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$1M Startups.fyi Idea Tool. $50K MRR E-Com SaaS. $2M ARR Startup.
Chris Bulen & Eromosele Ebohon
October 06, 2025
Hey friends 👋
Good afternoon! It’s Chris & Daniel here with another edition of Startups.fyi — your favorite corner of the internet where we uncover the smartest tools, underrated startups, and business models worth stealing.
This week’s a special one 🎉 — Startups.fyi has officially crossed 14,000+ subscribers, a new all-time high!
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To celebrate, we built something just for you — a tool that helps you find startup ideas, powered by AI to spot the ones with real million-dollar potential. Think of it as your personal idea miner that digs through the noise to surface hidden gems you can actually build.
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Today: 6 successful startups across 6 different categories.
Startups FYI Spotlight: 6 projects
💽 This SaaS management tool helps you backup, clone, erase drives for free at a super high-speed for windows. (Pre-revenue)
📋 Instead of opening 10 different tools, websites, or command lines, you can open this one SaaS dev tool for all your tasks. This tool makes the solo founder $50 MRR.
🦹This easy-to-use no-code tool can protect your team and data effortlessly without complexity and cost. It makes around $100 MRR, and it is backed by VC funding.
✔️This risk management tool is interesting because it promises you a reliable, instant online identity verification for your customers online, and it makes $500 MRR.
🧑🤝🧑Here is a marketplace for discovering conferences and speakers in any industry. It is already making $9,000+ MRR.
🤖Here is an AI SaaS platform built for e-commerce sellers that specializes in importing product images, generating or editing product models with ease. It makes $50,000 MRR for the solo founder.
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Startups FYI Roundup
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It will generate hundreds of startup business ideas for you, then filters and ranks the best ones for you. 👉 Try the tool here →
How a $25 Million Company Was Built Without Big Investors
Sharon Gillenwater founded Boardroom Insiders with just $300K in funding. She built a tool that helped companies learn about top executives, grew it to $25M, and later sold it — earning $13M for herself. 👉 Read the full story →
Secret to Tally $2M ARR With 5 People (no-code form builder)
Not on the same scale as “$1B ARR” stories, but still cool: they reached ~$2M ARR with 5 people, no VC. 👉 Read the full story →
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