come from YouTube. One co-founder is a YouTube creator who uses the product and promotes it, which he says secured the first 10K MRR; after that they paid other creators a fixed fee plus commission, starting with one video and moving to multi-video deals once a creator broke even.", "source_url": "https://x.com/LoicBerthelot/status/2107414617685373125", "source_author": "Loïc Berthelot (co-founder), X", "posted": "2026-10-06", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 7K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure); he previously scaled Minea to $750K MRR", "source_url": "https://x.com/LoicBerthelot" }, "name": "Dropmagic", "one_liner": "A SaaS that uses AI to build a ready-to-sell online store for a product in about five minutes, aimed at beginners in e-commerce and dropshipping.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/dropmagic-ai-ecommerce-store-builder-120k-mrr-cursor-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "ninjapear-b2b-data-api-15k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "NinjaPear", "title": "NinjaPear: a B2B data API past $15K in a month six months after launch, prototyped in two weeks with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "Over $15k in gross revenue in a month, about six months after a January 2026 launch (founder, Indie Hackers, July 2026)", "revenue_details": "Steven Goh launched NinjaPear on January 30, 2026 and posted on X the next day that he got his first payment. On his blog on March 25, 2026 he wrote that 54 days after launch NinjaPear had 1,036 registered users and an annualized run rate of around $66,000. On June 30 he wrote that he had made more than 10K in each of the last 2 months (no currency given), that NinjaPear was already profitable, and that revenue had dipped that month, so he did not think he had product-market fit yet. In the Indie Hackers interview published July 7, 2026 he says: 'We did over $15k in gross revenue last month.' Revenue comes from credit packs (pay as you go from $10) and subscriptions, so this is monthly gross revenue, not MRR.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Codex" ], "channels": [ "Cold email (AI agent)", "Free tools", "Blog content", "X" ], "customer_acquisition": "He launched with a blog post, then released a free 1:1 replacement for Clearbit's deprecated Logo API and replied to people on X who were looking for one. His main growth hack, on his blog: for every new signup, a prospecting agent finds people in similar roles at that user's competitors and sends them a cold email saying a competitor just signed up; he credits it with taking registrations from 300 to 3,163 users in five months. He also writes long guides and reviews on the company blog.", "source_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/hitting-15k-mo-six-months-after-getting-sued-and-acquired-MMWkpCaClOB6wVgbuPI7", "source_author": "Steven Goh (founder), Indie Hackers interview by James Fleischmann", "posted": "2026-07-07", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Kept a newsletter of about 20K readers when he sold Proxycurl, plus past Proxycurl users (his reply in the interview's comments)", "source_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/hitting-15k-mo-six-months-after-getting-sued-and-acquired-MMWkpCaClOB6wVgbuPI7" }, "name": "NinjaPear", "one_liner": "A B2B data enrichment and competitive intelligence platform: APIs and tools that look up companies, their customers, competitors and employees from public web data.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/ninjapear-b2b-data-api-15k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "klar-ai-learning-agent-students-sek-1-3m-arr-lovable", "app_name": "Klar", "title": "Klar: an AI study agent at 1.3M kronor ARR a month after launch, built with Lovable by three non-technical students", "claimed_revenue": "1.3 million Swedish kronor in ARR one month after launch (co-founders on the Foundore podcast, May 2026)", "revenue_details": "On the Foundore podcast (published May 29, 2026) one of the co-founders said: 'after just one month of launch we reached 1.3 million Swedish crowns in ARR'. The product launched around January 20, 2026, opened to students in batches. This is annualized from the first month, not a full year of revenue. Lovable's own posts describe the same milestone as '$130k/year' and '€130,000 in ARR'; those converted figures are not used here.", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "SEK", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "education", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable" ], "channels": [ "Campus sales", "Word of mouth", "Student ambassadors", "University partnerships" ], "customer_acquisition": "They pitched students in person at a university career fair and got them to pay (Apple Pay, card) before the product existed, pitching it as cheaper than the ChatGPT Plus subscription students already paid for. After launch they opened access in batches to make it feel exclusive, targeted new students who had no study habits yet, recruited older students as ambassadors wearing Klar merch, and worked with student associations and universities. Lovable says they spent nothing on ads.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAdPA-25aNg", "source_author": "Isabel Storgårds and Eric Götborg (co-founders), Foundore podcast", "posted": "2026-05-29", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Klar", "one_liner": "A learning agent for university students that answers questions about their own courses and makes practice exam questions, flashcards, study guides and podcast-style audio from their sources.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Education & learning", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/klar-ai-learning-agent-students-sek-1-3m-arr-lovable/" }, { "slug": "flowfy-budgeting-app-22k-total-rork", "app_name": "Flowfy", "title": "Flowfy: a budgeting app built with Rork and no code, at $22K total and #3 in Finance in Spain", "claimed_revenue": "$22K in total revenue and $300+ a day, about five months after launch (Rork case study, May 1, 2026)", "revenue_details": "Rork's case study (May 1, 2026) says Flowfy launched on the App Store on Nov 11, 2025, switched on payments on Dec 5, made $10K in its first 30 days of monetization and had reached $22K in total revenue, $300+ a day with peaks above $600, and 100K+ downloads. It says Alberto had made $750 in total when he joined Rork's founder community in January. On X the founder has posted the app reaching #3 in Finance in Spain (Jan 21, 2026), that 'revenue for Flowfy took a hit this month' (Feb 23, 2026) and 100K downloads, 100% organic, in six months (May 4, 2026). FlowfyPRO costs €3.99 a month or €29.99 a year; the case study reports revenue in dollars.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "finance", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Rork" ], "channels": [ "TikTok", "Organic short-form video", "Paid creator collabs" ], "customer_acquisition": "No ads. Alberto spent weeks testing organic short-form formats and hooks until one clicked, then doubled down; he focused on Spain first and only turned on payments after initial traction. Later he looked for US-based slideshow creators and agencies for paid collabs to push into English-speaking markets.", "source_url": "https://rork.com/blog/alberto-flowfy-case-study", "source_author": "Alberto Pérez (founder), Rork blog", "posted": "2026-05-01", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Had built an audience from a year of content creation before the app (size not stated)", "source_url": "https://rork.com/blog/alberto-flowfy-case-study" }, "name": "Flowfy", "one_liner": "A personal finance app for tracking expenses, setting budgets and seeing spending patterns, with a pastel look aimed at young women; advanced features sit behind a FlowfyPRO subscription.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Finance & money", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/flowfy-budgeting-app-22k-total-rork/" }, { "slug": "daymaker-cold-caking-sales-outreach-100k-month-lovable", "app_name": "Daymaker", "title": "Daymaker: cakes as sales outreach, almost $100K invoiced in a month, platform vibe coded with Lovable by a 20-year-old", "claimed_revenue": "Almost $100k invoiced in a month (March 2026), up from $10k the month before, after 'cold caking' took off (founder on X)", "revenue_details": "On March 18, 2026 the founder posted: 'Last month we invoiced $10k in cakes. This month we're invoicing almost $100k' because cold caking blew up. That is invoicing for cakes and delivery, so it is gross sales before bakery and delivery costs, not profit or recurring revenue. Separately, Gründerszene (Business Insider Germany, April 3, 2026) reported that the original birthday-automation product reached 150,000 dollars ARR four months after its September 2025 launch, per the company. On September 11, 2026 the founder wrote on X that this birthday side grew to 150k arr in 3 months through cold calling and was at 85k arr nine months after he stopped growth and customer success work, and offered an operator 75% of that part of the business. Lovable's CEO and others on X have quoted figures of $110K to $120K a month; those are not used here.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable" ], "channels": [ "Cold calling", "Physical outreach (cakes)", "X" ], "customer_acquisition": "In summer 2025 he and co-founder Simon Dieu cold called more than 100 executives, including at KPMG, to sell automated office birthday cakes. In San Francisco he switched to 'cold caking': sending a prospect a custom cake with a pitch or QR code on it instead of another cold email, and posting about it on X, where his March 2026 revenue post was viewed about 400,000 times.", "source_url": "https://x.com/daymakerguy/status/2034172822197834139", "source_author": "William Lindholm (founder), X", "posted": "2026-03-18", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 3.1K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/daymakerguy" }, "name": "Daymaker", "one_liner": "A platform that sends custom cakes made by local bakeries and hand-delivers them, first for company birthdays and now as 'cold caking' sales outreach with your pitch or a QR code on the cake.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/daymaker-cold-caking-sales-outreach-100k-month-lovable/" }, { "slug": "rewired-screen-time-blocker-1-9k-mrr-rork-claude-code", "app_name": "Rewired", "title": "Rewired: a screen-time blocker app at $1,864 MRR (Superwall-verified), built by a 17-year-old with Rork and Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$1,864 MRR (697 active subscriptions; TrustMRR, Superwall-verified)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR shows $1,864 MRR from 697 active subscriptions, $569 in the last 30 days and $25,637 all-time revenue (as of Oct 18, 2026); monthly revenue peaked at $5,189 in April 2026 and has fallen every month since. In his TrustMRR sale listing (Sep 29, 2026, asking $6,500) the founder wrote of about $872 in sales over the previous 30 days. Rork's case study (Feb 26, 2026) reported $1.3K in the first month, updated to $2,600 total on Mar 13 and $6,000 total on May 1; those totals run below TrustMRR's for the same months, and neither source says whether its figures are before or after Apple's fees. Pricing: $29.99 a year or $9.99 a week.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/rewired-screen-time-blocker", "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Rork", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Instagram", "TikTok", "UGC videos", "Meta ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Short videos on Instagram and TikTok. A Clash Royale gameplay hook got 500K views in three weeks and no revenue because the audience was too young; copying a higher-production format that was converting for other screen-time apps worked, and Instagram beat TikTok. Reels ask viewers to comment 'app' to get the link by DM, and friends make reels for a share of the subscriptions they bring in. TrustMRR also lists Meta ads; the founder says there has been no paid ads or UGC spending since July.", "source_url": "https://rork.com/blog/nick-therewired-case-study", "source_author": "Nick (founder), Rork blog", "posted": "2026-02-26", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Rewired", "one_liner": "An iPhone screen-time blocker that locks distracting apps until you earn minutes back, first by photographing a completed habit for AI to check and now through short arcade challenges.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/rewired-screen-time-blocker-1-9k-mrr-rork-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "meet-oscar-ai-email-assistant-45k-mrr-lovable", "app_name": "Meet Oscar", "title": "Meet Oscar: an AI email assistant at $45K MRR in 60 days, first version vibe coded in Lovable by a non-developer", "claimed_revenue": "$45,000 MRR within 60 days of launch (founder's own site, January 2026)", "revenue_details": "On his own site the founder writes that he used his framework 'to scale Meet Oscar to $45,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) in just 60 days'. The SaaS Mastery interview he links to (January 2, 2026) repeats the figure, and there he says the company is now 'definitely profitable' after reinvesting all early revenue into ads and taking no salaries. No later figure is given.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable", "Replit" ], "channels": [ "Meta ads", "Google ads", "Reddit", "Referrals", "Waitlist" ], "customer_acquisition": "Before building, he ran Meta ads to more than 200 tailored landing pages for 15 customer types and asked waitlist signups to pay $5 to jump the queue. After launch, every dollar of revenue went back into Meta and later Google ads, plus helpful (not salesy) Reddit posts and a referral loop that gave users free months for bringing in friends.", "source_url": "https://giovannibrees.com/saas-ai-launch-framework", "source_author": "Giovanni Brees (founder), his own site", "posted": "2026-01-15", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Meet Oscar", "one_liner": "An AI email assistant that drafts replies in your own voice, using the email thread and your company's documents such as price lists and FAQs.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/meet-oscar-ai-email-assistant-45k-mrr-lovable/" }, { "slug": "creator-hunter-influencer-database-30k-bolt-cursor", "app_name": "Creator Hunter", "title": "Creator Hunter: an influencer database for startups at $30K total, vibe coded with Bolt and Cursor by a self-described non-coder", "claimed_revenue": "$30K in total revenue, about seven months after launch (founder, Starter Story interview, May 2025)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted May 24, 2025) the founder said the app had made him $30K since he built and launched it about seven months earlier, with over 1,000 users and more than 350 paid users, at margins of about 90%. On X he posted on Mar 23, 2025 that he shipped Creator Hunter in October 2024 and 'made first $10k', and on May 17, 2025 that it did $10K the month after he started vibe coding it. Pricing on the site starts at $67 a month.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Bolt", "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "Building in public on X: launch night alone brought 20 to 30 sales. His best post (close to 500K impressions) paired a simple demo with a raw reaction and joined the debate of the moment, whether AI coding can build a full SaaS. He borrows formats that are already working for others (he cites a Marc Lou post) and ships updates often instead of one big launch.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/paulius", "source_author": "Paulius Masalskas (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-05-24", "added": "2026-10-18", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Creator Hunter", "one_liner": "A curated database of vetted TikTok and Instagram creators that matches startups and apps with influencers, now with AI agents that find, email and follow up with creators.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/creator-hunter-influencer-database-30k-bolt-cursor/" }, { "slug": "tradr-social-platform-for-traders-1-5k-mrr-claude-code", "app_name": "Tradr", "title": "Tradr: a social platform for traders at about 1.5K MRR a month after launch, built with a Claude Code stack", "claimed_revenue": "around 1.5k MRR (one month after launch; currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "The founder says Tradr launched last month and makes around 1.5k MRR before any growth push. He lists his monthly costs as 100 for Claude Code, 50 for Supabase, 50 for data providers and 20 for VPS services (in dollars).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "finance", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Not specified" ], "customer_acquisition": "Not specified. The founder says he hasn't started the growth phase yet.", "source_url": "https://x.com/momofivex/status/2111157264652607638", "source_author": "@momofivex (Kevin)", "posted": "2026-10-16", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-20", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 110 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/momofivex" }, "name": "Tradr", "one_liner": "A social media platform for traders, launched in September 2026.", "source_status": { "status": "removed", "checked": "2026-10-22", "note": "The founder's original post on X (x.com/momofivex/status/2111157264652607638) was deleted. We found no archived copy and no other public source for the figure." }, "category_name": "Finance & money", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/tradr-social-platform-for-traders-1-5k-mrr-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "enjoy-ai-coding-agents-desktop-app-3-8k-mrr-codex", "app_name": "Enjoy", "title": "Enjoy: a desktop app for AI coding agents at $3.8K MRR 30 days after launch, made by one founder and his agents", "claimed_revenue": "$3.8k MRR (30 days after launch)", "revenue_details": "The founder posted on October 15, 2026 that Enjoy launched 30 days earlier and is at $3.8k MRR. In the same post he says it lacks product-market fit and he is considering a rebrand. The only plan, Unlimited, costs $14.99 a month after a 7-day trial, plus $9.99 a month per extra computer.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "X", "YouTube" ], "customer_acquisition": "His own audience: about 85K followers on X and a YouTube channel about building with AI. He notes that this audience may not overlap with the beginners Enjoy is aimed at.", "source_url": "https://x.com/atmoio/status/2110803320684097683", "source_author": "@atmoio (Mo Bitar)", "posted": "2026-10-15", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "About 85K followers on X and a YouTube channel; previously founded Standard Notes", "source_url": "https://x.com/atmoio" }, "name": "Enjoy", "one_liner": "A desktop, web and iPhone app that runs AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex side by side, so non-programmers can build software in plain language.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/enjoy-ai-coding-agents-desktop-app-3-8k-mrr-codex/" }, { "slug": "bridgemind-ai-agent-workspace-250k-arr-claude-code-codex", "app_name": "BridgeMind", "title": "BridgeMind: an AI agent workspace at $250K ARR, vibe coded live on stream every day by its founder", "claimed_revenue": "ARR: $250,772 (Day 238 of his live-streamed challenge, Oct 8, 2026)", "revenue_details": "The founder puts the current ARR in the title of each daily stream. Day 202 (Jul 3, 2026): $230,076. Day 206 (Jul 10): $242,964. On Day 218 (Aug 19) he said he cut about $50K of ARR on purpose, from $251,759 to $194,904, by shutting down two side businesses (Vibecademy and ViewCreator) to focus on the core app. Day 231 (Sep 22): $229,140. Day 236 (Oct 2): $257,540. Day 238 (Oct 8): $250,772. Pro is listed at $50 a month on bridgemind.ai.", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "YouTube", "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "Daily live streams on YouTube and X where he builds the product on camera and talks to viewers, plus a Discord of 14,600+ builders (per his August 2026 stream description). ProvenStartups reports he chose an all-organic strategy after a previous startup spent heavily on paid ads.", "source_url": "https://x.com/bridgemindai/status/2108204998664626480", "source_author": "@bridgemindai (Matthew Miller, founder)", "posted": "2026-10-08", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "BridgeMind", "one_liner": "A desktop 'agent super app' for Mac, Windows and Linux where you run AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex side by side, with voice input; Pro costs $50 a month.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/bridgemind-ai-agent-workspace-250k-arr-claude-code-codex/" }, { "slug": "agentaos-merchant-of-record-9-5k-mrr-ai-agents-claude-code", "app_name": "AgentaOS", "title": "AgentaOS: a merchant of record at $9.5K MRR two months after launch, run by one founder and AI agents", "claimed_revenue": "$9.5K MRR (two months after an August 2026 launch)", "revenue_details": "In an Indie Hackers interview published October 6, 2026, the founder says AgentaOS launched in August, has 400+ SaaS founders signed up, has processed 1,400+ live payments and is at $9.5K MRR. On X a week later he describes it as about $10k MRR. Revenue mixes subscriptions and a percentage of sales (4.5% + 0.50 per card sale on the free plan).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "finance", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "X", "LinkedIn", "Warm network" ], "customer_acquisition": "No ads or paid marketing. The founder writes about payment problems rather than the product, then follows up in DMs with everyone who engages, and onboards founders personally.", "source_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/tech/starting-from-scratch-and-hitting-9-5k-mrr-in-two-months-j5pMaED5FEbKw8qmeyj9", "source_author": "Panche Isajeski (founder), Indie Hackers interview by James Fleischmann", "posted": "2026-10-06", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "AgentaOS", "one_liner": "A merchant of record that lets freelancers, agencies and SaaS founders take card and monthly payments worldwide, handling tax, invoices and chargebacks.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Finance & money", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/agentaos-merchant-of-record-9-5k-mrr-ai-agents-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "trustmrr-verified-revenue-marketplace-330k-9-months-cursor", "app_name": "TrustMRR", "title": "TrustMRR: a revenue leaderboard turned startup marketplace, $300K + $30K in fees in 9 months, vibe coded with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "Just over $300,000 in revenue plus around $30,000 in acquisition fees in its first nine months (Sep 1, 2026)", "revenue_details": "Launched Oct 30, 2025 with ad spots at $299 a month, raised to $699, $999 and then $1,499 as the launch post spread; every spot sold within three days for $20,378. A marketplace was added Nov 30, 2025 and a 3% finder fee on Jan 15, 2026. He reports $31,834 in March 2026, $23,695 in May and a best month of $44,000 in July 2026 at a 90% margin. His newsletter totals: $301,198 gross product revenue, about $30,000 in acquisition fees, 154 founders acquired. On X he posted that TrustMRR made $53K in September 2026. He turned down a $1.2M offer to buy it.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "content-sites-ads", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "X", "Word of mouth", "SEO", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "A launch post on X that reached 2.9 million views. After that, word of mouth (he says most traffic comes from it), Google search (over 5,000 startup pages indexed by February 2026 and 1 million impressions by March), and features built to be shared, such as one-click revenue images, games and embeds. About 200,000 visitors a month by September 2026.", "source_url": "https://newsletter.marclou.com/p/i-vibe-coded-330k-in-9-months", "source_author": "Marc Lou (founder), own newsletter", "posted": "2026-09-01", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Well-known maker; says he already had about 100K X followers when he launched an earlier course, before TrustMRR", "source_url": "https://x.com/marclou/status/2097181213895123314" }, "name": "TrustMRR", "one_liner": "A website where founders verify their startup revenue with a read-only payment-provider key; it earns from ad spots and a fee on startups sold through its marketplace.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Content sites & ads", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/trustmrr-verified-revenue-marketplace-330k-9-months-cursor/" }, { "slug": "fastlane-ai-short-form-marketing-69k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "Fastlane", "title": "Fastlane: an AI short-form marketing tool at 69K a month two months after launch, shipped with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "around 69K a month in recurring revenue for the software, about two months after launch (founder, Starter Story interview published Aug 2026; currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "In the interview Gaurav says Fastlane does around 69K a month in recurring revenue just for the software product. It launched publicly on March 23, 2026 and grew from around 16K from paid beta users to over a thousand paid users and over a million ARR across the whole business. On X he posted $100k ARR four days after launch (Apr 17, 2026), $200k ARR on Apr 24, and on June 1, 2026: 'We went from $0 to $1m ARR in two months'.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Waitlist", "Reddit", "Social media", "X" ], "customer_acquisition": "A beta for a waitlist of about 2,000 people, then a public launch that went viral. Early users were found one by one in Reddit threads and with lead magnets on social media; every waitlist signup was invited to a call, and a 'book a call' button offering 7 extra days of access kept about 20 customer calls a week going (2,000 calls in total).", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/the-insanely-obvious-secret-behind-this-69k-month-saas", "source_author": "Gaurav (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-08-30", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Started posting on X with 0 followers in July 2025; by Nov 22, 2025 he had nearly 700 followers and a 1,500-person waitlist (his own post)", "source_url": "https://x.com/gauravsbuilding/status/1992366382240141400" }, "name": "Fastlane", "one_liner": "A tool that turns a product's website into short-form content for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube and schedules it, aimed at solopreneurs building mobile apps and SaaS.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/fastlane-ai-short-form-marketing-69k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "snag-free-stuff-finder-app-30k-mrr-claude-code-cursor", "app_name": "Snag", "title": "Snag: a free-stuff finder app at about $30K MRR four months after launch, coded with Claude Code in Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "Around $30,000 MRR, over $80,000 in total proceeds, about four months after launch (Superwall dashboard shown in a Starter Story interview, May 2026)", "revenue_details": "On camera he shows Superwall with around 30,000 US dollars in monthly recurring revenue, over 100,000 authenticated users, 9,000 conversions and over $80,000 in total proceeds, plus about 3,300 App Store ratings. He says every 100,000 views on a creator video brings roughly 1,000 to 2,000 US dollars in subscription profit.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "UGC videos", "TikTok", "Meta ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "UGC creators at scale: his team interviews creators and keeps about 1 in 10, pays them a monthly retainer plus CPM, and turns videos with over 50,000 views into Meta ads. Each ad starts at about $50 a day and is scaled up while return on ad spend stays above 1; one example video got 240,000 views, and about $3,000 went into one ad before it stopped paying back.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4QodeA_lQ0", "source_author": "Benjamin Chen (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-05-31", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Snag", "one_liner": "An iPhone app that shows people free items near them, with search, filters and favorites, sold as weekly, monthly, yearly or one-time subscriptions.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/snag-free-stuff-finder-app-30k-mrr-claude-code-cursor/" }, { "slug": "pep-ai-peptide-tracker-33k-28-days-replit-claude", "app_name": "Pep AI", "title": "Pep AI: a peptide tracker app at 33K in 28 days and 11K MRR seven weeks after launch, vibe coded with Replit and Claude", "claimed_revenue": "33,000 in revenue in the last 28 days, 11,000 MRR and 51,000 in total revenue about seven weeks after launch (RevenueCat dashboard shown in a Starter Story interview, May 2026)", "revenue_details": "In the interview Cedric shows almost 2,000 active subscriptions; plans are 45 a year or 10 a month with a three-day free trial. On X he posted $14,686 in revenue and $2,716 MRR after three weeks (Mar 14, 2026), 'Month 1: $30k revenue, Month 2: $50k revenue' (May 3), and 'Pep AI hit $100k total rev on May 9. Now we hit $200k total rev on June 10' (June 10, 2026). On August 7 he posted 100,000 downloads.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Replit", "Claude" ], "channels": [ "Influencers", "Instagram", "TikTok", "Meta ads", "TikTok Spark Ads", "Reddit", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "Influencer marketing first: creators in the peptide niche were signed before launch, and one creator's first post brought about 4,000 in revenue that day. On X he later wrote that over 100 creators post once or twice a week (paid by engagement plus a 15% affiliate cut), that the best videos are run as Meta ads and TikTok Spark Ads, and that his team sends over 1,000 outreach messages to creators a week.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/i-built-a-30k-month-in-35-days", "source_author": "Cedric Roberge (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-05-28", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Pep AI", "one_liner": "An iPhone app that helps people track peptide and GLP-1 doses safely: vial inventory, dose scheduling with reminders, dosing history, an AI chat bot and a research library.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/pep-ai-peptide-tracker-33k-28-days-replit-claude/" }, { "slug": "clairvo-ai-power-dialer-1m-arr-claude-code", "app_name": "Clairvo", "title": "Clairvo: an AI power dialer at a million dollars in ARR, about 90% built with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "a million dollars in ARR (founder, video published May 2026)", "revenue_details": "In a video published May 20, 2026 the founder says Clairvo just hit a million dollars in ARR. It is mostly sold to companies and rolled out to whole calling teams: his example is a 100-seat deal at $250 a seat per month, which he works out as $25,000 MRR or 300k ARR, adding 'that's more or less what we've done. We've closed a handful of deals.' He says the price started near 100 a month and was raised while customers kept paying. On X in July 2026, while onboarding another client, he wrote 'Could be huge! $2M ARR soon'.", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Codex" ], "channels": [ "Warm network", "YouTube" ], "customer_acquisition": "High-touch sales to mid-market and larger companies in call-heavy industries, rolled out to their existing calling teams; one early rollout was at one of his own eight-figure clients. On X he says a single 15-minute YouTube video drove 75 leads for Clairvo.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K65vd9EYbDU", "source_author": "Nick Saraev (founder), own YouTube channel", "posted": "2026-05-20", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "About 500K YouTube subscribers and 700K Instagram followers (his X bio); also runs an AI automation agency and a paid community", "source_url": "https://x.com/nicksaraev" }, "name": "Clairvo", "one_liner": "An AI-enabled power dialer for sales teams in call-heavy industries such as HVAC, plumbing and roofing, built to raise the share of calls that get picked up.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/clairvo-ai-power-dialer-1m-arr-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "revid-ai-short-video-generator-600k-month-cursor", "app_name": "Revid", "title": "Revid: an AI short-video generator at 600K+ a month, developed with Cursor by a team of about four", "claimed_revenue": "a little bit more than 600,000 per month (founder, April 2026 interview; currency not stated, the host writes $600K+/month)", "revenue_details": "In a December 2025 Starter Story interview the founder put Revid at 'something like 400K per month', growing about 10% month over month. By the April 2026 interview he said it was doing 'a little bit more than 600,000 per month' with a team of about four people. It is the largest of the five products in his portfolio (with Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer and Feather).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "GPT-5.4", "Gemini 3.1 Pro" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Free tools" ], "customer_acquisition": "The founder says SEO is Revid's number one acquisition channel. He builds free tools and landing pages aimed at specific search queries, works on domain authority, and charges from day one at a price meant to attract committed customers.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UnZnonMN9o", "source_author": "Tibo Louis-Lucas (founder), Peter Yang interview", "posted": "2026-04-26", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Previously built and sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio; the host notes his big audience on social media", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UnZnonMN9o" }, "name": "Revid", "one_liner": "An AI tool that turns a text, a link or an existing video into short, engaging videos for TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/revid-ai-short-video-generator-600k-month-cursor/" }, { "slug": "creatorlookup-influencer-search-100k-mrr-cursor-claude", "app_name": "CreatorLookup", "title": "CreatorLookup: influencer search at nearly 100K MRR, built by non-technical founders with Cursor and Claude", "claimed_revenue": "nearly 100K MRR (co-founder, Feb 2026 podcast; currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "Co-founder Mateo Greenberg described 'nearly 100K MRR' less than a year after pivoting to CreatorLookup in early 2025, with about 5K a month in costs. Revenue comes from credits for creator leads plus done-for-you search and outreach campaigns. In a short street interview in March 2026, co-founder Jose Rodriguez Odon answered 'We do 20K a month', which is much lower.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude" ], "channels": [ "Warm network", "Events", "Freelance marketplaces", "LinkedIn" ], "customer_acquisition": "The first client came from Upwork and Fiverr: a sauna company that needed health creators, sent a list before any contract. Early clients came from their influencer agency network and from upselling brands seen contacting creators; later growth came from word of mouth, in-person events (parties, Tech Week, CES), filmed testimonials, and LinkedIn influencers found with their own tool and boosted posts.", "source_url": "https://manavgolecha.com/podcasts/how-i-built-a-100k-month-creator-saas", "source_author": "Mateo Greenberg (co-founder), Manav Golecha podcast", "posted": "2026-02-18", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "CreatorLookup", "one_liner": "A search engine for brands and agencies to find niche creators across 400 million YouTube, Instagram and TikTok profiles, with contact details and audience data.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/creatorlookup-influencer-search-100k-mrr-cursor-claude/" }, { "slug": "gift-my-book-ai-comedy-books-1m-run-rate-base44", "app_name": "Gift My Book", "title": "Gift My Book: personalized AI comedy books near a $1M annual run rate in three months, built on Base44 in a week", "claimed_revenue": "'Pretty close to annualized revenue of one million dollars' about three months after launch (Dec 2025, Base44 case study)", "revenue_details": "Co-founder Yoav Hornung is quoted: 'We're pretty close to annualized revenue of one million dollars. December is our first real profitable month. It took like three months.' Base44's headline rounds this to $1M ARR. Sales are one-off book orders, not subscriptions, so this is a run rate; when an X user pointed that out, Yoav replied 'AR then, I guess?'. The case study reports 6–8% of visitors buying by early October 2025.", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Base44" ], "channels": [ "Meta ads", "UGC videos" ], "customer_acquisition": "Paid Meta ads. A first $100 test with ad copy written by ChatGPT brought the first purchase overnight. On X, Yoav says they used a broad audience and let the algorithm work, and later made UGC videos and static ads with AI; spend went up for the holiday season.", "source_url": "https://base44.com/blog/base44-case-study-gift-my-book", "source_author": "Yoav Hornung (co-founder), Base44 blog", "posted": "2026-01-14", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Gift My Book", "one_liner": "A website where you answer questions about someone and AI writes a personalized comedy book starring them, which is then printed and shipped as a gift.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/gift-my-book-ai-comedy-books-1m-run-rate-base44/" }, { "slug": "superx-x-growth-tool-22k-mrr-claude-code", "app_name": "SuperX", "title": "SuperX: an X growth tool at $22K MRR (Stripe-verified), built by a solo developer coding with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$22,281 MRR (523 active subscriptions; TrustMRR, Stripe-verified)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR shows $22,281 MRR, $21,329 in the last 30 days and $253,731 all-time revenue (as of Oct 17, 2026). In the Starter Story interview (posted Dec 28, 2025) the founder said SuperX was at $13,000 a month in MRR four months after its July 2025 public launch, with about 450 subscribers at $29 a month, growing 25% month over month. On X he posted that SuperX made $20,978.15 in September 2026. Pricing on TrustMRR: Pro $49/month, Advanced $49/month launch price (normally $99), Ultra $199/month.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/superx", "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "Building in public on X every day. His launch post got about 32,000 views and 26 signups; a selfie post the same day got over 46,000 views and added $1,000 in MRR within 24 hours. He then used SuperX to grow SuperX: find what goes viral, make his own version, double down on the hits.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYT-ip21P08", "source_author": "Rob Hallam (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-12-28", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 18K followers on X right before the July 2025 public launch (his own post, Jul 7, 2025); he had been posting on X since early 2023", "source_url": "https://x.com/robj3d3/status/1942093722071843108" }, "name": "SuperX", "one_liner": "A web app and Chrome extension that shows which posts went viral on X and why, then helps you write, schedule and engage to grow your own account.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/superx-x-growth-tool-22k-mrr-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "payout-class-action-settlement-app-20k-month-claude-code-cursor", "app_name": "Payout", "title": "Payout: a class-action settlement finder at 20K a month, vibe coded in 14 days with Claude Code and Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "20K per month, currency not stated (founder, Starter Story interview, Oct 2025)", "revenue_details": "About 50 days after an August 2025 launch: over 12,000 downloads and 1,300+ new subscriptions. RevenueCat's Shipaton 2025 write-up listed 17,000+ users, $30,017 in revenue and 1,750 paying subscribers; RevenueCat later said the app went from zero to about $80K MRR in four months.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "finance", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Influencers", "UGC videos", "Meta ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "A finance creator partner and other niche creators made short videos about the app; formats that worked were repeated with more creators, then turned into paid Facebook ads, with a paywall that pushes the yearly plan.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwHD6Fg-Mjs", "source_author": "Connor Burd (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-10-26", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Under 250 followers on X in late June 2025, about six weeks before the August 2025 launch (his own post)", "source_url": "https://x.com/BusDownBonnor/status/1938288191209124023" }, "name": "Payout", "one_liner": "A mobile app that finds class-action settlements people may qualify for, explains eligibility in plain English and alerts them to new claims.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Finance & money", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/payout-class-action-settlement-app-20k-month-claude-code-cursor/" }, { "slug": "lumoo-ai-fashion-content-platform-700k-arr-lovable", "app_name": "Lumoo", "title": "Lumoo: an AI fashion content platform at €700K ARR in 9 months, built on Lovable", "claimed_revenue": "€700K ARR within 9 months of a February 2025 launch (Lovable case study, Oct 2025)", "revenue_details": "15+ customer brands including Gant, Brothers, Johnells, Zoovillage and AWNR Group, targeting €1M ARR by the end of 2025. In December 2025 it raised a SEK 6 million (about €550K) angel round that included Lovable's CEO.", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "EUR", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable" ], "channels": [ "Warm network" ], "customer_acquisition": "The source doesn't detail a marketing channel; the two founders bring 25 years of combined fashion and retail experience and sell directly to brands.", "source_url": "https://lovable.dev/blog/lumoo-ai-fashion-platform", "source_author": "Henrik Skagerlind Fasth and Peter Thörngren (founders), Lovable blog", "posted": "2025-10-01", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Lumoo", "one_liner": "An AI platform where fashion and retail brands generate on-model product images, virtual try-ons, lookbooks and localized campaign content.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/lumoo-ai-fashion-content-platform-700k-arr-lovable/" }, { "slug": "plinq-womens-safety-app-r2-2m-arr-lovable", "app_name": "Plinq", "title": "Plinq: a women's safety app at R$2.2M ARR three months in, built entirely on Lovable by a non-coder", "claimed_revenue": "ARR: R$2.2M (USD ~$456K), 10k+ users in 3 months (Lovable case study, Sep 2025)", "revenue_details": "Lovable's case study reports a 300% month-over-month growth rate and says Plinq was raising a R$1.5–2M (about US$500K) pre-seed round with angel investors. Lovable's X account described it as '$456k ARR and 10k users with Lovable in 3 months' (Sep 25, 2025).", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "BRL", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable" ], "channels": [ "Not specified" ], "customer_acquisition": "The source doesn't detail a marketing channel; the founder has a growth-marketing background and her advice is to 'double down on marketing'.", "source_url": "https://lovable.dev/blog/how-sabrine-matos-built-plinq", "source_author": "Sabrine Matos (founder), Lovable blog", "posted": "2025-09-18", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Plinq", "one_liner": "A Brazilian app where women run instant background checks on public criminal and legal records, with green/yellow/red risk flags and a panic button that shares their location.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/plinq-womens-safety-app-r2-2m-arr-lovable/" }, { "slug": "creator-buddy-ai-x-content-coach-300k-arr-cursor", "app_name": "Creator Buddy", "title": "Creator Buddy: an AI content coach for X at 300K ARR two weeks after launch, built with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "300K ARR within two weeks of launch (founder, Starter Story interview published June 2025; currency not stated, the host writes $300K ARR)", "revenue_details": "The founder says Creator Buddy reached 100K of ARR within 15 minutes of its January launch and 300K of ARR within two weeks, with almost 500 active paid subscribers. Later in the interview he puts revenue at about 25,000 a month against costs of about 5,300 a month (mostly the X API at about 5,000), so roughly 80% margins.", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Windsurf", "ChatGPT" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public", "Waitlist" ], "customer_acquisition": "His own X audience. He shared the build for six or seven months, ran a beta with about 150 testers from his followers (meeting each one), announced the launch date 12 days ahead and spent launch day talking about it on X Spaces.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hMg_CZauJs", "source_author": "Alex Finn (founder), Starter Story interview", "posted": "2025-06-07", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Hundreds of thousands of X followers after a viral thread on the X algorithm, built over three years of posting", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hMg_CZauJs" }, "name": "Creator Buddy", "one_liner": "An AI content app that pulls in your posts from X and coaches you on how to create better content.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/creator-buddy-ai-x-content-coach-300k-arr-cursor/" }, { "slug": "fly-pieter-com-browser-flight-game-87k-mrr-cursor-claude", "app_name": "fly.pieter.com", "title": "fly.pieter.com: a browser flight game at $87K MRR from ads 17 days after launch, coded mostly with Cursor and Claude", "claimed_revenue": "$87,000 MRR (which is $1M ARR), 17 days after launch (founder's post on X, Mar 11, 2025)", "revenue_details": "The ads are sold as monthly subscriptions through a Stripe payment link; in the same post he says only 3 ads were left and 320,000 people had flown in the game. He also wrote: 'Whether the MRR is truly sustainable for a year we can only guess, but they ARE subscriptions and they do renew'. This is a March 2025 figure; no newer number for the game is used here.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "games", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "He built the game in public on X, posting updates and stats; brands then bought ad spots inside the game through a Stripe link, including a custom UFO for sponsor Basecamp.", "source_url": "https://x.com/levelsio/status/1899596115210891751", "source_author": "@levelsio (Pieter Levels)", "posted": "2025-03-11", "added": "2026-10-17", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Very large X following: about 977K followers in Oct 2026", "source_url": "https://x.com/levelsio" }, "name": "fly.pieter.com", "one_liner": "A free multiplayer flight game that runs in the browser and earns money from in-game ads: branded planes, blimps, billboards and UFOs.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Games", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/fly-pieter-com-browser-flight-game-87k-mrr-cursor-claude/" }, { "slug": "voicy-dictation-app-11k-mrr-chatgpt-cursor-codex", "app_name": "Voicy", "title": "Voicy: a dictation app at 11K MRR for older users, built with ChatGPT, Cursor and Codex", "claimed_revenue": "11K MRR (16 to 20K a month including lifetime deals; currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "Monthly plan around 8.49, lifetime plan around 260. Started as a Chrome extension; a Windows app came about six months later.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "ChatGPT", "Cursor", "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Chrome Web Store", "Reddit", "YouTube" ], "customer_acquisition": "The Chrome Web Store brought the first users with almost no work, and daily Reddit posts got it to a few hundred. Most growth comes from SEO: about 200 blog posts, 30 landing pages and a site in four or five languages. A YouTube series, 'AI for Seniors', is now growing too.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/i-built-this-app-for-my-dad-now-it-makes-18k-month", "source_author": "Kourosh (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-10-14", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Voicy", "one_liner": "A voice-to-text app for the computer and phone, aimed at older people and people who can't type comfortably, run as a side project.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/voicy-dictation-app-11k-mrr-chatgpt-cursor-codex/" }, { "slug": "abmaxx-ai-abs-coach-46k-month-lovable", "app_name": "AbMaxx", "title": "AbMaxx: an AI abs-coach app at $46,251 in 30 days (RevenueCat-verified), first built in Lovable by an 18-year-old", "claimed_revenue": "$46,251 in the last 30 days (TrustMRR, RevenueCat-verified)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted Oct 4, 2026) the founder said monthly revenue was about 55,000 that month, with 16,000 downloads in the past 28 days and just over 3,000 active paying customers; he said the first month after launch brought in just over 7,000. TrustMRR shows $19,023 MRR, 5,183 active subscriptions and $164,632 all-time revenue (as of Oct 16, 2026), and lists the app for sale.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/abmaxx", "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable" ], "channels": [ "Meta ads", "TikTok ads", "Creator content" ], "customer_acquisition": "Early deals with big fitness influencers didn't work and were dropped. What worked was paid ads on Meta (he cites about 2 to 2.5x return on ad spend) using content from one creator who got equity, then moving the same creatives to TikTok ads, which he says returned 4 to 5x because TikTok reaches his 15 to 30-year-old audience.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/this-unbelievable-app-idea-makes-50k-month", "source_author": "Lino (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-10-04", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "none", "detail": "Went from zero users and no distribution (per the interview); grew with UGC", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/this-unbelievable-app-idea-makes-50k-month" }, "name": "AbMaxx", "one_liner": "An iOS fitness app that builds a personalized abs plan from a user's details, made by an 18-year-old with no coding background who started it in Lovable.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/abmaxx-ai-abs-coach-46k-month-lovable/" }, { "slug": "visualizee-ai-rendering-8-2k-mrr-cursor-claude-code", "app_name": "Visualizee", "title": "Visualizee: an AI rendering tool for architects at $8,204 MRR (Stripe-verified), built with Cursor and Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$8,204 MRR (291 active subscriptions; TrustMRR, Stripe-verified)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview the founder said current MRR was 8.2K and close to $10,000 a month including one-time payments. TrustMRR shows $90,076 all-time revenue (both as of Oct 16, 2026).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/visualizee-ai", "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Free trial" ], "customer_acquisition": "A 7-day free trial, then $35 or $80 per month. He said the landing page gets over 300 visitors a day, with 5–10 new trials daily. He uses Ahrefs for SEO and MailerLite for email automation.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/i-failed-for-700-days-before-my-app-hit-10k-month", "source_author": "Piotr Obidowski (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-09-02", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Visualizee", "one_liner": "Turns sketches, photos and 3D model screenshots into photoreal renders for architects and interior designers, through a chat assistant called Vizzy.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/visualizee-ai-rendering-8-2k-mrr-cursor-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "cat-on-chair-pomodoro-timer-18k-month-chatgpt", "app_name": "Cat on Chair", "title": "Cat on Chair: a cat-themed Pomodoro timer at over 18K a month, coded with ChatGPT", "claimed_revenue": "over 18K in the last 30 days (currency not stated; the video title says $18K/month)", "revenue_details": "Close to 80K in sales over 8 to 9 months and 127K downloads. Lifetime plan 29.99, annual 19.99; most sales are lifetime. Launched Aug 27, 2025.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "ChatGPT" ], "channels": [ "RedNote", "Instagram", "Threads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Thousands of RedNote users beta-tested it before launch. It took off when Instagram influencers featured it in app-collection posts (one passed 2 million views), and a reshare on Threads in Taiwan went viral again.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/18k-month-from-this-ridiculously-simple-app-idea", "source_author": "Ryan (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-07-26", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Co-founder's existing RedNote illustration account (size not stated)", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/18k-month-from-this-ridiculously-simple-app-idea" }, "name": "Cat on Chair", "one_liner": "A focus timer where a hand-drawn cat sits on your chair while you work and leaves a gift when you finish, built by a former product designer and his girlfriend.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/cat-on-chair-pomodoro-timer-18k-month-chatgpt/" }, { "slug": "chartdetector-ai-chart-analysis-app-56k-month-cursor", "app_name": "ChartDetector AI", "title": "ChartDetector AI: an AI stock chart analysis app at $56K a month, coded with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "$56K per month (founder, Starter Story interview published July 2026)", "revenue_details": "More than 260,000 in total revenue and over 90,000 downloads in the first 13 months; 43,700 in April 2026 with roughly 20,000 in ad spend and about $11,500 profit (around 25% margin).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "finance", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Paid ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "TikTok Smart+ campaigns optimized on subscription events, broad targeting by country, at least six simple app-demo videos per campaign, a hard paywall with no free trial, and AppsFlyer for tracking.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPb-M0Vt4uI", "source_author": "Timo Koehler (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-07-23", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "ChartDetector AI", "one_liner": "A mobile app where traders photograph a stock or crypto chart and AI suggests where it may go, built by two brothers in Germany.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Finance & money", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/chartdetector-ai-chart-analysis-app-56k-month-cursor/" }, { "slug": "stella-manifestation-app-300k-mrr-claude-code-google-ai-studio", "app_name": "Stella", "title": "Stella: a manifestation app at 300K MRR two months after launch, built with Claude Code and Google AI Studio", "claimed_revenue": "300K MRR within two months (currency not stated; she adds it is 'about 350, 360' now)", "revenue_details": "12,000 paying customers and over 200,000 downloads, per the founder. The video title and host say $300K/month and $340K/month.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Claude", "Google AI Studio" ], "channels": [ "Own audience (TikTok, Instagram)", "ManyChat" ], "customer_acquisition": "She sells to her own manifestation audience: short videos that naturally feature the app, plus Instagram ManyChat replies ('comment download') that send people custom affirmations and a download link.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/she-built-this-300k-month-app-in-60-days", "source_author": "Sarah Pearl (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-07-12", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "1.2M Instagram and 2.8M TikTok followers before launch", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/she-built-this-300k-month-app-in-60-days" }, "name": "Stella", "one_liner": "An AI manifestation app that turns your goals into custom visualizations and daily affirmations, built by a creator with a large following.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/stella-manifestation-app-300k-mrr-claude-code-google-ai-studio/" }, { "slug": "profit-ai-shopify-analytics-30k-mrr-cursor-claude-code", "app_name": "Profit AI", "title": "Profit AI: a Shopify profit-analytics app at 30K MRR, built with Cursor by a non-coder", "claimed_revenue": "30K MRR for the app (currency not stated; 147,000 total since the December launch)", "revenue_details": "Recorded in May: 147,000 made to date, 122 app users, '38 or 39' paying customers. Paid plan dropped from 5,000 to 800 a month. Services revenue (just under 40K MRR) is separate and not counted here.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "OpenAI Codex", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Word of mouth" ], "customer_acquisition": "Mostly word of mouth among the e-commerce brands he already consulted for; at recording he had not done a marketing launch yet.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/i-turned-this-spreadsheet-into-a-30k-month-micro-saas", "source_author": "Jack (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-06-24", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Profit AI", "one_liner": "A Shopify app that turns profit, ad-spend and cost data into a simple dashboard, built from the founder's own client spreadsheet.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/profit-ai-shopify-analytics-30k-mrr-cursor-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "toneadapt-guitar-tone-app-25k-four-weeks-cursor-claude-code", "app_name": "ToneAdapt", "title": "ToneAdapt: a guitar tone app making over 25,000 in four weeks, vibe-coded with Cursor and Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "over 25,000 in four weeks (around 11,500 on the website's Stripe plus another 14,000 in the mobile app; currency not stated, the video title says $25K/month)", "revenue_details": "397+ active subscribers on the mobile app in its first month. Over 100,000 users in under five months. Plans: about 10 a week or about 60 a year (currency not stated).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "TikTok", "Instagram", "YouTube", "Facebook", "UGC videos", "Paid ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Posted short videos three times a day across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook with his own face on the brand (he had done UGC work before). Once a format converted, he remade it with variations, had UGC creators copy it, and put money behind it on Meta and TikTok ads.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/i-turned-my-hobby-into-a-25k-month-app", "source_author": "Kyan (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-06-14", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "ToneAdapt", "one_liner": "A website and iOS app that tells guitarists exactly how to set up their own amp and pedals to sound like any song.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/toneadapt-guitar-tone-app-25k-four-weeks-cursor-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "cutcoach-weight-cut-app-20k-month-cursor-chatgpt", "app_name": "CutCoach", "title": "CutCoach: a weight-cut app for combat athletes at 20,000 a month, built with Cursor and ChatGPT by a 19-year-old", "claimed_revenue": "20,000 a month (currency not stated; the video title says $20K/month)", "revenue_details": "Over 60,000 total revenue (currency not stated) in the six months since a September launch, and around 38,000–39,000 downloads.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "ChatGPT" ], "channels": [ "TikTok", "Instagram Reels", "Influencers", "Paid ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Started with organic posts modeled on niche social pages, then DM'd small TikTok and Instagram Reels creators in combat sports to partner; most said yes. He later ran the best influencer videos as paid ads.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/ethan", "source_author": "Ethan (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-04-09", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "CutCoach", "one_liner": "A mobile app that gives wrestlers and combat-sport athletes a science-based plan to cut weight before a competition or fight.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/cutcoach-weight-cut-app-20k-month-cursor-chatgpt/" }, { "slug": "prayer-lock-christian-app-blocker-20k-month-cursor-chatgpt", "app_name": "Prayer Lock", "title": "Prayer Lock: a Christian app that locks your phone until you pray, over 20K a month, coded in three days with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "over 20K a month (closed December 2025 at 21,000 in sales; currency not stated, the video title says $20K/month)", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted Jan 19, 2026) the founder said he closed December at 21,000 in sales, after 15K in November and 10K in October, growing over 50% a month; close to 58,000 downloads, a 43% conversion rate, 6.7K ratings and 41,000 in total proceeds. Pricing quoted as 49.99 a year or 9.99 a week. He said he spent around 9K on ads in the last 30 days and expected to close January at around 40K.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "productivity-lifestyle", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "ChatGPT", "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "UGC videos", "TikTok", "Instagram", "TikTok ads", "Meta ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "He tested many formats, posting around 40 times a day across 12 TikTok and Instagram accounts, until a UGC 'reaction' video with an app demo worked; his girlfriend (now wife) recorded them for free, which got him to his first 1K a month. A second creator followed, then paid ads: Meta first, then broad TikTok Spark-style campaigns on his best organic videos, after lengthening the onboarding from five to 15 minutes improved conversion.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/mou", "source_author": "Mau Baron (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-01-19", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Prayer Lock", "one_liner": "An iOS app that blocks the apps you choose until you recite a short AI-generated prayer matched to how you feel that day, sold as a weekly or yearly subscription.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Productivity & lifestyle", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/prayer-lock-christian-app-blocker-20k-month-cursor-chatgpt/" }, { "slug": "launchfast-amazon-product-research-21-8k-mrr-cursor", "app_name": "LaunchFast", "title": "LaunchFast: an AI Amazon product research tool at about 21.8K MRR in 90 days, built with Cursor in 48 hours", "claimed_revenue": "about 21.8K MRR (90 days after launch; currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "About 10K MRR at day 30 and 17–18K at day 60. Pricing stated as 50 a month for the partner's coaching customers and 199 per month for the public. Chrome extension with 330 active users.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Partnership", "Coaching community" ], "customer_acquisition": "Instead of building an audience, he pitched the tool to an Amazon-seller coaching company with a large audience and launched through that partnership on day zero, with discounted pricing for its members.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/hassam", "source_author": "Hassam (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-01-05", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "No personal audience; launched through a coaching company's audience", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/hassam" }, "name": "LaunchFast", "one_liner": "An AI product research tool for Amazon private-label sellers to find, validate and source products in minutes, built by a non-technical founder.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/launchfast-amazon-product-research-21-8k-mrr-cursor/" }, { "slug": "wrestle-ai-wrestling-coach-17k-month-rork-chatgpt", "app_name": "Wrestle AI", "title": "Wrestle AI: an AI wrestling coach at 17,000 a month, vibe coded with Rork and ChatGPT", "claimed_revenue": "17,000 per month, within six months of launch (currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "MRR from monthly plans alone: 8,000; the rest comes from yearly plans. Pricing 9.99/month or 59.99/year. He says it went from idea to the App Store in about a month.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Rork", "ChatGPT" ], "channels": [ "Influencers", "Pre-orders" ], "customer_acquisition": "His co-founder is a big wrestling influencer, and pre-orders put the app around #18 on the App Store on launch day. When that audience was saturated, he put about 500 into deals with other creators and kept scaling influencer marketing.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/George", "source_author": "George Lampropoulos (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-12-15", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Co-founder is a big wrestling influencer; launch-day pre-orders came from his audience", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/George" }, "name": "Wrestle AI", "one_liner": "An app that analyzes wrestling match videos and gives technique feedback, drills and training plans, built by a college student without writing code.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/wrestle-ai-wrestling-coach-17k-month-rork-chatgpt/" }, { "slug": "subscribr-ai-youtube-script-writer-30k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "Subscribr", "title": "Subscribr: an AI script writer for YouTube creators at around $30,000 a month, vibe coded with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "around $30,000 a month in subscription revenue", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story video (posted Dec 2, 2025) the founder said monthly revenue varies but is typically around $30,000 in subscription revenue, with over $700,000 in sales in the past year and over 4,000 customers, profitable from day one. He made about $20,000 from a pre-sale of 50 lifetime licenses before the product was built. He put costs at about $3,500 a month for AI compute, $2,000 for ads and $1,500 for other services. An Indie Hackers interview of Aug 27, 2025 lists revenue at more than $62K a month.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Pre-orders", "X", "Email list", "SEO", "Word of mouth" ], "customer_acquisition": "He opened a new X account, followed the YouTube creator space and shared free useful content with viral giveaways, building an email list of over 1,000 people that he emailed weekly. A pre-sale of 50 lifetime licenses, priced up every 10 sales and backed by a money-back guarantee, sold out in 2 to 3 days. Today customers come from word of mouth, social media and programmatic SEO pages that bring over 30,000 views a month from Google.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KqlwjBM_tM", "source_author": "Gil Hildebrand (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-12-02", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Started a new X account and built a 1,000+ email list before the pre-sale", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KqlwjBM_tM" }, "name": "Subscribr", "one_liner": "An AI tool that helps YouTube creators plan video ideas, packaging and scripts, sold as a subscription from about $49 to $300 a month.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/subscribr-ai-youtube-script-writer-30k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "coherence-breathwork-app-85k-in-8-months-cursor-claude-code", "app_name": "Coherence", "title": "Coherence: a breathwork app that made around 85,000 in eight months, built with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "around 85,000 in eight months (currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "Averaged around 11,000 a month since launch; best month 22,000. Over 15,000 downloads and 2,000 users. MVP finished in February 2025.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude Code", "OpenAI Codex" ], "channels": [ "X threads", "Instagram", "TikTok", "YouTube" ], "customer_acquisition": "Content before product: they tested ideas as X threads, turned winners into Instagram and TikTok short videos, then YouTube videos. A July video with about 8 million views changed the business. They also boost winning posts with Spark and Meta ads.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/our-mobile-app-made-85k-in-8-months", "source_author": "Jack and Nick Sweeney (founders), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-11-20", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "One founder had grown a YouTube channel to ~20K subscribers in university", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/our-mobile-app-made-85k-in-8-months" }, "name": "Coherence", "one_liner": "A breathwork app for calming the nervous system, focus and sleep, built by two brothers who validated the idea with viral posts first.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/coherence-breathwork-app-85k-in-8-months-cursor-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "stoppr-quit-sugar-app-12k-month-cursor", "app_name": "STOPPR", "title": "STOPPR: an app to quit sugar at 12,000 a month, a vibe-coded remix of a proven app", "claimed_revenue": "12,000 per month, five months after building it (currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "First month: 5,000. In five months: 60,000 downloads and around 900 paying customers. Costs mentioned: Cursor Ultra (200/month), Mixpanel (~100), TikTok Spark Ads (~100/month).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Influencers (French)", "TikTok Spark Ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "He works mainly with French influencers who talk about quitting sugar, found through a tool that lists creators who worked with other apps, and boosts videos with small TikTok Spark Ads budgets.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/i-found-a-successful-app-made-it-1-different-and-now-make-12k-month-stoppr", "source_author": "David Attias (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-10-30", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Under 500 followers on X in late April 2025, around when he started building STOPPR (his own reply on X)", "source_url": "https://x.com/david_attisaas/status/1916295040445333890" }, "name": "STOPPR", "one_liner": "A French app that helps women quit processed sugar, rebuilt from a successful app's onboarding with Cursor by a former quant trader.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/stoppr-quit-sugar-app-12k-month-cursor/" }, { "slug": "appalchemy-ai-mobile-app-builder-5-4k-mrr-cursor", "app_name": "AppAlchemy", "title": "AppAlchemy: an AI mobile-app design tool that hit about $17K MRR in 2025 (self-reported), built with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "About $17K MRR in July 2025, about four months after launch", "revenue_details": "In the Starter Story interview (posted Jul 9, 2025) the founder said the app made around 17K per month, four months after he started it, with more than 1K paying customers and about 20K signups, at margins of about 70%. The video shows these as on-screen graphics, not a revenue dashboard. An Indie Hackers interview of Jul 9, 2026 lists revenue at more than $10K a month. A TrustMRR listing that had shown Stripe-verified revenue has since been removed.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": "", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Reddit" ], "customer_acquisition": "Almost entirely Reddit, with zero audience and no ad spend: he says posts across many subreddits put the product in front of over 1 million people. His posts lead with value (for example a case study of a successful app) and plug the product in the middle or end, two to three times a week.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/how-i-used-reddit-to-hit-17k-mrr-with-zero-audience", "source_author": "Diego Roshardt (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-07-09", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "none", "detail": "Under 100 X followers, no YouTube channel at the time of the interview", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/how-i-used-reddit-to-hit-17k-mrr-with-zero-audience" }, "name": "AppAlchemy", "one_liner": "A browser tool that generates mobile app designs from a text prompt, now also an AI builder that turns a description into a working iOS and Android app, run by one founder.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/appalchemy-ai-mobile-app-builder-5-4k-mrr-cursor/" }, { "slug": "post-bridge-social-scheduler-48k-mrr-cursor", "app_name": "Post Bridge", "title": "Post Bridge: a social media scheduler at $48,821 MRR (Stripe-verified), built with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "$48,821 MRR (1,660 active subscriptions; TrustMRR, Stripe-verified)", "revenue_details": "TrustMRR shows $48,821 MRR, $49,607 in the last 30 days and $542,270 all-time revenue, with 1,660 active subscriptions (as of Oct 16, 2026). Pricing listed there: Marketer $39/month, Operator $99/month. In the June 2025 podcast interview the product was about seven months old; the interview itself gives no revenue figure in the founder's own words.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "verified", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/post-bridge", "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "X", "Building in public", "Word of mouth" ], "customer_acquisition": "He built it for his own need: posting the short videos that marketed his mobile app to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, X, Threads and Bluesky without uploading each one by hand. He documents what he does on X, and his pinned post, a free guide to growing a mobile app with organic content using Post Bridge, sends people to the tool. He competes on simplicity and a fair price rather than feature comparisons, and says word of mouth has gone further than with anything he built before.", "source_url": "https://tbf.fm/episodes/396-jack-friks-building-tools-that-empower-without-overwhelming/transcript", "source_author": "Jack Friks (founder), The Bootstrapped Founder podcast", "posted": "2025-06-18", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Already had an X audience when he started; ~40K X followers by mid-2025", "source_url": "https://tbf.fm/episodes/396-jack-friks-building-tools-that-empower-without-overwhelming/transcript" }, "name": "Post Bridge", "one_liner": "Upload a post or short video once and publish it to many social platforms at the same time, from one dashboard; the founder first built it for himself.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/post-bridge-social-scheduler-48k-mrr-cursor/" }, { "slug": "codeguide-ai-coding-docs-42k-mrr-cursor-bolt", "app_name": "CodeGuide", "title": "CodeGuide: an AI documentation tool for AI coders at 42K MRR in 90 days, built with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "42K MRR, about three months after launch (currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "The founder said CodeGuide launched on December 24 and reached 42K MRR in about three months, with a community of more than 4,800 AI developers, and that he was projecting around 90K that month. Monthly plan quoted at 29 (currency not stated). He put running costs at around 3,500 per month, mostly the OpenAI API.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "developer-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor", "Claude", "Windsurf", "Bolt" ], "channels": [ "X (organic)", "Waitlist" ], "customer_acquisition": "All organic from X: he posts short screen-recording demos and threads about AI coding workflows. A tweet about his Cursor workflow became a Bolt landing page that collected more than 1,800 waitlist sign-ups in two weeks before he built the product.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/from-zero-to-42k-month-in-90-days-with-ai", "source_author": "CJ Zafir (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2025-05-21", "added": "2026-10-16", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Not a huge audience, per the interview; grew an X following with daily tutorial threads", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/from-zero-to-42k-month-in-90-days-with-ai" }, "name": "CodeGuide", "one_liner": "Generates detailed technical documentation that developers feed to AI coding tools to cut hallucinations, validated with a Bolt landing page and built in Cursor in 14 days.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Developer tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/codeguide-ai-coding-docs-42k-mrr-cursor-bolt/" }, { "slug": "licitacerta-tender-alerts-whatsapp-r10k-30-days-claude-code", "app_name": "LicitaCerta", "title": "LicitaCerta: Brazilian tender alerts on WhatsApp, past R$ 10K in 30 days, built solo with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "R$ 10 mil in 30 days (Brazilian reais)", "revenue_details": "Founder's timeline (Oct 11 post): launched Sep 6, 2026; first sale Sep 7; 6 sales in week 1; 41 in week 3; 100 customers by day 25; 'dia 30: 10k faturados'. Product priced at R$ 49 at launch. In another post (Oct 10) he wrote '13k em 34 dias. 201 clientes'.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "BRL", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Paid ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Paid ads from day one: in week 1 each sale cost about R$ 90 in ads for a R$ 49 product (founder's Oct 11 post). He also mentions an affiliate program with accountants and lawyers.", "source_url": "https://x.com/thallisribeiro/status/2110420771374092363", "source_author": "@thallisribeiro", "posted": "2026-10-14", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 3K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure); he also runs other small SaaS products", "source_url": "https://x.com/thallisribeiro" }, "name": "LicitaCerta", "one_liner": "A bot that reads Brazil's public procurement portals and sends small businesses the matching tenders on WhatsApp.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/licitacerta-tender-alerts-whatsapp-r10k-30-days-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "vugola-ai-video-clipping-11k-mrr-lovable-claude-codex", "app_name": "Vugola", "title": "Vugola: an AI video clipping tool at ~$11.2K MRR, vibe-coded with Lovable, Claude and Codex", "claimed_revenue": "about $11,200 MRR (stated as monthly recurring revenue over the last four weeks)", "revenue_details": "About 400 paying users. MRR from X alone first reached $2,000–3,000.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Lovable", "Claude", "Codex" ], "channels": [ "X", "Instagram", "UGC videos" ], "customer_acquisition": "First $2–3K MRR from X, tying the product to viral AI trends. Then a new Instagram account posting 3–6 short videos a day (about 45 minutes a day), copying competitors' proven viral formats, with ManyChat ($15/month).", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXxESN94Y6s", "source_author": "Vadim Strizheus (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-10-11", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "Started posting on X with 0 followers in Nov 2025 and hit 4K followers on Jan 27, 2026, days before the Feb 1 launch (his own posts)", "source_url": "https://x.com/VadimStrizheus/status/2016191052550431092" }, "name": "Vugola", "one_liner": "An AI video editing agent that turns long videos into short clips for clippers, creators and agencies, built by a 19-year-old with no coding experience.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/vugola-ai-video-clipping-11k-mrr-lovable-claude-codex/" }, { "slug": "kiiwi-mac-keyboard-sounds-310-all-time-claude-code", "app_name": "Kiiwi", "title": "Kiiwi: mechanical keyboard sounds for Mac, $310 all time, built with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "$310 all time ($295 of it in 48 hours)", "revenue_details": "66 people bought in 48 hours; 1,049 visitors; 5.94% conversion; $0.28 per visitor. One-time price: $4.99 (for the first 100 buyers, then $6.99, per the TrustMRR listing).", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/kiiwi", "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Reddit" ], "customer_acquisition": "A free in-browser playground: most buyers typed in it first, then bought. A Reddit post asking for feedback brought 542 visits and $264 (founder's Oct 9 post).", "source_url": "https://x.com/iniyanai/status/2108904578380976220", "source_author": "@iniyanai", "posted": "2026-10-10", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 190 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/iniyanai" }, "name": "Kiiwi", "one_liner": "A Mac menu-bar app that makes any keyboard sound like a mechanical one, sold for a one-time $4.99, by a solo founder in Bangalore.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/kiiwi-mac-keyboard-sounds-310-all-time-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "geosports-daily-sports-geography-game-40k-month-claude", "app_name": "GeoSports", "title": "GeoSports: a daily sports geography web game at ~$40K/month, first version built in a weekend with Claude", "claimed_revenue": "about $40,000 per month", "revenue_details": "Across GeoGames (GeoSports plus spin-offs): ~700,000 monthly active users, ~1,800 Pro subscriptions; 'closer to $30,000, $35,000 in programmatic' ads, around $1,200 a day (ads live for under 30 days at recording).", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "games", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude" ], "channels": [ "Word of mouth", "X", "Instagram" ], "customer_acquisition": "A reply to his own X post went viral (about 40,000 players, then 150,000 the next day). He says ~98% of traffic is word of mouth, driven by a 53% score-share rate.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aLA4IOSZE", "source_author": "Frank Michael Smith (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-09-27", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Sports creator with 3.5M+ followers (1.8M TikTok, 1.4M YouTube)", "source_url": "https://www.sportico.com/business/tech/2026/geosports-trivia-game-creator-viral-wordle-1234901573/" }, "name": "GeoSports", "one_liner": "A free daily web game: five sports clues a day, tap the spot on the map. Earns from ads and a Pro plan.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Games", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/geosports-daily-sports-geography-game-40k-month-claude/" }, { "slug": "contextbolt-seo-mcp-653-mrr-claude-code-codex", "app_name": "ContextBolt", "title": "ContextBolt: an SEO tool inside Claude and Cursor at $653 MRR, built with Claude Code and Codex", "claimed_revenue": "$653 a month (September 2026)", "revenue_details": "Just passed 50 paying users. Launched May 2026 at $47 MRR; ~$250 end of June; ~$500 end of July. ContextBolt SEO is $35/month with a 7-day free trial.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": "https://trustmrr.com/startup/contextbolt", "category": "marketing-social", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code", "Codex" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Social media" ], "customer_acquisition": "A few semi-viral social posts brought the first paying users; since then SEO brings people to the site every day.", "source_url": "https://99helpers.com/makers/contextbolt", "source_author": "David Hamilton (founder), 99helpers Maker Series", "posted": "2026-09-22", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "ContextBolt", "one_liner": "A hosted MCP server that puts live SEO data (keywords, rankings, backlinks) inside AI agents, built by a solo founder in Scotland.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Marketing & social", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/contextbolt-seo-mcp-653-mrr-claude-code-codex/" }, { "slug": "cal-buddy-hebrew-ai-calorie-tracker-81k-month-cursor", "app_name": "Cal Buddy", "title": "Cal Buddy: a Hebrew AI calorie tracker at over 81K a month, built with Cursor", "claimed_revenue": "over 81K (April 2026; currency not stated, video title says $80K/month)", "revenue_details": "About 1K in the first month after the June 2025 launch; around 20,000 per month four months in, from paid ads; over 81K in April 2026.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "screenshot", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Cursor" ], "channels": [ "Paid ads", "Influencers" ], "customer_acquisition": "Paid ads first, because Israeli CPMs are much lower than in the US; creatives modeled on the most viral content from similar US apps and Israeli fitness content. Later a revenue-share partnership with a fitness influencer.", "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ27QVp3SzQ", "source_author": "Tomer (founder), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-08-09", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Cal Buddy", "one_liner": "A photo-based AI calorie and macro tracker in Hebrew, built for the Israeli market by a former marketer who isn't a developer.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/cal-buddy-hebrew-ai-calorie-tracker-81k-month-cursor/" }, { "slug": "3ak-track-field-app-70k-in-6-months-rork-claude", "app_name": "3AK", "title": "3AK: a track-and-field training app, around 70,000 made in six months, built with Rork and Claude", "claimed_revenue": "around 70,000 so far (currency not stated; the host says $70,000)", "revenue_details": "Launched December 16; 'the first month, we made $10,000'. Around 40,000 users and a 4.7 App Store rating. Plans: $10/month or $30/year.", "revenue_period": "total", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Rork", "Claude", "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "Own audience (track videos)" ], "customer_acquisition": "They had built hundreds of thousands of track and field followers with their own videos, and had been mentioning the 3AK name in videos and bios (from an earlier Shopify store) before launching the app.", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/we-built-this-20k-month-app-while-in-college", "source_author": "Christian and Braylin (founders), Starter Story", "posted": "2026-06-28", "added": "2026-10-15", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "large", "detail": "Hundreds of thousands of track and field followers from their own videos", "source_url": "https://www.starterstory.com/stories/we-built-this-20k-month-app-while-in-college" }, "name": "3AK", "one_liner": "An all-in-one app for sprinters: training plans, workout tracking, AI video form scoring and meal analysis, built by two college athletes with no coding background.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/3ak-track-field-app-70k-in-6-months-rork-claude/" }, { "slug": "tool-for-sister-25-gbp-mrr-in-3-days", "app_name": null, "title": "Vibe coded a tool for his sister in under 24h: 3 paying customers in 3 days", "claimed_revenue": "£25 MRR", "revenue_details": "3 paying customers three days after launch, going from £0 to £25 MRR. Current version has one feature.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "GBP", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "Warm network" ], "customer_acquisition": "Started from a real problem of someone he knows (his sister), shipped a single feature fast, and got the first paying users within days.", "source_url": "https://x.com/imhslva/status/2109702676925583520", "source_author": "@imhslva", "posted": "2026-10-12", "added": "2026-10-14", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 480 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/imhslva" }, "name": "One-feature tool", "one_liner": "A one-feature tool built for a real person first, then sold to people like her.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/tool-for-sister-25-gbp-mrr-in-3-days/" }, { "slug": "ai-video-tool-2k-mrr", "app_name": null, "title": "An AI video tool at $2K MRR: 'not life-changing, but real'", "claimed_revenue": "$2K MRR", "revenue_details": "Paid every month for an AI video tool: $2K MRR.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "video-content", "built_with_ai": "not stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "Not specified" ], "customer_acquisition": "Not stated. The founder's point: what a weekend clone doesn't kill is people who want a result, plus payments and refunds handled properly.", "source_url": "https://x.com/yasuomang_zh/status/2109789630371615156", "source_author": "@yasuomang_zh", "posted": "2026-10-12", "added": "2026-10-14", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 50 followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure)", "source_url": "https://x.com/yasuomang_zh" }, "name": "AI video tool", "one_liner": "A paid AI video tool; the founder argues customers pay for results, not repos.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Video & content", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/ai-video-tool-2k-mrr/" }, { "slug": "maxed-ai-lifting-coach-14k-month-claude-code", "app_name": "Maxed AI", "title": "Maxed AI: an AI lifting coach at ~$14K/month, built with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "~$14K/month", "revenue_details": "1,000 paying subs, 20K downloads. One plan: $24.99/year, charged upfront.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "health-fitness", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "UGC videos" ], "customer_acquisition": "No budget for UGC creators, so the founder became one: filmed 5–10 videos a day himself.", "source_url": "https://x.com/FuckViralX/status/2109329338261012821", "source_author": "@FuckViralX", "posted": "2026-10-11", "added": "2026-10-14", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Maxed AI", "one_liner": "AI lifting coach app built solo by a first-time app builder.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Health & fitness", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/maxed-ai-lifting-coach-14k-month-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "vibe-coded-saas-first-customer-39-mrr-seo", "app_name": null, "title": "A vibe-coded SaaS lands its first paying customer at $39 MRR, with the focus on SEO", "claimed_revenue": "$39 MRR", "revenue_details": "First paying customer: $39 MRR.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "SEO" ], "customer_acquisition": "Most of the time after launch went into fine-tuning the product, fixing small things, and working on SEO.", "source_url": "https://x.com/imbktan/status/2108022081271276023", "source_author": "@imbktan", "posted": "2026-10-08", "added": "2026-10-14", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "small", "detail": "About 10.6K followers on X (an Oct 2026 count, not a pre-launch figure); he already owns other products", "source_url": "https://x.com/imbktan" }, "name": "Stealth SaaS", "one_liner": "A new SaaS kept in stealth for ~3 months, polished and pushed through SEO.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/vibe-coded-saas-first-customer-39-mrr-seo/" }, { "slug": "day-6-81-mrr-instagram-ugc-bot-claude-code", "app_name": null, "title": "81 MRR on day 6: 90% of signups from an Instagram UGC bot built with Claude Code", "claimed_revenue": "81 MRR (currency not stated)", "revenue_details": "1,847 users (+37), 81 MRR (+25) on day 6 of building in public. The post does not state the currency.", "revenue_period": "monthly", "currency": "unstated", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "saas-tools", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Claude Code" ], "channels": [ "UGC videos", "Building in public" ], "customer_acquisition": "90% of signups come from an Instagram bot he built with Claude Code. It runs on his laptop, makes 4 UGC videos a day and posts them for him.", "source_url": "https://x.com/gladwyn1_1/status/2107622517590642980", "source_author": "@gladwyn1_1", "posted": "2026-10-07", "added": "2026-10-14", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "none", "detail": "19 followers on X on day 6 of building in public, per his own post; the account was created in Aug 2026", "source_url": "https://x.com/gladwyn1_1/status/2107622517590642980" }, "name": "Instagram-bot app", "one_liner": "An app built in public; the founder automated short-form video marketing with a bot he wrote.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "SaaS & tools", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/day-6-81-mrr-instagram-ugc-bot-claude-code/" }, { "slug": "12-year-old-vibe-coded-site-adsense-seo", "app_name": null, "title": "A 12-year-old's vibe-coded site on track for >$1K in AdSense this year", "claimed_revenue": ">$1K AdSense this year", "revenue_details": "Expected to clear more than $1K in AdSense revenue this year (annual figure, not MRR).", "revenue_period": "annual", "currency": "USD", "verification": "self-reported", "verification_url": null, "category": "content-sites-ads", "built_with_ai": "stated", "tools": [ "Not specified" ], "channels": [ "SEO", "Ads" ], "customer_acquisition": "Organic search traffic (the post shares September's search performance).", "source_url": "https://x.com/pejmanjohn/status/2107507895403429975", "source_author": "@pejmanjohn", "posted": "2026-10-06", "added": "2026-10-14", "last_checked": "2026-10-22", "prior_audience": { "status": "unknown", "detail": "", "source_url": "" }, "name": "Kid's content site", "one_liner": "A content site built with AI coding tools by a 12-year-old, monetized with ads.", "source_status": { "status": "live" }, "category_name": "Content sites & ads", "url": "https://shippedandpaid.com/cases/12-year-old-vibe-coded-site-adsense-seo/" } ] }