TWITS #89

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Jaisal Rathee
December 03, 2025

Yooo, it’s Jaisal. Welcome back to This Week in Tiny Startups #89.

I find it hard to believe that we’re already in December. Just under one month left to hit our 2025 goals, are you close?

— Jaisal (@ratheejaisal)

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🆒 2 Insanely Useful Tools

A curation of awesome websites, tools, & apps that I came across this week…

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1. Visitors.now

Visitors.now

Visitors.now is a cool indie alternative to Google Analytics. It helps you understand your visitors and how they engage with your website through fast, private, and realtime web analytics that.

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2. AI Selfie

AI Selfie

AI Selfie is an insanely useful app built by my founder friend Jim that lets you get professional looking headshots for all your socials with a single selfie.

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😻 Posts We Loved This Week

Here’s what stood out…

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1. Erikas finally hit $1M MRR

Erikas hit $1M MRR in 3.5 years with his Shopify app that allows brands to grow their revenue by easily adding upsell features. Fully remote and 100% bootstrapped — Erikas is living the dream :)

2. Maxime just sold his tiny startup for $90,000

Massive congrats to Maxime for selling Blogbuster, can’t wait to see what he does next.

3. Kyzo hit $1.4k MRR with Fluar

Kyzo hit $1.4k MRR and $4k revenue in November with Fluar, an insanely cool tool that lets you enrich your lead data with AI agents. He’s made around ~$9.7k (12.6k SGD) with it so far this year. Pretty sick!

4. Nithur made $1.2k with his Chrome extension

Wandpen is a distraction free alternative to Grammarly that helps you improve your writing, fix grammar mistakes, translate, and more. Nithur made over $1,240 in total revenue last month, with 8 active subscribers and 2,300+ weekly active users.

5. Neil hit $10k MRR with IGF

Neil finally hit $10k MRR after working on his tiny startup for 3 years. He runs Influencer Gift Form, a “simple” app for Shopify brands that helps them simplify influencer gifting and increase response rates. The app is super interesting and not something I’ve come across before. Riches in niches! Click through to read his full post.

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