5 Cloud Based Service Success Stories [2024]

Updated: November 1st, 2023
Start A Cloud Based Service

Here are some real life success stories of starting a cloud based service:

1. OpsLyft ($420K/year)

Aayush, the Founder & CEO of OpsLyft, came up with the idea for his business while working as an Infrastructure and DevOps engineer at a startup. He saw the immense costs incurred by the company on cloud services and the struggle to account for those costs. He built a solution that saved the company close to a million dollars and realized that this problem was industry-wide, leading him to start OpsLyft.

How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size: 25

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OpsLyft is a two-year-old high-growth startup built out of India and managing over $100 million of cloud investments each year, offering help to enterprise software companies globally to manage their cloud infrastructure costs without compromising the performance and reliability of applications running on it.

About
Aayush started OpsLyft over 4 years ago
Revenue
Aayush grew the business to $35K/month
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2. Bugfender | Cloud Remote Logger, Crash Reporter, In-App Feedback ($300K/year)

How much they make: $300K/year
Current team size:

Bugfender: Scaling an Internal Remote Logger to €9,000/Month

Case study: How a debugging tool for mobile applications went from being an internal tool to making over $11,000/month.

Revenue
They grew the business to $25K/month
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Learn more about starting a cloud based service:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a cloud based service?
-> Pros and cons of a cloud based service

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established cloud based service
-> Marketing ideas for a cloud based service

Other resources

3. Brainboard ($480K/year)

How much they make: $480K/year
Current team size:

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Revenue
Chafik grew the business to $40K/month
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