French solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups
TrustMRR, DataFast, CodeFast +7$98K/mo
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Indie makers who build with Stripe (2026)
14 indie makers on IndieMakerList list Stripe in their stack — 8% of makers who share one — including Marc Lou, Patrick McKenzie and Jack Friks. Online payments infrastructure for card payments, subscriptions and invoicing. Below: their products, self-reported revenue and the tools they pair with Stripe.
14
makers
56
products
$1.4M/mo
combined revenue*
5
exits
Official site: stripe.com
Top indie makers using Stripe
14 makers, ranked by profile depth, audience and reported revenue.
patio11: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Stripe Atlas and Bits about Money
Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Starfighter +2~$275K/yr sales, ~$200K pro…
Self-taught Canadian solo builder of Post Bridge and a string of consumer apps
Post Bridge, Lovelee, Curiosity Quench +4$48.9K MRR
Solo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription
Designjoy, Productize Yourself, GatherOS +1$100K MRR
Solo founder who bootstrapped Chatbase from a student project to $10M ARR
Chatbase$864K MRR
Software engineer turned indie hacker behind AI Directories, TransClipper and ColdConvert
AI Directories, TransClipper, ColdConvert +2$7.7K in the last 30 days
Solo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler
Postiz, agent-media$250K MRR
Founder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe
Buttondown, Spoonbill~$15K MRR
Software engineer and sole owner of Fathom, the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative
Fathom Analytics, Serverless Laravel, SingleStore for Laravel
Belfast founder of Gravity SaaS boilerplate, Alertly and the Zero To Paid course
Gravity, Alertly
Ex-CTO turned solopreneur behind the SaaS Pegasus Django boilerplate
SaaS Pegasus, Place Card Me, Scriv +2
Indonesian Webflow developer and solo maker of Unsection, a website section design library
Unsection, Gita design & Webflow subscription$1.4K MRR
Paris designer, CPO and co-founder of book social network Hardcover
Hardcover, LOOT, June
Canadian developer building a portfolio of niche directories, AI tools and SaaS
aitools.fyi, Amazing Newsletters, Invoice Mama +2
Products built by Stripe makers
A selection of the 56 products shipped by these makers.
TrustMRR
trustmrr.com
Database of Stripe-verified startup revenues that doubles as a marketplace for buying and selling startups.
DataFast
datafa.st
Revenue-first web analytics that shows which traffic sources bring paying customers.
Bits about Money
bitsaboutmoney.com
Newsletter on the intersection of technology and finance.
by Patrick McKenzie
Complex Systems
complexsystemspodcast.com
Weekly podcast on the technical and human factors underlying infrastructure, finance and government.
by Patrick McKenzie
Post Bridge
post-bridge.com
Social media scheduler for posting content to 20+ accounts across platforms from one dashboard.
Lovelee
lovelee-app.com
Mobile app for couples.
TrustMRR ↗by Jack Friks
Designjoy
designjoy.co
One-person unlimited design subscription for startups with a flat monthly fee.
$100K MRRby Brett Williams
Productize Yourself
productizeyourself.co
Course teaching how to build a solo productized service business.
$12K MRRby Brett Williams
Chatbase
chatbase.co
Platform to build and deploy AI agents for customer support, sales and product guidance across chat, email and voice.
A
AI Directories
aidirectori.es
Done-for-you service that submits AI and SaaS tools to 100+ directories.
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TransClipper
transclipper.ai
Transcribes and analyzes viral TikToks, Reels and Shorts to reveal their hooks and structure.
TrustMRR ↗by Sergiu Chiriac
Postiz
postiz.com
Open-source, agentic social media scheduler that plans, generates and publishes posts across 20+ networks; self-hostable or cloud.
Revenue of indie makers using Stripe
Combined self-reported revenue: about $1.4M/mo across 9 makers. *Figures come from the makers' own posts and interviews, at different dates, and cover their whole business — not just Stripe projects.
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Yasser ElsaidSolo founder who bootstrapped Chatbase from a student project to $10M ARR
$864K MRRas of 2026-07 - 02
Nevo DavidSolo founder of Postiz, the open-source agentic social media scheduler
$250K MRRas of 2026-10 - 03
Brett WilliamsSolo designer running Designjoy, a $1M+/yr one-person design subscription
$100K MRRas of 2026 - 04
Marc LouFrench solopreneur from Bali behind TrustMRR, DataFast, ShipFast and 30+ startups
$98K/moas of 2026-07 - 05
Jack FriksSelf-taught Canadian solo builder of Post Bridge and a string of consumer apps
$48.9K MRRas of 2026-10 - 06
Patrick McKenziepatio11: Bingo Card Creator, Appointment Reminder, Stripe Atlas and Bits about Money
~$275K/yr sales, ~$200K pro…as of 2012 - 07
Justin DukeFounder of Buttondown, the bootstrapped newsletter platform he started at Stripe
~$15K MRRas of 2022-12 - 08
Sergiu ChiriacSoftware engineer turned indie hacker behind AI Directories, TransClipper and ColdConvert
$7.7K in the last 30 daysas of 2026 - 09
Gita A. RamdhaniIndonesian Webflow developer and solo maker of Unsection, a website section design library
$1.4K MRRas of 2026-10
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Stripe indie makers FAQ
Which indie makers build with Stripe?
Indie makers on IndieMakerList who list Stripe in their stack include Marc Lou, Patrick McKenzie, Jack Friks, Brett Williams and Yasser Elsaid. 14 makers use it in total.
How popular is Stripe with indie makers?
14 makers — 8% of the 170 profiles with a listed stack — use Stripe, ranking it #10 of 80 tools used by two or more makers.
What tools do indie makers use with Stripe?
The tools most often listed alongside Stripe are Next.js (7 makers), React (4 makers), Tailwind CSS (4 makers) and Supabase (4 makers).
How much do indie makers using Stripe earn?
9 makers using Stripe have shared revenue figures, adding up to roughly $1.4M per month combined. The highest is Yasser Elsaid ($864K MRR (verified)). Figures are self-reported and from different dates.
What do indie makers build with Stripe?
Makers using Stripe mostly work in SaaS Founders (11), Educators & Course Creators (5) and Marketing & SEO Tools (5), and have shipped 56 listed products between them.
What is Stripe?
Online payments infrastructure for card payments, subscriptions and invoicing. Official site: https://stripe.com
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