$1m ARR for finance tool 💰

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$1m ARR for Projection Lab

Well done to Kyle and the Projection Lab team for getting to $1m in annual recurring revenue. This is a personal finance tool which projects how your money will look in the future.

It's a great achievement for a B2C product.

Kyle Nolan

@_knolan

We did it!! $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. With zero funding. 🥹
And I'm still processing that this is real.
No AI hype. No VC money. Just 4 years of hard work building good software to solve a real problem we had ourselves.
And never giving up.
When I started

2:10 PM • Jun 30, 2025

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AI and website publishers

There's an interesting move here: Cloudflare is planning to block LLMs from crawling websites unless they pay websites for taking the content.

I wonder whether some websites will prefer to be crawled and cited as a source in LLMs rather than get paid per crawl.

Barry Schwartz

@rustybrick

Cloudflare to block AI crawlers by default and offer a new Pay Per Crawl pricing method to compensate content creators (@Cloudflare  powers ~20% of the web) https://www.seroundtable.com/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-39673.html

12:31 PM • Jul 1, 2025

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$74k MRR for Senja

Senja (affiliate) made almost $74k last month. They weren't the first testimonial tool but they've executed really well. It's further proof that it's a good idea to work on idea that have already been proven.

Competition is validation.

Olly

@helloitsolly

Senja made $73,920 in June 2025
Here's all our key numbers
We're seeing a significant slow down in growth due to two things
- Increasing customer churn [absolute]
- Fewer sign ups each month since January

2:17 PM • Jul 1, 2025

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Berlin meetup

There's a new meetup happening in Berlin this week. It's run by the team behind an already-successful meetup in Amsterdam, Internet Friends.

It's interesting to see meetup brands emerge and spread across new cities e.g. Indie London now has meetups in NYC, Tokyo and Lisbon.

Niels Geo

@nielsgeo

Berlin indie / dev / entrepreneur meetup Thursday 6PM!🚨
After the success of internet friends Amsterdam, I'm excited to announce we're gonna make this a thing in Berlin too. 
If ur mom tells her friends u doing 'something' with computers, this is for u. Join us for a cold one.

7:14 PM • Jul 1, 2025

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$2,400 for directory

Congrats to Rod for making $2,402 last month from JobBoardSearch. It's a simple directory of job boards.

Why does this double-sided marketplace work? Job seekers want to find good job boards and job board owners want traffic.

Rodrigo Rocco 👨‍💻📈📗 from JobBoardSearch 🔎

@rrmdp

JobBoardSearch 🔎's June 2025 Open Stats 📊
- Revenue $2,402 💵
What I'm pleased with is:
1. Revenue growth 23.7% up in the last 12 months
2. Traffic growth 45% up in unique sessions
3. Bounce rate down by 5%
(Last month SEO work is paying off BIG time!)
- Page views: 71.4K
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