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Carrd founder AJ confirmed about $100K MRR and $1.2M ARR on The SaaS Podcast, then went quiet. The real revenue number, the $2M raise he took anyway, and why a $19-per-year, one-person business staying flat is the whole point.
The month my SaaS hit $21,000 MRR I signed my first enterprise deal: one $40,000-a-year contract worth 16% of my revenue. A first-person 2026 diary on the 280-question security review, the SSO build I pulled off the roadmap, net-60 cash delays, concentration risk, and the three rules I wrote afterward.
beehiiv is cited at around $30M in annual revenue for 2026, but founder Tyler Denk's own numbers show only ~$20M is recurring software, with ~$10M from ads and a marketplace. Here is what the figure actually counts, the growth curve, the venture backing behind it, and the operator lesson.
The month I finally quit my day job my SaaS read $11,200 MRR. A first-person 2026 diary on the number that actually let me leave (it was not the gross one), the test I used before giving notice, the runway math, and why my first full-time month grew slower, not faster.
Hypefury, the bootstrapped X (Twitter) growth tool by Samy Dindane and Yannick Veys, rode from about $300/mo to a $20K MRR peak, then publicly posted that revenue was declining. Third-party trackers now estimate roughly $567K ARR by 2024. The real lesson sits next to the number.
Third-party trackers peg Transistor.fm at roughly $4.5M ARR. The founders only ever confirmed the milestones: $1,400 in month one to "millions in ARR." The real story is the 50/50, no-VC structure two people chose on purpose.
A competitor cloned my SaaS the month it hit $30K MRR. The real 90-day revenue ledger, what the lawyer said, the three weeks I wasted, and the moat a copy cannot take.
Ghost publishes its finances live: $10.8M ARR, $907K MRR, 3.05% churn, 30,441 customers. The real story is not the number. It is the non-profit structure that means the company can never be sold.
The month my SaaS crossed $4,300 MRR I was finally ramen profitable. A first-person 2026 diary on what actually cleared my account after fees and tax, why the milestone felt smaller than the fantasy, and the checklist I use now.
Plausible crossed $1M ARR in 2022 from $64 MRR in 2019, bootstrapped and profitable. The real growth lever was not privacy. It was hiring a distribution co-founder.
One acquired customer walked out with almost a third of my $24K MRR in a single month. A first-person 2026 diary on customer concentration risk, the cashflow scramble, and the concentration cap I live by now.
