This is by (source: ). Volodarsky is the co-founder and CEO of lemon.io. Twitter Thread Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik 12-11-2022 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 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1596895430758912002?embedable=true 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 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1592146385217806336?embedable=true 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 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1594323722475032576?embedable=true 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 https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/68a6dg/im_that_multimillionaire_app_developer_who/?embedable=true 7/ Portfolio of diverse businesses • has built several businesses that generate $3M+ in revenue (94% margins) @thejustinwelsh • He earns through consulting, courses, paid community, newsletter sponsorships, and more Here's how Justin did it https://twitter.com/thejustinwelsh/status/1589606689262780417?embedable=true 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 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1599427375908913159?embedable=true 9/ Portfolio of diverse businesses • has built several companies—remote job marketplace, AI photography, nomad community, and others—that make ~$3M+ in revenue @levelsio Listen to his excellent interview on the MFM pod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ej29G7ZGg?embedable=true 10/ @carrd • It's a one-page website builder • Founded by @ajlkn • It generates $1M+ ARR • 4M+ sites have been built on Carrd I love the idea of 1-person businesses. That being said, I enjoy building with the team. http://lemon.io If you enjoyed this thread: Follow me @volodarik . I share everything on the way of scaling my co to $100m RT this tweet to share this thread with your audience https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1601964069023531011?embedable=true As this is blowing up, I'll shamelessly plug Next week I'm launching a completely free email course on how to create amazing brand as we did for http://lemon.io 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 Feature image generated via Prompt of ‘Check Out These Impressive 1-Person Companies’ HackerNoon Stable Diffusion

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