Co-founder of lemlist, bootstrapped from $1K to tens of millions in ARR
lemlist, lemwarm, lemcal +3~$40M ARR
💰 Collection · 29 makers
$1M+ ARR Club: indie makers to know in 2026
Indie makers who publicly reported crossing $1M in annual revenue, largely bootstrapped. This curated list has 29 makers, including Guillaume Moubeche, Sahil Lavingia and Nathan Barry. Revenue figures are self-reported from public sources.
Makers in $1M+ ARR Club
Ranked by reported monthly revenue.
Founder of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur
Gumroad, Flexile, Helper$17.8M/yr
Founder of Kit (ConvertKit), bootstrapped from a failing side project to $1M+ MRR
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)$1.19M MRR
Built and sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio; now runs a $1M/month AI portfolio led by Revid
Revid, Outrank, SuperX +6~$1M/mo across products
Founder and CEO of Ghost, the open source, non-profit publishing platform
Ghost, AlcoveGhost: ~$11.1M ARR
Solo founder who bootstrapped Chatbase from a student project to $10M ARR
Chatbase$864K MRR
Co-founder of ScrapingBee, bootstrapped to $5M ARR and sold to Oxylabs
ScrapingBee, PricingBot~$5M ARR
Co-founder of ScrapingBee and author of The Java Web Scraping Handbook
ScrapingBee$5M+ ARR
Doctor-turned-YouTuber, author of Feel-Good Productivity and Part-Time YouTuber Academy
Part-Time YouTuber Academy, Superfocus, 6med$4M+ in 2022
Creator of Tailwind CSS who built a multi-million-dollar business on open source
Tailwind CSS, Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI), Refactoring UI +4Mid-seven figures/yr
Co-founder of Paperform, a bootstrapped form builder grown to $3.5M+ ARR
Paperform$3.5M ARR
Solo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler
Postiz, agent-media$250K MRR
Running a bootstrapped empire of 24+ SaaS products and directories
Unicorn Platform, SEObot, ListingBott +20$3M/yr
Albanian founder who bootstrapped Publer social media management to $3M ARR
Publer, Linkie, Kibo$3M ARR
Serial maker of Sizzy, Benji and Tinkerer Club who teaches devs to ship
Sizzy, Benji, Tinkerer Club +6$223K in 30 days
Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
Photo AI, Vibe Jam, Interior AI +5~$219K/mo across products
Former CTO who built Draft.dev to $2.5M and now acquires podcast agencies
Draft.dev, The Podcast Consultant, Rise25$2.5M/yr
Bootstrapped founder of SignWell e-signatures and Bidsketch proposals
SignWell, BidsketchSeveral million ARR
Solo developer of Photopea, the free browser-based Photoshop alternative
Photopea~$200K/mo
Designer and co-founder of Typefully; previously built and sold Mailbrew
Typefully, Mailbrew, Boxy Suite +3Typefully: ~$2M ARR
Solopreneur who passed $10M in revenue with a one-person business
The LinkedIn Operating System, The Content Operating System, The Saturday Essay$10M+ total revenue
Vietnamese indie hacker behind TypingMind, DevUtils, and exits Black Magic and Xnapper
TypingMind, DevUtils, Black Magic +3$142K/mo
Solo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription
Designjoy, Productize Yourself, GatherOS +1$100K MRR
Ex-Cisco engineer who built Testimonial.to and grew acquired PDF.ai into a top AI PDF tool
Testimonial.to, PDF.ai, Chat.sh +5$1.3M ARR
One-person business writer behind The Art of Focus and co-founder of the Eden content app
Eden, The 2 Hour Writer$1M-$1.5M/yr
French solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups
TrustMRR, DataFast, CodeFast +7$98K/mo
Physicist turned permissionless entrepreneur, co-founder of Sales.co
Sales.co, Founder Flywheel, Opportunities.so +5$90K/mo
Co-founder of Plausible Analytics, writer on privacy and bootstrapped marketing
Plausible Analytics$1M+ ARR
Creator of Plausible, the open source and privacy-first Google Analytics alternative
Plausible Analytics$1M+ ARR
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$1M+ ARR Club FAQ
Who is in the $1M+ ARR Club collection?
29 indie makers are in this collection, including Guillaume Moubeche, Sahil Lavingia, Nathan Barry, Thibault Louis-Lucas (Tibo) and John O'Nolan.
What qualifies a maker for $1M+ ARR Club?
Indie makers who publicly reported crossing $1M in annual revenue, largely bootstrapped.
Which indie maker reports the highest revenue?
Guillaume Moubeche reports ~$40M ARR (lempire) (as of 2025), the highest in this collection. Figures are self-reported.
What do makers in $1M+ ARR Club build?
The most common categories are SaaS Founders (19), Marketing & SEO Tools (10) and Creators & Writers (10).
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