Starter Story - $1M per year with ONE skill

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Today, enjoy 5 case studies from founders with ONE specific skill.

Estimated read time: 1 minute 34 seconds.

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1. The Orange Juice 🍊

$1M/year with ONE skill

This dude is the definition of an entrepreneur:

– Started his business with just a laptop and camera.

– Emailed thousands of people to land his first client.

– All by offering his services for ONE skill.

In less than 2 years, he scaled it to $25K per month.

And today he does over $84K per month 🤯

Read his first interview here.

2. The Coffee ☕

$15K/month WordPress plugins

Classic indie hacker story:

– Quits tech job
– Travels the world
– Builds apps on the side

But a lot of his projects failed.

Until he found this one niche

And his business exploded to almost 1M downloads and 50K customers.

Crazy – you gotta read this

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3. The Eggs 🍳

$2.4M/year business of the future

This guy is 10 steps ahead of the game.

He’s building in one of the biggest categories of the future.

And he scaled it to 500K visitors per month and over 150K customers 🤯

Check out the full case study

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4. The Toast 🥪

$50K MRR from 3 projects

Meet another indie hacker legend.

He’s built a bunch of projects during his life

But he found a hyper-specific niche and is dominating.

With 3 projects he does over $640K per year (all bootstrapped)

Read this breakdown