*This [Twitter Thread](https://hackernoon.com/tagged/tech-twitter-thread) is by [Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik](https://twitter.com/volodarik) (source: [12-11-2022](https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1601964069023531011?s=46&t=MmmEqXa0mb3_X5in_9_sTw)). Volodarsky is the co-founder and CEO of lemon.io.*

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> I'm obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them.
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> Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees:
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> 1/ Star Dew Valley
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> • It's a country-life role-playing game
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> • Developed by Eric Barone
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> • It has generated $300M+ in revenue in 6 years
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> • Eric could become the first 1-person founder to do $1B+ in sales
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> Here's how he did it

[https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1596895430758912002?embedable=true](https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1596895430758912002?embedable=true)

> 2/ BuiltWith
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> • It helps you find what technologies and services a website uses
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> • Founded by Gary Brewer
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> • It generates $14M in revenue per year
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> Here's the full story of how Gary built it and operated with 0 employees

[https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1592146385217806336?embedable=true](https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1592146385217806336?embedable=true)

> 3/ Viral Nova
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> • It's a curation site for the most viral content on the Internet (similar to Buzzfeed)
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> • Founded by Scott Delong
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> • At its peak, it generated $5-$10M per year in revenue and 100M readers per month with 0 funding and 0 employees
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> 4/ Photopea
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> • It's a free photo and graphics editor
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> • Made by Ivan Kutskir
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> • It generates 10M visits per month and \~$1.5M in revenue per year
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> • People spend 1.5 million hours a month using Photopea
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> 6/ Digital Inspiration
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> • It builds google plugins for docs, sheets, slides, and more
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> • Founded by Amit Agarwal
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> • It gets 5M visits per month and earns $10M in revenue per year
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> • 40M+ have downloaded the plugins
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> Here's how Amit built it

[https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1594323722475032576?embedable=true](https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1594323722475032576?embedable=true)

> 6/ Rego apps
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> • 3 of its apps (5-0 police scanner, remote for tesla apps, and police scanner+) are the most downloaded apps in their category)
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> • Founded by Allen Wong
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> •He has made over $100M+ from these apps
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> Here's his Reddit AMA

[https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/68a6dg/im_that_multimillionaire_app_developer_who/?embedable=true](https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/68a6dg/im_that_multimillionaire_app_developer_who/?embedable=true)

> 7/ Portfolio of diverse businesses
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> • [@thejustinwelsh](https://twitter.com/thejustinwelsh) has built several businesses that generate $3M+ in revenue (94% margins)
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> • He earns through consulting, courses, paid community, newsletter sponsorships, and more
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> Here's how Justin did it

[https://twitter.com/thejustinwelsh/status/1589606689262780417?embedable=true](https://twitter.com/thejustinwelsh/status/1589606689262780417?embedable=true)

> 8/ Brumate
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> • It sells adult beverage (beer, wine) cans to keep them cold for 24+ hours
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> • Founded by Dylan Jacob
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> • He made $20M in revenue with 0 employees
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> • It has 2.5M+ worldwide customers
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> Read the full story

[https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1599427375908913159?embedable=true](https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1599427375908913159?embedable=true)

> 9/ Portfolio of diverse businesses
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> • [@levelsio](https://twitter.com/levelsio) has built several companies—remote job marketplace, AI photography, nomad community, and others—that make \~$3M+ in revenue
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> Listen to his excellent interview on the MFM pod

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ej29G7ZGg?embedable=true](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ej29G7ZGg?embedable=true)

> 10/ [@carrd](https://twitter.com/carrd)
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> • It's a one-page website builder
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> • Founded by [@ajlkn](https://twitter.com/ajlkn)
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> • It generates $1M+ ARR
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> • 4M+ sites have been built on Carrd
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> I love the idea of 1-person businesses. That being said, I enjoy building <http://lemon.io> with the team.
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> If you enjoyed this thread:
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> 1. Follow me @volodarik . I share everything on the way of scaling my co to $100m
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> 2. RT this tweet to share this thread with your audience

[https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1601964069023531011?embedable=true](https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1601964069023531011?embedable=true)

> As this is blowing up, I'll shamelessly plug
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> Next week I'm launching a completely free email course on how to create amazing brand as we did for [http://lemon.io](https://t.co/XRP2TjcCMm)
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> Subscribe, and I'll email it to you next week. \*Not selling anything in the course.

[https://www.volodarik.com/materials/create-a-non-boring-brand?embedable=true](https://www.volodarik.com/materials/create-a-non-boring-brand?embedable=true)

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