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67 One-Person Companies & How Much They Make
A one-person company is a business with a single founder and no employees, often using contractors, AI and software instead of hires. These are the solo founders in the directory who publish their revenue, ranked by monthly revenue. Figures are self-reported by the founders unless marked verified.
Who's included: Run by a solo founder (no co-founder, no employees, contractors allowed), still active, and the founder has shared a revenue figure.
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Postizby Nevo David · 2024Open-source, agentic social media scheduler that plans, generates and publishes posts across 20+ networks; self-hostable or cloud.
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All-in-one Life OS for tasks, habits, routines, journaling, fasting, workouts and nutrition across web, mobile and desktop.
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Photo AIby Pieter Levels · 2023AI photo generator that trains a model on your selfies to create realistic photos and videos of you.
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Photopeaby Ivan Kutskir · 2013Free advanced image editor in the browser that supports PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and RAW files.
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Course on building an audience and business on LinkedIn using Justin's daily content system.
$10M+ total revenue (lifetime) - 6
TypingMindby Tony Dinh · 2023Chat frontend for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other LLMs, with agents, plugins and local data, sold as a lifetime license plus team plans.
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Designjoyby Brett Williams · 2017One-person unlimited design subscription for startups with a flat monthly fee.
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AI content workspace for creators and marketers: research across social platforms, an AI strategist, a canvas, scheduling, analytics and a storefront for courses and coaching.
$1M-$1.5M/yr - 9
Database of Stripe-verified startup revenues that doubles as a marketplace for buying and selling startups.
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Bannerbearby Jon Yongfook · 2019API and no-code integrations that auto-generate images and videos from templates for marketing and social media.
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Scans Pokémon trading cards to identify them and estimate their value.
$70K/mo - 12
Post Bridgeby Jack Friks · 2024Social media scheduler for posting content to 20+ accounts across platforms from one dashboard.
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Early-stage fund for bootstrapped, profitable 'calm companies' using the Shared Earnings Agreement; paused new investments in 2024.
~$40K MRR (Storemapper at sale) - 14
Nature sound app with 3D sound and a noise shape mixer, successor to Windy.
$40K MRR - 15
AudioPenby Louis Pereira · 2023AI voice notes app that converts rambling speech into clear, structured writing.
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Screenshot API that renders any URL, HTML or Markdown into clean screenshots, now with an MCP server for AI agents.
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BoltAIby Daniel Nguyen · 2023Private AI workspace for Mac power users that works with many models and inside any app.
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Capgoby Martin Donadieu · 2022Open-source live update (OTA) platform for Capacitor apps, shipping fixes without app store review.
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TrendFeedby Sebastian Volkis · 2025Scans thousands of breaking news articles, ranks them by viral potential and helps creators turn them into short videos.
- 20KKey Valuesby Lynne Tye · 2017
Job board that matches software engineers with companies and teams that share their values and culture.
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Open-source, end-to-end encrypted backend for building secure web apps without a server.
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Healthchecks.ioby Pēteris Caune · 2015Cron job and scheduled task monitoring that sends alerts when expected pings stop arriving; open source and self-hostable.
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Notion Second Brainby Easlo · 2022All-in-one Notion system for organizing projects, notes and resources, based on Building a Second Brain.
$239K in 2022 - 24
Minimalist premium Notion templates for personal and work organization.
$15K+ MRR (first mobile app) - 25
supastarterby Jonathan Wilke · 2021SaaS starter kit with auth, billing, organizations and emails for Next.js, Nuxt and TanStack Start.
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Uptime, synthetic, cron and SSL monitoring with on-call alerts, incident management and branded status pages.
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Paid Substack newsletter with AI and product management playbooks, templates and courses.
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Bluetickby Mike Taber · 2017Automated warm and cold email follow-ups that stop when the recipient replies, increasingly sold to agencies.
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Inkdropby Takuya Matsuyama · 2016Markdown note-taking app for developers with cloud sync and a plugin ecosystem.
$10K+ MRR - 30
Infografia.appby Robin Kasta · 2025AI tool that generates customizable infographics.
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Livewireby Caleb Porzio · 2019Full-stack framework for Laravel that builds dynamic interfaces without leaving PHP.
$112K/yr from GitHub Sponsors - 32
Makerkitby Giancarlo Buomprisco · 2022B2B SaaS starter kit in Supabase, Drizzle and Prisma flavours for Next.js and TanStack Start.
$8,606 in a month (Makerkit, month 6) - 33
Illustrated programming zines and posters explaining computing fundamentals, sold as PDFs and in print.
$101,558 in 2018 (zine business) - 34
Visualizee.aiby Piotr Obidowski · 2023AI rendering platform that turns sketches and 3D models into photorealistic visualizations for architects and designers.
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AI Directoriesby Sergiu Chiriac · 2024Done-for-you service that submits AI and SaaS tools to 100+ directories.
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MagicPatternby Jim Raptis · 2020Toolbox of 30+ generators for patterns, gradients, blobs and backgrounds with SVG and CSS export.
~$6.5K MRR across three products - 37
Adaptive brightness, contrast, volume and input control for external monitors on macOS.
$3.5K–$9K/mo (2023) - 38
Indian gifting brand selling ready-to-gift hampers and accessories for women.
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Create step-by-step guides, SOPs, interactive walkthroughs and product demos from a single recording.
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LaunchRepoby Aleksandar Jovanovic · 2026Directory submission playbooks and tracker that let an AI coding agent launch a SaaS on hundreds of directories.
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Directory to find and compare Singapore clinics, hospitals, GPs and specialists by location and specialty.
S$5K/mo (portfolio) - 42
OmniNotchby Nikhil Barik · 2026Mac notch app bundling about twenty tools such as an on-device assistant, now playing, clipboard and file shelf.
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Mac screen recorder with automatic zoom, cursor tracking, webcam overlay, captions and a built-in editor, sold as a one-time purchase.
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Launchieby Nick Friedrich · 2025Launchpad replacement for macOS 26 Tahoe and later with custom layouts, folders and search.
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Scheduling, analytics and growth tool for Threads.
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Native macOS app that compresses videos, images, PDFs and GIFs offline with minimal quality loss.
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AI looksmaxxing app.
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Paid community, SEO course and playbook for building profitable directory websites.
$2K+/mo (first directory) - 49
AI review assistant that checks iOS app metadata, screenshots and rejections against Apple guidelines.
~$2K/mo - 50
Free digital audit checklists, quality tools and audit report resources.
$2,000/mo - 51
ZenModeby Jonathan Lis · 2026LinkedIn outreach automation that finds prospects, writes and sends messages and manages replies.
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Unsectionby Gita A. Ramdhani · 2023Curated, section-first library of website design inspiration with a free tier and $5/mo Pro plan.
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AI co-writer for X that learns your voice and generates posts.
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Plugins, widgets, components and scripts that extend Carrd sites.
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Premium Carrd templates with custom features, plus design services.
$1K/mo - 56S
WordPress plugin for running giveaways and contests that grow email lists and traffic.
~$1K/mo product MRR (self-reported) - 57
Launch Llama Toolsby Tom Otto · 2026Free startup launch platform and AI tools directory with do-follow backlinks and a founder newsletter.
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AI community moderation for Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp and more that blocks spam, scams and trolls.
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AI tweet co-pilot that turns messy thoughts into human-sounding posts for founders.
$397 MRR (TrustMRR) - 62
AutoLister AIby Sami · 2025AI listing assistant that writes titles, descriptions and hashtags for Vinted and eBay sellers from item photos.
- 63RRocking Dashboardsby Moonfarm · 2025
Financial data dashboards for crypto-treasury stocks such as BMNR and SBET.
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MathPalby Kimi Nguyen · 2026AI math solver Chrome extension that returns step-by-step solutions for any problem on screen.
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Searchable, AI-tagged archive of bookmarks saved on X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram and GitHub.
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Founder's revenue (self-reported): figures are verbatim from the makers, their publishers or press reports, with sources on each maker's profile.
Former makers who would qualify
1 maker who no longer builds their own products — most now work at a company. Kept for the record.
Frequently asked questions
What is a one-person company?
A business run by a single founder without employees. Solo founders typically use freelancers, AI tools and software for work a small team would otherwise do.
How much do one-person companies make?
Among the 67 solo founders here who share their numbers, the median is about $8,184 per month. The top earners, such as Nevo David, Kitze, Pieter Levels, make well over $100,000 a month.
What is the most successful one-person company?
By self-reported revenue in this directory: Nevo David (Postiz), at $250K MRR (verified).
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Top makers on this list
Nevo David
@wickedguro24K followers
Solo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler
Postiz, agent-media$250K MRR
Kitze
@thekitze105K followers
Serial maker of Sizzy, Benji and Tinkerer Club who teaches devs to ship
Sizzy, Benji, Tinkerer Club +6$223K in 30 days
Pieter Levels
@levelsio Portugal979K followers
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
Ivan Kutskir
@ivankutskir Czechia4.9K followers
Solo developer of Photopea, the free browser-based Photoshop alternative
Photopea~$200K/mo
Justin Welsh
@thejustinwelsh United States592K followers
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
Tony Dinh
@tdinh_me205K followers
Vietnamese indie hacker behind TypingMind, DevUtils, and exits Black Magic and Xnapper
TypingMind, DevUtils, Black Magic +3$142K/mo