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Online Solitaire ($10K MRR) - The Big Lesson Learnt

Online Solitaire ($10K MRR) - The Big Lesson Learnt

Plus 4 more profitable indie projects & 5 interesting websites

Chase
January 31, 2023

Hi Friends 😀

A warm welcome to the 11 new subscribers who’ve joined since the last edition!

This is Chase from The Day 1 Lab, where I share examples of useful and interesting online businesses and side-projects (and how much 💵 they make) every week!

Let’s dive in!

Project Highlights ⭐️

Online-solitaire (💵~$10K MRR)

Classic online solitaire game playable in browser

👨‍🚀Founder: Holger Sindbaek, Solo-founder

🌎️Location: USA

💰️Funding: Bootstrapped

💳️Monetization: Advertising

🏘️Category: Web app, iOS app

💡Biggest lesson: Find apps from App Store/Play Store that had a lot of downloads but bad reviews. If an app had a lot of downloads and bad reviews, then create something better and there would be an audience for it.

Tiiny.host (💵~$9.5K MRR)

The simplest way to host & share your web project (in static format)

👨‍🚀Founder: Phillip Baretto, Solo-founder

🌎️Location: UK

💰️Funding: Bootstrapped

💳️Monetization: Subscription

🏘️Category: SaaS

💡Biggest lesson: As a start, apply your skillsets to trends with your skillsets, preferably in a topic you are interested in or have a background in. If you are building a tool, focus on SEO early on. It will save you time for the future.

Senja.io (💵~$2K MRR)

Gather and share text or video user testimonials in a few clicks

👨‍🚀Founders: Wilson Wilson, Oliver Meakings

🌎️Location: USA

💰️Funding: Bootstrapped

💳️Monetization: Subscription

🏘️Category: SaaS

💡Biggest lesson: To speed up growth, 1) Build a valuable product that solve a pain point for your targeted audience 2) Create a seamless onboarding experience 3) Use multiple acquisition channels (FB, Twitter, Reddit etc.)

PageFactory.app (💵~$1.2K MRR)

Automatic content creation using programmatic SEO

👨‍🚀Founder: Allison Seboldt, Solo-founder

🌎️Location: USA

💰️Funding: Bootstrapped

💳️Monetization: Subscription

🏘️Category: SaaS

💡Biggest lesson: Launched a free SEO course related to your project increase signups for the project. Also, give promotion/deals 1 month in planned sequence before major holidays (e.g. Black Friday) to drive signups.