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#long-game case studies
2 sourced case studies tagged #long-game. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.
- Rezi: a Reddit resume template that became an AI resume builder with verified $240K MRR
- Photopea: a one-person browser photo editor making about $100K a month from ads
AI tools4 sources · 2 min
Rezi: a Reddit resume template that became an AI resume builder with verified $240K MRR
Jacob Jacquet posted an ATS-friendly resume on Reddit in 2015, built Rezi in Seoul while teaching English, and plugged in GPT-3 weeks after OpenAI let him in. Stripe-verified revenue on TrustMRR shows where early AI adoption led.
resumeai-writergpt-3
Consumer apps2 sources · 2 min
Photopea: a one-person browser photo editor making about $100K a month from ads
Ivan Kutskir spent years building a free, browser-based Photoshop alternative on his own. By 2021 he said it made about $1M a year, 90% from ads, on $50 a year of hosting.
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