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I'm obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them.

Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees:
1/ Star Dew Valley

• It's a country-life role-playing game

• Developed by Eric Barone

• It has generated $300M+ in revenue in 6 years

• Eric could become the first 1-person founder to do $1B+ in sales

Here's how he did it

2/ BuiltWith

• It helps you find what technologies and services a website uses

• Founded by Gary Brewer

• It generates $14M in revenue per year

Here's the full story of how Gary built it and operated with 0 employees

3/ Viral Nova

• It's a curation site for the most viral content on the Internet (similar to Buzzfeed)

• Founded by Scott Delong

• At its peak, it generated $5-$10M per year in revenue and 100M readers per month with 0 funding and 0 employees
4/ Photopea

• It's a free photo and graphics editor

• Made by Ivan Kutskir

• It generates 10M visits per month and ~$1.5M in revenue per year

• People spend 1.5 million hours a month using Photopea
6/ Digital Inspiration

• It builds google plugins for docs, sheets, slides, and more

• Founded by Amit Agarwal

• It gets 5M visits per month and earns $10M in revenue per year

• 40M+ have downloaded the plugins

Here's how Amit built it

6/ Rego apps

• 3 of its apps (5-0 police scanner, remote for tesla apps, and police scanner+) are the most downloaded apps in their category)

• Founded by Allen Wong

•He has made over $100M+ from these apps

Here's his Reddit AMA

www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/68a6dg/im_that_multimillionaire_app_developer_who/
7/ Portfolio of diverse businesses

• @thejustinwelsh has built several businesses that generate $3M+ in revenue (94% margins)

• He earns through consulting, courses, paid community, newsletter sponsorships, and more

Here's how Justin did it

@thejustinwelsh 8/ Brumate

• It sells adult beverage (beer, wine) cans to keep them cold for 24+ hours

• Founded by Dylan Jacob

• He made $20M in revenue with 0 employees

• It has 2.5M+ worldwide customers

Read the full story

9/ Portfolio of diverse businesses

• @levelsio has built several companies—remote job marketplace, AI photography, nomad community, and others—that make ~$3M+ in revenue

Listen to his excellent interview on the MFM pod

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ej29G7ZGg
10/ @carrd

• It's a one-page website builder

• Founded by @ajlkn

• It generates $1M+ ARR

• 4M+ sites have been built on Carrd
@carrd @ajlkn I love the idea of 1-person businesses. That being said, I enjoy building lemon.io with the team.

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@shl started @gumroad as a VC-backed startup but turned it around to a profitable business with no full-time employees and $200m GMV.

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