Written off the same transcripts the index is built from.
The median, not the highlight reel. Every model in the index with its real monthly figure, the full spread, and how much each number is worth as evidence.
15 articlesWhat apps earn after the store takes its cut — build costs, revenue models, and the disclosed figures behind them.
6 articlesTraffic only becomes income through a handful of mechanisms. Here is which one carries the money, and what the sites running it actually report.
5 articlesShopify, Etsy, dropshipping — every fee counted, then compared against what the stores that disclose their numbers actually keep.
9 articlesPrompting an AI until it works is now a real way to ship a product. Here is what the people doing it actually earn — and where it stops working.
10 articlesClaude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, Replit. Ranked not by feature list but by how many shipped products with real revenue came out of each one.
14 articlesWhat AI service businesses actually charge, deliver, and keep. The retainer numbers nobody puts in their pitch deck.
10 articlesMRR, churn, CAC, LTV, burn — defined against real figures from one-person products, not enterprise benchmarks that do not apply to you.
21 articles246 of the products indexed here are run by one person. This is the income distribution, including the part where most of them make very little.
8 articlesBoilerplate, extensions, no-code builders. The scaffolding that got real products out the door, and the time it actually saved.
10 articlesDigital products and side projects for people who can already build. Sorted by return on the hours, not by how good the pitch sounds.
15 articlesPricing, SEO, Product Hunt, selling the thing. What worked for products with no marketing budget and no audience.
8 articlesEvery indexed product grouped by the tool that built it, with its revenue figure and evidence grade attached.
18 articlesBusiness models that already print revenue, sorted by how hard they are to copy — not by how good they sound.
22 articlesWhat you can actually launch with no capital, no inventory, no audience, and a job you still have to keep.
20 articlesZero marginal cost, zero shipping, infinite copies. Also infinite competition — which is the part nobody writes about.
16 articlesHandmade and sourced goods: real margins, real inventory risk, and the numbers sellers rarely publish.
13 articlesYour design, someone else's printer, nobody's inventory. The margins are thin enough that the details decide it.
23 articlesEtsy, Shopify, KDP, Printify — what each platform actually takes, and the setup steps that matter.
22 articlesNaming, photos, listings, pricing, ads. The unglamorous work that separates a shop from a hobby.
22 articlesWhat these businesses really make after fees, and where the published numbers stop being trustworthy.
23 articlesMatched to the time, capital, and skills you actually have — including the honest answer when nothing fits.
23 articlesSaturation, bans, taxes, copyright. The reasons these businesses fail, stated before you spend money.
21 articlesAcross the 96 consumer mobile apps in our index, 34 disclose a clean monthly revenue figure, and the median of that disclosing set is $60K/mo. The spread…
Of the 96 consumer mobile apps in our index, 34 disclose a clean monthly revenue figure, and the median of that disclosing set is $60K/mo. The spread runs…
Free apps make money four ways — subscription paywalls, one-time in-app purchases, advertising, and affiliate or referral fees — and in our data the first…