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TWITS #78
Jaisal Rathee
September 17, 2025
Yooo, it’s Jaisal. Welcome back to This Week in Tiny Startups #78.
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Real-life examples of profitable tiny startups…
1. Cursor Directory — Makes $35k/Month
2. Alia — Makes $5M ARR
3. Kleo — Makes $19k MRR
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1. Rob just crossed $19k MRR with his bootstrapped SaaS
He claims to have reached $19k MRR in just 30 days with zero ads and no cold outreach, and shares a playbook (with videos) for anyone to copy.
our bootstrapped SaaS just crossed $19,055 MRR
it took 30 days, i ran zero ads & no cold outreach
just 3 people and a couple of social account
here’s the playbook (with videos) 👇
— Rob Hoffman (@RobHoffman_)
5:23 PM • Sep 15, 2025
2. Detailed has been acquired!
Detailed is an “SEO blog by full time search analysts” and just got acquired b Ahrefs! Glen is an expert when it comes to SEO and he’ll be joining the company to work on marketing & product. Massive congratulations and wishing Glen all the best! Can’t wait to see what he does next.
I have some big personal news: Detailed has been acquired by Ahrefs. 🎉
I'm also super excited to be joining the company to work on marketing and product.
A few months ago Tim Soulo invited me to speak at their upcoming conference in San Diego, Ahrefs Evolve.
I brought up an
— Glen Allsopp 👾 (@ViperChill)
1:15 PM • Sep 11, 2025
3. Pontus makes $35k/Month with a Cursor directory
Cursor Directory describes itself as “The home for Cursor enthusiasts where you can explore and generate rules, browse MCPs, post and follow the latest news on the board, learn, connect, and discover jobs all in one place”.
They claim to have over 56.4k members (likely free?) and a majority of their revenue seems to come from job listings & featured ad slots.
I’ve never shared MRR before, but here’s the crazy story of how we built Cursor Directory, a 3-hour hack that now makes $35k/month.
It started right before I moved to France.
I had downloaded some videos for the flight, stumbled upon .cursorrules, and immediately called
— Pontus Abrahamsson — oss/acc (@pontusab)
11:54 AM • Sep 12, 2025
4. Shaan just hit $5M ARR
Shaan just hit $5M ARR with his Shopify app Alia (shared above) that helps you create smarter pop ups. Incredible numbers!
We've officially bootstrapped to $5M ARR.
I feel like I'm dreaming.
— Shaan Arora (@iamshaanarora)
4:25 PM • Sep 15, 2025
5. Funny post of the week
Guys, it's not hard
1. Just got to @acquiredotcom
2. Find a trending SaaS idea
3. Build it in 2 mins with Lovable
4. Sell it for $500,000I've literally become a millionaire 7 times this week it's so simple literally anyone can do it
— Kyle Gawley (@kylegawley)
11:59 AM • Sep 15, 2025
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