Who's earning with AI
We focus on individuals, not big companies: people who earned serious money with AI, or launched a notable new service. See how much, with what, and how — at a glance. Figures are approximate, based on what the person or the press has publicly stated.
Reported on the order of ~$30M annualized revenue (sale price undisclosed)
Zach Yadegari (Cal AI)
An AI app built by a teenage founder that logs calories just by taking a photo. It was reported to reach tens of millions of dollars in annualized revenue in a short time.
Image-recognition AI (estimates calories from a photo)
$1M+/year across his solo products (self-reported)
Marc Lou
An indie maker who sells dev templates and small SaaS on his own and publicly reports over a million dollars a year in revenue.
Selling dev templates + personal branding
Reported acquired by Wix for ~$80M (about six months after founding)
Maor Shlomo (Base44)
He launched "Base44," a tool that generates apps from natural-language instructions, and was reported to be acquired by Wix roughly six months after founding.
AI app generation (turns instructions into working apps)
~$3M/year across his solo products (self-reported)
Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
One of the best-known indie developers, running several AI products alone and publicly reporting several million dollars a year in combined revenue.
AI coding (Cursor / Claude) + image-generation AI
~$3.6M/year (ARR, self-reported) from AI products
Danny Postma
An indie developer who runs services like AI-generated business headshots on his own and publicly reports several million dollars a year in revenue.
Image-generation AI + indie marketing
Figures are approximate, based on public statements by the person or the press, and may change or be overstated. This is not financial or earnings advice.