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Bannerbear
18 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
One person, one API, a million a year
A bootstrapped image API doing roughly $1M a year, and the one door it left wide open.
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InboxPilot
$14k/mo · Sales
They own the paste-a-URL web app but are absent from the inbox, where the work actually happens.
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Backlinker AI
$22k/mo · SEO
They win on traffic but lose users in week one because onboarding buries the core feature.
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Outstand.so
$8k/mo · Outreach
They serve everyone generically, but one vertical is begging for a version built only for them.
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