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Base44: $10,000 side project to $80m Wix sale in six months
Maor Shlomo built an AI app builder alone, kept all of it, and sold to Wix for $80m in cash six months after launch. SaaStr reports the product now runs at $200m ARR inside Wix.
One 2021 TikTok now a brand growing 57% a year
Mia Lind posted a video about "hot girl walks" four years ago. Inc. reports the idea now runs as a business with a 57 per cent annualised growth rate and brand work with Nutella and Spotify.
Estate agent builds listing-first social tool, tests two platforms
Libby Mays says MLSocial takes a property listing through to a published Facebook or Instagram post. Those two platforms are the only ones tested end to end so far.
Photographer credited in three magazines says selling is the job
Kayleigh Morin built a photography business while working in sales. She reckons the sales part is the part that kept it alive.
Tampa solo founder builds AI research platform that exposes when AI models disagree
MelMat asks eight AI models the same question and prints where they disagree. One recent brief came back with 51% consensus, which is rather the point.
Funding Atlas lists 27,000 funding opportunities in one database
David Raynor spent his career in film. At 75 he has built a search engine for grants, accelerators and angel investors, and says it now holds more than 27,000 entries.
Founder revives $15,000 browser arcade four years after shutting it
One game, no cofounders, and an EC2 bill that outlived the AWS credits. The arcade is back as a weekend project under a new name.
One founder, 15 Devin agents, $20,000 in a month
Ryan Carson runs his family law software company alone, with a fleet of cloud coding agents and a handwritten to-do list. Here is how the setup is organised and what it costs.
Solo founder runs CAD software she has never learned, via Codex
Yana Welinder builds garments, vendor outreach and a Stripe-connected storefront on her own, using a written spec and agents that drive the software for her. Here is the workflow she demonstrated.
Gumroad cut 75% of staff, then became a good business
Sahil Lavingia raised $8m at 19 to build a billion-dollar company. He ended up running it alone from Utah — and says that was the better outcome.
2.9 million new US businesses filed in five months
Registered Agents Inc. counts nearly 2.9 million formations in the first five months of 2026. Most of them will never hire anyone.