SAAS AND APP IDEAS
Software and apps people pay for, and what each one makes, told by the founder. Every number links to the video it comes from.
$2Ka day
Rasty grew up in a village of 700 people in Slovakia. After high school he moved to Boston to work for a security company that Google bought. Later he built a startup that Amazon bought, and now he runs an app that makes $2k/day.
As told on Starter Story, 24 Oct 2026
$10Ka month
Frederick is an indie app builder. He went from $0 to $10,000 a month with a health and fitness iOS app. He believes the app itself barely matters.
As told on Starter Story, 25 Oct 2026
$41Ka month
Rasty runs an encrypted vault app. Big rivals with millions of users rank first in the App Store, so he went after the web instead. He uses AI agents to write articles on autopilot for every keyword that points to the App Store, and the big apps ignore this.
As told on Starter Story, 27 Oct 2026
$30Ka month
Charlie was a software engineer with a full-time job. He gave himself two weeks to build Links, a simple link-in-bio tool. He built it even though a rival had millions of users, and it still worked.
As told on Starter Story, 26 Oct 2026
$30Ka month
Jake runs a simple website called Excel Exercises. It helps people learn Excel. The site is plain on purpose, and that keeps it easy to build and run.
As told on Starter Story, 28 Oct 2026
$18Ka month
Kourosh built Voicy, an app that turns speech into text. He made it for his dad, who works on his computer all the time and took 3 days to write one email. It works because you can talk instead of type, and it works everywhere.
As told on Starter Story, 30 Oct 2026
$10K+a month
Frederick built a habit tracker app for health and fitness while he was on vacation. The app is simple and not special. It works because he put his effort into getting people to find it.
As told on Starter Story, 31 Oct 2026
$400Ka month
Yoni built Brainrot, an iOS app that became one of the most popular in recent years. He took it from a simple idea to a big app. He also built a personal brand, which helped him grow it.
As told on Starter Story, 1 Nov 2026
