66+ founders shipping real revenue with vibe coding
Real people who used Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Claude and ChatGPT to build products earning from $1k/mo to $100M+ ARR. Every entry links back to the public source so you can verify.
Featured
Pieter Levels
Nomad List + Photo AI + Interior AI
Solo indie hacker running a portfolio of AI-first products from a single laptop, no employees, no VC.
Marc Lou
ShipFast + 20+ micro-SaaS
Ships a new AI micro-SaaS every few weeks with a boilerplate he sold to 6,000+ makers.
Danny Postma
Headshot Pro + PhotoPacks
Turned Stable Diffusion into a professional-headshot generator that crossed $1M ARR solo.
Riley Brown
Vibe Code University
Popularised the term 'vibe coding' on TikTok and turned it into a paid education brand.
Greg Isenberg
Late Checkout + Boring Marketer
Runs a design + AI holdco spinning up vibe-coded products every month.
Anton Osika
Lovable
Grew Lovable from prototype to one of Europe's fastest-ever SaaS scale-ups.
Eric Simons
Bolt.new (StackBlitz)
StackBlitz's Bolt.new hit $20M ARR in ~2 months one of the fastest AI product ramps ever.
Justin Welsh
The Diversified Solopreneur
The most-cited solopreneur $5M+ /yr as one person using AI heavily.
Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity
Built Perplexity into a $9B answer engine competing with Google.
Build on Vibe team
Killing a 464-page publish timeout
How the wrong prompt killed 25 consecutive publishes and the one-line fix that shipped the site.
Confidential (financial services)
Parent Management Platform · 1,000+ child sites
A single Blueprint architecture that provisions, syncs, and governs 1,000+ marketing sites from one dashboard.
Confidential (multi-brand publisher)
Enterprise CMS Builder · headless multi-tenant
A visual CMS Builder that lets non-technical editors compose fully-typed component pages across every brand tenant.
Confidential (ops-heavy scale-up)
Workflow Engine · agentic automation OS
A drag-and-connect Workflow Engine that turns internal SOPs into agent-driven pipelines with human-in-the-loop gates.
Tony Dinh
TypingMind
A better chat UI for the OpenAI API turned into a $1M+ ARR one-time-purchase SaaS run solo.
Damon Chen
Testimonial.to
Video testimonial collection tool that grew to $1M ARR bootstrapped and solo.
Vlad Magdalin
Webflow
Bet 5+ years on visual web development before Webflow became the no-code standard for designers.
Chris Frantz
Loops
Modern email for SaaS. Bootstrapped past $1M ARR competing head-to-head with Customer.io + Mailchimp.
Jon Yongfook
Bannerbear
Image-generation API for marketing automation. Solo bootstrapped past $50k MRR.
Josh Pigford
Baremetrics → Maybe Finance
Sold subscription-analytics tool Baremetrics; now building personal-finance app Maybe as open source.
Adam Wathan
Tailwind CSS + Tailwind UI
OSS framework turned $10M+ ARR through paid component library and Tailwind Plus.
Jack Ellis & Paul Jarvis
Fathom Analytics
Privacy-first Google Analytics alternative bootstrapped by a duo — no VC, no ads.
Sahil Lavingia
Gumroad
Left Pinterest at 19 to build Gumroad; wrote The Minimalist Entrepreneur about running it as a tiny team after downsizing.
Nathan Barry
ConvertKit / Kit
Bootstrapped from a designer's side-project into a $40M+ ARR email platform for creators.
Solo SaaS (19)
Danny Postma
Headshot Pro + PhotoPacks
Turned Stable Diffusion into a professional-headshot generator that crossed $1M ARR solo.
Tibo
Typefully, Tweet Hunter
Bootstrapped Typefully + Tweet Hunter to seven figures with a two-person team, then sold.
Michael Kaminsky
Recall + AI knowledge tools
Built a personal-knowledge AI app to sustainable indie revenue.
Damon Chen
Testimonial.to
Bootstrapped a video-testimonial SaaS to 7 figures solo, now adding AI everywhere.
Justin Welsh
The Diversified Solopreneur
The most-cited solopreneur $5M+ /yr as one person using AI heavily.
Dagorenouf
Logology + AI logo tools
Combines design expertise + AI to run profitable niche logo tools.
Simon Høiberg
FeedHive + Creator OS
Bootstrapped FeedHive with AI-native features to 7 figures.
Jon Yongfook
Bannerbear
Bootstrapped Bannerbear to 7 figures now adds AI image gen APIs.
Build on Vibe team
Killing a 464-page publish timeout
How the wrong prompt killed 25 consecutive publishes and the one-line fix that shipped the site.
Damon Chen
Testimonial.to
Video testimonial collection tool that grew to $1M ARR bootstrapped and solo.
Chris Frantz
Loops
Modern email for SaaS. Bootstrapped past $1M ARR competing head-to-head with Customer.io + Mailchimp.
Jon Yongfook
Bannerbear
Image-generation API for marketing automation. Solo bootstrapped past $50k MRR.
Rob Hope
One Page Love
One-page website gallery + templates business, solo for 15+ years.
Josh Pigford
Baremetrics → Maybe Finance
Sold subscription-analytics tool Baremetrics; now building personal-finance app Maybe as open source.
Justin Duke
Buttondown
Boring, well-designed email newsletter tool that competes with Substack from a solo shop.
Nate Ritter
Room Price Genie
Hotel dynamic-pricing SaaS bootstrapped past $1M ARR from a small European team.
Jack Ellis & Paul Jarvis
Fathom Analytics
Privacy-first Google Analytics alternative bootstrapped by a duo — no VC, no ads.
Sahil Lavingia
Gumroad
Left Pinterest at 19 to build Gumroad; wrote The Minimalist Entrepreneur about running it as a tiny team after downsizing.
Nathan Barry
ConvertKit / Kit
Bootstrapped from a designer's side-project into a $40M+ ARR email platform for creators.
Indie hackers (9)
Pieter Levels
Nomad List + Photo AI + Interior AI
Solo indie hacker running a portfolio of AI-first products from a single laptop, no employees, no VC.
Marc Lou
ShipFast + 20+ micro-SaaS
Ships a new AI micro-SaaS every few weeks with a boilerplate he sold to 6,000+ makers.
Ilias Ism
Google Rank Tools + AI SEO
Ships programmatic-SEO AI tools that print traffic publishes MRR live.
Kieran Klaassen
AI email + productivity
Ships AI-native productivity apps solo, documents build in public.
Louis Beaumont
Screenpipe
Open-source local AI screen memory 15k+ GitHub stars in months.
Tony Dinh
TypingMind
A better chat UI for the OpenAI API turned into a $1M+ ARR one-time-purchase SaaS run solo.
Colin & Alex
AI Directory
Vibe-coded AI-tool directory that hit ~$8k MRR from sponsored listings inside two months.
Cody Schneider
Draftly + Swell
AI marketing operator running a portfolio of small tools that combined cross $1M ARR.
John Rush
Marsx + Unicorn Platform
Serial founder shipping a new micro-SaaS almost every week, portfolio grosses six figures monthly.
Creators & educators (24)
Riley Brown
Vibe Code University
Popularised the term 'vibe coding' on TikTok and turned it into a paid education brand.
Rob Shocks
AI app tutorials + client builds
YouTube channel teaching business owners to build with Cursor + Lovable and pick up client work.
Nicolas Cole
Ship 30 for 30
Turned AI-assisted writing coaching into an 8-figure education brand.
Jason Zhou
AI agents on YouTube
YouTube-first builder teaching AI agent architecture with real repos.
Barsee
AI Valley newsletter
Grew AI Valley to 500k+ subs by curating AI tools daily.
Alex Finn
AI content + growth playbooks
Grew massive X audience by teaching AI-powered content and business systems.
Cassidy Williams
Newsletter + dev tools
Turned dev-tool advocacy + AI into a diversified solo career.
Steph Smith
Doola + trend research
Ex-Trends host now packaging AI research into paid products and podcasts.
Arvid Kahl
The Bootstrapped Founder
Sold FeedbackPanda, now the go-to voice for bootstrapped + AI founders.
Katelyn Bourgoin
Why We Buy + AI marketing prompts
Built a marketing-education brand powered by ChatGPT prompt packs.
Alex Hormozi
Acquisition.com + AI ops
Bakes AI systems into every portfolio company.
Sahil Bloom
Newsletter empire
AI-augmented newsletter + book business.
Kevin Kern
Instructa.ai
YouTube channel + courses on Cursor and AI IDEs.
Louis Pereira
AI-powered no-code coach
Coaches non-technical founders to build with AI IDEs.
Peter Yang
Creator Economy Newsletter
AI + product newsletter that grew past 150k subscribers with sponsorships as the primary revenue.
Steph Smith
Doing Content Right
Turned an internal Trends.co playbook into a $500k+ solo info-product on Gumroad.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Ness Labs
Neuroscience-of-productivity newsletter that grew to 100k+ subscribers and a paid community.
Kevon Cheung
Build in Public Mastery
Course + community about building in public that itself was built in public.
Adam Wathan
Tailwind CSS + Tailwind UI
OSS framework turned $10M+ ARR through paid component library and Tailwind Plus.
Wes Bos
JavaScript courses
Independent JS educator who has done $1M+/yr on paid courses.
Rosie Sherry
Rosieland
Community-about-community that documents her research live and monetizes with a membership + sponsors.
Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test + Write Useful Books
Self-published 'The Mom Test' has become the default customer-interview handbook + $1M+ cumulative.
Amy Hoy & Alex Hillman
Freckle Time Tracking + 30x500
Duo behind Freckle (sold) and the 30x500 sales-safari method used by hundreds of bootstrapped founders.
Dan Shipper
Every + Sparkle
Media + AI-tool bundle. Every the newsletter funds Every the product studio, both AI-native.
Agencies & holdcos (2)
Scale-ups (12)
Anton Osika
Lovable
Grew Lovable from prototype to one of Europe's fastest-ever SaaS scale-ups.
Eric Simons
Bolt.new (StackBlitz)
StackBlitz's Bolt.new hit $20M ARR in ~2 months one of the fastest AI product ramps ever.
Guillermo Rauch
v0 by Vercel
v0 turned generative UI into a major revenue line for Vercel.
Amjad Masad
Replit Agent
Turned Replit's cloud IDE into an agent that plans, codes and deploys.
Aravind Srinivas
Perplexity
Built Perplexity into a $9B answer engine competing with Google.
Suhail Doshi
Playground AI
Ex-Mixpanel founder built Playground into a top consumer image tool.
Volodymyr Pigrukh
Wolfia (AI RFP)
AI-powered security questionnaire and RFP automation for B2B SaaS.
Josh Miller
The Browser Company (Dia)
Built Arc, now shipping Dia an AI-native browser.
Confidential (financial services)
Parent Management Platform · 1,000+ child sites
A single Blueprint architecture that provisions, syncs, and governs 1,000+ marketing sites from one dashboard.
Confidential (multi-brand publisher)
Enterprise CMS Builder · headless multi-tenant
A visual CMS Builder that lets non-technical editors compose fully-typed component pages across every brand tenant.
Confidential (ops-heavy scale-up)
Workflow Engine · agentic automation OS
A drag-and-connect Workflow Engine that turns internal SOPs into agent-driven pipelines with human-in-the-loop gates.
Vlad Magdalin
Webflow
Bet 5+ years on visual web development before Webflow became the no-code standard for designers.
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