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HeadshotPro, founded by Danny Postma, turns ordinary selfies into professional-looking headshots. The company states it has made more than $10 million in revenue since launch, generated 17 million headshots, and completed over 200,000 photo shoots.
Fivos Aresti co-founded Workflows io in July 2025 after helping another agency grow. According to the interview summary, it reached $3.3 million ARR and a team of 21 with no outside money. The team deliberately kept revenue flat for six months.
Corey Ganim offers a free 15-minute mini assessment, a $999 AI tool assessment, and a concierge retainer at $1,200 to $2,000 a month capped at six seats. According to the teardown, five of six prospects converted and the concierge offer reached $8,000 MRR in ten days.
Cami says she has made more than $30,000 as a side hustle directing AI image and video generations for clients. She argues most people struggle with image and video models because writing strong prompts is hard, and built a prompt library tool from her best generations.
Rasty Turek built Vaultaire, an encrypted photo and file vault for iPhone, in about three weeks, mostly by prompting AI coding agents. He reports 17,100 downloads, 1,287 purchases, and a 7.53% conversion rate, with $26,384 gross in July and $41,425 in August.
Jonathan Laramy left his customer service job in June 2025 to work full time on "Chloe VS History", a YouTube channel built around an AI-generated character who explores historical events. He told Business Insider the channel earns him more than his old wage, without sharing figures.
Sam, who has self-published for six years, earned $13,745.78 in royalties from two AI coloring books during 2025, split almost evenly between them. After about $3,589 in Amazon ads, his net profit was $10,155.
Yasser Elsaid built Chatbase, which lets businesses create AI support agents trained on their own data. He says the first Stripe payment arrived 30 minutes after he added a pricing page, and that the company reached $9 million ARR with a team of about 30 and no outside investors.
Photo AI generates realistic AI photos of users from their uploaded selfies. Pieter Levels runs it largely alone and reported $105,000 a month in revenue and $80,000 a month in profit, noting the app is a 40,870-line index.php file.
A construction company spent 80 to 100 hours a week moving estimate data between Monday.com and QuickBooks, at 45 minutes per estimate. The builder promised an automation in three weeks. In week two, Make could not connect to QuickBooks, so he rebuilt the system in n8n, a tool he had never used, in under a week.
Mattia Pomelli and two friends had already built four design tools before launching Sleek, which lets founders "vibe design" mobile apps by chatting with AI. It was built in three weeks and, according to Pomelli, reached $10,000 MRR within about a month without any marketing spend.
Adavia Davis runs a group of faceless YouTube channels that publish long, calm history videos. According to Fortune, the channels together brought in between $40,000 and $60,000 a month in revenue. Production runs through TubeGen, a pipeline created by collaborator Eddie Eizner.
Cal AI lets users photograph a meal and get an AI estimate of its calories. Launched in May 2024, it is priced at $2.49 a month or $29.99 a year. CNBC reported about $1.4 million a month in gross profit and about $274,000 a month in net operating income, with a team of 30.
A side hustler launched a weekly book-summary newsletter on Substack at $7 a month or $50 a year. The first month brought 42 subscribers. By month three there were 150 subscribers and $1,000 in total revenue, and by month six about $1,400 a month.
Rebecca Beach has sold printables and private label rights products since 2018. She says AI-assisted "vibe coding" let her double her income from about $10,000 to up to $20,000 a month. Printables sell for $7 to $37 in her Shopify store and on Etsy; courses run from $97 to $997.
Sean, a digital marketer, sells LinkedIn post packages to busy executives: four posts for $200, eight posts plus an engagement strategy for $400, and a custom tier from $800. Within a month he had four clients on the $400 tier. By month two he had six recurring clients and was close to $3,000 a month.
Jen Glantz, founder of Bridesmaid for Hire, shifted toward passive income after becoming a mother in 2023. She trained an AI wedding-speech tool on more than 200 speeches she had written and sells it for $35, compared with $397 for her done-for-you service.
A marketing consultant built a chatbot for a skincare client that was spending too long answering the same questions. The client paid $300 to refine and install it. Within a month there were three more clients at $250 to $500 each, then a $50 monthly maintenance fee, and six paying clients by month two.
Buildpad started as a way to give AI memory across the product-building process. The basic version took about 30 days. The founders report reaching $1,000 MRR 54 days after launch, $2,000 MRR after 98 days, and $2,700 MRR with 5,000 users after about six months.
Emily Odio-Sutton started a print-on-demand shop on Etsy in 2022 so she could be available for her daughter. Printify prints and ships each order. CNBC Make It reported her store brought in $220,300 in 2023. She spends about 10 hours a week on her shops and declined to name them to avoid copycats.
Daniel Nguyen built BoltAI, a native macOS client for AI models. He told Indie Hackers it makes about $10,000 a month in one-time sales plus $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue. Licences were priced at $37, $57, and $79.
Saeed Ezzati, a software engineer, learned to build browser extensions and launched his first one within two or three days. Superpower ChatGPT adds features such as folders and search to ChatGPT. He told Starter Story it was at about $20,000 to $30,000 MRR and that he is the only person working on it.
Christina Umerez built an Etsy store selling text-based designs on T-shirts, sweatshirts, and totes. She uploaded about ten designs a day early on, quit her job, and says the store made CA$470,000 in revenue in 2023, selling around 150 items a day. A virtual assistant handles customer service and uploads.
Ellis runs multiple TikTok accounts in different niches, such as fitness and tech, and promotes affiliate products that fit each theme. A series of tech review videos on one account went viral and brought in more than $8,000 in commissions before it slowed.
Eftakhairul Islam researched demand for AI-generated digital art and found that streamers on Twitch, Kick, and YouTube buy it for their channels. He started on the Midjourney Basic plan and says the Etsy shop earns about $3,000 a month as a side income.
Sal Aiello and Monica Powers built DimeADozen, a site that turns a business idea into an AI-generated validation report. They built it in four days, charged $39 per report, made more than $66,000 in about seven months, and then sold the business for $150,000.
Chris Rawson and Angelina Stanzione built a catalogue of 29 nonfiction books on Amazon, 17 of them also on Audible. They reported $34,500 in KDP royalties and $5,000 in audiobook royalties over three months. They started with ghostwriters and later used ChatGPT.
Tony Dinh built TypingMind, an alternative chat interface for AI models, over a weekend for his own use after OpenAI released the ChatGPT API. Within three months it had more than 4,000 paying users and was #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. He raised the price from $9 to $79 as he shipped updates.
SiteGPT lets businesses create AI chatbots trained on their own website content. Founder Bhanu Teja Pachipulusu says it reached $10,000 in monthly recurring revenue within a month of launch.
Lance Junck, a 23-year-old brand strategist in Austin, launched "ChatGPT Masterclass: A Complete ChatGPT Guide for Beginners" on Udemy in late December 2022. Business Insider reported that in about three months the course enrolled more than 15,000 students and made $34,913 in profit, based on screenshots of his sales dashboard. He ran it on top of a full-time job.