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#1
$23KT2
True Horizon AI (Custom AI Agent Client Work)
$23K from 4 deals: post build videos on YouTube and let clients come to you
SaaST2
SaaS
#2
$60KT2
Cleo (AI Content Assistant)
Claims $60K MRR in 53 days: a textbook waitlist + closed-beta + webinar launch — with zero proof

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⚠️ Cautionary Tale
T2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#3
~$42KT2
Minimalist AI App Portfolio: Scan Profit + Closer Coach (FlutterFlow + Influencer Distribution)
Target the “help people make more money” side-hustle niche, ship deliberately minimal AI apps under 15 screens, price them by the “solve one problem in one minute and you can charge $100/year” rule, and cold-start via influencer revenue splits or paid ads
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#4
$5,000+T2
AI SEO Content Services for Local Businesses (Claude Code SEO Service)
Use Claude Code plus a Skill file to turn long-form videos and podcasts into SEO blog posts pushed straight into WordPress, or spin up a site in a few hours for an unglamorous local business (septic tanks, junk hauling, funeral homes) that ranks on page one of Google and gets cited in AI Overviews — billed as a several-thousand-dollar monthly retainer, with a $99 digital product on the side for passive income.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#5
$8,000T2
Four n8n E-commerce AI Agents (n8n eCommerce AI Agents / channel: The Recap)
Four e-commerce automation agents built in n8n: AI product photography, ripping competitors' proven ads, unlimited influencer ad generation, and automated Twitter lead gen — together adding or saving over $10K a month.
AI E-commerceT2
AI E-commerce
#6
$2.2KT2
AI-Generated UGC Videos for TikTok Shop (AI UGC Affiliate)
Use VEO3/Higgsfield + Claude to build talking AI avatars, clone proven TikTok sales scripts, and shoot "regular-person reviews" for any demographic without ever going on camera — attach a TikTok Shop link and collect commission. One week cleared $2.2K in profit.
AI E-commerceT2
AI E-commerce
#7
~$17K/moT2
Faceless YouTube Automation Channel (classic cars / pickup trucks, the creator's own case)
Built a faceless YouTube channel from zero (classic cars / pickup trucks / Jay Leno topics), cleared $60K+ in ad revenue in 8 months, and sold it for roughly $1M
AI ContentT2
AI Content
#8
~$17K/moT2
App Alchemy, AI Mobile App Design Tool (App Alchemy / Diego)
Like Cursor, but for designing mobile apps — cold-started entirely on Reddit with zero budget
AI WebsiteT2
AI Website
#9
~$14K/moT2
Yaphone, International Calling in the Browser (Yaphone / Dennis)
Caught Peter Levels' tweet the week Skype shut down, shipped a replacement over a weekend, now at $14K/mo
AI WebsiteT2
AI Website
#10
$250K+/moT2
Atlas, an AI E-commerce Copilot (Shopify App)
One-click AI store building plus high-converting themes and upsells — one of the fastest apps on Shopify to break $1M ARR
Platform PluginT2
Platform Plugin
#11
$14K/moT2
Algrow — Viral Format SaaS (Discord Distribution)
A student vibe-coded a SaaS that helps creators find and clone viral video formats — 0 to 10K users off Discord alone
SaaST2
SaaS
#12
$500K/moT2
Cluely — Invisible Real-Time AI Assistant (Cluely / Roy Lee)
21-year-old Roy Lee's “sees what you see, hears what you hear” invisible AI assistant — undetectable on a screen share, feeding you answers before you even ask. Launched April 20, hit $500K/mo and roughly $6M ARR in under two months, almost entirely off an in-house army of 60 creators pumping short-form video.
SaaST2
SaaS
#13
The paid versi…T2
Interview Coder — Technical Interview Cheating Tool (Interview Coder / Roy Lee)
Roy Lee's product before Cluely: screenshot the question, AI solves it instantly, invisible on a screen share. He blew it up with a controversy script — filming himself cheating his way to an Amazon offer, getting expelled from Columbia, and live-tweeting every step — which converted straight into a $5M round on 200-300M views.
Simple ToolT2
Simple Tool
#14
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Anonymous Vibe-Coding Creative Web Studio (The Bug Dev / Slam Dunk 3D)
A no-name burner account used AI to build jaw-dropping 3D creative websites — and the work itself pulled in the clients and the job offer
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#15
~RMB37K/moT2
Semi-Automated AI Cross-Border E-commerce (Ozon Blue-Ocean Store Group)
A 9-to-5er uses AI to semi-automate product selection and image production, floods listings onto Russia's Ozon marketplace, and drives orders with off-platform index ads — a two-layer traffic model.
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#16
$1.7MT2
Shopify AI Store Generator + Zendrop Dropshipping
A free AI generator that builds a Shopify dropshipping store in one click, dropping the barrier to “launching a store” to zero.
AI E-commerceT2
AI E-commerce
#17
$500+T2
Quick Shorts
One prompt generates an AI short video and uploads it straight to the user's own YouTube channel
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#18
$100K+T2
Easy Folders
A browser extension that adds folders and subfolders to ChatGPT
Platform PluginT2
Platform Plugin
#19
~$10KT2
Mission Control HQ
A central command deck for a fleet of AI agents: visualize them collaborating and getting work done across your company
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#20
$10,025T2
Claude Interactive Digital Products + IG Comment Funnel
Uses Claude to turn HTML files into interactive digital products, then closes sales on autopilot with an IG comment hook + ManyChat + Omnisend.
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#21
$10K-$20KT2
Magic Music (AI Music Generator Wrapper + Viral Sharing)
A wrapper around an AI music generator that grows itself on one mechanic: share the song, not the app
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#22
$10K-$20KT2
Toxic Traits (Chat-Screenshot Personality App)
Upload a screenshot of your chat with someone and AI tags their personality traits and red flags — built-in talkability and built-in urge to share
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#23
$225,000T2
The Paid-Creator-Promo App Engine (George's boxing and physique apps)
A 19-year-old who can't code buys sports creators at a $2-5 CPM and turns them into subscription apps — two new apps hit roughly $23K and $15K in their first 45 days on $400/day of promo spend.
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#24
~$10,000T2
Distribute.io (formerly Rebel Growth) — AI SEO + Reddit Citation Engine
Paste your product URL and it publishes an article a day, repurposes it across social, and seeds natural Reddit mentions so ChatGPT and Gemini start recommending your brand.
SaaST2
SaaS
#25
$500T2
Feather.so
Write in Notion, publish an SEO-optimised blog — a fourth-attempt product that hit $500 MRR two months after switching on payments, built by a 24-year-old in India who first survived a $10,000 hosting bill
INEcosystem ToolT2
INEcosystem Tool
#26
$10MT2
Jenni (Jenni Group)
He stole a marketing channel from e-commerce three years before other software founders noticed — roughly 200 creators publishing UGC every day, and $10M a year in edtech
USSaaST2
USSaaS
#27
$30,894.74T2
LipPal AI
A 17-year-old sells AI book-creation software to Amazon self-publishers — $29K in one month from the exact niche he used to compete in
SaaST2
SaaS
#28
~$200KT2
ListKit
They sold the SaaS before they built it — a website that looked automated and a team fulfilling lead lists by hand within 24 hours — then used the cash and the customer feedback to ship the real product and hit $1M ARR in 87 days
USSaaST2
USSaaS
#29
$300+PROT2
$5/day Pinterest ads → a single printable-art PDF on Gumroad
Model a proven Etsy digital download, regenerate it as your own design with AI, host it on Gumroad instead of Etsy, and buy traffic on the one ad platform nobody in the make-money space uses — Pinterest, at five dollars a day.
Digital PublishingPROT2
Digital Publishing
#30
$25.6KT2
Shipyard (indie AI app builder)
Two non-technical brothers built a smaller Lovable that also ships mobile apps, Chrome extensions and bots — 690 paying users, zero free users, $25.6K MRR
SaaST2
SaaS
#31
$10KT2
Starpop (AI UGC ad generator for e-commerce)
Every UGC creator ghosted him, so he generated the creator instead — an AI ads platform for e-commerce brands at $10K MRR seven months after launch.
SaaST2
SaaS
#32
$13,000T2
SuperX — X/Twitter Growth Analytics (built in public, on X)
Five products that made exactly $0, then one post about the failures got 150K views — now a $29/mo tool doing $13K MRR, with 95% of traffic from the founder's own X account.
SaaST2
SaaS
#33
$598T2
UGC Tank (invite-only UGC creator sourcing platform)
A solo engineer turned a hand-curated network of invite-only UGC creators into a self-serve subscription for brands — $598 MRR one day, close to $1,000 the next
SaaST2
SaaS
#34
$10MT2
Calming Blankets
A broke 23-year-old spotted a Facebook post about weighted blankets nobody was selling yet, pre-sold a product he did not own, did $10M in year one — and switched the brand off five years later
AU⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
AU⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#35
$13-14KT2
GenViral
Generate TikTok slideshows and AI videos, push them to every platform — $13-14K a month nine months after launch, with 75% of signups coming from two founders posting on X and no ads
ESSaaST2
ESSaaS
#36
$180K/moT2
Grower
"Lovable for marketing" — one AI panel that runs SEO, social and ads for Turkish small businesses, sold with white-glove hand-holding nobody else will do
TRSaaST2
TRSaaS
#37
$12KT2
PhotoAI — one TikTok influencer took it from $12K to $40-50K MRR
An AI photo studio built on the premise that you can have photography without a camera — and a single influencer post that tripled monthly revenue and never gave the gain back
NLConsumer AppT2
NLConsumer App
#38
At acquisition…T2
Shop Controller / Voice Controller
Buy a 25-year-old on-prem software business with a few hundred stuck customers, then use an AI phone answerer as the cheap wedge that gets you into shops that will never switch systems
USSaaST2
USSaaS
#39
7-figure total…T2
AI Avatar Content Engine → Course + Corporate AI Training (Thailand)
61 million organic views in under five months from an AI clone of his own face — but the money comes from the course and the corporate training the views feed, not from the platform payouts
THAI ContentT2
THAI Content
#40
$100,000T2
AI Video Effect Prompt Library (rendered in the captions as "Protipal")
A credit-based AI video generator sold to content creators — $100,000 in its first year at 60% margin, with zero ad spend, distributed by shipping its own API inside free n8n automation templates
TRAI ServiceT2
TRAI Service