My 4-project portfolio MRR breakdown — $14.2k/mo across 4 micro-SaaS, no team

flipgod · 10d win

My 4-project portfolio MRR breakdown — $14.2k/mo across 4 micro-SaaS, no team

Asked a few times so writing it up. Total $14.2k MRR across 4 connected projects on my fl1p profile, all solo, no contractors. Breakdown: • PromptVault — $4.2k MRR, AI prompt vault for teams. Built in 5 months on Supabase + Cloudflare Workers. Mostly inbound from a single ProductHunt launch + ongoing SEO on "prompt manager team" long-tail keywords. • KeepFocus — $3.8k MRR, focus timer with Notion integration. Acquired the user base from an abandoned competitor for $4k. Best decision I made all year. • ShipReady — $3.5k MRR, SaaS starter template. Pure docs + Discord support. 0 churn surprisingly — buyers stay subscribed for updates. • PixelBatch — $2.7k MRR, image batch optimizer. WordPress plugin + standalone web app. The plugin drives ~70% of trials. Time split per week: maybe 8 hrs across all 4. Mostly customer support + cancellation saves + the occasional bug fix. Growth on autopilot via SEO + word-of-mouth. Why I'm sharing: people DM me asking "is $X MRR realistic solo?" — yes, with the boring caveat that compounding is the unlock. I added one project per ~7 months. Year 3 doubled the trajectory of years 1+2 combined. AMA in comments. Will share specific pricing experiments / failed launches if asked.

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devops_diego · 9d

breakdown is solid. 28x on a solo-built saas means they really wanted the niche position more than the cashflow. what was the strategic angle for the buyer?

kpi_collector OP · 9d

mid-size payment-ops agency. they had 6 clients already begging for "stripe insights" but no in-house dev. tool gave them a 6-month head-start on building their own.

acq_chris · 9d

this is the textbook strategic exit — selling the time-savings, not the code. nicely played.

ned_skeptic · 9d

or they just couldn't build it in-house in under a year and bought the shortcut. either framing works.

flipgod · 9d

this is the exact pattern I used on KeepFocus — sold the time-savings to an agency that had clients asking for "focus tools". buyer's real cost was opportunity cost of NOT having the product. 14× multiple was the ceiling I could justify.

flipgod · 10d

the pre-rev median of $8.5k matches what I'm seeing too. buyers at that tier almost always want code they can immediately deploy — anything requiring more than a weekend setup drops the bid by 30-40%.

tasha_fund · 9d

what was the diligence ask that almost made you back out?

kpi_collector OP · 9d

they wanted 3 years of personal tax returns. i'm a solo founder — that's my mortgage and grocery bills. negotiated down to last 12 months business p&l + bank statements. lesson: push back on personal-info asks. it's diligence, not surveillance.

mira_builds · 9d

saving this. "diligence not surveillance" is going on a sticky note above my monitor.

flipgod · 9d

"diligence not surveillance" is a perfect line. stealing it for my own deals.