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$1M ARR in 117 Days, a Blood Test Decoder, and the SaaS Charging Renters $5 to Keep Rats Out
Chris Bulen & Daniel Ebohon
August 04, 2026
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Welcome back! This week we found a founder making $100K from AI hiring, a tool that turns your blood test into charts you can actually read, and a playbook for hitting $10K MRR in 60 days. Real founders, real revenue, no fluff.
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Startups FYI Spotlight
📃 Transform static PDFs into interactive documents with video explanations, engagement tracker, and a well detailed page-by-page analytics. (Pre-revenue)
🤖 Does captchas keep breaking your automations? This AI service solves them so your workflows keep running. ($250MRR in revenue)
🏠 Upload your listing photos and this tool builds a narrated virtual property tour in minutes. No videographer needed. (Generating $500 for the Canadian founder)
Podcast ad intelligence, for a fraction of the cost
Radar uses state-of-the-art transcription technology to transcribe and analyze where brands are advertising across 115,000+ podcasts.
See where your clients’ competitors are advertising on podcasts, read the exact copy for their ads, and verify your own clients’ ads have run.
Radar also allows you to search across millions of podcast transcripts to find relevant shows to buy ads on.
New podcast episodes and ad reads are available minutes after an episode airs.
Radar is built by former Twitter and Tesla engineers, using an AI-native transcription pipeline that delivers high accuracy and extensive data enrichment, at a fraction of competitors’ costs.
🛠️ This founder built a marketplace of ready-to-use code and software tools, so developers can skip building from scratch. (Generating $1,500 for the solo founder)
🩸 Blood test results are confusing. Upload yours to this tool and it turns the numbers into simple charts you can track over time. (Generating $6,000 for the Australian solo founder)
🧠 Recruiters waste hours digging through resumes. This AI platform finds and matches the right candidates for you, fast. (Generating $100,000, fully bootstrapped)
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