GUIDE · UPDATED OCT 24, 2026
Who makes $10K MRR, and how long did it take them?
Updated · First published · By Coffounder
92 founders we follow on X say they make $10K a month or more. The newest of these numbers was posted 2 days ago.
How long does it take? We watched 39 of them climb past $10K. Counted from the first number they posted, half got there in under 271 days. The fastest took 22 days, the slowest 1696 days. That is from their first post, not from launch day, so the real time is longer.
MRR means monthly recurring revenue: the money that comes in every month from people who pay every month.
- 92
- founders
- 271 days
- middle climb
- $4.2M
- the biggest
How long it took, in their own words
I made this post exactly a year ago about my goals for @chatbase for 2025. We’re now doing over $8M ARR and growing fast. We had a lot of wins in 2025 but also made a lot of mistakes. I think the biggest mistake bootstrapped…
Yasser@yasser_elsaid_ · Read on X 2018: @acemtp, @peernohell, and I met at @joinstationf and decided to start @lemlist together 🔥 With only 1000 EUR in our pockets 😅 3.5 years later, we hired 35+ people and reached $8M ARR, bootstrapped. Sending love to everyone…
Guillaume Moubeche@GuillaumeMbh · Read on X We got our first $100k angel check exactly 3 years ago Today, we hit $500k MRR! We now make the equivalent of that check every 6 days Cool milestone just in time for summer break Growing in summer is hard mode, so time to lock in…
David Park@Davidjpark96 · Read on X @cannyHQ hit $1.5m ARR recently! 🎉 1st $500k ARR: 2 years 3 months* 2nd $500k ARR: 1 year 2 months 3rd $500k ARR: 8 months
Sarah Hum@sarahhum · Read on X YC rejected us at $1m ARR. When we applied, we had $170k ARR. At our interview in SF, we had $700k ARR. But… still rejected. How did we react? We continued to cook, and hit $1m ARR a few days later. If we gave a single fuck about…
Gaurav@gauravsbuilding · Read on X It's official ✨ @SenjaHQ just hit $1,000,000 ARR 3 years 9 months 3,000 paying customers 100% bootstrapped and #buildinpublic 2-person team
Olly@helloitsolly · Read on X
$10K to $50K a month 42 founders
$50K to $250K a month 33 founders
$250K a month and up 17 founders
Bigger companies, most of them with a team.
The ones we watched climb past $10K 39 founders
From the first number they posted to the first one at $10K or more.
Growth is the change over their last 12 months of numbers. Days is the time between the first and the last of those posts.
Can you still hit $10K MRR in 2026?
Yes. 30 founders on this list posted a number of $10K or more in the last 90 days. Some of them launched less than a year ago.
Can one person do it alone?
Yes. Some of them say they work alone:
Just crossed $8M ARR at Rivo, 100% bootstrapped, solo founder, and profitable. Here's the numbers: CONTEXT: We're a retention platform for Shopify Plus working with brands like Comfrt, Ridge, Dr Squatch, True Classic, Chubbies…
Stuart Chaney@stuartchaney · Read on X Since everyone is suddenly talking about ARR, with still 8 months left in the year… We just crossed $4.5M ARR 🥳 But I'm very confident we'll end the year close to $6M. Fully bootstrapped, solo founder 🤷🏻
Ervin Kalemi@ervinkalemi · Read on X Postiz passed $2m ARR!!!!! I still don't believe that one person without a team can achieve something like that; it's like a dream. Thank you to everybody who followed my journey!
Nevo David@wickedguro · Read on X
Can you trust these numbers?
We can't see anyone's bank account. A post on X is a claim, so we show it as one: every number links to the post it came from, with the date. Our filter drops posts that sell a course, posts about somebody else's app, and goals that were not reached yet. Read how we check.
If a number looks too good, open the post and read the replies. People on X are quick to ask for proof.
Where people ask this
Real threads with the same question. Read the answers there, then compare them with the numbers here.