39 Saas Product Success Stories [2024]
Here are some real life success stories of starting a saas product:
1. AdviNow Medical ($2.4M/year)
James Bates, the CEO and Founder of AdviNOW Medical, came up with the idea for his business after realizing that doctors spend 2/3 of their time on clerical work, leaving less time for patients. He saw the potential for artificial intelligence to automate the front and back office of clinics, allowing doctors to focus on patients and increasing revenue and profitability. With the vision of making healthcare available to everyone through technology, AdviNOW is revolutionizing the industry and seeing significant success with over 1,000 medical locations adopting their automated medical visit system.
How much they make: $2.4M/year
How much did it cost to start: $15M
Current team size: 25
AdviNOW Medical uses artificial intelligence to automate clerical work, resulting in doctors being able to focus solely on patients and patients seeing more doctors every day, leading to increased profitability while solving healthcare issues.
2. Bluetick.io ($42K/year)
Mike Taber came up with the idea for Bluetick.io after experiencing the frustration of sending follow-up emails and tracking responses manually. He validated the idea by conducting customer interviews and collecting prepayments, and then hired a team of developers to build the product. After improving the website and launching, he focused on email marketing to attract and retain customers.
How much they make: $42K/year
Current team size: 0
Bluetick.io is a self-funded SaaS app that helps salespeople, customer success reps and busy founders close the loop with their customers using sequences of automated email follow ups, achieving $1,000 MRR without writing a single line of code through customer validation and prepayments.
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3. Scribie ($1.2M/year)
Rajiv Poddar, the founder of Scribie, originally started with a hardware startup that failed. After repurposing an internal tool into a Skype call recording plugin, he discovered the demand for transcription services. Seeing the opportunity in the online transcription industry, he built Scribie as a crowdsourcing platform with quality control mechanisms, focusing on providing accurate and consistent transcripts. Despite being a solo founder, Rajiv's passion for solving the problem of transcription and his commitment to quality have driven Scribie to surpass $1 million in revenue in 2020.
How much they make: $1.2M/year
How much did it cost to start: $500K
Current team size: 5
Scribie crossed the $1 million revenue mark in 2020 after 12 years in business, remaining a lean, profitable service by focusing on quality over growth and acquiring customers through organic search and word-of-mouth referrals, while CEO Rajiv Poddar aspires to scale the transcription service without compromising quality.
4. Choicely ($840K/year)
Kaius Meskanen, founder of Choicely, came up with the idea for his business while playing around with SMS and voice call voting during a TV show. Realizing the need for more user-friendly engagement tools, he founded Choicely in 2015 and later pivoted to focus on building a mobile app builder that enables businesses to easily create high-quality mobile apps. With $70,000 monthly revenue and a client list that includes ITV Studios and the International Judo Federation, Choicely has experienced rapid growth and success in the media, sports, and entertainment industries.
How much they make: $840K/year
How much did it cost to start: $1M
Current team size: 15
Choicely is a no-code app builder that offers a simple, fast, and affordable platform for companies to build and maintain high-quality mobile apps, bringing in a monthly revenue of $70,000 with clients being leaders in media, sports & entertainment.
5. Tweet Hunter ($2.64M/year)
These two founders worked on launching a product every month. And every time, the tech co-founder brought in a few early sales because he had a small but high-quality audience on Twitter. The marketing founder tried too, but failed.
At the time, they had built up a database containing thousands of tweets that they were using for another product. So he thought he could maybe use the best-performing content as inspiration for his own tweets.
The tech co-founder made a very quick prototype, and… it worked! Writing became better and quicker, and he achieved a higher engagement.
That was the first version of Tweet Hunter: a searchable library of high-performing tweets.
How much they make: $2.64M/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 0
French co-founder of all-in-one Twitter tool, Tweet Hunter, discusses how his personal marketing experience and passion for solving his own problems led to their successful launch and current $60,000 MRR in under 10 months.
6. MiloTreeCart ($72K/year)
Jillian Leslie, co-founder of MiloTree Easy Payments, came up with the idea while running her first online company, Catch My Party. She needed to grow her Pinterest followers for traffic and monetization and built the MiloTree pop-up app to solve that problem. Based on the success and feedback from their own experience, they expanded MiloTree to help other bloggers and creators grow their real followers on multiple platforms.
How much they make: $72K/year
How much did it cost to start: $1.5K
Current team size: 2
Jillian Leslie launched two businesses, Catch My Party and MiloTree, to grow her social media followers and monetize her content, and recently launched MiloTree Easy Payments, a platform to help creators monetize their expertise, which is projected to generate $40k ARR by year's end.
7. Treendly ($12K/year)
While working on another SaaS product, he wondered about what non-essential feature he could take out from an existing product and put into another market where the feature is essential.
He was already running one of my other software products, where he collected e-commerce data. One of the features of that product was trend-spotting for e-commerce merchants.
And so Treendly was born from a side feature of that other product.
How much they make: $12K/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 0
This case study is about a jazz musician turned SaaS founder who bootstraps and simultaneously runs nine products with $8k/month revenue, of which Treendly, a platform that discovers emerging trends, accounts for $1k/month and uses self-taught data collection skills to focus on what is important.
8. OrgPad ($12K/year)
Vít Kalisz, co-founder and CEO of OrgPad, had the idea for the universal digital whiteboard tool after visiting his university teacher in Switzerland, where he convinced him to leave Google and start OrgPad together. The idea had actually been forming since the early 1980s with the work of Czech mathematician Zdeněk Hedrlín, and Vít was determined to bring his ideas to life. Through self-funding and building a strong community, OrgPad has grown rapidly and now helps over 17,000 people with their studies and work.
How much they make: $12K/year
How much did it cost to start: $10K
Current team size: 0
OrgPad is a web-based digital whiteboard that helps over 17,000 people with their studies and work, with a strong community built around the product leading to rapid revenue growth and profitability.
9. Fomo ($1.08M/year)
Ryan Kulp, a marketer and self-taught developer, acquired a social proof tool called Notify in 2016 and rebranded it as Fomo. Through strategic product-led growth, integrations, and a focus on social proof, Fomo scaled its business by 600% and achieved over $1 million in annual revenue.
How much they make: $1.08M/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 5
Fomo, a social proof tool for eCommerce stores, scaled its original business by 600% and now generates >$1m in annual revenue through product-led growth via integrations and an extensive case study library.
10. Checkout Page ($26.4K/year)
Sander, the founder of Checkout Page, came up with the idea while working as a freelance developer and traveling as a digital nomad. He identified a need for an easy way to accept payments in Stripe and saw it as an opportunity to help people make a living online. After launching on Product Hunt and receiving positive feedback, Sander continued to focus on customer support and validation to further develop the product.
How much they make: $26.4K/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 0
Checkout Page is a payment software for independent businesses that processed over $1M in transactions last year and is now aiming to 10x the business to $10k monthly revenue with a new co-founder and focus on user experience and marketing.
11. Tinq.ai ($43.2K/year)
Boulama, the founder of Tinq.ai, came up with the idea for his business while working with his software development company during the pandemic. He noticed the increasing need for businesses to automate processes and saw an opportunity to create an intuitive NLP toolkit. After building a prototype and receiving positive feedback from his clients, he validated the idea and launched Tinq.ai. The platform has since gained traction and achieved $3.5k in revenue with 34 paying customers.
How much they make: $43.2K/year
Current team size: 0
Tinq.ai founder Boulama created a ready-to-use NLP toolkit with products including rewriter, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and classifier, which recently passed the $3.5k revenue mark with 34 paying customers as of January 27, 2022, without spending a dollar on advertising, instead focusing on regular customer engagement.
12. ScrapingAnt ($72K/year)
Oleg, a serial entrepreneur with a technical background, came up with the idea for ScrapingAnt after trying out various e-commerce projects and realizing the need for a reliable data scraping solution. He partnered with his friend Andrii, who had experience in setting up scalable infrastructures for data gathering, and together they created a simple solution based on AWS Lambdas. They launched the business on the RapidAPI marketplace and focused on content marketing and providing excellent customer support to attract and retain customers. The company has achieved profitability and continues to invest in technology and search for their "thingy" that will bring in more customers. Recently, they entered into a collaboration with software development company Codery to expand their capacity.
How much they make: $72K/year
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 2
ScrapingAnt is a web scraping service with an easy-to-integrate API, making it the ideal data extraction infrastructure solution for companies and private entrepreneurs, making a profit of $7.1K in December 2021 and actively looking for technical and non-technical content creators.
13. Mutant Mail ($24K/year)
Abhishek, the founder of Mutant Mail, came up with the idea for his business after facing a server outage and receiving a DMCA complaint due to email monitoring negligence. Realizing the need for a solution to easily manage multiple domain emails, Abhishek and his team developed Mutant Mail, the only server-side solution to this problem. Within two weeks of its soft launch, they acquired 10 paid customers, and within five days of their AppSumo launch, they gained another 100 paid customers.
How much they make: $24K/year
How much did it cost to start: $500
Current team size: 2
Mutant Mail, a SaaS product from Fresent LLC, allows entrepreneurs, small businesses, marketers, and individuals to effortlessly manage all their domain emails from a single inbox, with a max usage account managing close to 245 email ids across 29 domains and acquired 10 paid customers within 2 weeks of its soft-launch and 100 more within 5 days of its AppSumo launch.
14. TeleCRM ($60K/year)
Rahul, the co-founder of Flamon Cloudtech, came up with the idea for TeleCRM while struggling to manage salespeople for his previous SaaS product. Frustrated with the limitations of existing CRM systems, he envisioned a CRM that would simplify data entry and analysis for sales executives. After validating the idea with 800 business owners and spending over 2.5 years developing the product, TeleCRM launched successfully and attracted its first paying customers.
How much they make: $60K/year
How much did it cost to start: $200K
Current team size: 16
Flamon cloudtech's co-founder Rahul shares the story of building and launching TeleCRM, a game-changing Tele-Sales CRM product in beta phase, which is already being used by 20 companies with a monthly recurring revenue of $4500/month and is aiming to capture around 40-50% of the CRM market space in the long term.
15. OneHash, Inc. ($144K/year)
Rohit Gadia, co-founder of OneHash Inc, came up with the idea for their business, OneHash CRM and OneChat, based on the concept of FaaS (FOSS as a Service), which provides the benefits of SaaS at the affordability of FOSS. The company started with a two-person team and a modest investment of $2 million from their savings, and despite initial obstacles, OneHash now has over 410,000 signups and aims to have 10 million users within the next 10 years.
How much they make: $144K/year
How much did it cost to start: $10K
Current team size: 7
OneHash Inc. is a startup that offers affordable FOSS+ SaaS CRM and customer assistance services, with powerful reporting features as well as scalability and extendibility, and currently has over 410,000 signups from all seven continents.
16. Tamly ($6K/year)
Tunç, the founder of Tamly, initially started with a marketplace idea for the beauty industry, but after trial and error, they pivoted and developed Tamly as a lead prospecting platform. With their focus on improving the product and gaining traction, they have secured 80 users in just 4 months and secured pre-seed funding.
How much they make: $6K/year
How much did it cost to start: $20K
Current team size: 1
Tamly is a lead prospecting platform that generated a user base of 80 and secured pre-seed funding, after successfully pivoting from a marketplace for the beauty industry and a business networking platform, and is continuing to gain traction with manual outbound marketing and sales.
17. Findymail ($30K/year)
Built an email finder tool for Twitter called Scrappybird. He realized it was too niche and expanded to the lead generation space – Findymail.
How much they make: $30K/year
How much did it cost to start: $100
Current team size: 0
Findymail founder Valentin Wallyn shares how he went from being a teenage gamer creating digital currency to building successful SaaS businesses, with his latest venture reaching $2,500 in monthly recurring revenue just months after launching.
18. Upvoty ($48K/year)
How much they make: $48K/year
Current team size: 10
Upvoty, a user feedback tool founded in 2018, provides a comprehensive platform for managing customer feedback from various channels and is focusing on SaaS companies with its product.
19. Nureply ($48K/year)
Wanted to find alternative solutions to finding customers. And did not want to only use paid advertising or cold outreach on LinkedIn.
Learned about email marketing and started exploring how to use it to attract customers.
After realizing he was writing the same outreach nearly every day, he wondered if he could build an AI-based tool for emails.
With a background in Machine Learning (ML), and AI topics, and a working knowledge of GPT-3/OpenAI, he started developing an AI-based email marketing tool.
How much they make: $48K/year
How much did it cost to start: $200
Current team size: 0
Onur Geneş founded Nureply to help SaaS and agency owners boost their revenue through email marketing, growing to $4,000 in revenue per month in just four months, without any paid advertising campaigns yet.
20. ProfitWell ($22M/year)
How much they make: $22M/year
Current team size: 85
Find out how ProfitWell, the SaaS platform specializing in marketing analytics, saas metrics and positioning, achieved over $22M in annual revenue and was recently acquired by Paddle for $200M in cash and equity, with over 30,000 companies using its products, including Canva and Autodesk.
21. Jumper Media ($19.2M/year)
How much they make: $19.2M/year
Current team size: 50
Jumper Media-founder Colton Bollinger's Instagram-focused marketing strategies helped him to assist over 3000 small businesses to build brand awareness and boost audience engagement and sales, leading Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Yahoo to recognize him for his efforts.
22. ONEiO ($3.6M/year)
How much they make: $3.6M/year
Current team size:
23. Paddle ($428K/year)
How much they make: $428K/year
Current team size:
24. torecord.it ($15K/year)
How much they make: $15K/year
Current team size: 6
Torecord, an innovative tool to streamline customer-facing communication, founded by three entrepreneurs, has gained impressive traction with 70 people on its waitlist, 5 users on a paid plan generating around $1,250 per month in revenue.
25. Price2Spy® – Competitor price monitoring ($6M/year)
How much they make: $6M/year
Current team size:
A business that started as an internal tool turned into a $155k/mo success with 650 clients and 104 FTEs.
26. Planyard ($200K/year)
How much they make: $200K/year
How much did it cost to start: $50K
Current team size: 0
27. MicroConf ($420K/year)
Besides bootstrapping and selling multiple startups, most recently an email service provider named Drip, Rob has been creating content about startup since 2005. A blog, a podcast, a book,... and a community seemed like a natural next step.
How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size: 2
MicroConf co-founder establishes largest community for bootstrapped founders with over 24 in-person events and thriving online presence.
28. JustReachOut ($1.2M/year)
How much they make: $1.2M/year
Current team size:
Case study of a founder who created a PR research tool that has gained 5k users and $30k in MRR since 2015.
29. Aspireship ($2M/year)
How much they make: $2M/year
Current team size: 25
Aspireship CEO, Corey Kossack, has helped thousands of job seekers secure well-paid positions in the SaaS sales industry, with the platform being discussed in top journals like The Wall Street Business Journal and Phoenix Business Journal.
30. Ahead Intranet ($936K/year)
How much they make: $936K/year
Current team size: 14
Ahead Intranet is a SaaS platform that fosters employee engagement, innovation, and customer satisfaction, while costing 90% less upfront than existing intranet solutions; making $78K/month and growing a team of 14 employees.
31. Golee ($420K/year)
How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size: 26
Golee, founded by Tommaso Guerra, is a SAAS platform that has helped over 2500 sports clubs across Europe simplify day-to-day management and boost income.
32. Userful ($5M/year)
How much they make: $5M/year
Current team size:
33. Locale ($500K/year)
Aditi Sinha and her co-founder Rishabh Jain came up with the idea for Locale.ai while working in consulting jobs in a Data Analytics company. They noticed that Ops and Data teams in large companies were facing operational inefficiencies and lacked specialized software. They decided to build Locale, a SaaS-based control tower platform, to simplify operations for these teams. Today, Locale is used by top operations teams around the world and has customers in 33 countries, with an ARR of $650k.
How much they make: $500K/year
Current team size: 30
Locale.ai co-founder Aditi Sinha discusses the development and success of their SaaS based modern control tower for Ops and Data teams at physical businesses, currently serving clients in 33 countries with an ARR of $650k and plans for future growth and expansion.
34. ClearForMe ($3.9M/year)
How much they make: $3.9M/year
Current team size: 11
ClearForMe is an ingredient SaaS solution used by 300 companies, including Credo Beauty and Ulta Beauty, offering user-friendly ingredient education, filter, and search capabilities based on transparency and customization, with over 1.6 million ingredients.
35. Stravito ($12.1M/year)
How much they make: $12.1M/year
Current team size: 79
Stravito is a powerful knowledge management platform enabling consumer businesses to organize expertise and insights with centralized, accessible information.
36. SmartSuite ($1.2M/year)
How much they make: $1.2M/year
Current team size: 8
SmartSuite gained 400 customers and $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue in just 4 weeks after 3 years of development, offering three monthly seat pricing tiers with the largest deal closed for 150 seats.
37. Workee ($12K/year)
Workee, the user-friendly business management software for freelancers, was born out of the founder's personal experience. When his therapist mom lost her job due to COVID, he realized the need for a simple tool to automate work routines for professionals with online appointments. After conducting interviews and receiving feedback, they launched an MVP and have since attracted customers through paid channels and organic growth. Their future plans include expanding their user base and launching a fully free package to drive growth and retention.
How much they make: $12K/year
Current team size: 6
Workee secures €600,000 in Pre-Seed funding to help users run their online businesses effortlessly; with features including a personal website, bookings, appointments, video calls, and payments.
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