AICamp: Revenue, team and how it was built

Team of 2 to 10 · 16 months after launch, revenue growing

Every team that builds with AI models ends up with several provider accounts, keys, invoices and SDKs. One gateway with open code replaces them, and a developer can read the code before sending traffic through the hosted version. In 2026 the founders added DevPass, a flat monthly price for coding agents with an allowance of up to three times the price in model usage. The verified monthly receipts grew from US$57,994 in January 2026 to US$249,922 in August 2026; TrustMRR does not split them by product.

Solo founder · 11 months after launch, revenue flat

The founder had written a marketing blog for ten years, so his own readers bought on the first day. He built the first version in 8 weeks with the no-code tool Bubble, because he had no money for developers. He sold one thing that the model makers do not sell: all of their models in one subscription.

Team of 2 to 10 · sold 14 months after launch

Gemini Notebook had more than 30 million users and no folders, no export and no public API for personal accounts. Kortex sold the missing half for a few dollars a month, found its users in the Chrome Web Store, where Google marked it Featured, and in two lifetime-deal launches. The founder wrote that more than 100,000 users came 'without a single ad'. Most of the verified revenue arrived in February and March 2026, when a US$49 lifetime licence was on sale.

Team of 2 to 10 · 42 months after launch, revenue falling

The plugin lives inside Obsidian's community plugin store, which the founder says gave it organic growth with no ads or paid creators: 300,000 downloads by the end of 2024, 1 million by February 2026 and 2 million by October 2026. The code is free, so there was nothing to sell until the company added a managed layer on top: hosted models, web search and tools that work without any setup. One-time lifetime plans, first Believer and then Supporter, brought large payments in single months. TrustMRR, reading the company's Stripe account, shows US$913,644 of revenue in total and US$17,899 of monthly recurring revenue from 1,356 subscriptions on 27 October 2026, after a fall of about 51% from the best month, February 2026.

Solo founder · 9 months after launch, revenue falling

In the founder's words on TrustMRR, agents like OpenClaw and Hermes can take on a solo founder's busywork, but setting one up means renting a server, wiring up API keys and fixing it when it breaks. Heyron does that setup for a flat monthly price, so a non-programmer gets a working agent in about two minutes. Stripe data shows nearly US$50,000 in its first month of sales, March 2026, and US$62,946 in April.

Solo founder · 6 months after launch, revenue falling

People already pay for an assistant and already ask it for pictures and video. CreativeClaw sells inside that conversation, so it needs no interface of its own, no sales calls and no provider accounts on the customer's side. Revenue stayed under US$5,300 a month for five months, then rose about 18 times in September 2026, after the founder had packaged the server for ChatGPT and prepared its entry in the plugin directories. He has not published the cause of the rise.

Team of 2 to 10 · 43 months after launch

Ayush Chaturvedi said in a Starter Story interview published in January 2026 that the app made US$150,000 a year, and that growth came in two phases: posts in Reddit communities first, then pages that rank in Google. The first version came out in June 2022, months before ChatGPT, as a writing helper that worked inside every Mac app. When chat apps became free, the founders moved the product toward answering from the user's own documents, a job the general chat apps did not do on the computer.

Team of 2 to 10 · 11 months after launch, revenue falling

It took a narrower job than the general AI design tools, mobile apps only, for people who build apps without design skills. The three founders reused what they had learned from four earlier design tools, built it in three weeks, and showed finished designs on X before the launch. Each new Gemini model gave them a better result and a new demo to post.

Team of 2 to 10 · 32 months after launch, revenue falling

It sold one promise that a customer can measure: a first reply to every new lead within 10 seconds, to businesses that already pay for many leads through Meta ads. A demo on the website brought sales calls through organic search before the product was built. Revenue then fell from US$9,000 to US$12,000 a month in late 2025 to under US$2,000 in September 2026, in the same months in which the founder launched other products.

Solo founder · 41 months after launch, revenue falling

It answered a request that people already typed in public: what does the person in this viral video say? A free bot replied inside X, where the request was made, and the website sold the same service for longer files at a few dollars a month. The speech and translation models are bought from other companies, so one person could build and run it.