Combinely: Product, team and how it was built

Solo founder · sold 17 months after launch

It solved one narrow and repeated task that every company has at the end of each quarter: find all invoices and give them to the accountant. It read the invoices where they already were, in the inbox and on supplier websites, instead of asking people to forward them, and it let customers write their own checking rules in plain language. Stripe data shows monthly revenue rising from US$12,631 in November 2025 to US$18,970 in January 2026.

Team of 2 to 10 · 33 months after launch, revenue falling

The product goes where the customers already are: a shop owner does not install a new app or learn accounting software, but writes into a chat. The founder wrote of having worked as a data scientist at a microloan company and of running a café, so the founder knew both the bookkeeping problem and the reason banks ask for records.

Solo founder · 19 months after launch, revenue growing

The founder, a digital nomad, had collected more than 1,000 receipts from many countries to track his own spending, and built the app for that use. It reads every line item instead of only the total, which matters for travellers with receipts in foreign scripts and currencies. Small, steady releases (25 versions between 21 January and late October 2026) and a translation of the app into 52 languages widened the market without a team.

Team of 2 to 10 · 24 months after launch

It picked work that large regulated companies had failed to automate for years and that tolerates almost no errors. Instead of letting a model decide each step, it turns the expert's procedure into fixed program steps, which makes the result predictable and cheap to run. A few large customers, sold directly, can pay for a very small team.

Started small, grew after funding · 25 months after launch, revenue growing

Every GmbH and UG in Germany must keep books, file VAT returns and produce annual accounts, and most pay a tax adviser's office to do it, the company's press release says. mika puts AI on the routine part, keeps people on the checking, and sells it as a monthly subscription that the price page lists from €49 net. It chose one narrow customer, the small limited company without its own finance staff, and the customer count grew from about 400 at the start of 2026 to more than 750 in September 2026, the company said.

Team of 2 to 10 · 7 months after launch

Chasing late invoices is repetitive work that finance teams do by hand in spreadsheets and email. Cleavr connects to tools that companies already use, such as Pennylane, Stripe and SAP, so a customer can start without a migration, and the company says setup takes under a day.

Team of 2 to 10 · 29 months after launch, revenue growing

It began in January 2023 as an easy web interface for animation with Stable Diffusion, when the alternative was an open-source library that only programmers could run. Three months later the founder rebuilt it for one group of customers: musicians, who need a video for every song they release and cannot pay a film crew. He calls this the best decision he made.

Solo founder · 37 months after launch, revenue growing

It launched the obvious application of a new model within weeks, with a pricing page on the first day. The founder built the parts around the model instead of a model, so every model upgrade improved the product for free. Then it moved from a consumer toy to business customers who stay.

Solo founder · 27 months after launch, revenue growing

Said US$245K a monthRecords US$263K MRRSaid less than the records

The founder took a twenty-year-old product category with no open-source entry and open-sourced all of it, which gave him millions of Docker downloads and 37,000 GitHub stars without a marketing budget. Revenue stayed small for a year. It multiplied when he turned the product toward people who automate their posting with n8n workflows and, from late 2025, with AI agents, which need an API-first scheduler and keep paying because they post without human effort.

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, when 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 · 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, and the founder has listed it for sale.

Team of 2 to 10 · 14 months after launch, revenue growing

Johnny Siu had led tenancy services at Goodlord, a UK rental software company, and saw property teams spend their days on the same messages. Antler's partner wrote in October 2024 that 87% of tasks in the industry are repetitive and low-skill. Tenants already wrote on WhatsApp, so an AI that answers there, inside the operator's own policies, saves staff time without asking the operator to change systems.

Team of 2 to 10 · 38 months after launch

In the United States many medicines need the insurer's approval before the pharmacy can fill them, and that approval still means forms, faxes and phone calls. The two founders had worked at healthcare software startups and built a system that reads the insurer's rules and the patient's chart and does the form work. The Lean AI Leaderboard listed it at US$6 million a year with 5 employees in March 2025.

Team of 2 to 10 · 6 months after launch

The founders are lawyers who built the legal departments of two Berlin startups, and the CEO writes that he knows the frustration with old legal software from that work. LawX replaces the whole office system instead of adding one more AI tool, it charges one price per user for the whole team, assistants included, and every AI suggestion waits for a person to approve it. tech.eu reported in May 2026 that the next step was the broader law firm market.