TWITS #72

Jaisal Rathee
July 29, 2025

Yooo, it’s Jaisal. Welcome back to This Week in Tiny Startups #72.

My apologies for missing last week’s issue. I’ve found it hard to keep up with my routines while I travel. Hoping to get back into a regular groove with this.

In the meantime, I’m giving away a few sponsor slots for August/September at 50% off. Reach out if you’re interested in promoting your startup in-front of 17k+ founders and indie hackers 🤟

— Jaisal (@ratheejaisal)

2 new income reports 💸

Real-life examples of profitable tiny startups…

1. Every— Makes $86k MRR

2. Voicy — Makes $1.3k MRR

Launchpad 🚀

We’ve got 12 kick-ass founders launching their projects on Tiny Startups.

Check it out and support your favourites :)

$300k with a simple Javascript library

Sachin runs lightGallery, a lightweight JavaScript image and video lightbox gallery plugin, and just crossed $300k in total revenue 3 years after launch. Incredible stuff!

3 years ago, I started my indie hacking journey with a simple Javascript library and it crossed $300K in revenue.
Half on Gumroad and half on LemonSqueezy.
Grateful ❤️
— Sachin Neravath (@SachinNeravath)
3:49 AM • Jul 24, 2025

Kourosh hit £1k MRR

Kourosh just hit £1k MRR (around ~$1,342 USD) with Voicy (shared above), an AI-powered speech-to-text software.

Finally crossed 1k MRR in GBP with @VoicyApp 🎉
6 months of slow slow progress
Hopefully 2k will be faster😅
— Kourosh Ghaffari (@BuildingWaves)
9:59 AM • Jul 23, 2025

Jed sold his startup for $100k

Jed just sold RateMyDorm, a dorm rating website where you could share real, honest dorm reviews. It was acquired by Jenni AI (an academic writing AI app) for $100k. Looks like they’ll use this as a lead generation tool to reach their ~500k yearly users and hopefully convert a few % to paying customers.

Excited to announce that I sold my startup for $100,000
4 years ago, I built a review website called RateMyDorm - it’s like RateMyProfessors, but for dorms
Early in my YouTube career, I decided to build it in public, documenting everything from writing the first lines of code
— jedcal (@jedcaluag)
4:51 PM • Jul 20, 2025

David (founder of Jenni AI) shares a useful breakdown of the deal below and the reasons behind the acquisition…

Here’s the exact details of the acquisition and why it made sense for both parties (revenue multiple, amount paid, structure, etc)
Jenni paid:
- $20k cash upfront
- $30k in Jenni stock
- $30k in deferred cash
- $30k in deferred jenni stock
Acquired startup had:
~500,000
— David Park (@Davidjpark96)
2:59 PM • Jul 21, 2025

Dan hit $87k MRR with Every

Every (shared above) is a newsletter + software company that publishes a daily newsletter about what comes next in technology. Dan was recently featured on Lenny’s Postcast that gave them a nice revenue boost.

Every costs $30 per month or $288 per year and gives you unlimited access to their daily newsletter and archive, along with different software products they’ve built. A super interesting business model and one that clearly seems to be working.

i highly recommend going on @lennysan's podcast
👀
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper)
10:03 PM • Jul 28, 2025

Links

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— Jaisal (@ratheejaisal)

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