Public revenue case library
Revenue signals from founders building in public on X
Browse curated posts with revenue numbers, cost clues, channel notes, credibility labels, and original-source records. Use it to compare what revenue screenshots do and do not prove.
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High-trust originals
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2026-09-08
Revenue signal table
110 signals, 105 high-trust original records, source updated 2026-09-08
| Entry | Revenue / cost / profit | Product / channel | Credibility | Summary | Actions |
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8 months SaaS crossed $11,180 revenue and $2,789 MRR @anupamrjp / 2026-07-05 01:55 UTC Added 2026-07-06 (last 24-48 hours) | Cumulative gross volume of SaaS in 8 months is $11,180.24; the author states that the current MRR is $2,789; no advertising budget, cost/profit not disclosed | Undisclosed SaaS The author said that all customers come from organic growth, relying on continuous building, shipping and listening to user feedback; there are no paid ads | Medium to high: The author himself disclosed that the search results include the complete text, and the media image can read gross volume $11,180.24; however, the details of this round of `twitter tweet` failed to be read, and the product name, number of subscriptions, cost and profit were missing. | This is a typical early organic SaaS sample: it took 8 months to accumulate 11K gross volume and 2.8K MRR. It was not an explosion of short videos or advertising purchases, but slowly accumulated through product iteration and natural growth. The value of the research is to remind you not to just pursue abnormal cases of "a few weeks to ten thousand dollars". The organic route may be slower, but the cash pressure is lower. | |
| RevenueCat screenshot shows MRR 1,013 US$, last 28 days revenue 781 US$, 62 active subscriptions, 1,590 new customers; author says it started building in March and just hit $1,000 MRR; cost/profit not disclosed | Undisclosed first app No audience, no funding, no team; mainly organic traffic; just started Apple Search Ads the day before posting | High: The author disclosed it himself and brought screenshots of RevenueCat, and the timeline and channels are clear; but the details interface failed to read, and the product name, pricing, advertising costs, and net profit after platform commissions were missing. | Here’s a sample mobile app that “goes organic to $1K MRR, then tests Apple Search Ads on a small scale.” Different from the existing Apple Search Ads volume cases, Max Franzen first proved that there was natural demand before starting paid channels; it is worth tracking whether ASA can be scaled up without destroying cash efficiency. | ||
Sports app seasonal MRR / affiliate revenue note @alfiearnaud_ / 2026-07-05 20:52 UTC Added 2026-07-06 (last 24-48 hours) | Screenshot shows MRR falling from a peak of about $25K to nearly $100K during the 2025 NFL season; the author replies that the current MRR is about $25K-$30K; in-house subscriptions are the smallest revenue driver, affiliate is larger; costs/profits are not disclosed | Undisclosed sports / sports betting app NFL content strategy, affiliate monetization, high probability of strong seasonality; the author said that the current app experience is average and plans to rebuild | Medium: The author himself disclosed it with a RevenueCat diagram, and the reply supplemented the current MRR and affiliate caliber; but it is not a complete long article, and the product name, cost, net profit, specific customer acquisition channels and compliance risks were not disclosed. | The value of this is in revenue structure and seasonality, not a single MRR number. The subscription revenue of the sports betting app may only be superficial, and affiliates are the main monetization; at the same time, MRR fluctuates greatly with the NFL season and cannot be linearly extrapolated from ordinary SaaS. | |
How failing 7 times made me $1,000,000 @null_deref / 2026-07-03 14:55 UTC Added 2026-07-05 (last 24-48 hours) | Pushscroll has accumulated revenue of $1,000,000, the author claims current $100K+ MRR, and provides a RevenueCat verified link; the failed product SpeedBump took about 5 months and earned $0; visible cost clues are only early purchase of Ahrefs 32 euros, full advertising/creator costs are not disclosed | Pushscroll, a B2C app that requires you to do push-ups to continue browsing your phone; failed product SpeedBump is an app that reduces doomscrolling TikTok/Reels/Instagram native content; verified with fake demo before going online, about 80K views, 500 comments requested the build; then hard paywall, single audience, real content, not Product Hunt, X build in public or slow feedback ASO/SEO | High: The author himself | This is the strongest B2C app failure review this round. Its value is not just $1M in revenue, but the difference between the same founder’s $0 SpeedBump in 5 months and Pushscroll’s $100K+ MRR. It’s not about the complexity of the product, it’s about verifying the distribution first, going to the platform where the user is, and using a hard paywall to let the revenue feed back the distribution. Suitable for comparison with iOS app advertising purchase cases: Pushscroll is more like short video demand verification + social native content drive. | |
$0 to $1,000 MRR iOS consumer app checklist @jpwahle / 2026-07-03 12:14 UTC Added 2026-07-05 (last 24-48 hours) | Title Disclosure iOS consumer app from $0 to $1,000 MRR; pricing suggestions $9.99/week, $49.99/year, testable $79.99/year + 7-day trial, lifetime approximately 3x annual; no product name, cost, screenshots or current net profit disclosed | Undisclosed consumer iOS app Swift/iPhone only; RevenueCat paywall and A/B tests; PostHog funnel; Apple Search Ads, TikTok/Instagram/Reddit; Localization EN/DE/ES/FR/IT/PT/RU/TR/AR/HI/ID/ZH/JA/KO; App Store screenshot factory | Medium: | This article is more like a “checklist for mobile subscription apps from 0 to 1K MRR” rather than a complete financial report. The available value lies in stringing together the current consensus of many app builders on | |
| Maxed AI reached $1,000 MRR; the previous goal was 100 downloads, $100 revenue; the context of the reply and screenshot showed about 166 active subscriptions, about 7K monthly users; the author replied that it had experienced free, free trial, and too high prices in the early days, and only recently adjusted the pricing/paywall; currently no trial is provided; the cost/profit is not disclosed | Maxed AI，lifting / gym fitness app Founder-led | Medium to high: The author discloses it himself and brings screenshots of RevenueCat. The product name and early pivot are clear; but the main post is not a long article. Channels/costs/retention mainly come from replies and user-posts, and a complete P&L is still missing. | Maxed AI is an earlier example of a fitness app. What is really useful is not the $1K MRR itself, but that it exposes the pricing iteration of consumer apps: free, trial, and wrong prices will all cause low ARPU/high churn. The author has only recently changed to no trial and optimized the paywall. It is suitable for continuing to track whether the creator/community channel can convert 7K MAU into a higher payment rate. | ||
iOS app hit $1.5K MRR in 34 days @_frederickjames / 2026-07-02 10:23 UTC Added 2026-07-04 (last 24-48 hours) | The undisclosed iOS app has an MRR of $1.5K in 34 days; about $1K MRR in the previous 25-30 days; pricing $49.99/year, $14.99/month, $7.99/week (the text and reply have an inconsistency on the $7.99 weekly/month caliber, and subsequent replies are listed as weekly); Apple takes a 15% commission; the first round CPA of TikTok ads is $29, and the second round is $16, currently $50/day to find winner; early Apple Search Ads stage revealed spending $584, revenue $964, profit after tax/refund $235 | Undisclosed iOS habit tracker / B2C app Apple Search Ads competitive product keyword minimum volume; RevenueCat data exports + Apple ad spend leave it to Claude for suggestions; PostHog optimization 12-13 steps onboarding; GPT-Image-2/Figma for store graphics; start TikTok ads after $1K MRR; iOS only, SwiftUI + RevenueCat | High: The author's long post disclosure, with RevenueCat screenshots, with pre-order $1K MRR, profit/ROAS, pricing and channel records that can be cross-verified; still missing product name and complete P&L | This is a key upgrade from the previous habit tracker case: instead of just saying "to $1K MRR", the approach of reaching $1.5K MRR in 34 days is broken down into advertising, pricing, onboarding, data analysis and subsequent TikTok purchases. The most notable thing is that early profits are not huge: after platform fees, refunds, and advertising, growth is fast but cash efficiency requires continued viewing of LTV/retention. | |
B2C startup made $7,680 in last 30 days @arthuryuzbashew / 2026-07-03 07:53 UTC Added 2026-07-04 (last 24-48 hours) | B2C startup’s revenue in the last 30 days was $7,680; the author stated that the product was founded in 2025-09 and really took off after 8 months. The reply corrected it to about 15 months from launch to now; another post on the same day stated that MediaFast’s revenue was $1,229 when it was launched for 3 months, and is now about $7K/month, with cumulative revenue exceeding $55K; cost/profit not disclosed | B2C startup (suspected of Pix, the author did not mention it clearly in this post); MediaFast as a related product SEO + GEO organic; previously disclosed 400-500 organic visits per day under B2C startup DR 3, MediaFast via Reddit/GEO marketing | High: Disclosed by the author himself, with multiple screenshots, and mutually corroborated with June portfolio income $15,619, Pix $8,088, MediaFast $6,982 records; lack of complete confirmation of costs, profits and product names | Arthur’s new value lies in the timeline: B2C products don’t explode immediately after they go online, but actually start growing in volume after 8 months; the channel is not the short-lived explosion of social media, but the organic compound interest of SEO + GEO. It is suitable for comparison with the narrative of "making a hit app in a week": continue working in the same direction, wait for search and AI search assets to accumulate, and then push the product to 7-8K/month. | |
Redditgrow reached $2K total revenue in 3 months @victor_bigfield / 2026-07-03 07:02 UTC Added 2026-07-04 (last 24-48 hours) | Redditgrow's cumulative revenue in 3 months is $2,000; the previous six months' revenue was $733 and May's $647; the author also posted that he suspended posting/outreach 2 weeks later, MRR is still rising, churn dropped 39%; cost/profit not disclosed | Redditgrow.ai, Reddit growth/marketing tool Reddit acquired customers early, and then SEO/Google began to bring better retained customers; the author clearly compared "post on Twitter and hope" and believed that early users should go to places where search intent is already there | Medium to high: The author himself disclosed that there are continuous income, timeline, churn and channel updates; the income is small and lacks screenshots/P&L, but it has research value as an early SEO retained sample | Redditgrow is a small but clear case of "channel quality". $2K in 3 months is not much, but the author observed that MRR still increased and churn decreased when no marketing was done for two weeks, indicating that Google/SEO users may be more retained than X-exposed users. It’s appropriate to continue tracking whether it can transition from founder-led marketing to search-driven stable MRR. | |
| Directify June P&L: MRR $2,418.30, revenue $2,832.21, profit $2,580.17, profit margin 91.1%; Stripe fees $141.53, hosting $92.67, tools $17, CDN $0.84; compared with May MRR +3.7%, profit margin increased from 86.9% to 91.1%; the total monthly income on the same day was $32,942, including $2,832 from Directify and $29,888 from domain sale. | Directify; plus ConvertHub, Directories, RapidForm and domain transaction revenue The author replied that the current main customer acquisition channel is SEO; the Directify affiliate program has begun to bring sales; in June, profit margins will be increased by cutting tools and reducing Stripe fees. | High: Disclosed by the author himself, with P&L screenshots, cost accounts, comparisons from the previous month and channel responses; Stripe/bank screenshots are still missing | Directify is the most complete “small SaaS P&L” sample this round. The total monthly revenue was raised to $32.9K by the one-time domain name sale, but the reusable operating assets are Directify’s $2.4K MRR and 91.1% profit margin: slow growth, low cost, SEO customer acquisition, and subscription tool slimming. It is more suitable to study the real cash structure of independent SaaS than simply showing gross revenue. | ||
Interior design app hit $2.8K MRR in 5 weeks @SebasEstra / 2026-06-30 17:46 UTC Added 2026-07-03 (last 24-48 hours) | Interior design app has reached $2.3K MRR in 5 weeks, and has reached $2.8K MRR at the time of posting; June revenue is $2,524, secondary contractor app is $52; screenshot on July 1 shows MRR $2,932, 102 active subscriptions; about 1,250 downloads, conversion 8.8%, about 1 subscription per 12 downloads; pricing $9.99/week, $19.99/month, non-localized price in UK/Europe; confirmed revenue of approximately $1.7K; cost/profit not disclosed | An undisclosed interior design app; and a contractor app Just make a TikTok account, 2 carousels per day; no ads, no free trial, only 1 free generation; the author said that viral feature + TikTok is related to the growth peak, avoid pan-AI UGC, and delve deeply into the high-end interior design audience, material/style terminology, and users’ existing habits | High: The author's long post disclosure, with RevenueCat screenshots, timeline, number of subscriptions, conversion rate, pricing, channels and reply supplement; missing cost, profit and App Store link | Here’s a sample “low download, high conversion” mobile subscription app. The author did not pursue general traffic, but used TikTok carousel to target the existing browsing/collection habits of interior design enthusiasts. As a result, it was able to achieve close to $3K MRR with less than 1 million lifetime views and 1,250 downloads. Suitable for comparison with TikTok ads purchase-based apps: The key variables here are vertical content quality, paywall/onboarding and high weekly subscription pricing. | |
Marc Lou June 2026 portfolio income @marclou / 2026-06-30 09:13 UTC Added 2026-07-02 (last 24-48 hours) | Total revenue in June 2026 $83,701: TrustMRR $30K, DataFast $21K, Ship or Die $15K, CodeFast $9K, | Multi-product portfolio: TrustMRR, DataFast, Ship or Die, CodeFast, ShipFast, etc. X build in public distribution; DataFast adds bot traffic tracker; TrustMRR marketplace charges 3% finder fee. The author responded that ShipFast/CodeFast has been lower than the peak, and TrustMRR and Indie Page are more stable | High: The author himself disclosed that the interaction is high, and the margin, tax, and personal expenditures are added in the reply; Stripe/bank screenshots are missing, and the costs between products are not broken down. | This is a sample of the "multi-small product portfolio" revenue structure: not the linear growth of a single SaaS, but the superposition of new products, decline of old products, market-based products and content revenue. The most valuable thing is that the author proactively gives a cash handling method of 85% margin, 17% tax and no salary, which can be used to distinguish gross income, after-tax cash and company retention. | |
Postiz June 2026 revenue / 143K Stripe MRR @wickedguro / 2026-06-30 12:17 UTC Added 2026-07-02 (last 24-48 hours) | Total revenue in June 2026 $138,824: Postiz $136,244, agent-media $2,580; Stripe MRR shows $143,000; 2026-06-29 another post said Postiz passed $140K MRR; a recent post revealed that Google Ads spent $94 in a single day to obtain 64.5 trials, CPT $1.47 | Postiz, open source social media scheduler; agent-media Open source distribution, X build in public, Google Ads; the author said that Google Ads has become the most profitable channel, and continues to invest in business and sponsor hacker residency | High: Author disclosed, continuous MRR screenshots/milestones and advertising cost clues cross-verifiable; full cost sheet and net profit missing | Postiz has moved from “open source project growth” to high MRR commercialization. The key is not the 138K single-month figure, but the author simultaneously exposed the MRR caliber, advertising trial costs and reinvestment tendencies: high income does not mean that all can be withdrawn, and part of the cash continues to be invested in business and brand distribution. | |
Terekhin Ivan app portfolio June revenue @TerekhinIvan / 2026-07-01 02:07 UTC Added 2026-07-02 (last 24-48 hours) | App portfolio revenue in June 2026 is $4,722, $4,330 in May, +9% month-on-month; 10+ apps live; Sober Tracker accounts for approximately 69% of revenue, Sober Tracker MRR $781, active paying subs 337; Supplements Tracker approximately $600, Anxiety Pulse approximately $355; advertising spend approximately $0; profit not disclosed | Sober Tracker and 10+ mobile app combination Purely organic; the author continues to test iOS price reductions and Android price increases; as mentioned earlier, App Store/Google Play/search traffic and ASO are more effective than ASA/Google Ads/social media | High: Disclosed by the author himself, with screenshots, clear revenue, product proportion, MRR, number of subscriptions, pricing experiments and advertising costs; lack of net profit after platform commission | This is a good example of mobile app portfolio diversification from a single hit to a multi-app portfolio. The growth rate in June was not high, but the quality was higher: Sober Tracker’s share dropped from 75% to 69%, small apps began to contribute revenue, and $0 ad spend showed that the growth came from store/search organic traffic and pricing/paywall experiments. | |
Arthur June 2026 MediaFast/Pix income @arthuryuzbashew / 2026-06-30 19:19 UTC Added 2026-07-02 (last 24-48 hours) | Total income in June 2026 $15,619: MediaFast $6,982 (+113%), Pix $8,088 (+23%), LiFast $96, iOS App $44, $7K/month, B2C startup to $8K/month; cost/profit not disclosed | MediaFast, Reddit/GEO marketing product; Pix, B2C product; LiFast/iOS app Reddit marketing, GEO/AI search, Google organic traffic; the author said that B2C startup has 400-500 organic visits per day under DR 3, doubled after MediaFast GEO pivot | High: The author himself continuously discloses monthly income, historical timeline and channels, and the interaction data is medium; screenshots of costs, profits and collections are missing | Arthur's value lies in the combination of "productization of service/marketing capabilities + B2C side bet": MediaFast started from Reddit's pain points and subsequently turned to GEO/AI search; Pix surpassed MediaFast in the same month. It shows that a single creator’s cash flow can come from a mixture of service-based SaaS, B2C small products and X creator payout, rather than just betting on one MRR curve. | |
Screen Charm June 2026 side income @sergeynazarovx / 2026-06-30 12:01 UTC Added 2026-07-02 (last 24-48 hours) | Side income $6,060 in June 2026: Screen Charm $5.8K, | Screen Charm, video/screen recording related tools Reddit brings significant traffic; the author said that Reddit results achieved personal best performance, and the export speed was subsequently optimized, believing that 2x faster export may increase user recording volume | Medium to High: Disclosure by the author with screenshots, and context of Stripe payout and Reddit traffic; but lacks complete timeline, costs, and net profit | This is a “side hustle SaaS that still keeps 9-5” sample. Screen Charm's 5.8K in a single month is meaningful enough. The most valuable thing for research is that the author puts Reddit traffic, product performance improvements and actual payment frictions in the same time window, reminding that in addition to income screenshots, there will also be payout/bank link problems. | |
Redditgrow June 2026 small revenue update @victor_bigfield / 2026-07-01 09:17 UTC Added 2026-07-02 (last 24-48 hours) | Revenue in June 2026 $733: Redditgrow $620, | Redditgrow, Reddit growth/marketing tool; also visualhackademy SEO has begun to increase in volume; the author said that he has not done marketing for several weeks and has begun to observe natural traffic and retention. | Center: The author himself disclosed, small income but May comparison, day 91, churn and SEO clues; lack of screenshots, costs and longer timelines | This is a retained sample of a low-income early product, and more important than just "$733/mo" is the churn drop and SEO user quality changes. Good to keep track of: If SEO continues to lead to better retained customers, Redditgrow may switch from manual marketing/social media to more stable search customer acquisition. | |
AI Peekaboo from $20K to $26,671 MRR after X post @hello_code_ / 2026-06-30 14:34 UTC Added 2026-07-01 (last 24-48 hours) | MRR updated to $26,671 from over $20K the previous day; author says 20K MRR post got 18K views and closed an enterprise client from X; cost/profit not disclosed | AI Peekaboo, AI Search/LLM visibility SaaS, at AIPeekaboo.com X build in public brings enterprise customers directly; contextual complementary products help companies track visibility, competition and citation sources in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI | Gao: The author himself has made continuous disclosures, with income screenshots attached. There is a previous 20K MRR record that can be cross-verified; but there is still a lack of screenshots of costs, contract amounts and repayments. | This is a sample of AI Search/GEO SaaS continuing to gain enterprise customers by publishing revenue posts after reaching 20K MRR. The most valuable thing is that “the revenue disclosure post itself becomes a sales asset”: 18K views isn’t a lot, but it’s enough to trigger an enterprise customer conversion, pushing the MRR to $26,671. | |
SuperX June income breakdown, later reaching $30K MRR @robj3d3 / 2026-06-30 14:16 UTC Added 2026-06-30 (last 24-48 hours) | June 2026 total revenue was $20,496.08: SuperX $18,481.82, X creator payouts $1,896.24, and YouTube $118.02. After expenses and the co-founder split, take-home was about $6K. A later update said SuperX reached $30K MRR on day 439 of build in public. | SuperX, an X-growth SaaS, plus X creator payouts and YouTube income. X content distribution and the SuperX product itself. The author also noted that X creator payouts can cover the subscription cost for some SuperX users. | High: first-party monthly breakdown with a take-home figure and a later $30K MRR milestone. There is no screenshot or itemized cost schedule. | This case separates headline revenue from founder cash. SuperX produced most of the $20.5K June total, but expenses and the co-founder split reduced take-home to about $6K. The later day-439 $30K MRR milestone shows growth, while the missing cost detail still prevents a profit estimate. | |
AI website going global: From anxiety to success, earning your first $10,000 @huangyun_122 / 2026-06-29 15:23 UTC Added 2026-06-30 (last 24-48 hours) | The article states that the protagonist of the case, the "Hertz" AI website, has accumulated more than $10,000 in the 10 months since it went overseas; there was almost no income in the first 5-6 months, and it exceeded $1,000 in the sixth month, and continued to grow in the next 4 months; the Twitter account brought in nearly 20,000 yuan in business order income; the traffic was tens of yuan per day, and the business order income was used for paid external links; the profit was not disclosed | AI overseas tool station/independent station combination whose specific site name has not been disclosed Google Trends, Similarweb, AITDK, Semrush, Reddit/Twitter pain points, Fiverr/Upwork service requirements, SEO, paid external links, small investment traffic, Clarity screen recording optimization, Stripe/HK bank card collection | Medium: The long article gives a clear timeline, channels, payment and investment caliber, but the author is dismantling the "Hertz" case and is not directly disclosing the income parties; it lacks site links, payment screenshots and cost and profit statements. | This is suitable as a "mental journey + SOP" sample for a Chinese AI independent station to go overseas, rather than financial evidence. The most valuable information is that there was almost no income in the first half of the year, and only $1K was exceeded in the 6th month. It was verified through Clarity screen recording and repair experience, buying external links and accelerating small-amount investment. It reminds that "AI website building" does not wait for SEO to come naturally, but requires actively finding words, going to the site, paying for time, and cultivating conversions around a site. |
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