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Businesses growing through Hacker News: 28 businesses with verified revenue
Among the 28 businesses with growth channel: Hacker News, median revenue is $226 a month, the middle half sits between $35 and $724, and the highest is $43K.
28
businesses
$226
median per month
$35–$724
middle half
$43K
highest
Revenue distribution
| <$1K | 23 | |
| $1K–5K | 4 | |
| $5K–20K | 0 | |
| $20K–100K | 1 | |
| $100K+ | 0 |
Revenue is the better of last-30-day revenue and MRR: last-30-day revenue when it is more than twice MRR, otherwise MRR.
Channels founders listed
| Hacker News | 28 |
| SEO | 25 |
| Product Hunt | 24 |
| X / Twitter | 23 |
| Content marketing | 22 |
28 of 28 listed channels on their profile; founders often tick several. Listed channels are not proof of cause.
Industries in this group
| SaaS | 20 |
| Productivity | 17 |
| AI | 12 |
| Content Creation | 9 |
| Marketing | 7 |
A business can carry several industry tags.
Team size
58%
of the 12 businesses that listed a team size are run by one person.
Top examples
Highest revenue in this group
| Business | What it says it does | Revenue / month |
|---|---|---|
| Laper | Laper is an all-in-one creative OS for screenwriters, directors, and storyboard artists—Cursor, CapCut, and Figma for visual storytelling. I | $43K |
| Cooldock | Cooldock brings music, todos, events, weather, search, stats, quick actions, and more useful widgets into one beautiful live dock beside you | $4.9K |
| Scroll Launch | Launch your product. Get found on Google and in AI answers. | $3.3K |
| Aura++ | Aura++ is an AI-powered product launch and discovery platform that helps startups, indie hackers, SaaS companies, and developers launch thei | $2.3K |
| Headroom | Cut your Claude Code & Codex bill by ~50%. Headroom is a menu bar app that quietly optimizes all the inputs that Claude & Codex get. It trim | $1.6K |
| AppitStudio Apps Bundle And Services | AppIt Studio builds a toolkit of three native macOS apps that work better together: DockFlow saves and switches your whole workspace by pres | $839 |
Where we have written a case study, the name links to it; otherwise it links to the business's own website.
How these numbers are built
- Population: 5,602 businesses whose public TrustMRR profile shows revenue read from a payment provider's API, synced between 2026-09-02 and 2026-09-30, above $0. Collected 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-01.
- Industry, growth channel, team size, country and customer type are fields the founder filled in on that profile; businesses that left a field blank are left out of that dimension. A business with several tags appears in several groups.
- Groups with fewer than 5 businesses are not published.
- The sample leans toward independent developers and small software teams that chose to verify their revenue. It is not an average of all small businesses.