MRR Ledger Weekly

Sample issue for 2026-10-19 (changes since 2026-10-13). Built automatically from the dataset and change log, so every figure has a source.

Subject line: Postiz hit $284.2K MRR, plus 34 new businesses. Get it by email below, or follow RSS. Machine copy: /api/v1/newsletter.json.

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Business of the day

Photo AI

Users upload ~20 photos; the product fine-tunes a private identity model and generates photorealistic portraits, try-on, and video — built as a single large PHP app by Pieter Levels.

$1.3M annualized, monthly revenue × 12 (estimate), as of 2026-03 · levels.io (Pieter Levels, 6 Mar 2026 post)

  • Narrow deliverable (usable likeness photos) beats generic AI demos.
  • Founder-reported revenue is useful but label it — not the same as Stripe-verified MRR.
New on the ledger (34)
Number moves
Indie corner
  1. Chatbase: $10M annualized, ARR (self-reported), as of 2026-05-18
  2. Postiz: $3.4M annualized, MRR × 12 (estimate), as of 2026-10-19
  3. Photo AI: $1.3M annualized, monthly revenue × 12 (estimate), as of 2026-03
Lesson of the week
Build messaging infrastructure first, then agents: routing, history, CRM context and human handoff make AI Agents commercially reliable instead of chatbot demos.

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