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Turn customer comments from dozens of platforms into research and copy that brands can use.
about 500 paying customers · 3,000 weekly active users
A forgotten Reddit scraper found its market through usage; the founder charged the existing audience, then followed customers into broader research workflows.
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Daniel built a small Chrome extension for himself at the end of 2024 to scrape Reddit comments. After leaving it alone, he returned to find about 3,000 weekly active users. He added Stripe and a $2.99 monthly plan, plus lifetime offers that began at $19.99; 19 people bought the first lifetime deal. Around 40 people paid between November and January 1, bringing the business to roughly $50–$100 MRR. The product then expanded beyond Reddit after a LinkedIn user asked for YouTube and Amazon support. Atlysio now collects comments and reviews from more than 30 sources, including TikTok and Trustpilot, and supports manual research as well as MCP-connected workflows. Daniel says it crossed $10K MRR with about 500 paying customers. He attributes growth to Chrome Web Store discovery, SEO, word of mouth, user-made YouTube workflow videos, and affiliates. The business is founder-reported; no payment dashboard or independent records are described.
For a browser extension that solves a narrow research job, put the smallest useful version in the Chrome Web Store and let the store page target the exact task people already search for. Atlysio’s starting job was concrete: collect Reddit comments without copying them one by one.
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Data credibility: Daniel, the founder, reports about $10K MRR, roughly 500 paying customers, and 3,000 weekly active users. The interview provides no dashboard evidence or independent verification; treat all business metrics as founder-reported.
Atlysio’s first monetization test was unusually direct: Daniel added Stripe to an extension people were already using, priced access at $2.99 per month, and offered a lifetime option. Nineteen users bought the initial $19.99 lifetime deal; he later raised that offer to $39.99.
Atlysio’s growth loop combines product utility with distribution that users can demonstrate.
A small extension can be quiet for months while the store listing continues to attract users, so treat low founder attention and low growth as separate problems. Atlysio’s useful signal was repeated activity: about 3,000 weekly users existed before Daniel had a deliberate growth plan.
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