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Companies
A company that connects its billing can have its claims settle automatically, from its own numbers, with nobody judging them. These are the companies that can — ordered by how much measured history stands behind them.
33 companies1,195 months measured
Email marketing and newsletters for creators — landing pages, automations and paid subscriptions. Bootstrapped from a side project, with the revenue published month by month for years.
Jun 2013 – Jan 2025 · 140 months on record
Social media scheduling and analytics for small teams and creators. Publishes its revenue, salaries and equity openly — the company that invented the public startup dashboard, and still runs one.
May 2015 – May 2026 · 133 months on record
Open source publishing and newsletters for independent writers, run as a non-profit foundation with no investors and no shareholders. All revenue goes back into the product.
Jan 2015 – Aug 2025 · 128 months on record
Podcast hosting, private podcasts and transcription for businesses and independent shows. Stair-stepped out of a done-for-you editing service into recurring revenue.
Jan 2019 – Dec 2024 · 72 months on record
Privacy-friendly, cookie-free web analytics built and hosted in Germany. Run as an open startup by two founders and one employee, with its revenue verified from Stripe on Indie Hackers.
Sep 2020 – Aug 2026 · 72 months on record
One-page websites for anything, at $19 a year. Built and run by a single founder on a freemium model that turned four million sites into a profitable subscription business.
Mar 2019 – Sep 2024 · 67 months on record
Form building that works like a text document — no builder, no drag and drop. Two founders, no outside funding, and the revenue posted on their own blog at every milestone.
Oct 2020 – Apr 2026 · 67 months on record
Privacy-first web analytics that sets no cookies and collects no personal data. An Open Startup: revenue, costs, profit and customer numbers are published continuously on a public dashboard.
Oct 2018 – Oct 2023 · 61 months on record
Subscription analytics for recurring-revenue businesses — MRR, churn, LTV and failed-payment recovery, read straight from Stripe. Made its own dashboard public and started the Open Startups movement.
May 2014 – Feb 2019 · 58 months on record
Graphics for people who are not designers — social images, ads and thumbnails from templates. Two founders, no outside investment, and the revenue written up at each step.
Dec 2015 – Jul 2020 · 56 months on record
Social media scheduling and analytics across a dozen networks. Nine years bootstrapped, most of them without the founder taking a proper salary.
Feb 2020 – Dec 2023 · 47 months on record
A shared inbox and team chat in one app, so email, SMS and internal conversation live together. Self-funded, three co-founders, and no outside investment at all.
Apr 2021 – Oct 2024 · 43 months on record
Privacy-friendly web analytics, open source and hosted in the EU. A lighter alternative to Google Analytics that sets no cookies and collects no personal data. Bootstrapped, with no outside investors.
May 2019 – Sep 2022 · 41 months on record
Time tracking, productivity and payroll for remote and field teams. Published its revenue on a public dashboard from early on, as a deliberate decision rather than a marketing campaign.
Nov 2013 – Dec 2016 · 38 months on record
AI photo generation on a monthly subscription, built and run by one person on a single server. Launched to an audience the founder had spent ten years building in public.
Feb 2023 – Mar 2026 · 38 months on record
A newsletter platform with publishing, audience growth and an ad network built in. Founded by an early Morning Brew growth engineer, with every ARR milestone posted publicly on the way up.
Nov 2022 – Nov 2025 · 37 months on record
An API that generates images and video automatically — social cards, personalised graphics, screenshots. Built and run solo by Jon Yongfook, after twelve products that did not work.
Dec 2021 – Jul 2023 · 20 months on record
An Airtable extension that pulls data in from hundreds of other apps automatically. One full-time person, a few part-time contractors, and no outside money.
Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · 16 months on record
An AI resume builder for job seekers, bootstrapped with no outside funding. Started as a Word template in 2015 and grew through search rather than paid acquisition.
Mar 2023 – Feb 2024 · 12 months on record
AI marketing attribution for B2B SaaS companies, tying ad spend to closed-won revenue and sending attribution data back to the ad platforms.
Jan 2026 – Sep 2026 · 9 months on record
Revenue-first web analytics for founders: which marketing channels bring paying customers, not just visitors. Built and run solo by Marc Lou.
Aug 2025 – Mar 2026 · 8 months on record
Collects text and video testimonials from customers and embeds them on your site in minutes. Built solo by Damon Chen, who published the revenue the whole way up.
Feb 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 months on record
Compliance, electronic health records and content tools for provider organizations serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Founded in 2022 by Daniel Caridi.
Nov 2025 – Apr 2026 · 6 months on record
Phone, email, IP, social and SEO data through one API, on one shared credit balance. Founded in 2022 by Robby Frank.
May 2026 – Sep 2026 · 5 months on record
A creator store: one link where creators sell courses, memberships, coaching and digital products. Founded in 2023.
Jan 2026 – Apr 2026 · 4 months on record
A platform for customer-facing AI agents, used for support and sales. Founded by Yasser Elsaid and grown past $10M ARR without outside funding.
Feb 2026 – Mar 2026 · 2 months on record
Scheduling, automation and audience growth for people building on social. An Open Startup: the live revenue dashboard is public and updates straight from billing.
Jul 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 months on record
Product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments for engineers, self-hostable or cloud. The entire company handbook is public, down to compensation bands and the experiments that failed.
Dec 2022 – Dec 2022 · 1 months on record
An open-source social media scheduler for 30+ networks, repositioned for AI agents. Built by Nevo David with no ad spend; the free self-hosted version is the top of the funnel.
Sep 2026 – Sep 2026 · 1 months on record
Identifies the people visiting your website and pushes them straight into Slack. Grown almost entirely by its founder posting the exact revenue — the wins and the failures — in public.
Sep 2026 – Sep 2026 · 1 months on record
Scheduling that lets the person booking overlay their own calendar, so picking a time stops being a negotiation. Built by a solo founder after months spent analysing markets before writing any code.
Sep 2020 – Sep 2020 · 1 months on record
An AI tool for growing on LinkedIn: writing, scheduling, engagement and analytics for individuals and teams. Built in public by Deven Bhooshan.
Mar 2024 – Mar 2024 · 1 months on record
Podcast hosting and analytics for companies and independent shows. Two founders, no investors, and the revenue published openly from the very first $33.
Jul 2018 – Jul 2018 · 1 months on record
Connect your billing and your history is ready in about a minute. After that, a number you commit to in public settles itself from your own books when the date arrives — met or not, and marked as settled by the source rather than by hand.