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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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T2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#3
$11KT2
Peptide Tracker App (Pep AI / Peptide AI)
Riding the window where 'peptides' blew up on TikTok with no mature app on the market: two weeks of vibe coding built a subscription app for safe dose calculation + injection-site logging + education — $50K revenue in 7 weeks
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#4
$20K/moT2
Payout (Class-Action Claim Discovery App)
Discovers the class-action settlements you qualify for and generates the claim form to get you paid — in one tap
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#5
$14,000/moT2
Locked (Gamified Focus App)
Turns self-improvement into a game of XP grinding and leaderboard climbing, aimed squarely at Gen Z's “quit brain rot” pain point — cold-started from zero to $14K/mo on pure influencer promos (manually DMing 5,000-10,000 creators).
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#6
$34,000-35,000/moT2
Cursor Directory (cursor.directory)
Spotted mid-flight that Cursor developers had nowhere central to find “rules,” hacked together a directory site in 3 hours after landing, and rode X + Hacker News + organic YouTuber coverage to $34-35K/mo at 99.8% margin — on 3 hours of maintenance a month.
Directory SiteT2
Directory Site
#7
~$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
#8
$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
#9
$215MT2
Long Video Into Viral Shorts (Opus Clip / Agent Opus)
Automatically cuts long videos, articles, and podcasts into multiple viral social shorts — and has since evolved into a multi-agent “AI director” that produces an entire video end to end.
SaaST2
SaaS
#10
~$10MT2
Enterprise AI Support Agent Platform (Chatbase)
Train a company a conversational AI agent wired into all of its content and systems (CRM / Stripe / APIs), then let it carry support, sales, onboarding, and lead capture across every customer touchpoint.
CASaaST2
CASaaS
#11
$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
#12
$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
#13
~$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
#14
~$67K/moT2
Influencer-Partnered App Venture Studio (Ambitious Labs Venture Studio / Aleem)
White-label a SaaS or app for mid-tier influencers who already monetize, then run a subscription business on their existing traffic.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#15
~$8K-10K/moT2
Uneed Launch Platform (Uneed / Product Hunt alternative, Thomas)
An indie-hacker launch platform shipped exactly when Product Hunt had everyone furious — the first product to work after 30+ failures.
Directory SiteT2
Directory Site
#16
~$24K-30KT2
Goji Berry AI — Intent-Based LinkedIn Lead-Gen SaaS (Goji Berry AI, Roman)
A SaaS that pulls high-intent LinkedIn leads and automates the outreach — 11M impressions from telling stories on Reddit, $30K MRR in 6 months.
SaaST2
SaaS
#17
~$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
#18
~$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
#19
$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
#20
$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
#21
$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
#22
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
#23
$6K/moT2
NoFap / Men's Self-Improvement App (Jaxon)
A self-improvement app that helps guys quit porn by replacing the bad habit instead of white-knuckling it
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#24
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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
#25
Potential spac…T2
Claude Corporate Team Training Service
Teach company teams how to use Claude, billed by the day or by the project
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#26
$47KT2
Rook · Turnkey AI-Avatar Finance Channel
Using the Rook (Roocast) agent to one-tap generate long-form AI-avatar finance videos from a phone, stitching two viral topics together — $47K in a little over two months, peaking at $6,000+ in a single day
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#27
~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
#28
$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
#29
Creator-report…T2
LinkDrip Creator Traffic Attribution
One tracking link tells creators exactly which short video and which platform drove traffic to their long-form video
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#30
Creator-report…T2
Crayo AI Faceless Short-Video Generator
Auto-generates faceless short videos (script/voiceover/visuals/captions/editing all included), sold to people making money off the TikTok Creator Fund
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#31
No public reve…T2
Pop.store (Creator AI Avatar Monetization Platform)
An all-in-one creator brand page: AI-generated photos and videos of you, and fans pay to generate AI-avatar content of you while you take a cut
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#32
$711-800T2
Nano Banana Seek-and-Find / Learn-to-Draw Books on KDP
Mass-produce kids' seek-and-find and step-by-step drawing books with Nano Banana, then sell them passively through KDP print-on-demand
Digital PublishingT2
Digital Publishing
#33
$500-$1,000T2
Intent-Signal Lead Finder + Free Lovable Sample Service
Use ChatGPT deep research to dig out high-intent buyers who are actively shopping, then build the finished thing in Lovable as your foot in the door before you ever talk price
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#34
Free tool as t…T2
Claude Code Marketing Audit Skill
One command fires 5 parallel subagents and produces a client-grade marketing audit PDF for any website — your crowbar for prying open high-ticket clients
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#35
$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
#36
$100K+T2
Easy Folders
A browser extension that adds folders and subfolders to ChatGPT
Platform PluginT2
Platform Plugin
#37
~$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
#38
$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
#39
PotentialT2
Viblo-Style Ranking Shorts Generator
Pick a topic, drop in 5 viral TikTok clips from elsewhere, and stitch a “ranking” Short in one click — one video every 10 minutes.
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#40
$36K/moT2
Stamp Identifier (ASO-Driven Subscription App)
Photograph a stamp, get an AI valuation plus its history — an ultra-narrow identifier app that siphons traffic straight from App Store search
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#41
$11K–$31K/moT2
AI Slow-English Conversation Podcast Channel (Mass-Produced with Wondercraft)
A two-host slow-English conversation podcast, a faceless YouTube channel teaching ESL learners, fully AI-generated at roughly $1.59 an episode
AI ContentT2
AI Content
#42
PotentialT2
Ready (AI Landing Page Generator)
Generate a beautiful, responsive landing page for your app from one sentence, then publish it and get a link
AI WebsiteT2
AI Website
#43
PotentialT2
Next Love Niche (Faceless Niche & Topic Finder)
One click to find high-RPM niches, one click to grab a competitor's script — built for faceless YouTube creators
SaaST2
SaaS
#44
PotentialT2
Tube Magic (Multi-Video Context Script Tool)
Feed it several competitor videos as context, run them through best practices, and get an original, policy-safe YouTube script
SaaST2
SaaS
#45
Not launched —…T2
Follower Semantic Search (Social Graph)
Semantically search your Instagram/X followers and get alerted to who's worth knowing — dates, peers, and door-openers
⚠️ Cautionary TaleT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#46
$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
#47
$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
#48
PotentialT2
Subscription App Clone Factory (MyFitnessPal, Built on Base44)
Turn an audience that buys one-off PDFs into one that pays every month: clone a top subscription app's core features with Base44, bolt on a landing page + paywall + Stripe, and start selling.
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#49
$18MT2
The AI Installer for local professional firms — with Liam Ottley's agency as the scale reference
Walk into one industry's local firms, automate their single most repetitive task with Claude, charge for the install and then bill a maintenance retainer forever — the reference case went from zero generative-AI knowledge to a reported $18M in agency revenue in about three years.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#50
$242,964T2
BridgeMind
A vibe-coding platform built entirely on daily live streams — the founder codes the product on camera every day and the audience becomes the customer base
SaaST2
SaaS
#51
$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
#52
~$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
#53
$13,000/moPROT2
The 15-day niche test — running faceless channels as a portfolio of cheap experiments
Stop picking a niche and start pricing one: find channels under a month old that are already pulling six-figure view counts, work out the cost per video, and only enter niches where a full 15-day test costs a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand.
AI ContentPROT2
AI Content
#54
$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
#55
$89,000PROT2
Infinity Pilot AI (AI voice setter + human closer funnel)
An AI automation agency stuck on manual DMs bolted on paid ads, an AI voice agent that calls every lead within 5 minutes, and trained closers — $89K in 75 days
AI ServicePROT2
AI Service
#56
$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
#57
$23,000T2
Allison's ERP Automation Deals from Cold LinkedIn DMs
She quit her job, picked one unglamorous system nobody wants to touch — ERP and inventory management — and cold-DMed Canadian companies about automating it. Two deals in one month: $23,000 and $28,000, with no testimonials and no portfolio.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#58
$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
#59
~$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
#60
$38,000/moT2
Modiversity clone (n8n → JSON2Video → YouTube pipeline)
A daily motivational channel pulling $38K/month in pure AdSense — and a full n8n workflow that produces and uploads the same kind of long-form video every hour with nobody touching it
AI ContentT2
AI Content
#61
About 8 millio…T2
Oliver Henry's autonomous marketing agent — 8 million TikTok views, nobody posting
A 9-to-5 employee pointed an open-source agent at his own apps and told it to do the marketing: it researched competitors, generated slideshows, posted them, read the analytics and doubled down on winners — 8 million views on TikTok, run off an old PC under his desk.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#62
$200M+T2
Perimenopause Symptom Tracker (BloomHer, built against the Flo benchmark)
A subscription symptom-tracking app for a 7-year health transition that most women go into unprepared, in a category where the incumbent reportedly clears $10M a month
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#63
$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
#64
$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
#65
$6/moPROT2
Shopify Partner referral commissions — 20% recurring, including Plus platform fees
Every Shopify store you build or migrate can pay you 20% of that merchant's subscription for as long as the store exists — and since July 2025 that includes 20% of a Plus merchant's entire platform fee
Ecosystem ToolPROT2
Ecosystem Tool
#66
$10,000PROT2
Sleek (prompt-to-website design generator)
$10,000 MRR in six weeks with zero marketing spend — because the team recycled design tools they had already built and knew exactly who they were selling to before they wrote the first prompt.
SaaSPROT2
SaaS
#67
$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
#68
$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
#69
$1,000+T2
Talk Macros (voice-first calorie tracker) — and the daily short-form treadmill behind it
A former personal trainer built a calorie tracker you talk to, posted two TikToks a day for a few weeks, and hit $1,000 MRR with no ads, no ASO, and no launch.
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#70
$68K/moT2
TeacherZ (French-market course platform)
Kajabi, rebuilt for one country's language and one country's laws — $68K a month from the market the incumbents can't be bothered to comply with.
SaaST2
SaaS
#71
$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
#72
$500/moPROT2
The 97% Audit — Why Vibe-Coded Apps Die, and the Boring Verticals That Pay Instead
A B2B AI consultant tracked 1,000+ vibe-coded apps over 13 months: 97% dead, abandoned, breached, or stuck under $500/month — and all of them failed for the same three reasons, while HVAC routing quietly bills $1,400 a month per shop.
⚠️ Cautionary TalePROT2
⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#73
~$7MT2
Wave AI (AI meeting and voice note-taker)
A non-developer prompted ChatGPT chunk by chunk into a cross-platform meeting transcriber and reportedly took it to around $7 million in revenue, entirely solo, on rented infrastructure.
Consumer AppT2
Consumer App
#74
~$15K/moT2
Zinny Studio (AI-avatar faceless channel → paid Skool community)
A faceless YouTube channel hosted by an AI-generated animated character sells a $60/month community to 250 members — roughly $15K/month from the community plus $3K from AdSense.
AI ContentT2
AI Content
#75
$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
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AU⚠️ Cautionary Tale
#76
$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
#77
$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
#78
2.6M organic v…PROT2
Humanize AI Pro — a two-page site pulling 2.6M organic visits a month
Two pages, one input box, zero social media: an exact-match domain that rewrites AI text into human-sounding text and gets 2.6 million Google visitors a month on the back of 1,700 referring domains
Simple ToolPROT2
Simple Tool
#79
$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
#80
$5,500/moT2
Non-Technical AI Automation Retainer + Personal Brand (Sandy Lee)
A mother of three with a full-time job and no technical background learned AI in a couple of months, signed one client at $5,500 a month doing blog and SEO automations, and grew a YouTube channel from 500 subscribers to 500-600 new subscribers a day.
AI ServiceT2
AI Service
#81
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
#82
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
#83
$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