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A screenshot API for developers — one endpoint, no browser to run yourself. One founder, built in public including the parts that stopped working.

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.

Payments, subscriptions and tax handling for software businesses, as merchant of record. Went from idea to acquisition in under four years without taking a venture round.

Podcast hosting, private podcasts and transcription for businesses and independent shows. Stair-stepped out of a done-for-you editing service into recurring revenue.

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.

Identity resolution for ecommerce email — turning anonymous site traffic into contactable customers. Six employees, and a founder who posts the exact revenue figures in public every month.

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.

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.

Cold email and multichannel sales outreach with personalisation built in. Bootstrapped from a thousand dollars, with the founder publishing the ARR at every step and never raising a round.

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.

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.

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.

Scheduling, automation and audience growth for people building on social. An Open Startup: the live revenue dashboard is public and updates straight from billing.

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.

Shared inbox and help desk software for small support teams. Grew on a single blog that published the real numbers every month — the wins and the flops — as its only marketing channel.

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.

Podcast hosting and analytics for companies and independent shows. Two founders, no investors, and the revenue published openly from the very first $33.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.