A browser-automation SaaS as the center pole, fed paying users by a cluster of tiny tool sites
one month peaked above $400K · 8,000 paying customers
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Jeremy started as a non-technical founder. In 2019 he hacked together the first version of his product himself — a painfully slow no-code app builder (V1). After monetizing it early, he hired his first employee (later his CTO); the two rebuilt it and relaunched in 2020, taking it to seven figures in revenue. In 2021 they stepped back to look for a bigger opportunity and noticed customers kept asking the same thing: how do I automate all this? So they bet on automation, starting that year from a few hundred thousand dollars in revenue. Over the next three years they grew TaskMagic to roughly $3M in annual revenue, 60,000 users and 8,000 paying customers, with one month peaking above $400K, and landed on the Inc. 5000 list last year — the entire time with just him and his CTO. The most important thing in this arc isn't how magical the product is; it's that 2021 pivot to listen to customers and bet on automation, and the tentpole strategy he later used to systematize acquisition.
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Create free accountEmail code only. No password.Data credibility: Founder Jeremy's own account in a Starter Story video: TaskMagic reached roughly $3M in annual revenue, 60,000 users and 8,000 paying customers, made the Inc. 5000, and sold for a mid-to-upper seven figures. The numbers are his spoken claims, not independently verified — treat as founder-reported. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator, unaudited.