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Aaron Delasy

@aarondelasy

dats mee!!! I started my own projects 8 years ago, since that time I built: - my own programming language - figma-like form builder - AI agents orchestration platform - desktop app to provide visual feedback for AI agents that was the time I saw @levelsio growing like crazy the biggest regret I have was not following my dreams and instead working for someone else yes I became a higher paid worker, but many indie hackers are now at 10k+ MRR and are set for life

Alex Danilowicz

@alexdanilowicz

today marks the 4th anniversary of our getting into yc - applied with an idea we thought would be "the next whatsapp" - got into w23 with roughly $70 in MRR - our partner said: "this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard" - tanked our demo day - raised only $120k while many batchmates raised $2m+ - took 8 pivots to find pmf - $263 in monthly revenue in our first month with @magicpatterns - took a year+ to reach $10k mrr - hit $1m ARR over the next 7 months (profitable) with two people - raised our series A - got a proper office - hired people - started closing more enterprise deals - worked with ramp, granola, doordash + many more interesting logos - built a ~20 person team across two offices tl;dr: getting accepted into yc changed my life! also made us realize "just don’t die" is more than generic startup wisdom that's passed around because it sounds cool.

Pranjal Soni

@pranjalsoni_

made about $11k in last 4 weeks mrr is down bcs we have paused some ads and launched some more stealth projects overall this month was positive trying to survive

How they grewPaused some ads; launched some more stealth projects

jack friks

@jackfriks

recently my SaaS hit $45k MRR so to celebrate i added a brand new feature... dark mode!!!

peekly

@peekly_app

This app is a TikTok that turns online novels into AI videos It just hit $400K MRR🔥

Taras

@tarasshyn

RedReplier just hit $300 MRR 🎉 While I'm preoccupied with AdaptlyPost's AppSumo release, RedReplier is quietly making an absolute comeback

Usukhbayar Batbayar

@unoryas

Just hit $1 MRR. 🥹 To the very first person who ever paid for Progress Clock: thank you. Seriously. I can’t put into words how much this means to me.

Scott Simson

@imscottsimson

For 7 years I have been building my YouTube agency on a retainer model. $5k-$10k per client...great MRR. We built it to multi-seven figures. ...but I was tired of blowing up channels and not participating in the growth. We switched to a performance based model a few months ago and this happened... Our channels blew up. Of course we take the risk in the beginning, but the back end is so much more lucrative and our clients become partners. We launched this channel on May 13th 2026. It now pays me 8x the amount we used to charge in monthly retainers. If you're truly good at what you do, performance based is the way to go. If you have a successful YouTube channel and you want us to make it more successful for a cut of the growth, hit me up.

SHIP OR DIE

@shipordie_

Treasure hit the deck. @jakebuildthings just received $10.00 for PrivBot. 💰 Total revenue: $4,154 📈 Last 30 days: $541 🔁 MRR: $555

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 113 of the MRR brand: We are back to performance before the adrevival ban finally! Actually better since profit margin is sitting at 25-30%. On a much safer set up as well with personal account. It took a while but we made it. We are going to start testing new angles. If we can crack these new angles the the sky is the limit fr. Next 3 month goals: This month hit 10k day. October hit 20k day. November hit 1M/M run rate(33k A Day) I truly think its possible now that we have an actual safe setup.

Gauthier

@gauthiergirlt

Long time no post; we crossed 25k MRR at hcube.ai after the first month. Thanks to the partnership with Cargo YC S23! It is just our first steps, and things are moving so fast; I was not prepared for this. Let's see if we have what is cost :)

How they grewpartnership with Cargo YC S23

Mehul Fanawala

@MehulFanawala

Hooray! We hit 25! 🥳 Just received another Lifetime Deal for NagMeLater.com. Customer #25 is from India 🇮🇳 25 people have now trusted NagMeLater enough to pay for it. For a product I started building from scratch, that's a pretty special milestone. 25 paying customers. And we're just getting started. 💚🚀

How they grewLifetime Deal

Serg

@karakhanyanS

There is more today, blogr passed $1,000/MRR

Pranav Patel

@ThatsPranav

We just hit $46 MRR ($552 ARR) at Reloop! 🚀 Not a huge number, but it means a lot to us. Building open-source email infrastructure from scratch, and our first dollars are coming in. Next stop: $100 MRR. Let's keep building. ❤️

Quinten Kamphuis

@QuintenKamphuis

My SaaS Reachkit crossed $10k MRR yesterday. Almost 2 years in now. Until 6 months ago it was only referrals. Then I went all in on cold email. That's where the last $100k+ ARR came from. Turns out the thing I sell works on me too.

How they grewreferrals, then cold email

Caleb Panza ☾

@CalebPanza

Earlier this year, we set an aggressive goal for scaling our first product that we just hit. Today @postforme_dev reached $20K MRR 3 MONTHS EARLIER THAN WE PLANNED! My mind is blown and so proud of the work and dedication that we've put into this project. We now set our sights on some major improvements and updates as we hunt down our stretch goal of $30k by EOY. Wow.. I just feel to grateful and blessed. God is good!

Axultan

@axultan

You can ship every day and still get $0 MRR. I’m head of product at Higgsfield. 80 releases since June. The company just crossed a $1B revenue run rate. Those releases wouldn’t have succeeded without distribution. Here’s some help with your next batch of ads and demos: 100% cashback on paid Higgsfield API usage, across every model including Seedance 2.5. Spend $1k on generations. Get $1k back for the next batch. $20M cashback pool. Up to $100K per business. Earn and use your cashback by September 30. Go grow that MRR.

How they grewDistribution; ads and demos

Vu Nguyen

@VuNguyenDev

It's been 15 days since I added subscription to SmoothCapture $111 Revenue $90 MRR 3 churns Pretty good result so far, with this rate I will hit $1k MRR in about 5 months

Carl Hoon

@ecommozart

Day 114 of the MRR brand: Finally we hit the 10k day it took way to long to get here. After 3 ad account bans and so many issues but we got here🐣🐣 Next step is 20k days in October lets run this shit. Today i have a coaching call with one strategist, gonna go trough all his briefs. Also working on some sick new angles🥷

How they grewAds; ad accounts were banned three times.

Kainat

@kainat_projmngr

People launch a "SaaS" that's just a Notion template and make $10k in a week. I built actual software with a backend and still can't hit $100 MRR.

Open Book

@carlmonkft

For all new indie app builders: Posting on social media will NOT make you rich. Before I hit $10,000 MRR, I failed my first app and wasted 2 years. I loved meditation so I made Monkeyless a meditation screen time app. I couldn't let it go. For 2 years I posted organically everyday. I did not miss a single day, not ONE. I did: - 30,000,000 views in the span of 2 months after 1 year of little progress -Tortured myself with ridiculous videos like Rawdogging a clock for 8 hours -Embarassed myself in front of the camera since I'm not an extrovert -Tried slideshows, AI content, hired UGC creators, partnerships, every angle possible I still failed. I was sold the idea: "just post everyday, spark the winners and you get success". This is bad advice. Real takeaways after 2 years of failure: 1. Screen time niche is hard, I do not recommend 2. Don't post organically. Only exceptions: -To become familiar with social media in general -To become familiar with your specific niche -To get your first 500-1000 downloads But don't rely on it to make you real money. Use it as an experiment to get data and extrapolate from there. 3. Your #1 goal from launch is to discover whether your app is either a) worth scaling, or b) a flop. 4. Look at DATA. Download-to-paid rate, trial start rate, paywall showrate, optimize onboarding as much as possible especially if you have a hard paywall. 5. Be TRUTHFUL with yourself. If the data says your app sucks, your app sucks. Stop trying to save a sinking ship like I did. You don't need 2 years. You can determine this within 2 weeks. 6. Be careful who you listen to on X. I don't think people on here have bad intentions, but people like to exaggerate results and sell you a dream 7. No co-founders! You already make little money, don't split it even further. Maybe for the future, when you have more capital to scale, but don't do it for your first start-up. Luckily my social net was strong and I had many friends supporting me. Even when I failed, they liked my videos, recorded videos with me, and tried to give me advice even though their advice was bad 😂 Very grateful for them. Don't make the same mistakes I did!

How they grewPosting organically everyday; tried slideshows, AI content, UGC creators, partnerships

Alec Kremins

@aleckrem

August 4th, 2025: I got fired from beehiiv. August 6th, 2025: I found out I was going to be a dad. So I had two options: find another job, or bet on myself at the worst possible time. I bet. I posted about getting fired 20 minutes after it happened. It got 100K views in 24 hours. Nine days later, I launched @rallyupteam with no product, no customers, and no plan besides posting every day about what I was building. Then I spent 6 months building the wrong thing: Software to get employees posting on LinkedIn. Only 2-10% of them ever do. So we flipped it. Start with one exec, and do it for them. That's the company now. We build audiences for founders and execs who have something worth saying and no time to say it. We pull their real context (their talks, their customer calls, their actual opinions), and an expert writer/content engineer writes their post. My own account is the proof: → 23,500 followers, all organic → ~5M impressions in the last 12 months → My investors, my customers, and my first hire all came from posts, not outbound I post about building this in public, what actually works on LinkedIn and X/Twitter, and the parts of founder life nobody screenshots. This is on top of being a new dad and building from Israel. If you're a founder or exec who has over 5M in funding or ARR and you know you should be posting but still aren't, DM me. 🤝 P.S. I'm offline 25 hours every week for Shabbat. If I go quiet until Sunday, that's why.

How they grewPosting every day in public; posted about getting fired and got 100K views in 24 hours

Suman Sharma | Serial Entrepreneur

@whysumancode

Day #15 of building the best AI hairstyle finder on the internet. $0 → $63 MRR. Customer #2 just subscribed to HairOver. Is $63 life-changing? No. But two strangers have now paid for something I built. That means the idea is becoming a business. Next milestone: $100 MRR. Let’s see how long it takes. #BuildInPublic #Startup #IndieHacker

Pixels

@madebypixels3

~$200. Not ARR. Not “pipeline.” Actual money from a tool I shipped 2 days ago. Framecast: framecast.framer.website → get a polished product video. No After Effects. No ugly screen recordings. Four strangers said yes.

Vadim K

@vadimk_77

$100k MRR SaaS. Same business, 7 countries. What the founder actually keeps per year: Cayman: $720k Dubai: $664k Hong Kong: $622k Cyprus: $607k Estonia: $562k US: $479k UK: $346k Dubai vs London: $318k a year. Everyone's hyping Cyprus right now. Read the fine print first. The setup: $1.2M revenue, 60% margin = $720k profit. Founder lives in the same country. All profit paid out as dividends. 2026 rules. US is federal only, state tax comes on top. Cyprus is not 12.5% anymore. 15% corporate tax since Jan 1, 2026. Non-dom = 0% defence tax on dividends, but you still pay a 2.65% health contribution (capped at €4,770/yr). ~15.8% all-in. Still good. Just not what you were sold. Dubai is not 0%. 9% corporate tax above AED 375k since 2023. The free zone 0% only applies to "qualifying income," and SaaS isn't on the list. So most SaaS founders pay 9%. ~7.7% all-in, 0% personal tax. I live here. Still the best number you can actually live with. Cayman is 0%. Also: no Stripe, substance rules, and if you don't live there, your home country taxes it anyway. It's a fund address, not a SaaS HQ. UK: 25% corp tax + dividend tax up to 39.35% (went up again April 2026). ~52% total. Cheapest country to start a company (£100). Most expensive country to succeed in. US LLC for non-residents is not a tax hack. Usually no US federal tax, but your home country taxes the profit. Forget one Form 5472 = $25,000 penalty. The LLC gets you Stripe and a US bank. Not a lower tax bill. Setup cost, roughly: UK: ~$130 Stripe Atlas (Delaware): $500 Hong Kong: ~$500 gov fees + agent Cyprus: $2-4k Dubai free zone w/ visa: $5-6k Cayman: $3-6k Cyprus, HK and UAE free zones also need an audit every year. Budget $2-9k. Where you incorporate matters way less than where YOU live. Company in Cyprus + you in Berlin = German tax. Company in Dubai + you in London = UK tax. Move first. Incorporate second. If you go the Delaware route from abroad, the stack is: EIN Registered agent US address US bank US phone number The phone number is the one everyone forgets until a US client asks for it. I built @BubblyPhone partly for this: US number, $3/mo, works in your browser. Use it for clients and vendors, not bank OTPs. Most banks reject VoIP. Not tax advice. Illustrative numbers, 2026 rules. Get an adviser in both countries before you move anything.

Brandon

@mrbrandowner

One of my greatest achievements this year, next to our brands, is building my own community called MRR Ecom Mastery together with @der_remo It was an idea I had at the beginning of this year: bring MRR brand owners together in one community and give them value they won't find anywhere else. We launched it in May 2026 A community that actually learns from founders who have built, lost and rebuilt in public MRR Mastery has now reached 300 members. A community I built organically, just by posting on Instagram and YouTube I can send a message in a group with 6-8 figure founders who are able to help me and each other out, and give updates on what is currently working in the space This is how you stay on top of how quickly the ecom space is moving We also have higher-up reps in the community from companies such as Slash, Aftersell, Checkout Champ, payment processors and more.. On top of that, we front-run our competition by updating the included masterclass on a bi-weekly basis. Everything on scaling your creative engine and mastering subscriptions for your brand on a deeper level We've helped 42+ founders build their MRR brand from $0, with everyone scaling to 6 figures a month, and even greater results like clients scaling to $2.5M in 90 days The results speak for themselves. An even better feeling is that when people ask about me, they can only vouch for the great stuff and how we helped them scale So much more to come

How they grewPosting on Instagram and YouTube

Shalom

@FlamesInTech

Day 11 of building ShureDesk to $10K MRR. I know distribution is going to be one of my biggest challenges, so I'm not waiting until the product is finished to start working on it. I’ve also built a waitlist page to start getting it in front of potential users. Check comments⬇️

How they grewwaitlist page

mk_builds

@solobuildpro

My first product taught me a painful lesson about building. Beginning of this year, I published my first KDP book: A gratitude journal specifically for overthinkers. I learned KDP from scratch and launched it within a month. Then I made the classic beginner mistake. I thought: “It's published. Now the sales will come.” I even started calculating my potential MRR. 😂 Then… Nothing. No sales from Amazon KDP. I optimized the profile twice. Still nothing. That’s when it clicked: Publishing is not distribution. Building is not demand. I had built something for a specific niche. But I hadn't built an audience or created a reason for people to discover it. The product wasn't the finish line. It was the starting point. That failure still influences how I build today: → Talk to users → Validate the problem → Build → Distribute → Learn → Repeat What’s a product you launched that taught you a lesson the hard way?

How they grewAmazon KDP; optimized the profile twice

Chaminda

@chams_builds

this side project got 195 signups while I ignored it. $33 MRR. no launch push, no marketing. just a chart that kept going up. that's a signal. also a sign of misaligned intentions and a confused audience. so i cut it down to one job: finding posts on X where your product is the answer. relaunching this Tuesday on PeerPush. would you like to support the relaunch? 👋

How they grewno launch push, no marketing

Edem Devlet

@EdemDevletEN

Hi peeps, I'm Edem! I've been living in Berlin for 4 years 🇩🇪, originally from Crimea. I have a 9-5 job, but for the past 2 years, I've been trying to build my own products for most of that time, I built in silence. But last month, I started sharing my projects more actively: money-bee(.)app - a budget tracker for iOS, $18 MRR gptransport(.)app - real-time 🇩🇪 public transport departures iOS app, $8 MRR trustscope(.)app - a website/browser extension that shows how trustworthy a venue's Google Maps rating. It's free Let's connect and grow together!

How they grewsharing projects more actively

Vincent Alonzi

@vincent_alonzi

Road to $1M MRR And the crazy part is, this is only the first step of what’s coming.. We’re going to be able to build, push and do magic with our data Trendtrack is the culmination of all my years building businesses online.. We’ve helped create millionaires and helped others make millions Because that’s exactly what Trendtrack is built for knowing what’s working right now (Ads, email, lp, advertisers..) And now… you can even go back in time and see exactly what was working at any point The features will keep coming We’re just getting started Life is guud

Noorullah Jamakzai

@itzSaasified

linkedify does ~$25k MRR. arnies, the new one, is stuck at ~$1k and has been flat for a while. that's the weird part. i already built something that works. i know how to get customers. but pushing a second saas from zero feels harder than the first time. for months i kept thinking the next feature would move it. linkedin avatars, email warmup, domains, inboxes, sequences. arnies turned into a "GTM superapp" and honestly nobody buys a superapp. they buy one problem getting solved. every feature made it harder to explain. demos got longer, people nodded, then nothing happened. no viral moment, no big launch day, just slow weeks. so right now the only plan is to stay consistent. post every day, reply every day, ship small, talk to users, even when the numbers don't move. and this week i started cutting. i'm asking every paying user one question: if arnies disappeared tomorrow, what would you actually miss? whatever they say stays. everything else goes, even the stuff i spent weeks building and still like. it's hard going backwards at $1k when the other business is at $25k. but a small thing people would miss beats a big thing nobody can explain. will post what survives the cut.

How they grewpost every day, reply every day, ship small, talk to users

Namanyay

@NamanyayG

here's i got 25 yc-backed customers in 4 weeks & how I'll scale to the next 1,000 while scaling my last product to $100k ARR, I built tons of agentic tooling to do marketing and get more sales turns out, it was solving problems faced by a LOT of other startups in just a few weeks, I signed on 25 yc cos and found them 23,000 leads. I'm calling it pumpgtm.com. it's built to be GTM tooling that is completely run by AI, helping agents sell product and scale companies. here's why we're great: - we find and engage with leads everywhere. we're truly multi-channel, you can run sequences across Linkedin, email, and X - we're building your agent's favorite tooling -- set up our MCP inside claude/hermes and let them find sales for you while you sleep github.com/pumpgtm/pumpgt… - Our X integration is better than anything else -- especially useful if you're selling to founders, CEOs, or basically anyone in SF. I'm using PumpGTM to scale PumpGTM (lol), and I've recorded one of my "plays" below. I'm planning to reach 8,000 YC founders in the next few weeks using PumpGTM.com and all of this runs automatically: - Find relevant YC startups (i made the entire list available at pumpgtm.com/yc/founders) - Connect with the founders' LinkedIn, X, and email - Start conversations with them - Every click, message, DM, fully tracked, analyzed, and improved week over week we're growing fast af, we haven't even properly launched and we've already had 60,000 MCP requests in this short time if you want to run the agentic multi-channel GTM system, try us out at pumpgtm.com

How they grewLinkedIn, email, X; MCP inside Claude/Hermes

Roman

@RomanWalcott

Want to meet other Founders/ PM owners. $2k MRR/mo across 8 clients. Automate invoice processing: 5+ min → <30s. Attending NARPM Vegas Oct. Acel Cortex founded by 2 PM owners who spent Fridays billing; built this to reclaim time. No time to edit so I’m just posting!

HOPE | Engineer.

@rlaope

I made a 4-hour fan game for my favorite YouTuber with 500k subscribers. We’ve already been in touch, and they’re scheduled to play it next week. Creating a full 4-hour game meant burning through tens of billions of tokens, but the end result turned out incredible. I used GPT Astra and Opus 5.5 to build an RPG-style game, which required a wide array of fine-tuned rules and systems—ranging from signature camera movements, dialogue, dynamic cutscenes, and effect directions to sprite generation, Visual QA, and gameplay QA. If this post gets a good response and the playthrough goes successfully, I plan to open-source the code for this fan game and bundle all the RPG game-making skills into an "AI RPG Maker" skill set to share with everyone. #deltarune #ai #build

I D R I S

@olanetsoft

Following the Midnight Foundation's recent wind-down of its developer relations team, my time at Midnight has come to an end. I built the developer education and AI developer tools, a dozen-video series explaining how ZKP and network implementation, a certification academy, and an MCP server downloaded 10,000+ times. Some of my favourite moments were the conversations, from fireside chats with builders to the hours spent alongside partner teams shipping on the network. Thank you to the team, the developer community, and every partner I worked with. Before Midnight, I spent over two years at Axelar working hands-on with partner teams building cross-chain applications. I designed their integrations, reviewed their code, and wrote the reference implementation developers used to send messages between blockchains. Before developer relations, I spent over four years as a backend engineer, building systems serving tens of thousands of users, data pipelines, and enterprise software for banks and telecoms. I also founded Web3 Afrika, a community of builders. That engineering background is what I bring to developer relations: I can sit with a team, read their code, and help them ship to production. Now I'm looking for my next role in developer relations, forward-deployed engineering, developer experience, developer support, solutions engineering, or AI engineering. I'm based in UK with a UK Global Talent visa, so no sponsorship is needed in the UK, and I'm open to remote or hybrid. Available now. If your team is hiring, or you know one that is, I'd love to hear from you. An intro or a repost would mean a lot. Portfolio and CV in the reply, kindly help RT

Cryptowaroom

@OLolo13781

Hello everyone, I’ve decided to do things differently. After 12 years in the markets, I’ve decided to finally doxx myself and put my name and reputation behind what I’m building because I’m here for the long term. I started my journey in Forex, moved into equities, and eventually transitioned into crypto. Over the years, I’ve spent thousands of hours trading, studying market cycles, developing strategies, and learning what actually works across different market conditions. Along the way, I built my Instagram to 10,000+ followers, where I share my experience, market analysis, and trading knowledge with a growing community. IG : instagram.com/oualidjaoudati… LinkedIn : ma.linkedin.com/in/oualid-jaou… Today, I’m taking that experience one step further with WARROOM. WARROOM is already being used by 40+ monthly active users, including experienced and professional traders. I don’t want WARROOM to be another token with no purpose behind it. The goal is to build a real product, grow the community, improve the platform, and create something that can actually stand on its own long term. The fee structure is simple: • 50% of fees → Buybacks & Burns • 50% of fees → Funding WARROOM development, growth, and marketing I’m putting my identity behind this because I believe in what I’m building and intend to be here for the long run. This is only the beginning. CA:9zZ1KGa1dSMmw7QQxT4WZKGVMpJHo6Cf9dBvZUNcpump PS: Supply is locked for 1 year.

Jessica J, RDH

@thefithygienist

Little app update 🦷📱 5 paying subscribers + 1 active trial. the crazy part? I haven’t posted or marketed the app lately. I’m still working full-time as a dental hygienist while trying to balance fitness, relationships, a social life… and building an app somewhere in between😂 Progress might be slower than I’d like, but it’s still progress. 6 real people choosing to try something I built is pretty damn cool!!😎 Now it’s time to start marketing again and see where I can take this🚀

How they grewNo recent marketing; plans to start marketing again.

ISH

@ishm6m

i didn't post on x for a month. instead, i tried to see how much i could build in 30 days. in about 2 weeks, portform hit 100 users and 11 paid users. portform is a form backend built for websites and AI agents. you can test forms anonymously in a sandbox, configure everything before signing up, and connect AI agents through MCP. it's freemium, so most users are still on the free plan with 300 submissions. but seeing people actually pay for something i built was a pretty good signal. also grew hoverstate design to 1.5k+ monthly active users in around 2 weeks. hoverstate is a curated gallery of real websites, landing pages, and design sections for inspiration. somewhere in between all that, i had university finals too lol. and because apparently that wasn't enough, i also started working on a real FMCG product. it's a tea brand. currently working on product development, testing, and figuring out the whole thing from scratch. gonna share more about that soon. so yeah, i spent the last month building instead of posting about building. turns out SaaS still works in 2026. now time to shitpost more actively about what i'm building again.

Luis

@lmfresneda

3 weeks building HAGGIN in public 7 signups. 2 Haggins live, one not mine. 0 offers Worked: writing to founders one by one, Reddit threads under 2 hours old. Didn't: 3 posts a day, Product Hunt, a founding discount nobody took x.com/i/article/2104…

How they grewWriting to founders one by one; Reddit threads under 2 hours old.