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#hacker-news case studies
3 sourced case studies tagged #hacker-news. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.
- Plausible Analytics: $1M ARR with no ads, by picking a fight with Google
- Lovable: a vibe-coding app builder that says it hit $100M ARR 8 months after its first $1M
- Nomad List: a crowdsourced spreadsheet that became a paid community for remote workers
SaaS2 sources · 2 min
Plausible Analytics: $1M ARR with no ads, by picking a fight with Google
A two-person open-source analytics tool took 324 days to reach $400 MRR, then grew to $1M ARR through blog posts that hit the Hacker News front page.
open-sourcesaascontent-marketing
Vibe-coded6 sources · 2 min
Lovable: a vibe-coding app builder that says it hit $100M ARR 8 months after its first $1M
A Swedish team rebranded GPT Engineer as Lovable, a browser app builder for non-developers. Company-reported growth was extreme; so was the security lesson for the apps people built with it.
aivibe-codingno-code
Consumer apps7 sources · 2 min
Nomad List: a crowdsourced spreadsheet that became a paid community for remote workers
Pieter Levels tested demand with a public Google Sheet before writing code, hit #1 on Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident, and turned the traffic into a paid membership.
solobuild-in-publicproduct-hunt
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