Benchmark · Micro SaaS
Micro SaaS examples that publish real revenue
The search results for "micro SaaS examples" are mostly lists of ideas written by people who have not shipped one. This page is the other thing: 76 products in our library are run by one person, 37 of them publish MRR, and the median of those is $64. The best one clears $54,684 a month.
- Revenue as of 2026-10-30
- 851 products
- 435 report MRR
One-person products
76
declared team size, of 851
Median MRR (1 person)
$64
37 publish MRR
Top 10% (1 person)
$1,242
library-wide median is $396
The short answer
- 01
One-person products are not a shortcut to $10k. Their median is $64, roughly 6× below the library median.
- 02
The 90th percentile is $1,242 — that is the realistic "good" band for a solo product, and it is a single product’s MRR, not a month of revenue.
- 03
The gap between 1 person and 2–5 people is not 2×. Median MRR goes from $64 to $362 — 6×.
What counts as micro SaaS here
We do not police the label. On this page it means products that match four observable things in our data: a declared team of one, a single core job, subscription pricing, and no funding round recorded.
| Shape | What we check | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Team | team size field = "1 person" | the only field that separates solo from small team |
| Scope | one market assigned, one product | the library stores one primary category per product |
| Pricing | subscription (MRR reported) | a one-off purchase cannot report MRR |
| Funding | no funding field populated | bootstrapped, by the data we hold |
This is a filter, not a verdict: a product can be micro SaaS and still be missing from these tables if it never declared team size.
One person vs a small team
$64
median MRR · 37 publish MRR
$362
median MRR · 13 publish MRR
Only 93 products declare a team size at all — small samples, wide error bars. The direction is still clear.
One-person products with real MRR
3 products in the same sample declare a one-person team and a positive MRR. Team size is self-declared and rarely filled in, so this list is short by construction — it is not a top-N ranking of solo products. Every row opens that product's own report.
- 1
Marketing · 1 person
$54,684
30d $70,229
- 2
Productivity · 1 person
$6,048
30d $3,609
- 3
Marketing · 1 person
$2,675
30d $3,687
Why your favourite product is missing
Because the sample is narrow by design: 851 products that publish revenue through a payment provider. A famous product that never connected its billing data is invisible here. That is also why the numbers look smaller than the stories you read on X.
As a side hustle: the hour maths
Most people reading this page are not trying to replace a salary — they want a few hundred a month on top of one. Side hustles to make extra money land in a narrow band, and that band is visible here: 107 products report between $100 and $999 a month, about a quarter of the 435 that publish MRR. The question is what it costs in hours.
Ten hours a week is about forty a month; at $25 an hour that is $1,000 gross. The median one-person product here reports $64 a month — roughly 3 hours of that same job. A product only beats an hourly rate once it grows past the hours you put in, and the median month-over-month growth in this sample is 0%.
- Compare against the rate you could sell today, not against the top row of this page. Ten hours a week at $25 is $1,000 a month; the median one-person product is $64.
- What breaks a side hustle is rarely motivation — it is a client or a bug that needs you on a Tuesday morning. Pick work whose delivery you control.
- Keep the job until the product pays more than the hours it takes. In this sample that is the exception, not the median.
How to use this page
Do not pick the top row and clone it. Use the spread instead: if the product you want to build sits at $50 MRR for most operators and $1.2k at the 90th percentile, the real question is what the top 10% do differently — pricing, a distribution channel, or a narrower buyer.
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Method
851 products in our library that publish revenue through a payment provider, crawled 2026-10-30. 435 of them report a non-zero MRR; medians and percentiles are computed on that subset only. Missing values are never treated as zero. This is the population that chooses to publish revenue — not the whole market.
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