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$10K AI translator, $35K 3-hour hack, and an AI tool for branded links & QR codes
Chris Bulen & Eromosele Ebohon
November 03, 2025
Hey friends 👋
Welcome to the month of November.
Good afternoon! It’s Chris & Daniel here with another edition of Startups.fyi — where we uncover the smartest tools, underrated startups, and business models worth stealing.
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Today: 6 successful startups across 6 different categories.
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Startups FYI Spotlight
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🗂️ One platform for everything. This tool simplifies CRM, task, and project management into a single seamless workspace and it is already generating $100 MRR since its 2025 launch.
🎨 This AI-powered, anime story generator tool lets you turn your idea into reality. Already earning $454 MRR for its solo founder.
🧰 Here is a service tool that helps you build full-stack digital services like web, mobile app, SEO and more. This tool makes $1,000 a month for the founder.
💡 See how this tool is reinventing learning with AI. Launched 2025 and is making $2,000 MRR.
🗣️ This tool is breaking language barriers while still making $10,000 MRR on their first year of launch in 2025.
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Startups FYI Roundup
→ How a 3-Hour Hack Turned Into a $35K/Month Startup
Two founders built a tiny weekend project before a flight. Three hours later, it went viral and months later, it’s making $35K every single month. The wild part? It all started as an experiment.
→ One Tiny JS Project Just Made $300K
Three years ago, an indie hacker launched a simple JavaScript library, nothing fancy, no team, no funding. Fast forward to today, it’s earned over $300,000, split between Gumroad and LemonSqueezy.
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That’s it for this time! See you again next week.
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