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GUIDE · UPDATED OCT 24, 2026

How much do indie hackers make?

Updated · First published · By Coffounder

Short answer: the indie hacker in the middle of our list makes $6.6K a month. We looked at the newest MRR that 204 founders posted on X. 49 make under $1K a month. 92 make $10K or more, and 26 make $100K or more.

Every number comes from the founder's own post, with a link, so you can read it yourself. MRR means monthly recurring revenue: the money that comes in every month from people who pay every month.

Keep one thing in mind. People post their good months, and founders who make $0 mostly stay quiet. So if you could count every indie hacker, not only the ones who post, the middle would be lower than ours.

204
founders
$6.6K
in the middle
24%
under $1K
$4.2M
the biggest

How the money is spread

  • Under $1K49 24%
  • $1K to $10K63 31%
  • $10K to $50K42 21%
  • $50K to $100K24 12%
  • $100K and up26 13%

The biggest group is $1K to $10K a month, with 63 founders.

Every founder, biggest MRR first 50 founders

The top 50. See all 204 in the founder tracker.

Every founder, biggest MRR first: mrr, posted, growth, post
#FounderMRRPostedGrowthPost
1Nathan Barry@nathanbarry · 152K followers$4.2M-Read on X “$50M ARR”
2oliverb@oliverbrocato · 57K followers$1.3M+200%Read on X “$15m ARR”
3David Park@Davidjpark96 · 78K followers$1M+36%Read on X “$1M MRR”
4Tibo@tibo_maker · 216K followers$1M+265%Read on X “$1m MRR”
5John O'Nolan@JohnONolan · 40K followers$833K+25%Read on X “$10M ARR”
6Quentin@Quentin_Rnv · 5.4K followers$810K+16%Read on X “$810K MRR”
7Yasser@yasser_elsaid_ · 61K followers$667K+9%Read on X “$8M ARR”
8Stuart Chaney@stuartchaney · 2.6K followers$667K+14%Read on X “$8M ARR”
9Guillaume Moubeche@GuillaumeMbh · 25K followers$667K+100%Read on X “$8M ARR”
10Robby Frank@RobbyFrank · 5.6K followers$550K+293%Read on X “$550K MRR”
11CrowdReply@CrowdReply_io · 17K followers$500K+20%Read on X “$6M ARR”
12Marie@MarieMartens · 17K followers$417K+67%Read on X “$5M ARR”
13Pierre de Wulf@PierreDeWulf · 38K followers$417K0%Read on X “$5,000,000 ARR”
14Ervin Kalemi@ervinkalemi · 6K followers$375K+17%Read on X “$4.5M ARR”
15Nevo David@wickedguro · 25K followers$303K+153%Read on X “$303k MRR”
16Jacob Jacquet@jacob_jacquet · 3.7K followers$274K+15%Read on X “$274,128/month”
17Jonathan Wilke@jonathan_wilke · 30K followers$254K0%Read on X “$254,383/month”
18Dustin McCaffree 😈@terribledustin · 9.1K followers$200K+20%Read on X “$200k MRR”
19Sarah Hum@sarahhum · 7K followers$200K+60%Read on X “$200k MRR”
20Mauro Botanes@Mauro_Botanes · 4.6K followers$137K-Read on X “$137,320/month”
21LoucB@LoicBerthelot · 7.1K followers$106K+28%Read on X “$106,312/month”
22@levelsio@levelsio · 981K followers$105K-Read on X “$105,000/month”
23Sabyr Nurgaliyev@tech_nurgaliyev · 7K followers$105K+950%Read on X “$105,000/month”
24Marc Lou@marclou · 416K followers$100K+18%Read on X “$100K/month”
25Viktor Seraleev@seraleev · 27K followers$100K+150%Read on X “$100k/month”
26Plausible Analytics@PlausibleHQ · 18K followers$100K+150%Read on X “$100k MRR”
27Olly@helloitsolly · 26K followers$90K+21%Read on X “$90,000 MRR”
28Ernesto Lopez@ErnestoSOFTWARE · 63K followers$83K+54%Read on X “$1M ARR”
29Gaurav@gauravsbuilding · 14K followers$83K-Read on X “$1m ARR”
30Curtis Herbert@parrots · 8.9K followers$83K-Read on X “$1M ARR”
31Aquibur Rahman@AR_Bits · 2K followers$83K-Read on X “$1M ARR”
32Mau Baron@maubaron · 21K followers$83K+464%Read on X “$1M ARR”
33Ravish@hsivar20 · 4.3K followers$83K+100%Read on X “$1M ARR”
34Luke Alexander@Lukealexxander · 82K followers$83K0%Read on X “$1M ARR”
35Duca@big_duca · 9.5K followers$83K-Read on X “$1M ARR”
36Christopher Gimmer@cgimmer · 7.5K followers$83K-Read on X “$1M ARR”
37Jon Yongfook@yongfook · 174K followers$83K-Read on X “$1M ARR”
38Tomer@tomercn · 3.7K followers$81K+435%Read on X “$81,108/month”
39Rob Hallam@robj3d3 · 67K followers$81K+671%Read on X “$80,736.80/month”
40Tim Bennetto@Timb03 · 21K followers$80K+38%Read on X “$80K MRR”
41Rob Hoffman@RobHoffman_ · 15K followers$80K-Read on X “$80k MRR”
42Jure Sotosek@JureSotosek · 1.8K followers$71K0%Read on X “$71,120/month”
43John@hello_code_ · 3.5K followers$67K+234%Read on X “$66.8k MRR”
44jack friks@jackfriks · 182K followers$60K+200%Read on X “$60k MRR”
45Mike Strives@mikestrives · 29K followers$60K-Read on X “$60K MRR”
46K2 | App@k2_build · 1.2K followers$60K-Read on X “$60K MRR”
47Sahil Lavingia@shl · 394K followers$60K-Read on X “$60k MRR”
48Tom Blue@tomblue · 2.5K followers$55K-Read on X “$55K MRR”
49Ryan Ashcraft Wesley@ryanashcraft · 2K followers$50K-Read on X “$50K MRR”
50Ali Salah@alisalahio · 6.8K followers$50K-Read on X “$50K MRR”

Growth is the change over their last 12 months of numbers. A dash means we have one number in that time. The founder tracker lists all 204.

Why does everyone on X seem to make $10K a month?

Because the people who post are not everyone. 45% of the founders on our list make $10K a month or more. Founders with small numbers post less, so X feels richer than it is.

The big numbers are real, but most took years. 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

How much MRR do you need to quit your job?

There is no magic number. It depends on what you spend each month, where you live and how much you have saved.

Here is what founders on our list said when they made the jump:

  • Not many people know this about me but I was knee deep into Google + Meta ads from 2017-2021. This was right before I went full time to build my Shopify app (currently at $500k ARR+) Stumbled across a copy of one of my old…

    Ravish@hsivar20 · Read on X

  • 12 months ago I left my job and my home to live on savings. With one goal: build a SaaS to $10k MRR. It was the scariest decision of my life 😅 WE JUST HIT $18K MRR BABYYY!!!

    Rob Hallam@robj3d3 · Read on X

  • I've got a few questions about this, so I'll try to answer everything here 😊 - Uneed is 6 years old. It has been a launch platform for 2.5 years, and I've been working full-time on it for a year. - I made $10K in October - The…

    Thomas Sanlis 🥐@T_Zahil · Read on X

  • A year ago, I did the scariest thing ever: I quit my job. - No safety net. - No fallback plan. - Just a vision. Today, my agency craftpad earns $2k/month. Here’s how I made it happen👇 1. Quitting felt reckless. But deep down, I…

    abhi | craftpad@letcontactabhi · Read on X

If you can, wait until the product pays your bills for a few months in a row, not just for one good month.

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.

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