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A French search API that grew from $12K MRR to 250 staff while its first business hire sold American enterprises from Paris using +1 415 phone numbers, midnight calls with the camera off, and a quarter spent on exactly thirty accounts

A kanban layer on top of GitHub Issues, built on nights and weekends, listed with a broker in mid-May and sold for its full $128,000 asking price by mid-June

Post once on your favourite platform and it syncs everywhere else — a solo build that went from concept to paying customers in a week and reached $716 MRR in three months, marketed entirely by LinkedIn posts and replying to whoever liked them

A Vietnamese-built test-automation platform that spent three years not charging anyone, then used pure self-service to reach 65,000 business customers in 160 countries without hiring a sales rep in any of them

A dermatologist built the software her own telederm clinic runs on, then started licensing it to other doctors — the clinic bills $150K/mo and pays the software company half of it

Before shipping an AI selling agent, they ran a staffed e-commerce sales floor in Arizona where people conversationally sold for brands by hand — millions of real conversations that became the training set no competitor can buy