Which indie SaaS have gained the most revenue lately?

Which indie SaaS have actually added the most MRR lately?

Postiz currently looks like the indie SaaS that has added the most recurring revenue lately, with Outrank, LLM Gateway, Tally and Zigpoll forming the strongest group behind it.

We get there by comparing actual increases in monthly recurring revenue rather than ranking companies by their current size or by percentage growth. Postiz has moved from $84,000 MRR in April to about $202,000 now, according to founder updates followed by its live Stripe-connected TrustMRR page. That is roughly $118,000 of extra MRR in less than half a year.

Outrank went from around $200,000 a month in a January founder interview to more than $300,000 MRR in the spring, although its current number is less clear. LLM Gateway has climbed from roughly $12,000 MRR in an archived TrustMRR snapshot in late June to almost $79,000 now. Tally added $64,000 MRR between January and April. Solo-founder Zigpoll added roughly $39,000 during the first half of the year.

These are unusually large gains for small, self-funded software companies. They also show why the viral “0 to $10K MRR” stories do not automatically belong at the top. A company already making $100,000 a month can quietly add more revenue than several successful new SaaS launches combined.

Indie SaaS	Recent documented change	Approx. MRR gained	Confidence
Postiz	$84K → ~$202K	+$118K	Very high
Outrank	~$200K → $300K+	Up to +$100K	Medium
LLM Gateway	~$12K → ~$79K	+$67K	Very high
Tally	$358K → $422K	+$64K	Very high
Zigpoll	~$86K → $125K	+$39K	High

What should count as a revenue gain for an indie SaaS?

For this ranking, an indie SaaS revenue gain means new recurring monthly revenue, because that gives us the least distorted comparison between very different businesses.

A $100,000 launch month and $100,000 of new MRR can produce the same screenshot while describing completely different businesses. The first company needs another big launch next month. The second enters next month with roughly $100,000 already contracted to recur, before churn and new sales.

That distinction removes several tempting candidates. Motionvid generated $120,000 from an AppSumo campaign, but lifetime deals account for that cash rather than subscriptions. RankInPublic has recently made as much as $17,000 in a month, yet founder Antonio Escudero says most of that comes from one-time purchases and only around $1,000 is MRR.

We also use “indie” fairly strictly. A small company can have employees and still qualify if it remains bootstrapped and founder-controlled. Once a company has joined an accelerator that invests capital or raised institutional funding, we treat it as a funded startup even when the team still feels like an indie operation.

The ranking cannot be perfectly exhaustive. Private SaaS companies do not have to disclose revenue, and public databases mostly capture founders willing to share numbers or connect their payment accounts. So this is a ranking of the largest recent gains we can actually reconstruct from public evidence.

Is Postiz the biggest recent indie SaaS revenue winner?

Postiz is the strongest answer we found because its recent growth is both huge and unusually easy to verify.

Founder Nevo David reported Postiz at $84,000 MRR in April. TrustMRR now reads the company's Stripe data directly and shows about $202,000 MRR, almost 6,000 active subscriptions and more than $190,000 of actual revenue collected over the latest 30 days.

That works out to roughly $118,000 of additional recurring revenue since the April checkpoint. In annualized terms, Postiz has added more than $1.4 million of new recurring run rate in a few months.

The earlier history makes the jump even more striking. A podcast published in March followed Postiz from roughly $17,000–$20,000 MRR before its agent push to $45,000 during the same episode. Subsequent founder posts showed $84,000, then $88,000, $93,000, $118,000, $145,000 and eventually $180,000. The live payment data has now moved beyond those posts.

Postiz also survived the point where its founder expected the growth to slow. At $84,000 MRR, David publicly worried that interest in “agent marketing” was fading and that weekly trials were declining. Revenue still more than doubled afterward.

That gives us much more confidence than a single milestone tweet. Postiz caught an unusually powerful distribution wave, but the revenue kept moving after the first wave of attention cooled.

Is Outrank actually growing faster than Postiz?

Outrank has added an enormous amount of revenue, but the evidence today is too messy for us to put it above Postiz.

The strongest starting point comes from co-founder Eugene Zolotarenko. In a January interview about building Outrank, he described the company at roughly $200,000 a month. Tibo Louis-Lucas then reported $274,000 MRR in early April and more than $300,000 shortly afterward. That suggests roughly $100,000 of added MRR in only a few months.

The longer climb is even bigger. Tibo's own account says Outrank began as a $300-MRR AI blog generator and reached $300,000 MRR in about 15 months after the product was repositioned around automated SEO, backlinks and organic traffic.

The problem is the current endpoint. Outrank does not expose a payment-connected revenue page like Postiz. Tibo's latest widely cited milestone remains above $300,000 MRR, while Arrfounder's current product page lists the business closer to $250,000 a month. From the outside, there is no clean way to know whether that gap reflects churn, a conservative database estimate or different measurement periods.

So Outrank belongs near the top, but Postiz has the cleaner case. We are confident Outrank became a large six-figure-MRR business very quickly. The exact amount it is making today is much fuzzier.

Is LLM Gateway still growing unusually fast right now?

LLM Gateway is currently the clearest fast-moving challenger below Postiz, and its recent growth can be followed almost week by week.

An archived TrustMRR page from late June showed LLM Gateway at roughly $12,000 MRR. A later crawl showed about $32,000. By late August, payment tracking had reached roughly $73,000, and the live Stripe-connected figure is now around $79,000.

That means LLM Gateway has added about $67,000 of MRR in a little over two months. Its most recent movement is still positive too. Independent daily tracking based on the TrustMRR feed recorded MRR rising from about $72,800 to $78,800 over 11 days.

The revenue figures need one qualification. LLM Gateway processes considerably more money than its MRR because customers also buy AI usage credits. Its latest 30-day revenue has been above $250,000 while recurring subscription revenue sits around $79,000. We use the smaller MRR number here.

Even after that adjustment, the growth is exceptional. The business is being built by a very small team around one API that routes requests across hundreds of AI models, and recurring revenue is still moving quickly rather than settling after the first spike.

Public checkpoint	LLM Gateway MRR
Late June	~$12K
July	~$32K
Late August	~$73K
Currently	~$79K

Is Tally still adding serious revenue without VC money?

Tally is still one of the biggest bootstrapped SaaS growth stories, although its latest detailed revenue update is older than the data we have for Postiz and LLM Gateway.

Tally publishes its own revenue history, which makes the comparison unusually clean. MRR went from $258,000 in June last year to $338,000 in October, $358,000 in January and $422,000 by April. The latest three-month jump alone added $64,000 MRR.

Adding $64,000 on top of a $358,000 base is much harder than going from zero to $64,000. Tally already had millions of dollars in recurring revenue, so every percentage point represented a meaningful amount of money.

The company still fits our indie definition. Tally describes itself as fully bootstrapped, customer-funded and run by an 11-person team. It reached more than $5 million ARR without institutional investors.

We would rank Tally higher with a fresher revenue checkpoint. The April figure is solid first-party evidence, but assuming the same growth rate continued after that would be guesswork.

How did solo-founder Zigpoll add nearly $40K MRR?

Zigpoll added roughly $39,000 of MRR during the first half of the year while remaining a solo, unfunded SaaS business.

Founder Jason Zigelbaum told Indie Hackers that Zigpoll began the year around $1.03 million ARR, equivalent to roughly $86,000 MRR, and finished June at about $125,000 MRR. That works out to approximately $39,000 of additional monthly recurring revenue in six months.

The starting point makes the result especially interesting. Zigpoll had already been running for years and had passed $1 million ARR. This was mature SaaS growth, not the first conversion of an audience into paying customers.

Zigelbaum also explained where the additional revenue came from. Around one-third of new registrations were arriving through the Shopify App Store, roughly one-quarter through word of mouth and about 14% through AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Revenue per account increased by around 24% after Zigpoll changed how features were packaged for its best customers.

One person therefore added almost half a million dollars of annual recurring run rate without raising money, building a sales team or suddenly doubling prices. Among solo SaaS businesses we found, Zigpoll has one of the strongest recent results.

Which new indie SaaS went from zero to real MRR fastest?

Launch Fast, Draftly and Lancer stand out among newer indie SaaS because each reached roughly $20,000–$30,000 MRR very quickly rather than spending years climbing through the first few thousand dollars.

Launch Fast has the cleanest progression. Founder Hasaam Bhatti reported $10,000 MRR after 30 days, roughly $17,000–$18,000 after 60 days, $21,800 after 90 days and $30,000 a few months later. He launched the Amazon-seller research product into an existing seller community instead of trying to find distribution after building it.

Draftly's 3D website builder went from zero paying customers to around 700 customers and $25,000 MRR. Dodo Payments documented the jump in a customer case study, and founder Piyush Singh publicly acknowledged the case study. A large creator sharing Draftly produced 170,000 visits and 65,000 signups, giving the product a huge acquisition burst before monetization was properly set up.

Lancer reached $10,000 MRR within roughly 60 days and later doubled to around $20,000. Founder Ivan Nedelkovski had previously run an agency and built Lancer around automating the exact Upwork workflow he had used to find clients.

These companies are smaller than Postiz or Tally, but their zero-to-$20K-plus speed is more useful for judging what a new indie SaaS can realistically do now.

SaaS	Recent path	Team
Launch Fast	$0 → $30K MRR	Solo founder at launch
Draftly	$0 → $25K MRR	Solo student founder
Lancer	$0 → $20K MRR	2 people

Why don't Motionvid's 40% growth and RankInPublic's $17K month rank higher?

Motionvid and RankInPublic both have eye-catching recent revenue stories, but neither has added enough recurring revenue to challenge the leaders.

Motionvid founder Anatoly Pashias recently reported more than 100,000 signups, $7,000 MRR and roughly 40% month-over-month growth. A 40% increase sounds bigger than Tally's or Zigpoll's recent percentage growth, but the dollar base changes the picture. Moving from about $5,000 to $7,000 MRR adds roughly $2,000.

Motionvid also generated around $120,000 through AppSumo. That was a successful launch and gave the company useful cash, but lifetime deals do not become recurring monthly revenue.

RankInPublic creates an even bigger gap between the headline and the SaaS metric. Founder Antonio Escudero recently said monthly revenue had jumped from below $300 to between $11,000 and $17,000. In the same interview, he explained that only around $1,000 comes from recurring subscriptions. Most customers buy one-time directory and promotion packages.

Both businesses are growing. They just answer a different question. Rank indie products by fastest percentage increase or biggest sudden cash month and both move much higher. Rank them by new recurring revenue and they sit well below Postiz, LLM Gateway, Tally and Zigpoll.

Would GojiberryAI win if we included funded startups?

GojiberryAI would probably win the revenue-growth ranking if we widened “indie SaaS” to include venture-backed startups.

Founder Romàn Czerny reported $85,000 of real MRR in February after connecting GojiberryAI to TrustMRR. The company crossed $300,000 MRR in July, and TrustMRR now shows roughly $424,000. That is an increase of about $339,000 MRR from the February checkpoint.

The growth is far larger than anything in our strict indie shortlist. Y Combinator currently says GojiberryAI went from zero to $2.5 million ARR in ten months, is growing around 30% month over month and serves more than 2,000 customers.

GojiberryAI also joined Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch. YC currently lists a seven-person team and describes GojiberryAI as one of its funded companies.

That is enough for us to leave it outside the ranking. The company still behaves like a fast-moving founder-led startup, but comparing a YC-backed company with businesses deliberately financed only by customers muddies the question more than it helps.

Why aren't Revid and Chatbase the winners?

Revid and Chatbase are bigger businesses than almost every indie SaaS in this article, but being bigger today does not mean they gained the most revenue lately.

Revid is the clearest example. Tibo Louis-Lucas reported $680,000 MRR in February and later referred to Revid at roughly $600,000 MRR. The exact number is self-reported rather than payment-verified, but either figure makes Revid enormous for a four-person bootstrapped company.

The recent direction does not show a large increase. Public milestones moved from $680,000 down toward $600,000 rather than sharply upward. Revid may still be producing more monthly revenue than Postiz, Outrank, LLM Gateway, Tally and Zigpoll combined, but that does not make it the biggest recent gainer.

Chatbase has the same size-versus-growth problem. Stripe says the fully bootstrapped company reached $10 million ARR in March with 26 employees. TrustMRR currently shows around $864,000 MRR, roughly $10.4 million annualized. That points to some further growth, but nowhere near a fresh $100,000-plus MRR jump.

Ask “Which indie SaaS make the most money?” and the leaderboard changes completely. That is simply not the ranking we are doing here.

Are AI SaaS taking most of the biggest gains right now?

AI SaaS currently dominate the fastest recent revenue gains we found, although the pattern goes beyond simply putting an AI feature into a product.

LLM Gateway sits directly in AI infrastructure. Launch Fast has moved deeper into agentic workflows for Amazon sellers. Draftly uses AI to generate 3D websites. Lancer automates client acquisition on Upwork. GojiberryAI, if we relax the indie requirement, becomes the most extreme growth example of all.

Postiz is more interesting because the underlying product already existed. Nevo David had built an open-source social-media scheduler before the big acceleration. Revenue took off after Postiz became easy for AI agents to control through a CLI, MCP integrations and agent-focused documentation. The product caught demand from the agent boom without having to invent a completely new category.

Tally and Zigpoll stop us from turning that into “only AI SaaS grow now.” Tally sells forms and Zigpoll sells surveys. Both have added tens of thousands of dollars of MRR recently. AI assistants have actually become acquisition channels for these products by recommending them to users.

The more interesting pattern is that AI is now appearing on both sides of SaaS growth. Some of the fastest-growing products sell AI directly, while established software companies are starting to get customers through AI discovery.

Which recent indie SaaS revenue gains look the most durable?

Postiz, Tally and Zigpoll currently give us the strongest evidence that their recent revenue gains can stick, while LLM Gateway still needs more time.

Postiz has already passed one useful stress test. When Nevo David reported $84,000 MRR, he was openly worried that the agent-marketing buzz was fading and trials were slowing. Revenue subsequently kept climbing through several milestones and is now backed by live payment data.

Tally has an even longer record. Its published history runs from $5,000 MRR in 2021 to $30,000 in 2022, $60,000 in 2023, $150,000 in 2024, $258,000 last year and more than $400,000 at its latest detailed update. There is very little mystery about whether customers will pay for Tally forms.

Zigpoll has years of history too. Its recent $39,000 MRR gain came from a business that had already found a place inside the Shopify ecosystem, with new users coming from several channels rather than one viral event.

LLM Gateway looks excellent right now, and its payment data is among the cleanest in the article. Most of its big acceleration has happened within a much shorter window, though. Another few months of continued growth would put it in the same durability conversation.

Outrank sits somewhere between those groups. The business has thousands of customers and has stayed at six-figure MRR scale for a meaningful period. We would be more confident about its current direction if its latest public revenue records agreed with one another.

So which indie SaaS have gained the most revenue lately?

Postiz is currently our best-supported answer to which indie SaaS has gained the most revenue lately.

The case is unusually clean after checking the alternatives. Postiz has added more than $100,000 of recurring monthly revenue in a few months, the company remains bootstrapped, and we can now see the business through live Stripe-connected data rather than relying only on founder screenshots.

Outrank is the closest serious rival we found, although conflicting recent revenue records keep it in second place. LLM Gateway is moving fastest among the smaller challengers and could climb the ranking quickly if its current pace continues. Tally and Zigpoll have added less in absolute dollars but did it from mature revenue bases, which makes both results unusually strong.

The newer group tells a different story. Launch Fast, Draftly and Lancer reached $20,000–$30,000 MRR remarkably quickly, yet their entire recurring businesses are still smaller than the amount Postiz added during its recent expansion.

GojiberryAI would beat everyone here on raw revenue gained, but YC funding removes it from our strict indie definition. Revid and Chatbase are much larger businesses, while their latest public figures do not show the same sharp increase.

That leaves Postiz with the clearest combination of scale, recency and evidence. Among the indie SaaS revenue gains we can actually document, it is the one to beat.