A website made in 24 hours, how did it earn $390,000 in the first year?
Headline cites the Historical Research Snapshot. KPI strip is the Latest Revenue Snapshot.
Product at a glance
- what is it
- An open startup project income library and trading market: founders connect to read-only keys of payment merchants such as Stripe, income is automatically publicly disclosed and updated every hour, those who want to sell projects can list them for sale.
- who is it for
- Founders who want to publicly disclose their performance, get exposure or sell their projects, buyers who want to buy profitable websites, and tool companies that want to buy ad space.
- how does it charge
- Browsing and registration are free. All payments are for single items: external links $19, AI visibility $79, sale listings $29, $199, $499 in three tiers, all one-time; sidebar ads $399/7 days starting; buyer reminders $199/year
- business model
- The transaction market that includes free inclusion and selling exposure: money comes from advertising spaces, listing fees, buyer subscriptions, and transaction commissions.
- Revenue over the past 12 months
- $384K
- MRR
- $21K
- 9 month revenue
- $48.9K
Total income since launch · profit margin 90%
Open evidenceFact · as of 2026-11-04
Evidence type: Fact
Source: Latest Revenue Snapshot · provider payment sync
as of: 2026-11-04
Provider-verified revenue signal ≠ audited company financials.
30 days +22% · only 13 subscriptions
Open evidenceFact · as of 2026-11-04
Evidence type: Fact
Source: Latest Revenue Snapshot · provider payment sync
as of: 2026-11-04
Provider-verified revenue signal ≠ audited company financials.
Historical high · first full month 2025-11 is $17.8K
Open evidenceFact · as of 2026-11-04
Evidence type: Fact
Source: Latest Revenue Snapshot · provider payment sync
as of: 2026-11-04
Provider-verified revenue signal ≠ audited company financials.
MRR = current monthly recurring run rate · 30-Day revenue = what the provider recorded in the trailing 30 days. Timing, not extra revenue, is why a ratio can exceed 100%.
Summary
What kind of business is this
Founders want to prove their income is real, buyers want to find verified projects, publicly disclose income data and use payment merchant data to connect both sides. Founders actively register for external links and exposure, each project page also brings search traffic, and then sell these visitors as ad space, sell listings and transaction commissions.
- form
- Web database + trading market
- customers
- Founder, acquirer
- charging
- One-time fee + commission
- Starting price
- $19 one-time
- launch
- 2025-10
- team
- 1 person · self-funded · Singapore
Core growth findings
Findings may cite earlier snapshots; header KPIs carry Fact and a revenue as-of date. Revenue as of 2026-11-04.
- 01
The traffic code: a person's fans ignite, others' brand keywords continue to navigate
It went online relying on Marc Lou's 415,000 fans, and in September, natural social media still accounted for 16.6%. After that, each included project is a search landing page: Lunchbreak's archive page brings more search visits than the homepage every month.
- 02
The money-making code: selling attention, transaction commissions are just a small part
Each page has 20 sponsored spots, starting at $399 for 7 days; MRR is $25,483 from only 13 subscriptions. In the past year, the total transaction amount is about $1.1 million, and the commission is only about $33,000 at 3%.
- 03
The supply approach: free registration with external links, letting founders fill in the library themselves
The first sentence of the published post's selling point is "free registration, with 40+ DR external links". The external link list website also lists it as a free external link with DR 71, bringing in the next batch of registrations.
- Number tags
- FactStraight from the source
- DerivedCalculated from facts
- ClaimedSelf-reported, unverified
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