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#1
$23K/moT1
Data Fetcher
Airtable data-import extension: pipe any API into your tables and auto-sync — no code required
Platform PluginT1
Platform Plugin
#2
$250K/moT1
Letterly
Voice in, well-written text out — that's the entire feature set, and simplicity is the moat

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Simple Tool
T1
Simple Tool
#3
$1.5MT1
Social Wizard + Clean Eats (Kletchi)
AI flirting-reply generator + scan-a-barcode-see-the-skin-impact app: one person, zero ad spend, $1.5M a year
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#4
$1M+T1
Rooted
An “emergency button” app built for panic attacks and anxiety
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#5
$440K/moT1
Gravl
An AI fitness app that builds custom smart training plans for gym strength training
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#6
Niche revenue…T1
App Cold-Start Marketing System (Creator Placement via Posted · Sell the Transformation, Not the Features)
Reddit for initial traction + short videos that sell the transformation instead of features + zero-risk creator sourcing at scale via Posted + LTV math to scale paid
AI ContentT1
AI Content
#7
$15K/moT1
Unblocked Games Site · AdSense Cash Cow + Flip
Build students a game hub their school network can't block, make $15K/mo from Google AdSense, then sell the whole site for $120K
AI WebsiteT1
AI Website
#8
$77K/moT1
Marc Lou · The Ship-Like-Crazy Assembly Line (Posture-Monitoring App and More)
An indie hacker doing $77K/mo across 35 products, with a single core methodology — never stop shipping. His latest: a Mac desktop app that watches your posture through the webcam
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#9
$500K/moT1
Niche Identifier App Portfolio (CoinSnap as the Model)
Single-feature niche apps that identify and price anything from one photo — one team built a whole portfolio across coins, rocks, antiques, and insects, with the top app doing $500K/mo
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#10
$273/dayT1
Frey's Luxury Restroom Trailer Directory (luxuryrestroomtrailers)
Claude Code scraped a nationwide niche directory in 4 days, pulling high-ticket B2B inquiries automatically through SEO
Directory SiteT1
Directory Site
#11
PotentialT1
Model Wiz Financial Modeling Add-In
An Excel add-in that builds a 3-statement financial model plus a board-ready dashboard in minutes — and connects to QuickBooks
SaaST1
SaaS
#12
~$2,800T1
Glow (Nordic Dark-Winter Affirmation App)
Rebuilt the played-out affirmation app specifically for Nordics living through four-hour winter daylight, then hit a few thousand dollars a month with onboarding conversion + TikTok ads
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#13
~$480K/yrT1
Couplepreneurs (Marriage + Business Coaching for Entrepreneur Couples)
High-ticket coaching for one narrow audience — couples who run businesses together — cutting delivery from 1:1 to 1:many plus two live “date night” getaways a year, with an offer rebuild that pushed the price to $25K/year
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#14
$2-5K/moT1
Claude Executive LinkedIn Ghostwriting
Draft with Claude, inject the human layer by hand, and ghostwrite LinkedIn for founders and executives at $2-5K/mo per client
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#15
$35K/moT1
Website Landlord (Rank-and-Rent Local Service Sites)
Build ranking sites for local blue-collar services, never deliver the service, just rent out the lead flow for a flat monthly fee
AI ServiceT1
AI Service
#16
~$3M/yrT1
TaskMagic (the Tentpole Strategy)
A browser-automation SaaS as the center pole, fed paying users by a cluster of tiny tool sites
SaaST1
SaaS
#17
~$80K-$100K/moT1
Jungle (Gamified AI Study App)
Upload a PDF, lecture deck or YouTube video and it auto-generates practice questions, wrapped in a Duolingo-style growth tree that scales on retention instead of a hard paywall
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#18
$5K+T1
Niche certification-exam study app (tree/arborist test prep)
A weekend-built flashcard app for one obscure professional certification exam: $31K revenue in 8 months on $140 of total costs
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#19
$16KT1
BlogToPin (Pinterest Pin Automation)
Points an AI at your website, designs a month of SEO-optimised Pinterest pins in minutes, and schedules them — $39/mo to skip a job nobody wants to do by hand
Platform PluginT1
Platform Plugin
#20
$1.2MT1
The One-Problem Ebook (Brian Moran's $1.2M playbook)
A $27 ebook that solves exactly one problem for exactly one person, sold from exactly one page, promoted on exactly one channel
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#21
$12K-$13K/moPROT1
Bulk Mockup
A Photoshop plugin that turns an hour of manual mockup work into two minutes, sold to print-on-demand sellers for $15/month
Platform PluginPROT1
Platform Plugin
#22
$50,000T1
The Canva Digital Product Stack (Melanie Renee's income breakdown)
One free design tool, three separate income lines: $40,000+ from digital products, $15,000+ from a portfolio PDF that wins brand deals, and $7,000 from a first course — with the operator's own instruction to pick exactly one of them.
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#23
$10K/moPROT1
LinkedIn Content Service for Construction & Glazing Firms (Brandon)
A construction-industry executive sells the one thing his own industry has nobody doing: writing and coaching LinkedIn content for glazing and contracting firms
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#24
$894,000T1
The GoodNotes Digital Planner (a single $894K Etsy listing)
One PDF planner built specifically for GoodNotes, sold on Etsy, at $894,000 in lifetime sales from one listing
Digital PublishingT1
Digital Publishing
#25
~$700-800/moPROT1
Guilty Chef
A recipe directory of copycat dishes from restaurants people already love, where every page and every recipe was generated by AI and ranks above Pinterest and Reddit
Directory SitePROT1
Directory Site
#26
$27,634PROT1
LaCresha's Etsy Digital Products (the TAP test)
$27K from fewer than ten digital products on Etsy, by validating every listing against three data filters before designing anything
Digital PublishingPROT1
Digital Publishing
#27
$26,000+PROT1
The Medium-to-Gumroad Digital Product Flywheel (Travis Nicholson)
Articles written with AI drive traffic to digital products made with AI, sold on Gumroad — $26,000 cumulative, over $3,000 a month, on about an hour of work a week.
Digital PublishingPROT1
Digital Publishing
#28
$6PROT1
Personalized Can Coolers (AI art + Printify + Etsy)
A $6 print-on-demand can cooler that buyers purchase fifty at a time for weddings, parties and group trips — with the buyer typing their own text into the design
AI E-commercePROT1
AI E-commerce
#29
$40K/moT1
PrayLock
A screen-time blocker that makes you pray before Instagram opens — one gimmick feature, one religious community, $40K a month.
Consumer AppT1
Consumer App
#30
$26PROT1
The 100 Club (age-segmented digital product behind a quiz funnel)
One PDF split into age-band variants, sold through a quiz that routes each visitor to their own version — so the question stops being “do I need this” and becomes “which one do I need”
Digital PublishingPROT1
Digital Publishing
#31
$2,400T1
Resumax (AI Resume Generator)
A student found a $7M AI resume builder on an indie-startup leaderboard, cloned the idea with one tweak, and had 4,000 users and $2,400 in 37 days.
AI WebsiteT1
AI Website
#32
$3,000-$5,000/moT1
Soccer Training Tools Directory (Andrew Murray's hyper-niche affiliate directory)
A curated directory of physical training gear for one sport, earning $300-$800 affiliate commissions per sale instead of $5 software referrals
Directory SiteT1
Directory Site
#33
$9K/moT1
Sync2Sheets
A Google Sheets sidebar add-on that syncs Notion databases into spreadsheets — built in two weeks with no AI, validated on Reddit, and now $9K/month at a 90% margin from Buenos Aires
ARPlatform PluginT1
ARPlatform Plugin
#34
$106,000PROT1
The 1,400-Subscriber Channel That Closed a $106,000 Contract (Carla, offshore staffing)
An unmonetized YouTube channel with 1,400 subscribers and 100-200 views a video closed a single B2B contract worth over $106,000 — because it was built for one buyer, not for an audience.
AI ServicePROT1
AI Service
#35
~10K/mo . Eno…T1
RVV Ontheffing (Dutch national road-exemption permits)
A non-technical Dutch employee got so annoyed at the vendor issuing his field technicians' parking exemptions that he took the job over himself — Google Forms and a PowerPoint website first, Bubble and Stripe later — and quit his consulting work at 10K a month
NLSaaST1
NLSaaS
#36
$25K/moT1
Storemapper
One embed snippet that drops a searchable store-locator map onto any e-commerce site — a feature so small it looks like nothing, sold at $19 to $59 a month, and reported at $25K/mo before the founder sold it and became an investor
USPlatform PluginT1
USPlatform Plugin