Rank by
Solo founders
What one person can build with no team.
Businesses run by a single founder with two employees or fewer, pulled from the structured founder and headcount fields, not guesswork. The lean end of the corpus, where one person carries the whole thing.
Where solo founders win · by volume
Top solo businesses
How to read this. Median MRR is the middle of self-reported monthly revenue for
profitable examples in a theme: directional, unverified founder claims, not audited numbers.
Fail rate is Failory shutdown/interview count matched to the theme, divided by profitable
examples; a proxy for how crowded and unforgiving the space is. Opportunity blends median
revenue, example volume, and a fail-rate penalty. Absurd revenue outliers (a few parser artifacts
above $5M/mo) are filtered from example lists. Click any example to read the founder's full
interview in-app. Text is scraped from Starter Story and reformatted for reading.
Treat this as idea-generation signal, not diligence.