ScreenshotOne

An API that turns any URL into a screenshot — one boring feature, 280 paying companies, about $12K a month

Revenue

~$12K/mo

Team

Solo (Dmytro — city not stated in the interview)

Difficulty

Upside

280 customers · plans from $17/mo · 40–60% profit margins · ~$4,500/mo total costs · ~2M screenshots rendered per month

He deliberately shrank his idea list until only one shape was left: "I reduced my list of ideas only to API products," because building APIs was the one thing he already did better than most people.

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