Which vibe-coded apps make over $10K/month?

Why are $10K/month vibe-coded apps suddenly everywhere?

Vibe-coded apps making more than $10K/month are real today, although the examples circulating online are heavily skewed toward the winners.

The volume of software being created with AI has exploded. Lovable has said that more than 100,000 new projects are created on its platform every day. Cursor, Claude Code, Replit, Bolt and similar tools have also made it possible to turn an idea into working software in days rather than months.

Naturally, that produces far more revenue screenshots. But those screenshots mix together very different things: MRR, annual subscriptions collected upfront, ARR divided by twelve, one unusually strong month and sometimes cumulative revenue.

For this update, we re-checked the latest public numbers we could find instead of assuming that a viral revenue claim from a year ago still describes the business today. That changes the list in a few places. Fly, Pieter Levels' famous flight simulator, is a good example: its $87K MRR peak is well documented, but its current revenue is too unclear for us to call it a $10K-plus business today with confidence.

The broader evidence still leaves little doubt about the main point. A meaningful group of products built primarily with AI coding tools are now making tens of thousands of dollars a month, and a few have gone much further.

What should actually count as a vibe-coded app?

We count a product as vibe-coded when AI generated a large part of the working software and prompting AI was a central part of the build process.

That includes experienced developers. Subscribr founder Gil Hildebrand was already a developer, for example, but says roughly 90% of Subscribr's code was written with Claude Code. Stanley was built by an experienced technical team, yet its founders explicitly describe locking themselves away for a 14-day vibe-coding sprint.

The definition also includes people with almost no coding background. ToneAdapt founder Kyan says Cursor and Claude Code generated all of the code. Stoppr founder David Attias came from finance. Plinq founder Sabrine Matos came from growth marketing and says she built the product on Lovable without formal engineering training.

We would draw the line at ordinary software that merely uses Copilot or ChatGPT occasionally. AI assistance has become so common that using an AI tool somewhere in the workflow tells us almost nothing. The interesting cases are products where AI materially changed how quickly, cheaply or independently the software could be built.

Which vibe-coded apps currently make more than $10K/month?

At least ten named vibe-coded products have a recent enough public revenue disclosure for us to place them above a $10K monthly run rate, although the strength and meaning of those numbers vary.

Stanley has the largest recent figure we found, at roughly $3M ARR. Aura's latest founder disclosure puts it above $50K MRR. Lumoo and Plinq both reported annual recurring revenue that works out comfortably above $10K a month. Subscribr, ToneAdapt, Launch Fast, Payout, Wrestle.ai and Stoppr all have direct monthly revenue disclosures.

Tarsi belongs in a separate category. The budget app made roughly $20K during its first month and was still averaging around $350 in daily sales when founder Bryl Lim discussed the business with Tap & Swipe. That works out to roughly $10.5K over 30 days, but Tarsi was primarily a paid-upfront app rather than a conventional subscription business.

The table below uses the latest credible public figure we could find. “Monthly equivalent” means we divided disclosed ARR by twelve; it does not mean the company necessarily collected that amount in cash during the last 30 days.

App	Latest public figure we could verify	What the figure means	Our confidence
Stanley	~$3M ARR	~$250K/month annualized	High
Lumoo	€700K ARR	~€58K/month annualized	Medium-high
Aura	>$50K MRR	Recurring monthly revenue	Medium-high
Plinq	~$456K ARR	~$38K/month annualized	Medium
Subscribr	~$30K/month	Subscription revenue	High
ToneAdapt	~$25.5K in four weeks	Recent web + mobile revenue	High
Launch Fast	~$21.8K MRR	Recurring SaaS revenue after ~90 days	High
Payout	~$20K/month	Recent app revenue	High
Wrestle.ai	>$17K/month	Monthly + annual subscription collections	High
Stoppr	~$12K/month	Subscription-app revenue	High
Tarsi	~$350/day after a $20K first month	~ $10.5K monthly sales pace, mostly non-recurring	Medium

Which $10K/month vibe-coded apps have the strongest revenue evidence?

ToneAdapt, Payout, Subscribr, Launch Fast and Stoppr currently give us some of the cleanest evidence because their founders disclosed concrete monthly numbers in detailed interviews rather than just posting a cropped Stripe screenshot.

ToneAdapt is particularly straightforward. In a recent Starter Story breakdown, founder Kyan said the web version generated about $11,500 during the previous four weeks while the mobile app generated another $14,000. That gives us roughly $25,500 of actual recent revenue across the two products. ToneAdapt had also crossed 100,000 users.

Subscribr is similarly useful. Founder Gil Hildebrand told Starter Story that the YouTube scriptwriting SaaS typically generates around $30,000 per month in subscription revenue, has more than 4,000 customers and produced more than $700,000 in sales over the previous year. He also said roughly 90% of the code was written using Claude Code.

Launch Fast provides another unusually specific timeline. Founder Hassam Bhatti built the initial Amazon product-research SaaS with Cursor in 48 hours, launched through a partnership with an existing Amazon coaching community and reported roughly $10K MRR after 30 days, $17K-$18K around day 60 and about $21.8K around day 90. More recent profiles put the business around $25K/month.

Payout reached roughly $20K/month after about 50 days according to a recent Starter Story interview with founder Connor Burd. Stoppr was recently profiled again at roughly $12K/month, five months after launch.

These examples give us much more to work with than a single revenue milestone. We can see the product, founder, pricing, acquisition channel and progression toward the reported number.

Is Stanley really a $3M ARR vibe-coded product?

Stanley's roughly $3M ARR is one of the strongest recent examples of vibe coding producing a serious revenue line, although Stanley started with advantages that a random weekend builder obviously does not have.

Business Insider recently reported that Stan founders John Hu and Vitalii Dodonov built the first Stanley product during a 14-day vibe-coding sprint. The LinkedIn version launched in 2025, reached roughly $200K ARR within six weeks and crossed $1M ARR a few months later. An Instagram version followed, and the two products eventually reached around $3M ARR combined.

That works out to roughly $250K per month on an annualized basis.

Stanley also sits inside Stan, an established creator-commerce company with roughly $41M ARR. The founders already had customers, distribution, creator expertise and a large pool of real workflows to study before building the new product.

Stanley is proof that vibe-coded software can scale into a multimillion-dollar business line. Its growth says much less about the odds of somebody with no audience prompting Claude for two weeks and reaching the same number.

Are Lovable apps like Plinq and Lumoo really above $10K/month?

Plinq and Lumoo both clear the $10K/month threshold by a wide margin based on their latest public ARR figures, and both were built unusually heavily on Lovable.

Lovable reported that Plinq, a Brazilian women's safety platform created by growth marketer Sabrine Matos, reached roughly R$2.2 million in ARR, or around $456,000 at the conversion used in the company's case study. That represents roughly $38,000 per month on an annualized basis. The product also crossed 10,000 users.

Plinq's number has since been repeated outside Lovable's own website, including in a founder interview with No Code MBA and in more recent coverage of the company. Matos has described building the website, desktop product and backend workflows with Lovable and n8n despite having no formal technical background.

Lumoo is an even larger B2B example. Lovable's case study reported €700,000 ARR after nine months for the AI fashion-content platform, equivalent to roughly €58,000 per month annualized. Founder Henrik Skagerlind Fasth repeated the €700K figure during a podcast interview earlier this year and described building the platform on Lovable despite coming from more than two decades in fashion rather than software engineering.

These two figures deserve slightly less weight than revenue shown directly inside Stripe or RevenueCat because Lovable has an obvious reason to showcase its best customers. The gap above $10K is large enough, though, that neither case depends on rounding a marginal number upward.

Is Aura really making more than $50K MRR?

Aura's latest public founder disclosure puts the vibe-coded design product above $50K MRR, and Meng To said roughly half of that revenue had been added during the preceding month.

Aura is also one of the cleaner examples of a founder explicitly embracing vibe coding rather than having the label applied later. Meng To described Aura as bootstrapped and “all vibe coded,” with AI handling roughly 90% of the work and manual edits making up the remaining 10%.

Earlier in Aura's growth, To publicly reported about $15K MRR and 21,700 users after one month. The later disclosure above $50K therefore represents more than a single launch spike.

We could not find a newer exact MRR disclosure, so $50K-plus is the latest level we can confidently attribute to the founder. We would avoid turning that into $60K, $70K or any other current estimate simply because the product has had more time to grow.

Does Wrestle.ai really make $17K/month?

Wrestle.ai has generated more than $17K in monthly subscription revenue, but only about $8K of that figure was traditional monthly-plan MRR when founder George Lampropoulos showed his RevenueCat dashboard.

Wrestle.ai lets wrestlers upload match footage and receive AI-generated analysis, mistakes and recommended drills. Lampropoulos launched the product at 18 despite saying he did not know how to code when he started.

The revenue breakdown is what makes the case interesting. Wrestle.ai charges $9.99 monthly or $59.99 annually. Lampropoulos showed roughly $8K coming from monthly subscriptions, while annual plans pushed total monthly collections above $17K.

So the $17K headline is legitimate as monthly revenue collected from subscriptions. Calling Wrestle.ai a $17K MRR business would inflate the recurring monthly component.

That distinction sounds small until we compare dozens of vibe-coded apps. An annual subscription collected today gives the founder cash today, while MRR spreads the value of that contract across the subscription period. Mixing the two systematically makes young app businesses look larger.

Does Tarsi count as a $10K/month vibe-coded app?

Tarsi currently sits right around the $10K/month sales threshold, but its economics look very different from the subscription apps in this article.

Bryl Lim originally built the budget tracker during a single weekend using Codex on top of a React Native template. The product was meant to be a demo for a university talk. Lim put it in the app stores anyway, and Tarsi unexpectedly climbed to number one in the paid-app rankings across several countries.

According to Lim's interview with Tap & Swipe, Tarsi generated roughly $20,000 during its first month, with about $15,000 coming from iOS. By the time of the interview, daily sales were averaging roughly $350 and sometimes jumping to $800 when social posts took off.

At $350 a day, the ongoing pace is about $10,500 over 30 days. Tarsi has since added optional cloud subscriptions, but the business originally relied heavily on one-time app purchases.

We would therefore include Tarsi when the question is “which vibe-coded apps can make more than $10K in a month?” For a strict ranking of $10K MRR subscription businesses, Tarsi stays out.

Is Pieter Levels' Fly still making more than $10K/month?

We can prove that Fly became an $87K MRR vibe-coded business, but we cannot prove that Fly is still above $10K/month today.

The original number is unusually well documented. Pieter Levels built fly.pieter.com as a browser flight simulator largely with Cursor, Claude and Grok. Levels later documented on his own website that the project reached roughly $1M ARR only 17 days after he started building it. The underlying monthly revenue figure was about $87,000.

The trouble begins when we ask what Fly makes now.

One recent retrospective claims Fly has remained around $70K-$90K MRR. Another recent analysis describes the product's revenue as having fallen sharply after the initial novelty wore off. Levels' own current page documents the historic $1M ARR milestone but does not give us a new current MRR figure that resolves the disagreement.

Because the title of this article asks which apps make over $10K/month now, we are excluding Fly from the current list. Its historical achievement remains one of the biggest vibe-coding success stories, but carrying the $87K figure forward indefinitely would give readers a false sense of precision.

Are $10K/month vibe-coded winners mostly consumer apps?

Consumer apps currently make up a surprisingly large share of the visible $10K-plus vibe-coding successes, although SaaS produces several of the biggest and cleaner recurring-revenue cases.

ToneAdapt, Payout, Stoppr, Wrestle.ai, Plinq and Tarsi are all aimed primarily at individuals. The product pitches are extremely easy to understand: change how your writing sounds, find class-action settlements, stop eating sugar, improve at wrestling, check somebody's background or track a budget.

Subscribr and Launch Fast sell much more conventional SaaS workflows. Lumoo sells to fashion businesses. Stanley sits somewhere between creator SaaS and professional software. Aura targets designers and builders.

The coding stack tells us surprisingly little about the winning business model. Lovable can produce a safety application or a B2B fashion platform. Claude Code can help build creator SaaS. Cursor can power a health app or Amazon seller software.

These days the commercial winners are spread across several software categories. What they have in common is much easier to see in the customer problem than in the AI tool used to build them.

Did vibe coding actually create these $10K/month businesses?

Vibe coding clearly helped these products get built faster, while customer demand and distribution still explain most of the gap between a shipped app and a $10K/month business.

The build times are genuinely unusual. ToneAdapt took roughly a week. Stanley took 14 days for its first version. Payout was built in about two weeks. Launch Fast took 48 hours for the initial SaaS. Stoppr's first functional version took a few weeks. Tarsi started as a weekend project.

Years ago, several of those founders would have needed a technical cofounder, a freelancer or months of their own development time simply to run the experiment.

But look at how the revenue actually arrived. Launch Fast launched through a revenue-share partnership with an Amazon coaching company that already had thousands of potential users. Subscribr founder Gil Hildebrand sold roughly $20,000 of lifetime access before the software even existed. Stoppr's founder checked Google Trends and creator activity before building, then used influencers and paid acquisition. Stanley could reach Stan's existing creator customer base. Aura founder Meng To already knew how to attract a design audience.

The code became dramatically cheaper. Distribution remained expensive in time, expertise, audience or advertising.

How rare is a $10K/month vibe-coded app?

Nobody currently has the data required to calculate the real probability that a new vibe-coded app will reach $10K/month.

A recently updated ProvenStartups dataset gives us one useful view. It tracks 82 projects matching its vibe-coding criteria, 59 of them solo-run. Only 22 publish a clean monthly revenue figure. Among those disclosed cases, the median is $20K/month and the range runs from $2K to $500K per month.

That $20K median can easily be misunderstood. The database is built around businesses interesting enough to research and document. Thousands of experiments that were abandoned after three days, attracted 27 users or earned nothing are far less likely to appear.

The same research group tracks a wider set of 106 projects with clean monthly figures. Fifty-four fall between $10K and $100K per month, while another 26 exceed $100K. Again, those are distributions among documented revenue cases rather than success rates for people opening an AI coding tool.

Compare those dozens of disclosed winners with Lovable's claim of more than 100,000 projects created per day and the scale of the survivorship bias becomes obvious.

We can say with high confidence that $10K/month vibe-coded businesses now exist in meaningful numbers. We still have no credible basis for saying that $10K/month has become a common outcome.

What separates the vibe-coded apps that actually pass $10K/month?

The $10K-plus vibe-coded apps we checked tend to combine a very narrow reason to pay with a distribution channel that existed before the product became polished.

Subscribr is a good example. Gil Hildebrand identified scriptwriting as a painful bottleneck for YouTube operators, built an audience around that problem and collected roughly $20,000 in presales before committing to the finished product.

Launch Fast went even further on distribution. Hassam Bhatti had spent years inside Amazon FBA, built software around a workflow he already understood and then put the product directly in front of an established coaching community. The app reached $10K MRR within roughly a month.

Stoppr followed a consumer version of the same logic. David Attias found an existing app with proven economics, moved the core behavior into a rising sugar-reduction niche, checked search and creator activity before building, then used short-form content and paid acquisition.

ToneAdapt, Payout and Stanley reached the market unusually quickly too. The AI coding tool mainly explains why the founders could test their ideas so fast. The money came once a specific offer met an audience that could actually be reached.

The pattern is commercial: a narrow reason to pay, plus an audience the founder can actually reach.

What the winners usually have	Examples	Why it helps
A problem people understand immediately	Payout, Wrestle.ai, Stoppr	The product needs very little explanation before the paywall
Existing knowledge of the customer	Launch Fast, Lumoo, Stanley	Founders know which workflow is painful before building
Distribution built into the launch	Subscribr, Launch Fast, Stanley	The first customers do not have to appear magically after launch
A build measured in days or weeks	ToneAdapt, Payout, Tarsi	Cheap development lets founders test demand before committing heavily
Early willingness to charge	Subscribr, Tarsi, Stoppr	Revenue becomes part of validation rather than something postponed until scale

So which vibe-coded apps actually make over $10K/month today?

Yes, there is now a real group of vibe-coded apps above $10K/month, and the strongest current evidence supports roughly ten named products rather than one or two viral exceptions.

The clearest current group includes Stanley, Aura, Lumoo, Plinq, Subscribr, ToneAdapt, Launch Fast, Payout, Wrestle.ai and Stoppr. Their latest disclosed figures range from roughly $12K a month at the bottom to a $3M ARR run rate at the top. Tarsi also sits around the threshold if we count monthly sales rather than recurring revenue.

We are more confident about some numbers than others. ToneAdapt, Subscribr, Launch Fast, Payout, Wrestle.ai and Stoppr have detailed recent founder disclosures that make the underlying revenue relatively easy to understand. Stanley has strong recent reporting. Aura's founder has publicly disclosed its MRR. Plinq and Lumoo rely more heavily on platform case studies, although their reported revenue sits comfortably above the threshold.

Fly shows why keeping the list fresh matters. Its spectacular $87K MRR milestone was real, yet the available evidence no longer tells us confidently what the flight simulator earns now, so we would rather leave it out than recycle an old screenshot as a current fact.

The conclusion is now pretty hard to avoid. Vibe coding can already produce $10K, $20K, $50K and even six-figure monthly software businesses. What the evidence does not show is a shortcut to customers.

AI has made the app dramatically easier to build. Getting enough people to pay for it is still where most of the business gets decided.