Micro Saas

Profitability

Revenue & Salary

How Much Money Do Micro Saas Make? (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: June 23rd, 2024

TL;DR:

Based on our data, micro saas can make between $117-$1,766,666 per month.
The average revenue for a successful micro saas is $83.3K per month.
The highest grossing micro saas in our records makes over $21,199,992 per year.
Micro saas owners salaries can vary wildly depending on industry, niche, and size of the business

So you're thinking about starting a micro saas?

And now you're wondering how much micro saas owners actually make...

Well, let’s dive in!

Here are example of real micro saas and how much money they make - as reported by the founders themselves:

1. Gumroad ($21.2M/year)

Sahil loves building stuff. He really enjoyed the process of taking a problem coming up with a solution, and then shipping a prototype of that solution to see how good his concept was. Before finishing college he had already shipped a dozen products. Most of the time, they weren't that great.

But sometimes something works out really well, and then he has to decide if he actually wants to work on the idea some more. Very rarely, the answer is yes. That was the case with Gumroad. The question at its core was really compelling to him: How easy could one make it to sell something?

How much money it makes: $21.2M/year

2. GMass, Inc. ($5.4M/year)

During his previous business venture, Wordzen, the founder recognized the necessity of sending personalized emails to small groups. After researching available options, he was not satisfied with the solutions offered. Therefore, he developed GMass as an internal tool to aid in managing his business. Although Wordzen failed to gain much traction, GMass proved to be successful and was featured on Product Hunt, giving him the validation that he needed to make the decision to pursue this as a business.

How much money it makes: $5.4M/year

3. Filestage ($3M/year)

Hey, my name is Niklas Dorn and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Filestage. We started the company in 2015 after realizing how messy and complicated the feedback process was for agencies and marketing teams when it comes to content creation. Our software makes it easy for teams to share, comment, and approve any digital content, and today we have over 600 customers and 50,000 users worldwide.

How much money it makes: $3M/year

4. Tweet Hunter ($2.64M/year)

These two founders worked on launching a product every month. And every time, the tech co-founder brought in a few early sales because he had a small but high-quality audience on Twitter. The marketing founder tried too, but failed.

At the time, they had built up a database containing thousands of tweets that they were using for another product. So he thought he could maybe use the best-performing content as inspiration for his own tweets.

The tech co-founder made a very quick prototype, and… it worked! Writing became better and quicker, and he achieved a higher engagement.

That was the first version of Tweet Hunter: a searchable library of high-performing tweets.

How much money it makes: $2.64M/year

5. Prerender.io ($2.64M/year)

Todd Hooper, a software engineer, came up with the idea for Prerender.io after experiencing the problem of JavaScript websites not showing up on Google. Worked on this on the side until the monthly profit was close enough to quit his day job and have Prerender.io become a full-time thing.

Came up with the idea when he kept running into the problem where the projects he was building were not showing up on Google.

How much money it makes: $2.64M/year

6. Carrd ($1.2M/year)

AJ got the idea for Carrd out of a desire to branch out from his routine work of designing and coding website templates. This routine work had become too easy and almost monotonous, prompting him to seek a new challenge that would leverage his extensive skills in a fresh way.

He realized that while he was looking for something different to do, he still wanted to stay close to his core expertise in web design and development. He wanted to build for a simple idea that could serve a broad audience.

This drive to innovate within his domain, coupled with his recognition of users' desires for simplicity and efficiency in web building tools, spurred him to develop Carrd.

How much money it makes: $1.2M/year

7. Plausible Analytics ($1.2M/year)

Both founders had similar experiences with Google and its products. They went from big fans, using several of their tools for many hours every day, loving them and recommending them to my family and friends, to becoming more aware of Google’s size, its business model, and how their dominance negatively impacts the web.

How much money it makes: $1.2M/year

8. Buttondown ($900K/year)

Justin built Buttondown to scratch his own itch — all of the other email tools he tried were either super-heavy (like Mailchimp or ConvertKit) or wanted to own his entire blogging presence like Medium or Substack. There wasn’t anything that just let him drop in a <form> tag into a blog and automatically send out emails, so he decided to build something just like that on a hunch that other people shared his use case.

How much money it makes: $900K/year

9. CASTANET ($732K/year)

Started reaching out to people he knew who either owned a business or had higher-up positions in a business in order to brainstorm business ideas. A consistent theme that came up was lead generation. There's always a big demand for good leads and salespeople are willing to pay.

How much money it makes: $732K/year

10. Widebundle ($660K/year)

He used Shopify Facebook Groups and communities to read people’s problems and questions, add comments, and start conversations. It’s a long job that only a few people want to do, but it works.

At some point, Matt found 3 people who wanted the same thing but it didn’t exist in the Shopify App Store. They wanted features from a bundled app that didn’t exist. And if 3 people want it, maybe there are more.

How much money it makes: $660K/year