Arthur Yuzbashev's first two products died on Reddit: six bans, one BuildFast sale. He tracked what had triggered each ban, turned that into MediaFast — a tool for marketing on Reddit without getting banned — and sold it by sharing the story on X. Month one: $360; by January 2026: $5,400.
Tony Dinh launched Xnapper, a screenshot tool, on Product Hunt and hit #1 Product of the Day: 1,428 votes, 6.2K website visits, 164 sales and $4,212. He credits the launch-day email to his beta list most.
Tibo's SEO tool launched on Product Hunt as ContentPie, placed #8 and stalled at $300 MRR. Renamed Outrank and repositioned as an autonomous SEO machine, it relaunched to #1 Product of the Day and passed $10,000 MRR within two months.
Tibo bought the #1 spot on outbid.lol — a viral site where the highest bidder gets the homepage — for Outrank, then measured new trials against the same days over the previous 8 weeks: 50+ trials above baseline in two days.
Launching a $9/month membership with no list and no following, Taiko_TOEDA published the day-15 numbers: $0 revenue, 3 Product Hunt upvotes, 0 stars across 17 GitHub repos. The only thing that worked was a careful argument in someone else's replies.
Sofia DM'd 200 potential users. Two replied: one wasn't interested; the other pitched her his own SaaS — a better pitch than hers — and she became a paying user of it.
Sabba Keynejad grew VEED's first 1,000 paid users by recording 40+ YouTube tutorials himself and answering questions on Quora, Reddit and Facebook groups — until he was banned from Quora and most subreddits. YouTube stuck: VEED later hired someone to post a tutorial every day, and the channel passed 50K subscribers.
Rob Hallam rebuilt a standard referral program around affiliate tactics borrowed from larger brands. He says it added $10k MRR in 30 days; his MRR screenshot shows $23.2k, up 62% vs December.
After directories, Twitter and a Product Hunt Product of the Day took Talknotes to $1,500 MRR, Nico Jeannen made Facebook/Meta ads his main channel — writing new ads from what users said in the onboarding form. He took it from $0 to $7,500 MRR in 11 months and sold it for $200,000.
With no strong social following, Nevo David built Postiz as open source so he could post it in developer communities like r/selfhosted and DEV, shipping a new version for every small feature to keep having something to post.
Nevo David noticed many people automating social media with n8n, shipped an official Postiz n8n node and a better public API, and cold-pitched Skool communities. MRR went from $6,523 to $12,648 in one month.
Marc Lou says he spent about $25K on Meta ads for ShipFast in 2024 and made $75K from it — and credits Nico Jeannen, who ran the campaign because Marc says he's bad at ads.