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#1
$2,000/moT1
AEO Service (AI Answer Engine Optimization)
Audit whether clients “exist” in ChatGPT/Gemini's recommended answers, deliver a report + fixes, bill monthly
SaaST1
SaaS
#2
$23KT2
True Horizon AI (Custom AI Agent Client Work)
$23K from 4 deals: post build videos on YouTube and let clients come to you

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SaaST2
SaaS
#3
$60KT2
Cleo (AI Content Assistant)
Claims $60K MRR in 53 days: a textbook waitlist + closed-beta + webinar launch — with zero proof
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#4
~$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
#5
$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
#6
$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
#7
$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
#8
~$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
#9
~$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
#10
~$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
#11
$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
#12
$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
#13
$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
#14
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
#15
—T2
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
#16
~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
#17
$8,374T1
AI Co-founder Club (Ron / Hosted OpenClaw)
Package an open-source AI agent into a sealed cloud container so non-technical people can use it out of the box, billed monthly.
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT1
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#18
$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
#19
4x patient gro…T3
Legion Health
An AI-native psychiatry care network that 4x'd its patients without adding a single person
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT3
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#20
$10K/moT1
Max's 28-App Micro-App Portfolio
An iOS engineer used ASO keyword picking + Flutter template reuse to ship 28 single-feature apps in 8 months and hit $10K/mo
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#21
$100KT1
NaturalWrite
One click rewrites AI-generated text into 'human-written' text that passes AI detectors
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT1
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#22
$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
#23
$100K+T2
Easy Folders
A browser extension that adds folders and subfolders to ChatGPT
Platform PluginT2
Platform Plugin
#24
~$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
#25
$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
#26
$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
#27
$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
#28
$15MT3
Acquisition.io → Agentic Growth Firm (Serge Gatari)
A $7M-a-year growth consultancy being rebuilt as a one-person operation, where every job function becomes a playbook owned by an AI employee that reads from one shared context layer
AI ServiceT3
AI Service
#29
$6,000+T1
AI Historical Time-Lapse Channel (the "evolution of a city" niche)
Silent AI-generated time-lapses of cities evolving over centuries, pulling an $18-20 RPM — 39,000 views on one video paid $700, and the whole channel made $6,000 on 400,000 views.
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#30
$999T1
The $999 AI Tools Assessment (Corey Gannon)
Sit with a small business owner for 45 minutes, prescribe 3-7 off-the-shelf AI tools, charge $999 — then upsell a $1,500/month concierge retainer at $1,000 an hour
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#31
$56K/moPROT1
Chart Detector AI
Photograph a stock chart, get an AI read on where it's going — $56K a month from two brothers running TikTok ads 20 hours a month.
Consumer AppPROT1
Consumer App
#32
$1MT3
Clarvo
An AI power dialer sold at $250/seat/month to call-heavy mid-market companies — 100-seat deals mean $300K ARR from a single customer
SaaST3
SaaS
#33
$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
#34
~$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
#35
—PROT3
First Mover in an Emerging Shopify Market (Porto, Portugal)
Eighteen months ago Portugal had about three Shopify Plus brands and no Shopify staff covering the country. One agency lobbied the platform to staff it, became the local Plus partner, and now runs 32+ Plus accounts as the market grew towards forty.
Ecosystem ToolPROT3
Ecosystem Tool
#36
$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
#37
$300,000-$500,000T1
Human Roots — One AI Affiliate Account Selling Into Amazon
Facebook ads failed and TikTok Shop went nowhere. One bought Instagram page posting a single AI video a day, sending every viewer to Amazon, drove $300,000-$500,000 in revenue for a brand with no ad spend and no creator budget.
AI ContentT1
AI Content
#38
$37/moT1
Insurance Sales Genie + the niche internal-tool play (Zach Babiarz)
A non-coder builds the internal tools his friend's insurance agency actually needed, charges the agents monthly, then resells the same pattern as a $2,500 quiz funnel
SaaST1
SaaS
#39
$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
#40
$10KT1
Lancer (AI Agent for Upwork Bidding)
An AI agent that watches Upwork around the clock, qualifies jobs and writes personalised proposals — sold to agencies at $79-$500/mo through two coaches, with zero ad spend
Platform PluginT1
Platform Plugin
#41
~$400K/moPROT3
Leftclick (AI automation agency) — and its founder's case for why the skill is expiring
The operator of a $400K/month automation agency explains, with his own P&L on the table, why the technical skill it runs on is about to be worth nothing — and what replaces it.
⚠️ Cautionary TalePROT3
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#42
$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
#43
~$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
#44
$17PROT1
Noise (getting paid to post brands' content)
Brands hand you finished videos, captions and hashtags; you post them on your own TikTok, Reels or Shorts accounts and get paid per post — $17 in week one became ~$160 by week three.
AI ContentPROT1
AI Content
#45
$12PROT3
Dual RTX 5090 AI rental rig on OctaSpace
An $8,500 GPU rig rented out to strangers for AI workloads at $0.50/hour — $12 a day, ~$365 a month, and a payback period of two to four years paid in a volatile token
⚠️ Cautionary TalePROT3
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#46
$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
#47
$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
#48
$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
#49
$12,000/moT1
Stoppr — Quit-Sugar App (a screen-for-screen clone of Quitter, moved to France)
He copied a $200K/month vaping app screen by screen, swapped vaping for sugar and English for French, and hit $12K/month in five months.
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#50
$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
#51
$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
#52
$8,400T1
Yorbi (yourbi.ai)
An AI social-media marketing tool that got to $100K ARR in six months by marketing itself with a fake AI creator — then tripled its price by going B2B
SaaST1
SaaS
#53
~$8,000/moPROT3
Yorbie — Viral Content Database + Remixer (and the churn that followed the peak)
He quit big tech in October, built with zero revenue for two months, peaked at $8K/month by March — then watched it slide to $6.7K on churn and went back into a deep build phase.
⚠️ Cautionary TalePROT3
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#54
$124,000T1
StreamWeaver — Vibe-Coded Websites Laddered Into Automation Contracts
Twenty free websites to learn on, then £800 for a landing page, then £5,000 once he bolted a CRM and n8n workflows onto it — £124K net across six months, with a $52K deal at the end.
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#55
฿400,000–500,000T1
"AI-First One Person Media Company" — Earth's Thai digital-product stack
A Thai solo creator selling online courses, Notion templates and consulting says he did ฿400,000–500,000 in 3–4 months without being especially active, by turning English-language YouTube videos and copywriting audiobooks into custom AI coaches for each part of his business
THDigital PublishingT1
THDigital Publishing
#56
~$400,000-$500,000T1
AvatarAI — launched with an index.html, a Typeform and a Stripe payment link
He tweeted a screenshot, put up a single HTML page with a Stripe payment link, and fulfilled the first 100-200 orders by hand overnight at $30 each — roughly $400-500K in the first month or two before any of it was automated
NLConsumer AppT1
NLConsumer App
#57
~$300KPROT3
Botkeeper
Ten years and $100M+ building AI bookkeeping for accounting firms, three weeks from profitability — then eight clients cancelled their expansions in the same quarter, took a third of the revenue with them, and the company had to announce its own shutdown before an acquisition rescued it
US⚠️ Cautionary TalePROT3
US⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#58
$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
#59
~$10–15MT3
Gather AI
Off-the-shelf cameras on drones and forklifts turn a warehouse into a live inventory map — sold as an outcome, not hardware, at ~$500K a year per customer
USScale ReferenceT3
USScale Reference
#60
$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
#61
$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
#62
—PROT3
Legora
An AI workspace for lawyers built by founders with no legal background — a document-by-query review grid plus a Word add-in that runs a firm's negotiation playbook against a contract and marks it up
SEScale ReferencePROT3
SEScale Reference
#63
$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
#64
—T3
Postscript — three years of humans in a Phoenix office, then the AI agent
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
USSaaST3
USSaaS
#65
$2,500+PROT1
Rhythm.ai
An AI cold-call and interview simulator that reps practise on every morning — $2,500+ MRR in under 40 days, built in two days after their first product got flattened by a Claude release
USSaaSPROT1
USSaaS
#66
$22M+T3
Sanas
Real-time speech-to-speech accent harmonisation — a $20M check written before there was a product or a dollar of revenue, then $22M+ of revenue in the 18 months after launch
USScale ReferenceT3
USScale Reference
#67
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
#68
$12,000PROT1
The Sponsor Inbox Qualification Agent (five minutes of setup, $12,000 in a fortnight)
An inbox agent given one rule — answer everything, only ask me before quoting a number — worked an abandoned sponsor inbox during the operator's holiday, qualified a lead, sent a calendar link, and the team closed $12,000 in a week and a half.
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#69
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
#70
$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
#71
¥3M/moT1
XBoost (xboost.now)
A solo-built tool that runs an X account on autopilot — ¥3M a month in its first month, sold almost entirely off one launch post that did 13.5 million impressions
JPSaaST1
JPSaaS