Alkera: Product, team and how it was built

Team of 2 to 10 · 45 months after launch, revenue falling

Said US$19K a monthRecords US$9.6K in JulyDid not hold

It appeared in January 2023 inside Google Slides, a program where people already work. At that time writing slides from one sentence was new, and users showed it to each other without paid advertising. A blog about presentation topics then brought about 80% of new users from Google search, by the founder's account. Both channels weakened: search traffic fell, and Google added the same function to Slides. The verified total is real, and so is the fall: monthly revenue fell by half between February and July 2026.

Solo founder · 29 months after launch, revenue falling

It is run by a search marketer. Its pages target what people type into Google. 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 · 36 months after launch, revenue flat

The first customers came from a lifetime-deal sale on AppSumo, at a time when the product had no AI at all. That gave about a thousand users, word of mouth and a Powered by Guidejar link on every free guide. From April 2024 the founder sold subscriptions instead, and added AI writing, voiceover and translation to the paid plans, metered in credits.

Team of 2 to 10 · 24 months after launch, revenue falling

It sold a simple promise, a finished PowerPoint file from one sentence, at a low price. In 2024 and the first half of 2025 the archived pricing showed unlimited decks for US$9.99 a month. Stripe payments read by TrustMRR add up to US$60,120 since the start. The verified monthly figures also show a steady fall after November 2025. By then the plans had moved from unlimited use to slide credits. The founder put the business up for sale.

Team of 2 to 10 · 47 months after launch, revenue falling

It put a language model inside Google Sheets from November 2022, and Google's marketplace brought more than 201,000 installs. Few installs paid: US$52,136 of verified revenue in 47 months is about US$0.26 per install. Its most important result may be indirect. A request for a pitch deck for SheetAI led the founder to build MagicSlides. By its own verified data, MagicSlides earned about 14 times as much. SheetAI's own revenue is now falling, and Google has offered a similar AI function inside Sheets since June 2025.

Solo founder · 15 months after launch, revenue falling

It does the work in the cells instead of explaining what to paste. It works in the Excel that people already have, without a Microsoft Copilot license. The founder already taught Excel to a large French audience. The AI models are bought by the request from OpenAI and Anthropic, so one person could build and run it.

Solo founder · 35 months after launch, revenue falling

The founder wrote that the new GPT-4 Vision and Turbo API previews allowed only 100 requests a day. Nine days later he released it as a free open-source tool. Hacker News and GitHub trending brought the repository more than 35,000 stars in under three months. The README sends readers on to the paid hosted version for people who do not want to set up keys and servers. It had made US$1,000 within 19 days, with a Stripe payment link and no user accounts.

Solo founder · 15 months after launch, revenue falling

Many people get vague answers from chat models because their requests are vague. Prompt Builder sells the step in between: it asks up to three questions and writes the detailed request for them. Stripe data shows that people paid for this monthly, from US$346 in November 2025 to a peak of US$1,929 in May 2026.

Solo founder · 8 months after launch

Said close to US$10M a yearRecords US$4.6M from subscriptionsDid not hold

The founder made his own fundraising the advertisement. In February 2026 he let the product answer investor emails in public, next to a live revenue counter. A new customer needs only an idea, so thousands of people tried the product each day. The counter annualized all money that entered the platform, so it grew faster than the subscription revenue.

Team of 2 to 10 · 17 months after launch

Companies that let staff use AI need one login and one bill. They need rules on which model each team may use. They also need a way to share what works. AICamp sells that layer on top of the model providers, per user, to small and medium-sized companies. The directory Arrfounder listed it at US$25,000 a month in a record created in June 2025, 17 months after the private beta.

Started small, grew after funding · sold 11 months after launch

Its founders wrote some of the methods that the industry already used to run models cheaply, such as AWQ for 4-bit weights. They turned that research into a paid serving API. They proved the speed on a public benchmark and partnered with a cloud company that needed exactly that speed. Eleven months after its first public post, the partner agreed to buy it.

Solo founder · 33 months after launch, revenue falling

The app costs almost nothing to run: the owner reports a profit margin of 99%. The App Store page shows no new version since July 2025. A small, steady flow of downloads, about 2,500 in 28 days in October 2026, keeps about 150 paid subscriptions alive. The owner is an experienced app marketer who already sells more than a dozen other apps from the same developer account.

Solo founder · 4 months after launch, revenue falling

The founder turned the go-to-market frameworks she uses as an advisor into a product with one job and one price. It is a small, early business. Stripe data shows US$500 of revenue in its first four months and two active subscriptions in November 2026. The founder has listed it for sale.

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

The site ties a cruise chat product to a creator with a social audience. It says the tool is led by her experience of living, working and travelling at sea. The first verified payment came in January 2026, the month after the start date on TrustMRR.