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24 alternatives to The SaaS Bootstrapper: Mike Perham - Turning an open source side project into an $80K/month business
Growing a 1 man side project to a $1 Million/year business
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The SaaS Bootstrapper: Mike Perham - Turning an open source side project into an $80K/month business launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Founderpath▲690Raise $10k-$1m in 72 hours, free revenue analytics
2020 · founderpath.com · its alternatives →
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Several years ago, I had a client whose salespeople were using Excel to generate sales proposals. This was inefficient and the resulting documents looked awful, so I developed a new process for them using a no-code platform. It featured a web form that was tied to a workflow engine, and a fancy PDF got emailed to the customer to sign. When the client loved the solution, I knew I was on to something. However, the no-code platform wasn't very customizable, so I decided to rebuild the process as a SaaS product. The client's CTO wanted in and we became cofounders. Today, we passed the…
2021 · its alternatives →
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From 0 to 10 million users with $0 funding
2021 · its alternatives →
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Growing a SaaS product from nothing to something
2016 · its alternatives →
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Have been working on this for months, hope you guys will like it. Feel free to share your own side project in the comments.
2012 · sideprojects.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm a bootstrap SaaS founder that trying to grow my micro SaaS. I've been doing pivot many times and this may be the last straw. I realized that marketing and sales are key in building business but cold outbound is suck! So I built a tool to help SaaS founders identify unhappy customers from their competitors to pitch their SaaS. This feature is specifically requested by Peer - Cal.com CEO from my interaction with him here - https://x.com/heykaiyo/status/1821216800610382013 I hope this small tool would be helpful. Would love your feedback pls. Anyone…
2024 · loom.com · its alternatives →
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Rupt▲10510% ARR growth by preventing password sharing on your SaaS
2024 · rupt.dev · its alternatives →
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2018 · tiiiny.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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And how it helped them hit $2 million a year in revenue
2016 · its alternatives →
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For the last several years I've been creating a ERP platform, Stockor. While I'm going to continue offering it as a SaaS, I've decided to also open-source it. I'm hopeful that by doing so it will: 1) Grow it into a Wordpress size juggernaut with a plugin for any business process under the sun. 2) Bring me interesting consulting gigs. The open-source site is at stockor.org. There's a demo up at stockor.com/demo as well. Looking forward to hearing HN's thoughts!
2014 · its alternatives →
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From side project to $100K ARR - Actionable insights weekly
Jun 2026 · superframeworks.com · its alternatives →
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Rick Perreault, Unbounce CEO
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, we just launched a platform to match top startups with high end projects. We're focused on supporting startups that would rather take on a short term consulting gig than raising a round of funding. We'd love some feedback. Thanks!
2011 · grouptalent.com · its alternatives →
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Interview with Ian Blair, CEO of BuildFire
2017 · its alternatives →
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How I made $1M from my personal projects. Book 2.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Carefully curated SaaS solutions to grow your business
2024 · tools.amitsarda.xyz · its alternatives →
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2025 · aiapplabs.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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