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AudioNotes: About US$7.2K a month, August 2024

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An AI note-taking app for speech: record a voice note or upload audio, video or text, and get a transcript, a summary, meeting minutes, an email or a social post. It runs on iPhone, Android, the web and a Mac beta, with links to Notion, Zapier, webhooks and WhatsApp.

Why it worked. It started two months after OpenAI's Whisper API made accurate transcription cheap, and it sold the step after the transcript: a summary, minutes, an email or a post, sent on to Notion, Zapier or WhatsApp. In 2023 it charged by the year, US$99 or US$199.

solo founder · AI voice notes and transcription app · India · evidence grade C

EasyGen: Sold at an undisclosed price after US$41.5K a month in 2024, October 2026

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A web app and a Chrome extension that write LinkedIn posts. The member picks an industry, a niche and a type of topic, or gives an idea or a voice note, and the AI writes a draft in the member's style; the member edits it and posts it. By 2026 it also showed the best posts of top creators, found trending topics on Reddit, X, Google, Bing and Perplexity, and planned posts in a calendar. It never posted on its own.

Why it worked. The founder had already built one of the largest audiences on LinkedIn by posting about AI every day, so the product had buyers on the day it launched. It sold one plan at about US$60 a month, as a US$2-a-day ghostwriter against US$2,000 to US$3,000 for a human one, and his employees grew their own accounts with it and sold it for a commission.

team of 2 to 10 · AI writer for LinkedIn posts · France · evidence grade C

CopyGenius: US$9.5K a month in recurring revenue, May 2025

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A web app that writes marketing text with OpenAI's GPT-3. The customer picks one of more than 40 templates, such as an ad, an article, a blog outline, an email or a product description, types a few details, and gets a draft in seconds, in more than 100 languages. A second tool, the Genius Editor, continues a text in the author's writing style. Plans sell a monthly number of words, from 40,000 words for US$19 a month.

Why it worked. It launched in March 2022, eight months before OpenAI released ChatGPT, and sold GPT-3 text through fixed templates for a monthly fee. A third-party report gives US$14,000 of monthly recurring revenue at its best and US$9,500 by May 2025. In 2026 the founder's own profile listed it at US$4,000, beside his much larger AutoShorts.ai.

solo founder · AI copywriting tool with templates and a writing editor · USA · evidence grade C

Wave AI: US$4M annual recurring revenue, November 2024

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An app for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and the web that records meetings, phone calls and lectures, writes a transcript with the speakers identified, and then a summary with action items. A user can also ask questions about a recording. It is free for 30 minutes a month; Pro costs US$100 a year in the app stores.

Why it worked. It reached the App Store early, in July 2023, with the simplest form of the idea: press one button, get a transcript and a summary. The founder paid for Meta ads while they still worked for a new kind of app, tested paywalls constantly and moved buyers to annual plans. He works alone with AI coding tools, so in his own 2026 account about US$3 million of about US$7 million a year stays as profit.

solo founder · AI meeting and call note-taker app · USA · evidence grade A

StoryShort: US$18K monthly recurring revenue, October 2026

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An AI tool that writes, makes and posts short "faceless" videos for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels: script, AI images or clips, voiceover, music and captions. It also makes long videos of 8 to 10 minutes, AI UGC ads and talking avatars, and it can rebuild a video that did well for another creator.

Why it worked. It sells a channel instead of a single video: a series picks the topic, makes the video and posts it every day. Growth came from ads and from affiliates who keep 30% of each payment for life, and the founder swaps in new video models when better ones appear.

solo founder · Faceless short videos made and posted on a schedule · France · evidence grade A

Jungle: US$850K a year in recurring revenue, December 2024

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A study app that turns a student's own lecture slides, PDFs, notes, videos and lecture recordings into multiple-choice questions, flashcards and exam-style clinical-case questions, gives feedback on each answer, and schedules reviews so that weak topics come back. It runs on the web, iPhone and Android, with a free plan and paid plans.

Why it worked. It shipped within days in reply to a public request for exactly this tool, in January 2023, when AI tools were new and AI directories and their video reviewers sent traffic at almost no cost. It then aimed all marketing at medical students, the heaviest flashcard users, paid student creators to post about it on TikTok and Instagram, and bought Google Ads only while they paid back their cost.

team of 2 to 10 · AI study app that makes questions from your own material · United States · evidence grade C

AI2SQL: US$10K a month, January 2025

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A web app that writes SQL queries from requests in plain English, and explains, fixes and speeds up existing queries, for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite, Snowflake, BigQuery and other databases. Paid plans connect to the customer's own database and run read-only queries, also from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.

Why it worked. It launched in October 2021 with one narrow promise, write SQL without knowing SQL, on OpenAI's Codex and GPT-3 models and a no-code app builder. It kept its prices low, built a site of more than 700 pages, among them SQL lessons, templates and comparisons, and added what a general chatbot does not have: a live, read-only connection to the customer's database. Its recurring revenue, as the founder reported it, doubled in 2024 to about US$10,000 a month.

solo founder · Text-to-SQL assistant (web app) · United States · evidence grade C

Alvas.ai: US$16.4K a month recurring revenue, February 2025

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An AI writer for an online shop's automated marketing emails. Connected to Klaviyo or another email platform, it writes a different subject line, headline and text for every recipient from the products that person looked at or left in the cart, in the shop's tone, in more than 40 languages, and measures the result against the shop's old email.

Why it worked. Online shops send the same abandoned-cart and viewed-product email to every customer, because writing more versions takes people. A rented language model made one unique email per recipient cheap. Alvas sold this first through a Danish email marketing agency that set it up for its clients, and showed the gains with tests against the shops' old emails.

team of 2 to 10 · AI writer for automated marketing emails · Denmark · evidence grade C

Sheets Resume: US$26K to US$30K a month, March 2025

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A website that writes a resume in one recruiter-tested format from an old resume, a LinkedIn profile or answers to questions, with a cover letter writer, mock interviews, a LinkedIn profile rewriter and a job search. Members pay US$99 once or US$39 a month, and only after they finish a resume.

Why it worked. The founder had answered resume questions on Reddit for six years, and his free template had millions of users, so the AI tool launched to people who already trusted his format. It replaced a US$400 one-to-one review with a US$99 product that costs little to run.

team of 2 to 10 · AI resume builder and reviewer · USA · evidence grade C

MakeLanding: Sold for US$35K, November 2023

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A web app that writes and designs a one-page website from a short description. The user typed a few words about a business; the AI wrote the headline and the text, made a logo and illustrations, and filled a page template in about a minute. The page could be shared with a link or downloaded as HTML and CSS code.

Why it worked. It launched in May 2023, when interest in AI tools was at its highest and before Framer, Wix and Webflow had their own AI page generators. It charged from the first day and made about US$8,000 in its first month. Six months after the launch, when sales had stopped growing and the founder no longer cared about the market, he sold it on a marketplace for 2.5 times its trailing-twelve-month figure.

solo founder · AI landing page generator · France · evidence grade C

Laper: US$43.4K a month in recurring revenue, October 2026

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A web editor for screenplays and novels. It keeps the industry page format automatically, turns the scene headings and character names in the script into lists of scenes, characters and locations, and adds AI help that the writer calls on: short continuations, script review, character images and storyboard frames. Several people can edit one script at the same time.

Why it worked. The founder had worked as a screenwriter and knew which part of the job is tool work: the page format, and keeping characters and scenes consistent across a long draft. He built the editor around that work and kept the AI in the role of a helper. He says Claude Code wrote all the code. The beta grew through invite codes that users earned by posting about it, and monthly revenue rose from US$5,136 in May 2026 to about US$46,000 in August and in September.

team of 2 to 10 · AI screenwriting and pre-production web app · China, company registered in Hong Kong · evidence grade A

Letterly: US$215K a month, April 2026

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An app for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and the web that records speech and returns finished text: a clean note, an email, a list, a social post or a meeting summary split by speaker. A phone keyboard and a desktop dictation tool let users speak into any other app. It handles more than 90 languages and recordings of up to 90 minutes.

Why it worked. The first apps that combined OpenAI's Whisper and ChatGPT for voice notes appeared in 2023, and the founder found them "not implemented well enough". His team built a simpler one, collected early users and feature requests through lifetime deals on AppSumo in 2024, and in 2025 grew with advertising and paywall tests measured in Adapty's subscription data.

team of 2 to 10 · Voice notes and dictation app · Spain · evidence grade A

Coconote: Sold for an undisclosed price after US$6.7M ARR, February 2026

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A phone and web app that records a lecture, or imports audio, video, a PDF, a document or a link, and makes a transcript, organized notes, flashcards, quizzes, a chat with the note and a short AI-narrated podcast of it. A student gets one free note; after that the app needs a subscription, which starts with a free trial.

Why it worked. Two former Loom staff built a premium-priced app for something students do several times a week, going to class, and sold it through short videos by a small group of contracted creators instead of paid ads. It charged from the first day, and revenue paid for growth with about 50% EBITDA margins until Quizlet bought it.

team of 2 to 10 · AI note-taker and study app for students · USA · evidence grade C

Wrestle AI: US$131.9K in total revenue, February 2026

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An iPhone app for wrestlers. Upload a clip of a practice or a match and the AI returns a score, strengths and weaknesses, drills and strategy notes. It also has drill plans, a technique library, a match tracker, a calorie tracker and a weight-cut mode, and in April 2026 it added Brazilian jiu-jitsu, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. Every feature needs a subscription.

Why it worked. The founder had wrestled in school and knew that wrestlers rarely have an expert to review their film, and in 2025 the App Store had no app like it. The video breakdown can be shown in under 10 seconds, so creators could sell the app in posts that look like training videos, not ads. A no-code builder kept the total spending at about US$1,100.

team of 2 to 10 · AI wrestling coach app that scores practice and match video · USA · evidence grade C

GlowUp: US$1.2M ARR before a sale at an undisclosed price, March 2025

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An iPhone app for makeup. The user uploads a selfie without makeup and a photo of a makeup look, for example from TikTok or Instagram. The app's AI applies that look to the user's own face, then gives a step-by-step routine and a list of products to buy. It is free to download and paid for with subscriptions through the App Store.

Why it worked. Its result is a before-and-after picture of the user's own face, which a short video shows in seconds. The founder chose TikTok as the channel before he built the app, then tripled revenue from almost the same installs by moving and testing the paywall with Adapty.

solo founder · AI makeup try-on app · Canada · evidence grade A

AIDesigner: US$8.6K MRR verified by Stripe at the last sync, October 2026

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A web app that turns a short text prompt into a website or mobile app screen, a logo, a brand kit or a marketing graphic. You edit the result on a canvas, export it, or publish it as a website on your own domain. An MCP server lets coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor ask it for designs from inside a developer's project.

Why it worked. It named a problem that many builders saw in 2025 and 2026: screens written by AI coding tools look alike. It sold the fix inside those tools, as an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and other coding agents, first published on 29 March 2026. Stripe revenue in April was 12.2 times March. Since April revenue has fallen, and September was 37.2% below it.

solo founder · AI design generator for website and app interfaces · USA · evidence grade A

Pingo AI: Almost US$500K a month, April 2026

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A phone app for practicing a foreign language by speaking. The learner talks out loud with an AI tutor in everyday scenes and role plays, gets corrections on pronunciation and grammar during the conversation, and the app keeps a learning plan and remembers past mistakes. More than 25 languages. A free trial, then a subscription through the app stores.

Why it worked. Speaking is the part of language learning that most apps practice least, and the founders built the practice partner that they had been for each other. A short video format, in which the AI points out a creator's pronunciation errors, spread on TikTok through about 100 creators that the company manages, with no paid ads by the co-founder's account, and a simple subscription turned a small part of the free users into payers.

team of 2 to 10 · AI language tutor app · United States · evidence grade C

3AK Track & Field: US$162.8K verified revenue in 10 months, October 2026

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An iPhone app for sprint training. You film a sprint, and the AI splits it into phases (reaction, drive, acceleration, top-end, speed and finish) and says what to fix. It also has an AI coach, adaptive sprint plans, a daily readiness check, strength workouts, a "Sprint Age" fitness score and calorie logging from meal photos. Every feature needs a subscription. It started as a track-and-field app and in August 2026 added a path for everyday people who want to get fit.

Why it worked. Two college track athletes already had about 150,000 Instagram followers who asked them every day for a training plan. They built that plan into an app without writing code, promoted it inside their own race videos, and priced it for teenagers.

team of 2 to 10 · AI sprint coach app that analyses running video · USA · evidence grade A

Draft AI: US$21.6K MRR, October 2026

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An iPhone app that turns a voice memo of 30 seconds to 2 minutes into an Instagram or LinkedIn carousel, a reel or TikTok script, a thread for X, story scripts and hooks. It places the text on templates and exports PNG images or a PDF. It can also learn the user's writing style, suggest post ideas, and turn a pasted video link into the user's own carousel.

Why it worked. A carousel needs both writing and design. Draft AI asks for a minute of speech instead and returns finished slides, plus scripts, threads and hooks from the same recording. It charges before the first result, so everyone who uses it has subscribed or started the trial of a paid plan.

solo founder · iPhone app that turns voice memos into carousels and posts · Georgia · evidence grade A

Brawler: US$22.6K MRR, October 2026

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An iPhone app that coaches boxing. The user uploads a video of shadowboxing, bag work or sparring, and the AI scores the technique in seven areas (stance and balance, guard, footwork, punch selection, combinations, head movement, range control) with corrections and drills. It also has an AI chat coach, training programs, a punch callout mode with audio cues, a round timer, AI food logging from a photo, a barcode or voice, and a weight-cut mode. Every feature needs a subscription.

Why it worked. It moved the structure of the founder's first app, Wrestle AI, to boxing, a sport that people can train alone: an AI breakdown of a training video, a calorie tracker and a weight-cut mode, all behind a subscription at the same prices. Users came from Meta ads and influencers, according to the founder's TrustMRR profile, with a self-reported marketing spend of US$10,000 a month.

team of 2 to 10 · AI boxing coach app that scores training video · USA · evidence grade A

Vidon.ai: US$6K a month, October 2022

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A web app that turns a blog post, an article or any written text into a short video with a generated voice, animated titles and stock images and clips, for YouTube, TikTok, other social networks and the customer's own web pages. You paste a link or write in an editor that looks like a text document, and the app builds the video. Today it also plans and publishes the videos to social media.

Why it worked. Content marketing agencies already had hundreds of articles and wanted video without cameras or editors. The company found them with cold email: for each large prospect it turned a recent post from the prospect's own blog into a video and sent it free, which often started a conversation. About six agencies with large contracts paid most of the first US$6,000 a month.

team of 2 to 10 · AI tool that turns blog posts and other text into videos · United Kingdom · evidence grade C

traxy: US$53.8K a month recurring revenue, October 2026

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A LinkedIn lead finder for B2B sales teams. You list LinkedIn profiles to watch; traxy collects the people who like, comment on or repost their posts, scores each one against your ideal buyer, adds an email address and phone number, and an AI agent can write and send the first message.

Why it worked. The founder already ran a LinkedIn ghostwriting agency and built the lead tool that the agency needed. He sold it with the tool itself: traxy found the leads, and his team contacted them. Daily posts on X added trials, and credit-based prices let heavy users pay more.

team of 2 to 10 · LinkedIn lead finder for sales teams · USA · evidence grade A

Supergrow: US$32.2K revenue in 30 days, February 2026

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A web app that writes LinkedIn posts in the member's own style from an idea, a voice note, a video, an article or a short interview with an AI, then schedules and publishes them. Team plans add approvals, a shared calendar and analytics for each employee. It can also be used from inside Claude and ChatGPT.

Why it worked. It entered a market where people already paid for tools such as Taplio, and did the one core task better: writing the post. The founders' public posts brought the first customers and a lifetime-deal platform, and that deal paid for growth without investors. Subscriptions, partnerships with LinkedIn influencers, affiliates and a move to team plans came after.

team of 2 to 10 · AI writer and scheduler for LinkedIn posts · India · evidence grade A

Adspirer: US$54.7K MRR verified by Stripe at the last sync, June 2026

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An AI agent for paid advertising that works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and other AI assistants. It connects to the customer's ad accounts at Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Amazon and ChatGPT Ads, researches keywords, builds campaigns (always created paused), reports results and finds wasted spend. Scheduled agents can also watch the accounts and make reversible changes. The customer pays the ad platforms directly.

Why it worked. It went where the users already were: an app in ChatGPT's app store, a plugin in Claude's directory and in Claude Code, and setups for Cursor and Codex, in the months when these directories were new. It charges per tool call instead of a share of ad spend, so a small advertiser starts at US$49 a month. And it applied to the platforms' own API programs; the company says Google approved it in June 2026 and Amazon admitted it to its partner network.

solo founder · AI agent and MCP server for ad campaigns · USA · evidence grade A

Lancer: US$17.7K a month recurring revenue, October 2026

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An AI agent for Upwork. It reads the Upwork job feed against filters that the customer sets, checks with AI whether each job fits, writes a proposal and the answers to the screening questions from the customer's own knowledge base, and submits it from the customer's Upwork account, with optional boosting. Replies are tracked in an inbox. An MCP server and a REST API let the customer's own AI agent run it.

Why it worked. The founder had the problem himself. Upwork had become his agency's best sales channel, but 10,000 jobs a day are posted around the clock and he could cover only about 8% of them by hand. He built the tool for his own agency and charged agency owners a business price from the start. Two Upwork coaches, who advise freelancers and agencies, switched their clients to it as affiliates, and that produced most of the growth.

team of 2 to 10 · AI agent that bids on Upwork jobs · North Macedonia · evidence grade A

1ClickWebsite.ai: US$14K a month in subscriptions, October 2026

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A web app that turns a short form, or a business name found on Google, into a complete WordPress site for a local business: a page for every service and service area, AI-written text and images, search settings, hosting on its own servers, and an AI agent for later edits. Agencies sell the sites to their clients as their own work.

Why it worked. The founder had sold this product by hand in his own agency, so he knew what agencies deliver: WordPress, a real page builder, and pages for each service and each town. The tool fills designer-made templates with AI text, so the output is consistent. It sells to agencies that build sites every month, which fits a monthly subscription, and it found them through his own posts and videos, with no ads.

solo founder · AI WordPress site generator for agencies · United States · evidence grade A

Notis: US$13.5K MRR verified by Stripe, October 2026

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An AI assistant that you reach by message. You send a voice note, a text, a screenshot or a forwarded email on WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Slack or email, and it writes notes, tasks, draft posts and CRM updates into Notion and more than 1,000 other connected apps. It started as a voice-to-Notion tool. In 2026 it added a desktop app, a cloud computer, automations, and connections to Claude, ChatGPT and coding agents.

Why it worked. It reached people inside the chat app that they already open all day, so capturing an idea on a phone took one voice note. It aimed first at Notion users, whom the company told that ideas get lost on the phone. Ads on Facebook and Google then paid for fast growth in early 2026, until the founder stopped them in August 2026 because the costs were larger than the revenue.

solo founder · AI assistant inside messaging apps · Switzerland · evidence grade A

SuperbulletAI: US$19.2K revenue in the last 30 days, October 2026

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A desktop app and Roblox Studio plugin that builds parts of a Roblox game from a written request: game systems, user interfaces, animations, visual effects, sounds and 3D builds, written straight into the user's project after the AI has read it. Users pay for AI tokens with a monthly plan or one-time top-ups, and can install ready-made systems from a marketplace.

Why it worked. The founder had made Roblox games for nine years, with 200 million visits on his own games, and his launch post on the official Roblox developer forum was read 112,656 times. He launched free, with 1 million tokens a month, and charged US$20 a month for heavy use. Then he added top-ups and a marketplace of tested systems that the AI installs, instead of writing every system from nothing.

solo founder · AI game builder for Roblox Studio · USA · evidence grade A

GenPPT: US$110.6K in the last 12 months, October 2026

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A web app that turns a topic, notes, a PDF, a Word file, a spreadsheet, a YouTube link or a web page into a slide deck. The user approves an outline and a visual concept, then each slide is generated as one designed full-slide image, edited by chat, and exported to PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF or PNG.

Why it worked. It is run by a search marketer: its pages target what people type into Google, and its best month came from a list article on another company's blog that ranked there. A US$1 trial that needs a card turns visitors directly into subscribers at US$25 a month or US$99 a year.

solo founder · AI presentation generator (web app) · USA · evidence grade A

Dalea AI: US$6.7K MRR verified by Stripe, October 2026

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A web app for creators and small businesses on Instagram and TikTok. It reads the user's connected account, plans two weeks of posts, writes video scripts in the user's voice, designs carousels and edits the talking-head videos that the user records. A library of other creators' viral videos, with transcripts and an analysis of each opening line, lets the user turn a video that worked into a new script. US$9.90 a month or US$60 a year per brand. The user still publishes the posts.

Why it worked. The founder went where his buyers were. He stopped posting on X, where other founders are, and sold through short-form video on Instagram and TikTok, at the lowest price he could charge, in many countries and languages at once. Stripe data shows revenue of US$289 in June 2026 and US$13,041 in September 2026.

solo founder · AI content planner, script writer and video editor for Instagram and TikTok · Brazil · evidence grade A