SoloBiz follows independent creators around the world — their stories, their numbers, and the playbooks behind them.
Daniel Vassallo left Amazon and earned a reported $1M in three years of self-employment by running a portfolio of small bets — then sold his Small Bets community to Gumroad for $3.5M.
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Wu Ruimeng is a startup CTO who earned over ¥150,000 ($20K) in two months of side projects using vibe coding — no extra funding, no staff. From a $1.4 baby-naming app to an AI comic-drama tool, his playbook shows how long-tail niches plus AI can become a real one-person business.
Tony Dinh quit his Singapore engineering job, spent four years in Vietnam shipping side projects that mostly failed — then built TypingMind, an AI chat client, in four days after the ChatGPT API dropped. It made $22K in a week and now earns $137K a month.
张sir quit his game-studio job in 2025, shipped six danmu livestream games alone with an AI production pipeline, and claims nearly ¥20M in revenue — of which he personally kept only about ¥0.8–1M. This is how he did it.
Jon Yongfook failed at 20+ products, shipped 12 startups in 12 months, then deleted the interface of a $400/month tool and rebuilt it as Bannerbear — an image-generation API that bootstrapped past $1M in annual recurring revenue.
Danny Postma turned a $19 eBook into Headlime, one of the first GPT-3 apps in production, and sold it for a reported $1M only 8 months after launch.
Wu Peiwen runs a one-person AI marketing company in Hangzhou earning a reported ¥1.5M a year — AI agents do 90% of the execution while he only decides and approves. The playbook behind China's one-person-company boom.
Arvid Kahl and his partner Danielle built FeedbackPanda from zero to $55K MRR in two years with no employees, then sold it in 2019. A two-person playbook for bootstrappers.
Isaac Wong lost HK$1M in three failed startup years, then rebuilt as a one-person AI business in the UK — claiming seven-figure HKD revenue with 80% of content production automated.
A waitress and mother of two taught herself digital marketing during lockdown and built an Etsy business doing about £80K a month.
A London TV producer wrote fan fiction for fun and ended up selling 150 million books, igniting the self-publishing revolution.
From a rundown share house to a $2.5M-a-year personal brand: how Dan Koe used systematic content and relentless self-education to rewrite his life.
A burned-out SaaS executive rebuilt his life on LinkedIn and now runs a $3.85M-a-year knowledge business working under four hours a day.
After years of failed startups, Marc Lou shipped 17 products in two years and now makes about $80K a month from Bali.
A Dutch programmer sold everything, traveled the world, and built a $2.7M-a-year software business with zero employees.
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