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Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.): Revenue, team and how it was built

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Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.) (AI prompt generator, Canada): US$1.5K a month recurring revenue, September 2026. Evidence grade A: disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor. Team: 1 founder, a former startup CTO who writes that he works alone with AI agents. Launched June 2025; still running, revenue falling.Added 5 November 2026

Outcome
US$1.5K a month recurring revenue, September 2026Revenue falling
Evidence
A disclosed by a company or a filing, or verified by a payment processor
Launch
June 2025
Status
Still running
Team
1 founder, a former startup CTO who writes that he works alone with AI agents
Outside funding
None reported
Main channel
Not stated

Prompt Builder (promptbuilder.cc) is an AI prompt generator: a tool that takes a rough request and writes the longer, structured instruction (the prompt, the text you give a large language model) that a chat model such as Claude or ChatGPT then follows. It sells credits, units of use where one credit is one generated prompt, in plans of US$9, US$19 and US$49 a month. Its founder, who publishes under the name Nick Launches, also runs the product launch directory nicklaunches.com, whose footer names the company Nick Launches, Inc.

On his own blog the founder writes that he started as a frontend developer in 2015, became a CTO in 2019 and left that job in 2025 to build alone, with AI agents as his "team". TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a company's payment provider, lists Prompt Builder with a founding date of 9 June 2025 and a Stripe connection. Its verified monthly revenue rose from US$346 in November 2025 to US$1,929 in May 2026, then fell to US$1,358 in September 2026, with US$1,514 in MRR (monthly recurring revenue, the subscription money that repeats each month) and 137 active subscriptions at the last sync on 30 September 2026.

The revenue numbers are grade A because they come from Stripe through TrustMRR. The Stripe key expired on 1 October 2026, so no newer figure exists. The founder's full name, his former employer and how most customers found the product are not stated in any source we read.

Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.): US$1.5K a month recurring revenue, September 2026. AI prompt generator, Canada, solo founder, evidence grade A.
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01

How much revenue does Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.) make?

Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.

A solo prompt-generator subscription that reached about US$1,900 a month in verified revenue in May 2026 and about US$1,500 a month in recurring revenue in September 2026
FactValueGradeHow we knowSources
Monthly recurring revenue, 30 September 2026US$1,514ATrustMRR metric snapshot from Stripe, last synced 30 September 2026. 137 active subscriptions.[1]
Run rate from that MRRabout US$18,168 a yearcalcCalculated: US$1,514 times 12. This is the headline figure in the data.[1]
Verified revenue, September 2026US$1,358ATrustMRR monthly timeline from Stripe.[1]
Best month in the verified timelineUS$1,929, May 2026ATrustMRR monthly timeline. March 2026 was US$1,862.[1]
Fall from the best month to September 202629.6%calcCalculated: (1,929 minus 1,358) divided by 1,929.[1]
Verified revenue, last 12 months and all timeUS$14,937 and US$16,147ATrustMRR, as of the 30 September 2026 sync. The eleven monthly values from November 2025 to September 2026 add up to US$14,937.[1]
Visitors in the last 30 days25,235ATrustMRR snapshot; Google Analytics and Google Search Console are connected to the profile. Revenue per visitor US$0.06.[1]
Profit margin, last 30 days90.0%CTrustMRR snapshot. The profile does not say how costs were entered, so we treat it as the founder's figure.[1]
Founded9 June 2025CFounder-entered date on the TrustMRR profile. The first month in the verified revenue timeline is November 2025.[1]
Team1 founderCThe founder writes in the first person on his About page and calls himself a solo founder whose "team" is a set of agents.[6, 7]
Founder backgroundfrontend developer from 2015, team lead from 2017, CTO from 2019, left in 2025CFounder's blog post of 26 September 2026. He does not name the company. A month in 2025 is not stated; his old GitHub account goes quiet after March 2025.[7]
Company and countryNick Launches, Inc.; CanadaCThe company name is in the footer of nicklaunches.com, whose About page lists Prompt Builder as the founder's product. TrustMRR gives country CA, and Prompt Builder's terms choose the law of British Columbia, Canada.[1, 4, 6, 9]
Models named by the productClaude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and othersCThe home page says prompts are tuned for these models and that the Assistant runs prompts on Grok, Gemini, GPT and DeepSeek. The founder lists Anthropic in the backend on TrustMRR. Which model writes the prompts is not stated.[1, 2]
Pages in the site map1,029, of which 905 under /blogCCounted in promptbuilder.cc/sitemap.xml on 5 November 2026. The site also has a page per model (for example a Claude and a Gemini prompt generator) and six languages.[5]
Reviews shown on the home page4.4 on G2 from 53 reviewsCThe company's own claim; we did not open G2.[2]
Outside fundingnone reportedCNo source mentions investors.[1, 6]

How to read this table: grade A values come from Stripe payment records shown on the TrustMRR profile. Grade C values are the company's or the founder's own statements on their websites, including the founder-written parts of the TrustMRR profile. A "calc" value was computed on this page.

Prompt Builder prices on its pricing page, read 5 November 2026 (grade C)
PlanPer month, billed yearly (US$)Per month, billed monthly (US$)Limit
Free005 credits (5 generated prompts)
Starter91,000 credits a month
Pro193,000 credits a month
Unlimited49"unlimited", 12,000 credits a month before limits

The page shows monthly prices and says yearly billing saves 20%; the yearly per-month prices were not shown in the downloaded page, so that column is empty. The Unlimited plan is limited to 12,000 credits a month in the fine print. The founder-written part of the TrustMRR profile also mentions a lifetime plan, which the pricing page does not show.

02

When did Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.) launch, and how did it grow?

From a CTO job to a solo prompt tool with verified subscriptions, June 2025 to September 2026. Each entry carries its grade.

  1. 2015 to 2024CThe founder works as a frontend developer, then team lead (2017) and CTO (2019) of a startup, with almost all code in private repositories. [7]
  2. 2025CHe leaves the CTO job. His new GitHub account becomes active from March 2025. [7]
  3. 9 June 2025CFounding date of Prompt Builder on its TrustMRR profile. [1]
  4. November 2025AFirst month in the Stripe-verified timeline: US$346. [1]
  5. March to May 2026ARevenue reaches US$1,862, US$1,719 and US$1,929 a month, the best months on record. [1]
  6. September 2026ARevenue falls to US$1,358 for the month; MRR is US$1,514 with 137 active subscriptions at the 30 September sync. [1]
  7. 1 October 2026AThe Stripe API key behind the TrustMRR profile expires; the profile shows no newer revenue. [1]
  8. November 2026CThe site sells plans at US$9, US$19 and US$49 a month, a Chrome extension and pages in six languages. [2, 3]
03

Why did Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.) work?

Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.

01

A product for a step everyone repeats

Every chat model user writes requests. Prompt Builder sells the rewrite of a short request into a structured one for a chosen model, plus a library to keep the good versions. The price starts at US$9 a month, low enough that an individual can pay it without approval.

02

Credits tie price to use

One credit is one generated prompt. Plans differ only in credits (1,000, 3,000, or 12,000 under the name Unlimited), so heavy users pay more and the model cost per customer stays inside the plan price.

03

Many pages for search

The site map has 905 blog posts, a generator page for each model and six languages, and Google Search Console is connected to the revenue profile. No source states how many customers came from search, so this page records the channel as unknown.

04

A second business for distribution

The founder also runs nicklaunches.com, a launch directory with more than 3,500 products by its own count, where he writes about launching and lists Prompt Builder as his product.

How it was built

These details come from the founder-written part of the TrustMRR profile, the product's own pages and the founder's blog. They are grade C, except the Stripe connection, which TrustMRR verifies. [1, 2, 7]

Tools named in the sources

Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.

04

Who tried this before Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.), and why did they fail?

Three companies in our database of failed startups sold a better way to use a product that someone else controlled, and lost when that owner built the feature in for free. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

Died 2006 to 2014Burned US$9M

Xmarks

The promise

Sync your bookmarks and tabs across browsers.

Why it died

The browsers built sync in, for free.

Competition
Died 2009 to 2015Burned US$5M

Readability

The promise

Clutter-free reading of any web article.

Why it died

Browsers added a free reader mode, and few readers paid.

Competition
Died 2006 to 2013Burned US$42M

Xobni

The promise

A smarter inbox inside Microsoft Outlook.

Why it died

Tied to Outlook, which Microsoft improved itself.

Competition

The failed startups come from our database of 1,749 dead startups, retold here in our own words. Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so these cards carry no evidence grade.

What changed

Each of the three added a missing feature to a product owned by someone else, and the owner then shipped that feature for free. Prompt Builder makes the same bet on chat models: it writes the detailed request that the chat model could, in principle, ask for or write itself.

Two things differ. The product costs one person very little to run: the founder reports a 90% profit margin on TrustMRR, and there is no funding to pay back. And it is not tied to one platform: it writes prompts for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, so one provider's change hurts less. The verified figures also show the risk already at work: revenue fell by 29.6% from May to September 2026.

05

Can one person copy Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.) now?

Yes, as a small business, with care about the risk.

The product is a model call wrapped in a clear interface, a library and a credit plan, built by one engineer. The verified result is about US$1,500 a month after a year and a half, and falling, so the copyable part is the method, not a large outcome.

Where it is still open: Narrow prompt tools for one job or one profession (legal briefs, product photos, code reviews), where the chat apps' general help is weakest.

  1. 1Pick a repeated step that people do badly with chat models and sell the finished step, not access to a model.
  2. 2Charge in credits so that model costs never exceed the plan price.
  3. 3Support several model providers so that no single one can remove the need.
  4. 4Connect revenue to a verifier such as TrustMRR so buyers and readers can check it.

What could go wrong for Prompt Builder (by Nick Launches, Inc.)?

The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.

Revenue is falling

Stripe-verified revenue peaked at US$1,929 in May 2026 and was US$1,358 in September 2026, 29.6% lower. The Stripe key expired on 1 October 2026, so there is no verified figure after September.

Free chatbots may make prompt generators unnecessary

Model makers publish free prompting guides; Anthropic's guide says Claude "responds well to clear, explicit instructions" and explains how to write them, which is what Prompt Builder sells. Chat apps can also ask clarifying questions themselves. The predecessors on this page lost when the platform owner added their feature for free.

Dependence on model providers and on Google

The product sends requests to other companies' models (Anthropic in the backend, and Grok, Gemini, GPT and DeepSeek in its Assistant), so their prices and terms set its costs. Its 25,235 visitors a month are measured through Google Analytics and Search Console, and its site has 905 blog posts and a page for each model in six languages. That large search-oriented content footprint depends on Google's ranking; no source says what share of customers came from search.

The owner's other business sells directory backlinks

The founder's directory nicklaunches.com sells a one-time service, from US$99 to US$199, that submits a product to 30 to 100 other directories so the buyer gets "dofollow backlinks" and a higher "Domain Rating". Prompt Builder's pages that we read do not sell or link to it. Readers may want to check how search engines treat such paid link building.

The founder is not fully named

The founder publishes as Nick Launches and does not give his full name or his former employer in the sources we read. The company name Nick Launches, Inc. appears only in the footer of nicklaunches.com, and the Canadian location comes from TrustMRR and the governing-law clause of the terms. The G2 rating on the home page was not checked.

Sources

The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.

  1. A TrustMRR profile: Prompt Builder (prompt-builder-1), revenue last synced 30 September 2026
    Read the markdown profile (trustmrr.com/startup/prompt-builder-1.md) on 5 November 2026. Revenue, MRR, subscriptions and visitors come from Stripe and Google APIs; the description, founding date, country and tech stack are founder-written (grade C).
  2. C Prompt Builder home page
    Read in full on 5 November 2026. Source for the features, the models named, the free plan, the Chrome extension and the G2 claim.
  3. C Prompt Builder pricing page
    Read in full on 5 November 2026. Source for the plans and credits.
  4. C Prompt Builder Terms of Service
    Read the sections on subscriptions and governing law.
  5. C Prompt Builder site map
    Downloaded on 5 November 2026 and counted the URLs by path.
  6. C Nick Launches: About
    Read in full. The founder's own page; it lists Prompt Builder and InstaPosts as his products and links to promptbuilder.cc.
  7. C Nick Launches blog, 26 September 2026: 145 GitHub Stars, Two Accounts: From CTO to Solo Founder
    Read in full. Source for the founder's career, the 2025 departure and his use of AI coding agents.
  8. C Nick Launches: directory submission service
    Read the sections on the offer and the prices.
  9. C Nick Launches home page
    Read in full on 5 November 2026. Source for the company name in the footer and the launch directory.
  10. C Anthropic: Prompting best practices (Claude Platform Docs)
    Read the opening sections. The prompt improver page we requested redirected here.
  11. C Database of failed startups, local export
    Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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