Changelog
IndieMakerList changes: week of Oct 5–11, 2026
In the week of Oct 5–11, 2026: 182 makers added, 7 revenue updates, 1 exit, 25 profiles upgraded, 20 products added, 1 profile claimed, 17 milestones and 1 status change. Each entry links to the maker's profile and, where there is one, the public source of the change.
254 changes
- 182 makers added
- 7 revenue updates
- 1 exit
- 25 profiles upgraded
- 20 products added
- 1 profile claimed
- 17 milestones
- 1 status change
Exits (1)
Scott Tolinski · Level Up Tutorials
Level Up Tutorials by Scott Tolinski is now listed as acquired.
shut down→acquired
Revenue updates (7)
Added public revenue for Derrick Reimer: $20K MRR (as of 2021-10).
$20K MRR
Added public revenue for Giancarlo Buomprisco: $8,606 in a month (Makerkit, month 6) (as of 2023).
$8,606 in a month (Makerkit, month 6)
Added public revenue for Ian Nuttall: $100K ARR (Keyword Metrics + URL Monitor) (as of 2024).
$100K ARR (Keyword Metrics + URL Monitor)
Added public revenue for Mike Taber: Five-figure MRR (Bluetick) (as of 2023).
Five-figure MRR (Bluetick)
Added public revenue for Wilson Wilson: $5K MRR (Ferndesk) (as of 2026-06).
$5K MRR (Ferndesk)Wilson Wilson · Senja
Added public revenue for Senja by Wilson Wilson: $800K ARR (May 2025).
$800K ARR (May 2025)
New makers (182)
Developer-educator behind Mastering Postgres, High Performance SQLite and Solo
Egyptian automation designer selling Claude Fast and SEO Boost kits for Claude users
$24.7K all-time
Creator of Tailwind CSS who built a multi-million-dollar business on open source
Mid-seven figures/yr (2020)
Ex-Uber engineer who built NamasteDev, India's popular 'Namaste' coding courses
Doctor-turned-YouTuber, author of Feel-Good Productivity and Part-Time YouTuber Academy
$4M+ in 2022
Co-founder of Noko (Freckle) and Stacking the Bricks, creator of 30x500 and Sales Safari
ClickFunnels president, creator of Bullet Train for Rails, founded and sold Churn Buster
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Canadian developer who spent seven years making Tunic, the fox adventure about secrets
Co-founder of Tiny and MetaLab, buying and holding wonderful internet businesses
Product Hunt Maker of the Year 2018 behind Sheet2Site, Web3 Jobs and SearchConsole.ai
Neuroscientist and founder of Ness Labs, author of Tiny Experiments
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Finnish solo game developer known as Hempuli, creator of the puzzle game Baba Is You
Sold FeedbackPanda, wrote Zero to Sold, built Podscan in public (acquired 2026)
Pakistani solo founder of Fore Studio: Vitals and Flit Mac apps, StartupBase, Depost AI
$13.3K all-time (Depost AI)
Solo founder of Typebot, the open, self-hostable chatbot builder
Non-technical builder who sold Makerpad to Zapier and now runs Ben's Bites
Co-founder and CTO of Userlist; co-host of the Slow & Steady podcast
Indian solo founder of SiteGPT; sold Notion-blog tool Feather for $250K
Chicago solo developer who spent seven years building the hit Metroidvania Animal Well
Web dev educator behind Traversy Media, plus a public lab of indie dev tools
Dutch no-code maker of Startup Stash who built and sold five curation products
Founder of RightMessage and Double Your Freelancing, author of This Is Personal
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Veteran Mac developer who created NetNewsWire and MarsEdit
Solo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription
$100K MRR (Designjoy) + $12K MRR (Productize Yourself)
Serial bootstrapper behind Audience Ops, Clarityflow and Builder Methods
Creator of Livewire, Alpine.js and Flux UI, funded by sponsors and component sales
$112K/yr from GitHub Sponsors
Indie iOS developer of Callsheet and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast
Co-founder of Indie Hackers, now building the Hatch AI workspace
Indie iOS dev of Dark Noise and host of the Launched podcast
Co-founder of CodePen, ShopTalk Show co-host, ran CSS-Tricks 2007-2022
Solo developer of the Ellie daily planner and other productivity apps, YouTuber
iOS indie developer behind Apollo for Reddit, Pixel Pals and Juno
SaaS marketer behind Swipe Files, Conversion Factory and the top AI marketing skills repo
$1M ARR (Conversion Factory)
Ex-CTO turned solopreneur behind the SaaS Pegasus Django boilerplate
Founder of Indie Hackers, the community and podcast that named the movement
Slovakia-based 'Coding Dinosaur' who has shipped 200+ web projects
The startup meme king: co-founded Logology, runs LaunchDay, wore a 26-sponsor wedding suit
Ex-Cisco engineer who built Testimonial.to and grew acquired PDF.ai into a top AI PDF tool
$1.3M ARR (Testimonial.to + PDF.ai)One-person business writer behind The Art of Focus and co-founder of the Eden content app
Former Apple engineer running Red Sweater Software, maker of MarsEdit
Ex-Amazon engineer who popularized the small bets portfolio approach
$210K profit in 9 months (info products)
Dutch founder of HeadshotPro who sold AI copywriter Headlime for seven figures
Independent iOS developer behind Widgetsmith, Pedometer++ and Sleep++
Musician who accidentally built CD Baby, sold it for $22M, and writes books on how to live
Indie game designer behind Spelunky, Spelunky 2 and UFO 50, founder of Mossmouth
Founder of SavvyCal; co-founded Drip, which sold to Leadpages
Former BlackRock trader who co-founded Ship 30 for 30 to teach online writing
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Vietnamese developer who made Flappy Bird, then pulled it at the height of its fame
Founder of Trends.vc, the market research newsletter and Trends Pro community
Singapore-based Notion template creator behind Second Brain and SyncTasks
$239K in 2022
Solo developer of Stardew Valley, now making Haunted Chocolatier
Freelance designer teaching practical UI design through Learn UI Design
Designer and co-founder of Typefully; previously built and sold Mailbrew
Typefully: ~$2M ARR
Brazilian programming YouTuber, ex-Pagar.me CTO, creator of curso.dev and TabNews
Developer turned indie hacker on a public $1M revenue journey
$445K lifetime across projects
Directory website builder and SEO teacher behind Ship Your Directory
$2K+/mo (first directory)- GG
Solo creator of PocketBase, the open source backend in a single file
Ex-Uber engineering manager who writes The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter
Italian developer in Taipei who built Makerkit, the B2B SaaS starter kit
Indonesian Webflow developer and solo maker of Unsection, a website section design library
$1.4K MRR
CEO of Late Checkout, host of The Startup Ideas Podcast, creator of Ideabrowser
Brazilian indie Mac and iOS developer behind AirBuddy and VirtualBuddy
Co-founder of lemlist, bootstrapped from $1K to tens of millions in ARR
~$40M ARR (lempire)
Founder of Flying Meat, two-decade indie Mac maker of Acorn and Retrobatch
Copywriting teacher behind Marketing Examples and its 130K-reader newsletter
Jaipur-based coding YouTuber behind Chai aur Code and ChaiCode cohorts; LCO founder
Bootstrapper behind HelpSpot since 2005, LaraJobs and the Mostly Technical podcast
SEO veteran and serial internet entrepreneur shipping AI-coded SEO tools
SEO-first serial maker behind GenPPT, LinkDR, AI SEO Tracker and MagicSpace
$8.1K MRR (GenPPT, verified)
Co-founder and CEO of Explosion, the company behind spaCy and Prodigy
Solo developer of Photopea, the free browser-based Photoshop alternative
~$200K/mo
Founder of Visualize Value: minimalist visuals, courses on leverage, and digital art
Software engineer and sole owner of Fathom, the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative
Self-taught Canadian solo builder of Post Bridge and a string of consumer apps
$48.9K MRR (Post Bridge, verified)
Physicist turned permissionless entrepreneur, co-founder of Sales.co
$90K/mo (Sales.co)
Co-founder and CEO of Userlist, host of the UI Breakfast podcast
Founder of Creator Science, teaching creators to build businesses through experiments
Creator and voice of Fireship, the fast-paced coding YouTube channel, merged with ui.dev
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Indie Safari extension developer behind StopTheMadness at Underpass App Company
Founder of Laracasts, the bootstrapped video school for Laravel and PHP
Australian founder of the Bento email platform, building from Fukuoka, Japan
Greek design engineer running bootstrapped tools MagicPattern, BrandBird and SuperMotion
~$6.5K MRR across three products
Founder and CEO of Ghost, the open source, non-profit publishing platform
Ghost: ~$11.1M ARR
Solo founder who bootstrapped Bannerbear, an image and video automation API, to $81K MRR
$81K MRR
Top-rated Udemy instructor teaching JavaScript, React, Node.js and CSS to 2M+ students
German indie dev and YouTuber behind Islanders, Will You Snail? and Thronefall
Designer of Braid and The Witness, creator of the Jai language, head of Thekla
German founder of supastarter, the SaaS starter kit for Next.js, Nuxt and TanStack
$12K/mo
Australian product designer behind Untitled UI, the best-selling Figma UI kit
Prolific Dutch indie Apple developer behind MacWhisper, Navi and Posture Pal
Serial dabbler who built and sold Baremetrics for $4M, now shipping AI products
Montreal developer-educator behind CSS for JavaScript Developers and The Joy of React
Montreal developer behind Wizard Zines, illustrated guides to computing fundamentals
$101,558 in 2018 (zine business)
Founder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe
~$15K MRR
Co-founder and CEO of Transistor.fm, the bootstrapped 'calm company' for podcast hosting
Solopreneur who passed $10M in revenue with a one-person business
$10M+ total revenue (lifetime)
Former CTO who built Draft.dev to $2.5M and now acquires podcast agencies
$2.5M/yr (Draft.dev, 2022)
JavaScript educator behind Epic React, Epic Web and Testing JavaScript
Canadian CSS educator with 1,000+ YouTube videos and The Cascade course platform
Co-founder of ScrapingBee and author of The Java Web Scraping Handbook
$5M+ ARR (at exit)
Hong Kong educator who taught building in public, now building AI learning tools for kids
Serial maker of Sizzy, Benji and Tinkerer Club who teaches devs to ship
$223K in 30 days (verified, Tinkerer Club launch); $400K+ total verified
Belfast founder of Gravity SaaS boilerplate, Alertly and the Zero To Paid course
Founder of Paperbell coaching software; bootstrapped and sold MeetEdgar
Former Airbnb product lead behind Lenny's Newsletter and Lenny's Podcast
$1M+/yr (newsletter and podcast, each over $500K)
Goa-based maker of AudioPen, the AI voice-to-text notes app
$73K in first 2 months- LG
Italian developer known as poncle, creator of Vampire Survivors
Software engineer turned solopreneur behind BlackTwist and Shipped.club
$2.5K/mo (BlackTwist)
Solo designer of Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn
Solo founder of Key Values, the job board matching engineers with values-aligned teams
~$300K–350K/yr- MT
Canadian game designer behind Celeste and TowerFall, co-founder of Extremely OK Games
Serial maker behind BetaList, WIP and Startup Jobs, shipping online for 20+ years
French solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups
$98K/mo (July 2026)
Polish Kotlin educator, founder of Kt. Academy and author of Effective Kotlin
Indie iOS developer of Overcast, previously Instapaper and Tumblr
Creator of the Notion Mastery course and co-founder of Oki Doki
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Mac developer behind retro Apple Music remotes and PDX Transit
Co-founder of Plausible Analytics, writer on privacy and bootstrapped marketing
$1M+ ARR
Creator of Minecraft, sold Mojang to Microsoft for $2.5B; now making Levers and Chests
TypeScript and AI engineering educator behind Total TypeScript and AI Hero
AI YouTuber and founder of Future Tools, the AI tool directory and newsletter
Australian engineer in France running OnlineOrNot, a self-funded uptime monitoring SaaS
Co-founder of Academind, bestselling coding instructor with 3.5M+ students
Builds and teaches AI coding; creator of Chatbot UI and founder of Takeoff
Designer behind Design+Code, teaching designers to code, now building the AI builder Aura
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Bootstrapper who built and sold TinyPilot, now writing Refactoring English
Co-founder and CEO of Geocodio and author of Deploy Empathy
Barcelona developer-streamer teaching programming and AI in Spanish via midu.dev academy
Creator of Umami, the open-source, privacy-focused Google Analytics alternative
MicroConf co-founder, Bluetick founder and author of The Single Founder Handbook
Technical co-founder of Affilimate and creator of Blogging for Devs
Founder of Kit (ConvertKit), bootstrapped from a failing side project to $1M+ MRR
$1.19M MRR (ConvertKit)
Solo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler
$250K MRR (verified)
Ads-first indie hacker who sold Talknotes for $200K, now building AdKit
Writer and co-founder of Ship 30 for 30, author of The Art & Business of Online Writing
Co-founder of Senja, bootstrapping a testimonial tool in public to $1M ARR
$1M ARR
Designer and serial maker behind Humaaans, Blush and Lummi, which Udemy acquired
Founder of Smart Passive Income, author of Will It Fly? and Superfans, Pokémon YouTuber
Founder of Starter Story, the founder case-study brand acquired by HubSpot in 2026
$1M/yr
patio11: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Stripe Atlas and Bits about Money
~$275K/yr sales, ~$200K profit (excl. Appointment Reminder)
Creator of Hacking with Swift, the free Swift and SwiftUI learning site
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Author of Company of One and co-founder of Fathom Analytics (retired 2024)
Warsaw-based author of The Product Compass, a top AI and product management newsletter
$126K ARR
Domain investor who turns premium .com names into businesses — and sells onions online
PSPDFKit founder turned creator of OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI agent
Co-founder of ScrapingBee, bootstrapped to $5M ARR and sold to Oxylabs
~$5M ARR (at exit)
Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
~$219K/mo across products
AI-first builder running the IgnytLabs MVP agency, a community and an AI newsletter
Solo developer who built and sold PromptHero; now making RailsFast
London indie founder of Hovercode; built and sold Page Flows
AI creator and vibe coder who co-founded Vibecode and now builds Agent Native
Author of The Mom Test and Write Useful Books, building beta-reading software for authors
Drip founder, MicroConf and TinySeed co-founder, host of Startups for the Rest of Us
Community builder who founded Ministry of Testing and runs Rosieland
Bootstrapped founder of SignWell e-signatures and Bidsketch proposals
Several million ARR (SignWell)- RH
Mac indie developer behind Rectangle, Rectangle Pro, Superkey and Hyperkey
Bootstrapper who grew and sold Fomo, now building the TRMNL e-ink dashboard
Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur
$17.8M/yr (Gumroad, 2025)Syntax podcast co-host and creator of Level Up Tutorials
AI-first builder behind TrendFeed and CodeSpring, teaching non-coders to vibe code
$29K/mo (TrendFeed + CodeSpring)
19-year-old Pakistani maker of Efferd, premium shadcn/ui blocks for developers
$17.4K all-time
Learn-in-public advocate, Coding Career Handbook author and Latent Space host
Ex-LEGO engineer building a bootstrapped SaaS portfolio: FeedHive, Aidbase, LinkDrip
$400K ARR
Full-time open-sourcer maintaining 1,000+ npm packages and dozens of indie Mac apps
Creator of Doing Content Right and Internet Pipes, former a16z podcast host
Designer behind Refactoring UI, Heroicons and Tailwind's look, now at Shopify
Osaka-based solo developer of Inkdrop and the Dev as Life YouTube channel
$10K+ MRR
Creator of TanStack: Query, Table, Router, Start and other open source libraries
Built and sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio; now runs a $1M/month AI portfolio led by Revid
~$1M/mo across products
Productivity YouTuber behind Ultimate Brain, Notion tutorials and the Flylighter clipper
$1M in Notion template sales (2022)
French developer-designer behind the Uneed launch platform and Writizzy
$134K in 2025
Creator and composer of Undertale and Deltarune
Lisbon-based serial SaaS builder behind Podawaa and HumanInbox, with three exits
$66K MRR (Podawaa, verified)
WeddingLovely founder, Hello Web books author, GM at TinySeed and MicroConf
Coined micro-SaaS, sold Storemapper, then founded Calm Company Fund for bootstrappers
~$40K MRR (Storemapper at sale)
Creator of Plausible, the open source and privacy-first Google Analytics alternative
$1M+ ARR
Canadian full-stack JavaScript teacher behind JavaScript30 and the Syntax podcast
Co-founded Senja to $800K ARR; now building Ferndesk, self-updating AI help docs
Seoul-based indie Mac developer of Shotomatic, hands-free screenshot automation
$15.8K all-time
Solo founder who bootstrapped Chatbase from a student project to $10M ARR
$864K MRR (verified)- ZW
Ex-big-tech data engineer who built DataExpert.io into a $4.7M+ education business
$56K MRR + cohorts; $4.7M all-time (verified)
Upgraded profiles (25)
Dan Mindru's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 8 products.
Daniel Nguyen's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products and public revenue ($33.5K/mo).
$33.5K/mo
Dean McPherson's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 1 product and public revenue ($3.5M ARR).
$3.5M ARR
Dmytro Krasun's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products and public revenue (~$36K MRR).
~$36K MRR
Eduardo Borges's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 1 product.
Ervin Kalemi's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products and public revenue ($3M ARR).
$3M ARR
Hieu Dinh's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products and public revenue ($73.8K all-time (verified, 2 apps)).
$73.8K all-time (verified, 2 apps)
Jason Leow's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products and public revenue (~$12K/yr (Plugins for Carrd)).
~$12K/yr (Plugins for Carrd)
John Rush's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 23 products and public revenue ($3M/yr).
$3M/yr
Kerem Başalı's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products.
Kevin Yun's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 1 product and public revenue ($24K MRR).
$24K MRR
Léo Baecker's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 1 product and public revenue ($11K MRR).
$11K MRR
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Marcel Cruz's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products.
Martin Donadieu's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 2 products and public revenue ($30K MRR).
$30K MRR
Moritz Dausinger's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products.
Mubashar Iqbal (Mubs)'s profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products.
Navin Peiris's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 2 products.
Piotr Obidowski's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products and public revenue ($8.2K MRR (Visualizee.ai, verified)).
$8.2K MRR (Visualizee.ai, verified)
Richard Kovacs's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 4 products.
Rossveth Lopez's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 2 products.
Shri Vatz's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products and public revenue ($5K MRR).
$5K MRR
Sidi Jeddou's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 5 products.
Surjith S M's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 6 products and public revenue ($75.7K all-time (Web3Templates)).
$75.7K all-time (Web3Templates)
Woody Hayday's profile was upgraded to a full profile with 3 products.
Claimed profiles (1)
John Rush claimed their IndieMakerList profile.
New products (20)
Benedikt Deicke · Stage CMS
New product listed for Benedikt Deicke: Stage CMS — Content management system for band websites, used by metal bands such as Nightwish, Epica and Sonata Arctica (shut down).
Dan Koe · The 2 Hour Writer
New product listed for Dan Koe: The 2 Hour Writer — Course teaching a daily writing system for building an audience and a one-person business.
Derrick Reimer · Level
New product listed for Derrick Reimer: Level — Team communication app optimised for deep work, abandoned in 2019 and open-sourced (shut down).
Derrick Reimer · StaticKit
New product listed for Derrick Reimer: StaticKit — Toolkit of dynamic components, such as forms, for static sites (acquired).
Eduardo Borges · Viralist.ai
Eduardo Borges launched Viralist.ai — Library of viral Instagram reels and finder for high-engagement creators in each niche.
Giancarlo Buomprisco · ngx-chips
New product listed for Giancarlo Buomprisco: ngx-chips — Open-source tag input component for Angular.
Harry Dry · Copywriting Examples
New product listed for Harry Dry: Copywriting Examples — Curated library of real copywriting examples for inspiration.
Ian Nuttall · Practical Programmatic
New product listed for Ian Nuttall: Practical Programmatic — Course teaching programmatic SEO with real-world examples, which he built and later sold (acquired).
Jack Ellis · Serverless Laravel
New product listed for Jack Ellis: Serverless Laravel — Video course on running and scaling Laravel applications on AWS with Laravel Vapor.
Jack Ellis · SingleStore for Laravel
New product listed for Jack Ellis: SingleStore for Laravel — Video course on moving a Laravel app's database to SingleStore.
Jane Portman · UI Breakfast
New product listed for Jane Portman: UI Breakfast — Design and product strategy brand with a podcast, newsletter and books for SaaS founders.
Jeff Delaney · Bytes
New product listed for Jeff Delaney: Bytes — Twice-weekly JavaScript newsletter, originally from ui.dev, sent to more than 200,000 developers.
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Jeff Delaney · Fireship PRO
New product listed for Jeff Delaney: Fireship PRO — Paid membership with project-based courses, now bundled with ui.dev courses such as react.gg and query.gg.
Kevon Cheung · Chatty Bestie
New product listed for Kevon Cheung: Chatty Bestie — AI best-friend app that helps children aged 3-8 practise spoken English, with progress reports for parents.
Kevon Cheung · AlphaStage
New product listed for Kevon Cheung: AlphaStage — Creative studio running project-based programmes such as 1-1 mentorship and Young Author Camps for Generation Alpha.
Mike Taber · AuditShark
New product listed for Mike Taber: AuditShark — Earlier security and compliance auditing product; its domain was sold in 2022 (shut down).
Navin Peiris · Logster
New product listed for Navin Peiris: Logster — Easily parsable single-line plain-text and JSON logger for Plug and Phoenix applications.
Navin Peiris · phoenix-diff
New product listed for Navin Peiris: phoenix-diff — Open-source tool showing the changes needed when upgrading an Elixir Phoenix application.
Navin Peiris · imgDeliver
New product listed for Navin Peiris: imgDeliver — Affordable global image CDN that auto-optimizes, transforms and delivers images in the ideal format for each device.
Scott Tolinski · Agent Builder
New product listed for Scott Tolinski: Agent Builder — Standard Agents' platform for building, hosting and integrating custom AI agents, which Scott promotes in his X bio; in waitlist early access.
Product status changes (1)
Milestones (17)
Charlie Chapman: Ran RevenueCat's Shipaton hackathon and hosted Launched live panels at Deep Dish Swift.
2025Dan Koe: Said in a September video that his income had settled at $1M-$1.5M a year after peaking near $4M, as he reinvested in software.
2026Eduardo Borges: Dolafy passed 200 live business customers and was profitable by September.
2026Jeff Delaney: Announced in January that Fireship and ui.dev were joining forces and moving all courses to fireship.dev.
2026Jeffrey Way: Released free AI-focused Laravel courses and a native Laracasts iOS app.
2026Jeffrey Way: Announced in January that Laracasts had cut about 40% of staff as AI reshaped how developers learn.
2026Prajwal Tomar: Grew AI MVP Builders to about 2,800 members and his combined X and Instagram audience past 100,000.
2026
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Sidi Jeddou: Released next-to-tanstack, a CLI for migrating Next.js apps to TanStack Start.
2025Wilson Wilson: Launched Ferndesk publicly in August and hit $1K MRR about three months later.
2025Wilson Wilson: Announced in May that he was leaving Senja at about $800K ARR and selling his shares to Olly Meakings.
2025