Startup ideas, what they actually earn, and how people build them with AI — written off the same founder interviews and revenue evidence the index is built from.
Business models that already print revenue, sorted by how hard they are to copy — not by how good they sound.
22 articlesDigital products and side projects for people who can already build. Sorted by return on the hours, not by how good the pitch sounds.
5 articlesNewsletters, templates, creator and media businesses: zero marginal cost, infinite competition, and what the ones with receipts actually earn.
6 articles246 of the products indexed here are run by one person. This is the income distribution, including the part where most of them make very little.
14 articlesWhat companies like ElevenLabs, Midjourney and Supabase actually report — every public figure graded, and where the numbers stop being trustworthy.
24 articlesWhat apps earn after the store takes its cut — build costs, revenue models, and the disclosed figures behind them.
4 articlesTraffic only becomes income through a handful of mechanisms. Here is which one carries the money, and what the sites running it actually report.
2 articlesEvery indexed product grouped by the tool that built it, with its revenue figure and evidence grade attached.
26 articlesClaude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit. Ranked not by feature list but by how many shipped products with real revenue came out of each one.
28 articlesPrompting an AI until it works is now a real way to ship a product. Here is what the people doing it actually earn — and where it stops working.
8 articlesWhat AI service businesses actually charge, deliver, and keep. The retainer numbers nobody puts in their pitch deck.
14 articlesChrome extensions, no-code builders, concierge MVPs and scope calls — how small products actually got out the door.
13 articlesMRR, ARR, run rate and pricing models — read against real figures from one-person products, so you can tell a real revenue claim from a dressed-up one.
29 articlesValidation, the first market to win, and the channels that brought first customers — for products with no marketing budget and no audience.
7 articlesDocumented failures, including the ones that made money first — what actually killed them, stated before you spend yours.
7 articlesSeparate beehiiv’s company run rate from publisher subscription earnings and forecasts, then investigate the business model behind real newsletter cases.
Check Ghost’s dated run-rate disclosures, separate publisher earnings from company revenue, and inspect the customer work behind publishing businesses.
Trace Plausible’s disclosed ARR milestones, distinguish current subscriber counts from revenue, and compare the buyer jobs behind analytics businesses.