Top 29 Most Profitable AI Tools

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AI tools are pulling in serious monthly revenue, and the numbers prove it.

Some solo founders are making more per month than traditional SaaS companies make in a year, while lean teams of 10-40 people are competing with billion-dollar enterprises.

We tracked down 35 AI tools where founders publicly shared their revenue, ranked them by monthly earnings, and pulled out the patterns that actually matter (which is exactly the kind of research we do in our market clarity reports for over 100 product categories).

Top 35 AI Tools Ranked by Monthly Revenue

• 1. Cursor ($16.7M/month)

  Cursor generates approximately $16.7 million monthly with $200M ARR as of March 2025, making it the fastest-growing AI tool ever documented. This AI-powered code editor built as a VS Code fork integrates multiple AI models (GPT-4, Claude) to autocomplete code, spot bugs, and generate entire functions, serving 360,000 paid subscribers at $20/month (Pro) and $40/month (Business). The company hit $100M ARR in approximately 1 year, then doubled to $200M just 2 months later, all with zero marketing spend. Growth came entirely through developer word-of-mouth because the product solved real pain points, with the team focusing on making VS Code users feel at home while adding genuinely useful AI features that help developers ship faster.

  Source: Entrepreneur
• 2. ElevenLabs ($7.5M/month)

  ElevenLabs generates approximately $7.5 million monthly with $90M ARR as of October 2024, projected to hit $16.7M MRR ($200M ARR) by August 2025. The AI voice platform that's become the industry standard serves 41% of Fortune 500 companies for text-to-speech, voice cloning, and dubbing in 140+ languages, with customers including Washington Post, TIME, and HarperCollins. The company uses proprietary deep learning models trained on massive audio datasets to synthesize realistic speech and clone voices from 30-second samples. Growth came from a freemium model with premium tiers starting at $22/month, a Voice Library marketplace where creators monetize their voices (paid out over $2M to voice actors), and enterprise focus that landed Fortune 500 clients. The company grew from $25M ARR at start of 2024 to $90M by October 2024 (260% year-over-year growth) while generating 1,000 years of audio content in 2 years of operation.

  Sources: Sacra, ElevenLabs Blog
• 3. Bolt.new ($3.3M/month)

  Bolt.new generates approximately $3.3 million monthly with $40M ARR as of March 2025, achieving one of the fastest growth trajectories ever documented. This browser-based development platform powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet lets anyone build full-stack web apps using just natural language, with no coding required and no installation needed. Users describe the app they want, and Claude generates the entire codebase with React, Tailwind CSS, and backend logic, with one-click deployment through Netlify, Supabase, and Expo. The tool launched with a single tweet on October 3, 2024, hit $4M ARR in 30 days and $20M in 2 months through pure viral growth with zero marketing budget. Token-based pricing at $20/month for 10M tokens made it accessible, while serving 200,000 weekly active users and hitting $1M ARR in the first week alone.

  Sources: Sacra, Signal Hub
• 4. Aragon AI ($833K/month)

  Aragon AI generates approximately $833K monthly with $10M ARR, going from zero to this revenue in under 2 years while serving over 1.2 million users. This AI headshot generator creates professional photos without physical photoshoots by using Stable Diffusion and custom-trained models (Dream Booth) to generate portraits indistinguishable from real photography. The company hit $1M ARR in 4 months, $4M ARR in just over a year, while generating 25+ million portraits with a 12-person team including ex-founders, AI researchers, and Math Olympiad medalists. Growth came from guerrilla marketing on Reddit (r/Tinder, Team Blind) where the founder pretended to be a user, an affiliate program that drove organic traffic and backlinks, and SEO that now generates 1/3 of revenue through Google search. The founder was fired from his previous job, broke in SF, and rejected by 30 VCs before building this, proving product quality and distribution matter more than funding.

  Sources: Signal Hub, PMF Show
• 5. Hedra ($833K+/month)

  Hedra generates approximately $833K+ monthly with an eight-figure run rate (over $10M ARR) and $4M ARR generated in just 4 weeks post-launch. This AI video generation platform focuses specifically on characters, creating hyperrealistic humans, animated characters, or talking animals with dialogue by combining images, video, and audio through their proprietary Character-3 "omnimodal" model. The company launched its first video model in June 2024, but the Character-3 model released in March 2025 was the real inflection point, with creator-seeded launch leveraging viral content like talking baby podcasts and AI memes. Growth came from product-led growth with a free tier, prosumer-to-enterprise upsell with no outbound sales team yet landing enterprise contracts inbound, and positioning in a specific use case (characters) rather than competing with general video AI. Founded by Michael Lingelbach (CEO and former Stanford PhD student) with a team of engineers and AI researchers from Stanford, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Amazon's Alexa Fund with $32M Series A raised in May 2025.

  Source: PMF Show
• 6. Submagic ($667K/month)

  Submagic generates approximately $667K monthly with $8M ARR as of 2025, transforming videos into viral-ready shorts by automatically adding captions, B-rolls, transitions, and engagement elements. This AI tool for creators uses AI to transcribe speech, generate captions, identify best moments for viral clips through the Magic Clips feature, and apply engagement-optimizing edits automatically. The company hit $1M ARR in 90 days, $5M in 12-13 months, $8M in 2 years with first customers arriving within 10 days of a viral TikTok. Growth came from TikTok organic marketing where the founder posted demo videos until one hit 100K views, an affiliate army of 50-70 small creators (ages 18-25) offering 30% lifetime commission, and SEO now driving 25% of sales. The founder, 28-year-old French entrepreneur David Zitoun, built this as his 4th venture completely bootstrapped without VC funding, creating a tight-knit WhatsApp community for customer feedback and using the product to promote itself in a meta-marketing approach.

  Sources: SaaS Club, Apple Podcasts
• 7. Jenni AI ($633K/month)

  Jenni AI generates approximately $633K monthly with $7.6M ARR as of November 2024, achieving one of the most impressive pivot stories with 1.6 million percent growth in 15 months. This AI-powered writing assistant specifically for academic researchers and students helps with research papers, essays, articles, and blog posts with citation capabilities and intelligent content generation using OpenAI GPT models. The company was founded in August 2019 but stuck at $2K MRR for 3 years as a generic SEO tool before pivoting to the academic market and exploding to $150K MRR by August 2023, $558K MRR by September 2024, $633K MRR by November 2024 while gaining 1.6 million users in 15 months post-pivot. Growth came from the first 10 subscribers via cold email, first 100 via Facebook groups, first 1,000 via Twitter, then viral short-form content on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts with 50M+ combined views from daily posting with a full-time influencer. The company purchased the misspelled domain "jenny.ai" which alone generated 52K visitors, 20K users, 271 paid subscriptions, and $21,680 revenue, alongside a 30% affiliate program and partnerships with TikTok marketing teams.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, Growth Partners
• 8. ARCads.ai ($500K/month)

  ARCads.ai generates approximately $500K monthly with $6M ARR as of 16 months after launch, growing with just 5 employees. This AI-powered video advertising platform creates high-performing ad content using AI-generated actors, transforming text into video ads with ultra-realistic AI avatars so brands and marketers can create ad content at scale without hiring actors or production crews. The company launched in January 2024 and hit $5K MRR in the first week, $1M ARR by June 2024 (5 months), $5M in 12 months, and added $1M new ARR in a single month (April-May 2025) while serving 4,000+ customers. Growth came from product-market fit from day one since the founders were their own customers as mobile app advertisers, using their own tool to advertise itself, and building 100+ AI agents in Gumloop for automation like competitor research, content creation, and lead generation. The company uses three growth channels: paid ads on Meta, content marketing on LinkedIn/Twitter plus creator partnerships, and direct sales with AI-identified high-value prospects, all while staying completely bootstrapped and profitable from the start with $1.2M revenue per employee.

  Sources: Spotify, Apple Podcasts
• 9. Poppy AI ($400K/month)

  Poppy AI generates approximately $400K monthly with $4.8M ARR in 2024, serving 5,000 creators. This AI collaborative whiteboard helps creators make viral content and ads by combining Miro/Whimsical-style visual collaboration with ChatGPT capabilities, allowing users to import from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Ads, and YouTube, then use AI to analyze and create viral content. The founders previously grew a YouTube channel to 1M subscribers, giving them an existing audience, but the breakthrough came when TikTok went viral in September 2024, making $100K in 10 days after being near bankruptcy. Growth came from the founders' build-in-public approach after moving to SF in 2024 and trying multiple failed tools over 6 months before finding product-market fit with AI-powered content analysis and generation combined with visual whiteboarding and ChatGPT integration for content creation workflows.

  Source: Starter Story

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• 10. HeadshotPro ($300K/month)

  HeadshotPro generates $300K monthly with $3.6M ARR as another AI headshot generator that carved out significant market share. This tool transforms selfies into professional headshots in under 60 minutes starting at $29, helping busy professionals and job seekers get professional imagery without scheduling photographers using generative AI for image transformation and enhancement. The founder, Danny Postma, previously sold Headlime for $1M at $20K MRR, giving him credibility and audience for this second major AI success. Growth came from building in public with a strong Twitter presence, leveraging reputation from the previous successful exit, and a strong founder brand that drove early adoption within the indie hacker community.

  Source: Medium
• 11. Spyne.AI ($250K/month)

  Spyne.AI generates $250K monthly with $3M ARR, targeting $800K MRR soon. This deep tech AI for automotive e-commerce transforms subpar car catalog images into premium photos, eliminating expensive photoshoots by using computer vision and deep learning for automotive image enhancement that removes backgrounds, fixes lighting, and adds studio backdrops automatically. The company serves 90,000 dealerships in US and Europe with an average customer spending $40K/year for 500 SKUs/month through a B2B enterprise model. Growth came from vertical focus on automotive, building local sales teams starting in Texas and LA, and 10X-ing the company in 12 months from $25K to $250K MRR. Founded by Sanjay Kumar Varnwal (CEO) with ex-Palantir background after a pivot from a failed photographer platform, the team is 2/3 engineers in product/tech/AI, headquartered in New Delhi with 12 salespeople, having raised $7M seed from Excel Partners in 2022.

  Source: GetLatka
• 12. Formula Bot ($220K/month)

  Formula Bot generates $220K monthly with $2.64M ARR by translating text instructions into Excel formulas and providing spreadsheet intelligence. This AI tool combines OpenAI's API with Excel and spreadsheets to generate formulas from plain English, do data analysis, sentiment analysis, and text classification, available as both a website and Excel/Google Sheets add-ons. The tool targets 1 billion Excel users globally across finance, accounting, and marketing with a freemium model offering 5 free formulas per month and $6.99/month for unlimited. Growth came from launching in September 2022 with $14K MRR immediately and growing to $220K/month by February 2024. The founder, David Bressler, is a solo bootstrapped founder who was originally a data analyst (not a software developer) and built the entire platform with no-code tools despite his non-technical background, starting with minimal investment of just $99 mentioned.

  Sources: Starter Story, Medium
• 13. Designs.ai ($175K/month)

  Designs.ai generates $175K monthly with $2.1M annual revenue in 2024 as an all-in-one AI design suite including Logo Maker, Video Maker, AI Writer, Speech Maker, and Graphics Generator. This comprehensive AI-powered creative suite uses multiple AI models for different creative tasks including generative AI for logos, NLP for writing, neural text-to-speech, and video generation models, all in one platform approach. The company was founded in 2019 and achieved consistent year-over-year growth from $651.5K in 2021 to $977.2K in 2023 to $2.1M in 2024 with a 7-person team (1 engineer, 1 marketer) led by CEO Warren Leow. Growth came from all-in-one platform positioning with multiple tools under one subscription, freemium with paid tiers, multi-language support, and serving both B2B and B2C segments with a focus on making content production easier and faster, all while staying bootstrapped and Singapore-based.

  Source: GetLatka
• 14. PhotoAI ($132K/month)

  PhotoAI generates $132K monthly with $1.58M ARR as an AI photographer that generates professional photos without a camera. This tool uses Stable Diffusion with custom training on user photos, leveraging Replicate.com for AI model hosting to generate photorealistic images indistinguishable from real photography in any style including professional headshots, dating profile pics, and creative portraits. The product was built by solopreneur Pieter Levels as part of his 12 startups in 12 months challenge, launched in February 2023, and generated $100K+ in first 10 days after pivoting from Avatar AI, reaching $100K/month within 18 months. Growth came from viral Twitter presence with 422K+ followers, individual subscriptions at $20-40/month, and being featured on Lex Friedman's podcast which was a major growth driver. Pieter Levels is a famous Dutch indie hacker and digital nomad with multiple successful products including Nomad List and Remote OK, known for his transparent revenue sharing.

  Sources: PPC Land, Twitter/X
• 15. Tweet Hunter ($117K/month)

  Tweet Hunter generates $117K monthly with $1.4M annual revenue in 2023 before being sold for an eight-figure sum. This AI-powered Twitter tool provides a database of 1.1 million viral tweets, AI writing assistance for Twitter, content scheduling, and growth tools, helping users leverage proven tweet formulas through AI that analyzes viral tweet patterns and generates tweets likely to perform well. The company launched in 2020, reached $25K MRR by late 2021, and grew to $1.4M annual revenue by 2023 before the successful exit for over $10M. Growth came from building in public on Twitter, partnering with influencer JK Molina (50K followers) who became co-founder and spokesperson, email campaigns that drove from $5K to $15K MRR in one week, and a Product Hunt launch. The founders started with a simple MVP consisting of just a tweet database plus AI before eventually selling. Thibault Louis-Lucas later acquired Feather blogging platform for $250K after the Tweet Hunter exit.

  Source: Bootstrappers
• 16. Magai ($100K/month)

  Magai generates $100K monthly in late 2024, achieving $1M ARR in 32 months. This all-in-one AI platform provides access to 50+ models including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Leonardo for content creation, image generation, video production, chat interfaces, saved prompts, and team collaboration, eliminating the need for multiple AI subscriptions. The platform offers six pricing tiers ($19-$249/month) with typical SaaS margins of 85%, generated $114K in 2 weeks during peak period, and hit $2K MRR in 42 days, $20K MRR in 163 days, $30K MRR by March 2024. Growth came from building in public with transparent revenue sharing, solving the platform consolidation problem where one subscription replaces 5-10 separate AI tools, team collaboration features for agencies and businesses, email marketing to subscribers from previous failed products, and an active affiliates program with vocal advocates earning commissions. The founder, Dustin W. Stout, is a former actor from Bakersfield, CA who pivoted to entrepreneurship, started solo and grew to 6 employees, with mental health struggles becoming the catalyst for building a simplified AI platform.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, Dustin Stout, Tech Bullion
• 17. SiteGPT ($95K/month)

  SiteGPT generates $95K monthly as of February 2024. This AI chatbot platform creates personalized AI chatbots trained on your website content so businesses can automatically answer customer questions without human support agents, using GPT models trained specifically on customer website data to provide contextually relevant answers. The company launched in March 2023, reached $15K MRR in 6 months, then exploded to $95K MRR by February 2024 before the founder sold part of the business in 2024. Growth came from building in public on Twitter with 24K+ followers, a Product Hunt launch that scored #1 Product of the Day with 900 upvotes, hitting Hacker News front page, and focusing on enterprise B2B sales for higher contract values. The founder, Bhanu Teja P, is a solo founder who also built and sold Feather.so blogging platform to Thibault Louis-Lucas for $250K while running SiteGPT as a side project (Feather was making $4K MRR).

  Sources: Twitter/X, Mixergy
• 18. TypingMind ($83K/month)

  TypingMind generates $83K monthly with $1M trailing 12 months as of November 2024 (also disclosed $15K MRR in subscriptions separately). This enhanced ChatGPT interface adds features the official app is missing like chat history search, folders, prompt libraries, no daily logouts, and faster response times, serving as a better UI for ChatGPT API, Claude, and other LLMs with AI-powered chat organization, custom prompts, and team AI platform capabilities. The product was built and launched in just 5 days after ChatGPT API announcement in March 2023, made $22K in first 7 days, $500K total in 12 months, $1M in 20 months while shipping 171 updates in first 12 months. Growth came from extreme speed to market, building in public on Twitter with 168K+ followers, making $10K in 4 days, hitting #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, and offering a mix of one-time purchase ($39-79) and team subscriptions while achieving SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR compliance for enterprise. The founder, Tony Dinh, is a Vietnamese indie hacker and former software engineer who also created DevUtils ($5.5K MRR) and is extremely transparent with revenue sharing in his newsletter.

  Sources: Tony Dinh Newsletter, Tony Dinh Newsletter
• 19. Journalist AI ($70K+/month)

  Journalist AI (now Arvow) generates $70K+ monthly with $840K+ ARR as an AI-powered SEO content platform that automates the entire content marketing workflow from keyword research to publication. This tool automatically generates, publishes, syndicates, and updates blog articles using a mix of AI and human agents to automate content workflow from keyword research to backlink building, with auto-publishing to WordPress, Shopify, and other platforms through AI-generated SEO-optimized articles with images, links, videos, and proper formatting. Growth came from YouTube content marketing with three types of videos (evergreen tutorials, clickbait videos, news-based content), heavy use of affiliate marketing with "distribution obsession," SEO and "money keywords" strategy, scaled content production through in-house creators, and paid ads to amplify reach. The founder, Vasco Monteiro, is a Portuguese entrepreneur based in Lisbon and former electrical engineer with a master's degree who started in SEO in 2015, previously built and sold Vettted (B2B SEO marketplace) for $350K after scaling to $300K revenue in 12 months, then launched Journalist AI and reached $70K+ MRR within a year through YouTube while running Skool communities for SaaS entrepreneurs and building in public on Twitter/X.

  Source: Indie Hackers

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• 20. Chatbase ($60.5K/month)

  Chatbase generates approximately $60.5K monthly with $4M annual revenue as a custom ChatGPT chatbot builder for websites. This no-code platform allows businesses to build custom ChatGPT chatbots trained on their own data and embed them on websites using GPT-powered chatbots with natural language understanding for customer support automation. The company was founded by Yasser Elsaid and launched in early 2023 right as ChatGPT exploded, reaching $4M ARR within 18 months through early mover advantage. Growth came from launching at the perfect time as an early mover when ChatGPT was exploding in popularity, building in public with revenue transparency on social media, Twitter marketing driving awareness, and a clean, simple product that solved an immediate need for businesses wanting to add AI chatbots to their websites. The founder is active in the indie hacker community.

  Source: Startups FYI
• 21. PDF.ai ($60K/month)

  PDF.ai generates $60K monthly in November 2023 with $591.7K annual revenue for 2024, letting users chat with PDF documents using AI by uploading PDFs and asking questions about the content using conversational AI powered by OpenAI GPT models. The tool was originally built as a weekend MVP called looseleaf.ai, then acquired by Damon Chen in May 2023 for $20K and rebranded to PDF.ai, reaching $25K MRR by September 2023 (4 months), $60K MRR by November 2023 with 10X growth in 12 months to 350,000+ users. Growth came from the premium domain "PDF.ai" purchased for $10K providing explicit SEO advantage, organic traffic dominance with 1M monthly visitors (Sept 2023) and 350K from organic SEO, over 50% of organic traffic from "PDF AI" keyword alone, launching a lifetime deal at $99 for validation (300+ adopters in 3 months), using LTD revenue to hire a full-time engineer, a full-time influencer creating daily Instagram viral content (20K followers, 115K likes on top reel), partnering with Jenni AI's TikTok team, 30% affiliate program, and referral traffic from major international sites like La Vanguardia with 100M visitors/month. The founder also created Testimonial.to making $1M/year and is a former Cisco software engineer who manages via Deel with contractors.

  Sources: Indie Hackers, SaaS Starter Stack, GetLatka
• 22. InstaText ($50K+/month)

  InstaText generates $50K+ monthly with $600K+ ARR as an AI writing assistant specifically for non-native English speakers. Unlike grammar checkers, InstaText enriches content and improves readability by rewriting text to sound like native speakers wrote it using AI/NLP to understand context and nuance beyond simple grammar correction. The company won "Slovenian Startup of the Year 2020" and bootstrapped from $0 to $50K+ MRR in 2 years, serving 500,000+ active users from 150+ countries. Growth came from winning the Slovenian award which provided credibility, focusing specifically on non-native English speakers in professional communication, and word-of-mouth growth in academic and business writing communities. Founded by Matej Guid (CEO and co-founder), the company launched at the beginning of 2020 and is based in Slovenia while staying completely bootstrapped.

  Source: Starter Story
• 23. InteriorAI ($50K/month)

  InteriorAI generates $50K monthly with $600K ARR as an AI-powered interior design tool that transforms room photos into 450+ architectural styles with one click. This tool lets users upload photos of interiors or sketches and AI transforms them into hundreds of different design styles instantly using Stable Diffusion for image-to-image transformation, perfect for homeowners, real estate agents, and interior designers. The product was built by Pieter Levels after experimenting with Stable Diffusion in September 2022, quickly reached profitability after launch, and grew to $50K MRR within the first year. Growth came from viral adoption on Reddit and social media, individual subscriptions, and TikTok marketing expansion. This is another successful micro-SaaS product in Pieter Levels' portfolio alongside PhotoAI, demonstrating his successful approach to building and scaling AI tools.

  Sources: The Creators AI, Twitter/X
• 24. EasyGen ($41.5K/month)

  EasyGen generates $41.5K monthly with $540K ARR as of November 2024, having launched in 2024 and hit this revenue within the first year. This AI LinkedIn post creator helps users generate content for their industry and niche by letting them select industry, niche, and topic type so the AI generates LinkedIn posts aimed at their target audience, solving the blank page problem for LinkedIn content creators through generative AI specifically trained on high-performing LinkedIn content that understands platform conventions and engagement patterns. The company launched in 2024 with a focus on niche LinkedIn content generation, hit $9.1K MRR in first 92 days, and grew to $41.5K MRR by November 2024. Growth came from offering a free tier with 3 LinkedIn posts, paid tier at $59.99/month for additional posts, rapid iteration and feature development based on user feedback, and strong validation in the B2B content creation space. The founder is Ruben Hassid.

  Source: Gaps
• 25. Cuppa ($37K/month)

  Cuppa generates $37K monthly with $444K ARR as an AI content creation and optimization platform for blogs, case studies, newsletters, social media, and e-commerce product descriptions. This tool generates multiple content types including blog posts, case studies, newsletters, social media posts, e-commerce product descriptions, and buying guides with editing and bulk content generation tools using AI that understands different content types and generates accordingly. The company was originally founded by Ian Nuttall who then sold it to Chris Riley for $9,000, who optimized and grew it from $30K to $37K MRR (growing at roughly $1,333/month). Growth came from the acquisition and turnaround story demonstrating value creation through optimization, four subscription tiers from $15-$150/month, bulk content generation features for agencies and businesses, and integration capabilities with publishing platforms.

  Source: Gaps
• 26. BetterPic ($20K/month)

  BetterPic generates $20K monthly with $240K ARR as of July 2024 as an AI headshot generator that turns selfies into professional headshots in under 60 minutes starting at $29. This tool uses generative AI for image transformation and enhancement to create professional headshots from casual photos, helping busy professionals and job seekers without scheduling photographers. The company was acquired or partnered on December 1, 2023 when doing $1,500/month and grew to $20K gross revenue by July 2024 (7 months), a 13x increase, with a team of 5 people plus 2 founders while generating 11M+ headshots. Growth came from the founders also running a marketing agency (saasmic.io) providing distribution leverage for the product. The founders are Ricardo Ghekiere and Miguel Rasero (CTO).

  Source: Starter Story
• 27. Textero ($20K/month)

  Textero generates $20K monthly average with $240K ARR as an AI writing assistant focused on education. This tool makes studying more personalized and accessible for students through AI-powered writing assistance specifically designed for academic writing, helping with essays, papers, and assignments by using AI to transform how students learn with personalized assistance tailored to educational needs. The company was founded in 2023 with a focus on the specific niche of students and education, reached $20K/month in less than 1 year, though revenue varies with student seasons (high during semesters, lower during breaks). Growth came from targeting the underserved educational market rather than general writing tools. The founder is Nick (full name not disclosed in sources).

  Source: Starter Story
• 28. AudioPen ($15K/month)

  AudioPen generates $15K monthly (also $73K in first 2 months) as a voice-to-text tool that transforms messy voice notes into clear, shareable text. This tool records voice notes and uses AI to transcribe and transform them into organized written content like blog posts, meeting notes, and journal entries, converting rambling thoughts into structured text using OpenAI's GPT APIs for transcription and intelligent text transformation/summarization. The product was built in just 12 hours during "Half Day Build" hackathon in March 2023, had paying customers before public launch, and made $73K in first 2 months. Growth came from extreme speed to market with 12-hour build, building in public on Twitter/X with 10K+ followers, reaching 100 paying customers within 2 days of launch, hitting #1 on Product Hunt with 1,000+ upvotes, pricing at one-time annual subscription of $99, having 1,000+ paying users in first 2 months, and viral Twitter growth with word-of-mouth. The founder, Louis Pereira, is a part-time indie hacker who built the entire product in 12 hours using no-code tools (Bubble.io) with minimal costs of roughly $30/month.

  Source: Starter Story
• 29. My AskAI ($14K/month)

  My AskAI generates $14K monthly with $168K ARR as of mid-2023 as a no-code platform to create custom ChatGPT trained on your own data. This tool lets you create custom ChatGPT chatbots trained on your content with embeds, APIs, and plugins for integration, providing a no-code solution for businesses wanting AI support automation using GPT-3 technology trained on company-specific data. The company raised $5K in pre-sales before building the product, launched at the end of January 2023, and hit $14K MRR by May 2023 (4 months) with OpenAI API costs only roughly 10% of revenue ($600/month at time of interview). Growth came from pre-sales validation, Product Hunt launch, Twitter marketing, newsletter advertising, building in public, word of mouth and organic Google traffic, and a simple pricing model. The co-founders are Mike Heap and Alex Rainey, with Mike being a former finance professional who left a decade-long career and experimented with GPT-3 before finding product-market fit.

  Source: Indie Hackers

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