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Open-source social media scheduler for people and AI agents · Israel, company registered in Hong Kong

Postiz

Solo founderB2BSocial media marketing
Outcome
US$263K a month recurring revenue, October 2026Revenue growing
Launch
July 2024
Team
1 founder, with 75 code contributors on GitHub and a hiring link on the site in 2026
Outside funding
None
Group
Marketing and social content
Main channel
Open source

Postiz is a social media scheduler, a program that stores posts you write in advance and publishes them to several social networks at the chosen time through each network's interface. The founder says such tools have existed for almost twenty years; Buffer and Hootsuite are the best known. Postiz is open source: its full code is public under a license that lets anyone run and change it, so a developer can self-host it, meaning run it on their own server for free, while the company charges for the hosted version. In 2025 the founder added an MCP server, a standard interface through which an AI agent (a program that uses a language model to carry out tasks on its own) can list your channels, upload media and schedule posts. The product's 2026 positioning is a scheduler for agents, with a human who approves the calendar.

Nevo David, an Israeli developer who had done growth work for the open-source company Novu, put postiz.com online in July 2024 and posted it on Hacker News and Reddit in late August. He wrote in November 2024 that it made US$700 a month, in January 2025 US$2,100 a month, and in November 2025 US$14,000 a month, all as a single developer with no outside money. Then the agent audience arrived. Stripe-verified figures published through TrustMRR show monthly recurring revenue (MRR, the subscription revenue of one month) of US$60,731 on 2 March 2026, US$87,530 on 2 April 2026, and US$262,899 on 12 October 2026, with 7,683 active subscriptions. That is a run rate of about US$3.15 million a year.

The headline number is grade A: TrustMRR reads it from the company's Stripe account through an API key. The revenue before November 2025 is grade C, the founder's own posts. The page also shows five earlier companies that sold social posting or social marketing tools and died, and what is different this time.

Postiz: US$263K a month recurring revenue, October 2026. Open-source social media scheduler for people and AI agents, Israel, company registered in Hong Kong, solo founder, evidence grade A.
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01

The numbers, graded

Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.

US$262,899 in monthly recurring revenue on 12 October 2026, verified from the company's Stripe account, after sixteen months at a few thousand dollars a month
FactValueGradeHow we knowSources
Monthly recurring revenue, 12 October 2026US$262,899ATrustMRR, read from the company's Stripe account through an API key. Last synced 12 October 2026. MRR growth over the previous 30 days: 21.2%.[1]
Run rate from the October 2026 MRRabout US$3.15 million a yearcalcCalculated: 262,899 times 12 equals 3,154,788.[1]
Active subscriptions, 12 October 20267,683ATrustMRR, from Stripe.[1]
Average recurring revenue per subscriptionabout US$34 a monthcalcCalculated: 262,899 divided by 7,683 equals 34.22. Close to the price of the two cheapest plans, so most customers are on Standard or Team.[1]
Revenue in the 30 days to 12 October 2026US$292,177ATrustMRR, from Stripe. Growth of 49.0% over the previous 30 days. Revenue is higher than MRR because yearly plans are paid up front.[1]
Revenue in the twelve months to 12 October 2026US$1,292,052ATrustMRR, from Stripe. All-time revenue on the account: US$1,405,253.[1]
Monthly revenue, November 2025 to September 2026US$16,049 in November 2025, US$46,019 in February 2026, US$92,964 in April, US$152,041 in June, US$247,789 in SeptemberATrustMRR monthly timeline from Stripe. December 2025 was US$15,785; January 2026 US$18,300; March US$82,076; May US$117,503; July US$178,649; August US$192,599.[1]
Growth from November 2025 to September 202615.4 times in ten monthscalcCalculated: 247,789 divided by 16,049.[1]
MRR during spring 2026US$60,731 on 2 March, US$87,530 on 2 April, US$96,765 on 20 April, US$115,489 on 15 MayAArchived copies of the TrustMRR page, same Stripe source. Active subscriptions: 1,800, 2,668, 2,936 and 3,434 on those dates.[2]
Date the run rate passed US$1 million a yearbetween 2 March and 2 April 2026calcCalculated: US$1 million a year equals US$83,333 of MRR, which lies between the 2 March and 2 April readings. The founder is reported to have announced this in April 2026; that post was not located, so the date rests on the Stripe data.[2]
Revenue on the Stripe account before November 2025about US$120,765calcCalculated: all-time revenue of 1,405,253 minus the sum of the monthly timeline from November 2025 to 12 October 2026 (1,284,488). This is all the revenue of the first sixteen months, July 2024 to October 2025.[1]
Founder's own figure, September 2026US$2.2 million ARR, US$186,000 MRRCHis X article of 7 September 2026, repeated on the company blog the next day, which cites a public Stripe profile. Consistent with the Stripe revenue of US$192,599 for August 2026.[3, 4]
Founder's X profile, October 2026US$245,000 a monthCProfile text. Lower than the TrustMRR MRR of the same week; the profile text is updated by hand.[5]
Revenue per month, November 2025US$14,000 from subscriptionsCFounder's post on dev.to, 21 November 2025, written as a single developer. The title says US$14,200. Stripe shows US$16,049 of revenue for that month, which includes yearly plans.[6]
Revenue per month, July to August 2025US$6,523, then US$12,648CFounder on Hacker News and dev.to. The dev.to text writes August 2024 for the second month; the Hacker News title says the jump took one month, so it is August 2025. The cause he gives: an official n8n node and cold email to owners of n8n communities on Skool.[6, 7]
Revenue per month, January 2025US$2,100, four months after launchCFounder's post on dev.to, 9 January 2025.[8]
Revenue per month, November 2024US$700CFounder's post on dev.to, 26 November 2024. He wrote in January 2025 that the product made only a few thousand dollars a month while its Docker image had passed 1.5 million downloads.[9, 10]
Docker image downloads26,000 in November 2024; 800,000 and then 1.5 million in January 2025; 4.79 million in November 2025CFounder's posts. A Docker image is a packaged copy of the program that a self-hoster runs with one command. These downloads pay nothing.[9, 8, 10, 6]
GitHub repository, 12 October 202637,096 stars, 7,191 forks, 75 contributors, AGPL-3.0 licenseBGitHub's own counts through its API. The repository was created on 8 July 2023 as Gitroom. The license was changed from Apache-2.0 to AGPL-3.0 on 6 January 2025.[11]
Product Hunt launches1,179 votes on 20 November 2024; 738 on 1 May 2025; 658 on 31 October 2025; 551 on 1 May 2026BVote counts from the Product Hunt launches page. The founder writes that the first launch finished first of the day, the week and the month.[12, 13]
Prices at launch and nowUS$30 a month for 5 channels in July 2024; US$29, 39, 49 and 99 by September 2024, unchanged in October 2026BArchived copies of postiz.com from 28 July 2024 and of the pricing page from 21 September 2024, compared with the pricing page read on 12 October 2026. In July 2024 there was also a free plan with 1 channel and 30 posts a month; now there is a 7-day trial instead.[14, 15, 26]
Outside fundingnoneCThe company calls itself self-funded in November 2024 and a non-funded company in November 2025.[16, 6]
Team1 person, plus open-source contributorsCFounder's words in November 2025: a single developer. In 2026 the site has a hiring link and the founder writes of a Postiz team running video pages; no headcount is published.[6, 4]
Companies and locationGitroom Limited, Hong Kong, receives the subscriptions; Gitroom LLC, Delaware, holds the social networks' developer approvalsCCompany about page and terms of service. The founder wrote on Hacker News in December 2023 that he is Israeli and was choosing where to incorporate.[17, 18]
Time from launch to the October 2026 figure27 monthscalcCalculated: July 2024 to October 2026.[14, 1]

How to read this table: a grade A value is read from the company's Stripe account by TrustMRR through an API key. A grade B value is a count published by a platform (GitHub, Product Hunt, the Internet Archive). A grade C value is a founder statement in his own posts. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.

Postiz prices in October 2026, from the company's pricing page (grade C), plus the self-hosted edition
PlanPer month, billed yearly (US$)Per month, billed monthly (US$)Limit
Self-hosted, open source00your own server, AGPL-3.0
Standard23295 channels, unlimited posts, 3 AI videos a month
Team313910 channels, unlimited team members, 100 AI images a month
Pro394930 channels, 300 AI images a month
Ultimate7999100 channels, 500 AI images a month

Every paid plan starts with a 7-day trial for US$0 and includes the MCP server, the command-line tool, the public API and webhooks. Yearly billing is about 20% cheaper than monthly. The pricing page states that a month that was paid for but not used is refunded in full. The open-source edition is free to run on your own server under the AGPL-3.0 license; you pay for the server and for the developer approvals of each social network yourself.

02

The timeline

From a tool for scheduling open-source launches to US$263,000 a month in 27 months, with the growth concentrated in the last ten. Each entry carries its grade.

  1. 2021CDavid, a full-stack developer, runs Linvo, a LinkedIn automation tool, alone and bootstrapped. It breaks the network's rules, has memory leaks, and he sells it for a low price. [19]
  2. 2022 to early 2024CHe works on growth at Novu, an open-source notification company, which reaches 31,000 GitHub stars. He writes 74 posts on dev.to with 1.18 million views and starts the Gitroom newsletter about open-source marketing. [20, 13]
  3. 17 December 2023CHe asks Hacker News where to incorporate, writes that he is Israeli, and discusses Hong Kong and Delaware. [18]
  4. 21 to 26 March 2024CGitroom, an open-source tool to schedule an open-source launch across Reddit, dev.to, X and LinkedIn, is posted on Hacker News and dev.to. Stack: Next.js and NestJS. The GitHub repository, created on 8 July 2023, is the one that later becomes Postiz. [20, 11]
  5. By 28 July 2024Bpostiz.com is live with the words Your ultimate AI social media scheduling tool, a free plan and a Launch plan at US$30 a month. [14]
  6. 24 August 2024CShow HN: I built a social media scheduling tool and open-sourced it. The repository is still named gitroom. [21]
  7. 30 August 2024CA second Show HN lists 9 networks, basic analytics, AI copilots, team support and the stack. On the installation docs still saying Gitroom, he answers: it will be renamed to Postiz soon. The same week he posts it on r/selfhosted; the first request is a Docker image, which he builds first. [22, 23, 6]
  8. 1 September 2024CThe date the founder gives for creating Postiz. By 2 December it has almost 14,000 stars. [13]
  9. 21 September 2024BThe pricing page shows Standard US$29, Team US$39, Pro US$49, Ultimate US$99, the same prices as in October 2026. [15]
  10. 20 November 2024BProduct Hunt launch, 1,179 votes, first of the day, week and month according to the founder. The news post calls Postiz a self-funded startup. [12, 16, 13]
  11. 26 November 2024CUS$700 a month. 26,000 Docker downloads. Three to five support tickets a day from self-hosters. [9]
  12. 6 January 2025BLicense changed from Apache-2.0 to AGPL-3.0, which requires anyone who offers a modified version as a service to publish their changes. [11]
  13. 9 January 2025CUS$2,100 a month after four months; 800,000 Docker downloads. Two weeks later he writes that 1.5 million downloads bring only a few thousand dollars a month, and that he launched a crypto coin whose 35% he valued at about US$500,000. [8, 10]
  14. 15 to 17 April 2025CVersion 1.39.3 adds an MCP server, so an AI assistant can schedule posts to the 18 supported networks from a chat window. Second Product Hunt launch on 1 May, 738 votes. [24, 16, 12]
  15. July to August 2025CUS$6,523 to US$12,648 a month in one month. He had noticed YouTube videos and Skool groups about automating social media with n8n, built an official n8n node (about an hour of work with Cursor, he says), cold-emailed the group owners with an offer, and his affiliate program grew. A moderator of a large paid community built a template with his affiliate link. [7, 6]
  16. Autumn 2025CHis daughter is born. He writes of massive burnout after a year of overwork. Third Product Hunt launch on 31 October: AI agents and MCP for 20+ channels, 658 votes. [6, 12]
  17. 21 November 2025AUS$14,000 a month from subscriptions, as a single developer, with a target of US$20,000 in two months. 4.79 million Docker downloads. Stripe shows US$16,049 of revenue for the month. [6, 1]
  18. 30 January 2026AA skill for OpenClaw lets that agent schedule posts with one install command; he writes that people already use it. Twitch and Kick added. Revenue jumps from US$18,300 in January to US$46,019 in February. [16, 1]
  19. 2 March 2026AMRR US$60,731 with 1,800 active subscriptions. [2]
  20. 2 April 2026AMRR US$87,530 with 2,668 subscriptions: a run rate above US$1 million a year. Fourth Product Hunt launch on 1 May: a scheduler for agents like OpenClaw, 551 votes. [2, 12]
  21. 15 May 2026AMRR US$115,489 with 3,434 subscriptions. [2]
  22. 7 September 2026CHe publishes an X article, I make $2.2m ARR, and this is how I sell SaaS, with a link to his public Stripe profile. 238,619 views. Stripe revenue for September: US$247,789. [3, 1]
  23. 12 October 2026AMRR US$262,899, 7,683 subscriptions. The site lists 17 documented AI agents and more than 30 channels. [1, 17]
03

Why it worked

Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.

01

Open source as the distribution channel

Social media schedulers had existed for twenty years without a serious open-source one. By making all of the code public, the founder could list the product in the self-hosting directories, post every minor version on r/selfhosted, dev.to and Hacker News, and reach developers who would never read a marketing page. Those developers mostly do not pay; they run the Docker image on their own server. He says so himself. What they give is links, stars, bug reports, 75 code contributors, and support for each other, which a one-person company cannot buy.

02

Sixteen months of small revenue, then a new audience

The founder reports US$700 a month in November 2024 and US$14,000 a month in November 2025. The first jump came when he noticed people automating their posting with n8n workflows and sold to them: an official n8n node, cold emails to the owners of n8n communities, an affiliate program. In his words, he did not change the product; he changed the audience. Automated users also leave less, because the workflow keeps posting without anyone opening the app.

03

The publishing layer for AI agents

An MCP server in April 2025, a command-line tool, a skill for OpenClaw in January 2026 and documentation for 17 agents made Postiz the part that an agent calls when it wants to post. The Stripe data show revenue multiplying 15 times between November 2025 and September 2026, the months in which agent frameworks spread. The AI is in the customer's agent; Postiz sells the publishing layer, with per-network rules, media upload and a calendar where a person approves.

04

Sell an outcome, not an alternative

In September 2026 the founder wrote that selling an agentic scheduler as an alternative to other schedulers has a ceiling near US$100,000 of MRR, because buyers compare features. His content instead teaches how to get views on X, on video pages and with TikTok slideshows, with Postiz as the tool in the background. One such article had 238,619 views. The same text warns that some of these tactics get accounts banned.

How it was built

These details come from the founder's technical posts, his Hacker News launch posts and the GitHub repository. They are grade B and C. [23, 22, 6, 7, 11, 17, 4, 26, 1]

  • One repository managed with NX: a Next.js front end, a NestJS back end, Prisma as the database layer on PostgreSQL, Redis with BullMQ as the queue that fires each scheduled post, and worker processes that do the posting. Resend sends the emails.
  • Each social network is a provider class with four methods: generate the OAuth2 login link, exchange the code for a token, refresh the token, post. OAuth2 is the standard by which a network lets a third-party app act for a user. Gitroom LLC in Delaware holds the developer approvals that the networks require.
  • A Docker image was the first thing the community asked for and the first thing built; it is how most self-hosters install it, through Coolify, Portainer or Unraid. By November 2025 it had 4.79 million downloads.
  • Interfaces for machines rather than people: a public API with webhooks, an n8n node, a Make.com integration, an MCP server at mcp.postiz.com, a command-line tool installed with npm, and installable skills for agents. The founder says the n8n node took about an hour with Cursor, an AI coding editor, starting from n8n's template.
  • AI features inside the product, all bought from model providers: a writing copilot, image generation, and clipping long YouTube videos into captioned short clips, sold as monthly quotas on each plan.
  • Marketing without a budget: self-hosting directories, Reddit, dev.to, Hacker News, four Product Hunt launches, cold email to community owners from a separate warmed-up domain, an affiliate program, and from 2026 long articles on X. TrustMRR records a domain rating of 72.
  • Payments through Stripe, billed by Gitroom Limited in Hong Kong. The license moved from Apache-2.0 to AGPL-3.0 in January 2025.

Tools named in the sources

Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.

OpenAI APIBfalBDeepgramBEvoLinkBkie.aiBTypeScriptBNext.jsBNestJSBPrismaBNXCpnpmBMastraBCopilotKitBCursorCGitHubBChatGPTCWordPressBPostgreSQLBRedisBBullMQBTemporalBDockerBRunPodBCloudflareBTransloaditBVercelBApple App StoreCStripeARevenueCatBOpen CollectiveBRedditCDEV CommunityCHacker NewsCProduct HuntBLinkedInCXCInstagramCFacebookCYouTubeBn8nCSkoolCOpenAlternativeCDiscordCCannyBResendBTrustMRRASentryBUpworkC
04

The dead that came before

Five companies in the Loot Drop database sold tools for posting to, or marketing on, social networks, and died. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

Died 2008 to 2013Burned US$2M

Pixelpipe

The promise

Post your photos, videos and audio to every social network and blog at once.

Why it died

The networks added their own cross-posting and closed their interfaces to third parties. It grew users without a way to charge them.

CompetitionLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2009 to 2013Burned US$2.5M

Argyle Social

The promise

A social media marketing tool for engagement and leads, connected to Pardot and Marketo.

Why it died

Hootsuite and the other leaders had far larger marketing budgets. It depended on the networks' interfaces and shipped only small improvements.

CompetitionLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2011 to 2014Burned US$610K

PostRocket

The promise

Post to your Facebook page at the moment the data says will reach the most people.

Why it died

Built on one network. Facebook changed its ranking and its rules and sold its own advertising instead. Hootsuite and Buffer covered many networks.

Product/Tech FailureLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2010 to 2017Burned US$1M

ThinkUp

The promise

Personal analytics from your own Twitter and Facebook activity.

Why it died

The networks restricted their interfaces and built their own analytics. It never became a full management tool, and users moved to phones.

CompetitionLoot Drop entry ↗
Died 2014 to 2022Burned US$14M

Metigy

The promise

An AI marketing brain for small businesses: analyze the accounts, recommend content, predict results.

Why it died

Pre-2022 models gave generic advice such as post more video. Small businesses signed up, felt overwhelmed and left within 60 to 90 days. US$14 million was spent.

No Market NeedLoot Drop entry ↗

What changed

All five sold access to networks they did not control, and three died when the networks closed or changed their interfaces. Postiz has the same dependence: every channel runs on a developer approval held by Gitroom LLC, and the founder's own article says that automated posting can get accounts banned. Argyle Social and PostRocket also lost to Hootsuite and Buffer, which had money for marketing. Postiz has none.

Three things differ. First, open source gave Postiz the distribution that Argyle Social could not afford: millions of installs, 37,000 stars and the links that come with them, at the cost of giving the product away to developers. Second, the buyer changed. In 2025 and 2026 the thing that posts is often an n8n workflow or an AI agent, which needs an API, a command-line tool and a self-hostable option, and the incumbents were built for a person clicking in a browser. Third, Metigy sold AI advice, and its models could not give good advice. Postiz sells no advice. The intelligence sits in the customer's own agent, and Postiz sells the publishing layer that the agent needs.

05

Can one person copy it now?

The open-source method, yes. The timing, only partly.

Open-sourcing an existing category and marketing it to self-hosters is a documented method, and the founder has published every step. The revenue, though, came from a specific moment: automation users in 2025, then AI agents in 2026, arriving at a product that already had an API and a reputation. A copy started now would face Postiz itself, which is open source and already connected to 17 agents.

Where it is still open: Any established software category in which the next user will be an agent or a workflow rather than a person: the agent needs an API, a self-hostable option, and the rules of each destination encoded for it. Email marketing, advertising accounts, marketplaces listings and customer messaging are candidates.

  1. 1Pick a product category that is old, large and without a serious open-source entry. Open-source all of it, with a Docker image on the first day, and list it in the self-hosting directories.
  2. 2Post every minor version to r/selfhosted, dev.to and Hacker News. Accept that developers will not pay and that support from self-hosters is the price of the exposure.
  3. 3Charge for the hosted version from the first month, and expect a year of a few thousand dollars a month.
  4. 4Watch for the audience that automates your category. Build the integrations they already use (n8n, Make, an MCP server, a command-line tool), then email the owners of their communities with an offer and an affiliate link.
  5. 5Publish content about the result the customer wants, with the product in the background, and link the payment processor's own figures instead of screenshots.

What to watch

The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.

The networks control the access

All 30 channels run on developer approvals and interfaces that Meta, X, TikTok and the others can change or revoke, which is how Pixelpipe, PostRocket and ThinkUp died. The founder's growth tactics (many pages per video, mobile proxies for TikTok, comment-for-link calls to action) are ones he says can get accounts banned.

The jump coincides with the spread of agents

Revenue multiplied 15 times between November 2025 and September 2026, the months when agent frameworks spread. If the agent frameworks or the networks themselves offer posting directly, a scheduler becomes a commodity. The product's AI label is positioning: the intelligence is in the customer's agent.

Small numbers that do not agree

The founder's X profile says US$245,000 a month while TrustMRR shows US$262,899 the same week. His November 2025 post says US$14,000 in the text and US$14,200 in the title, and writes August 2024 where it means August 2025. TrustMRR's founded date is 24 July 2024; the founder's own start date is 1 September 2024; the site was live by 28 July. None of these change the picture.

One person, and a stated burnout

The founder wrote in November 2025 of massive burnout after the birth of his daughter and a year of overwork. He also runs a second product, agent-media.ai, and in January 2025 launched a crypto coin, which he presented as worth more to him than the product at the time. The site has a hiring link but publishes no headcount.

Open source has a cost

7,191 forks and millions of Docker downloads pay nothing and generate support tickets. The AGPL-3.0 license, adopted in January 2025, stops competitors from selling a closed modified version, but a hosting company can still offer the unmodified program as a one-click install. The average subscription is about US$34 a month, so a small rise in churn costs a lot of customers.

Sources

The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.

  1. A TrustMRR profile of Postiz, Stripe-verified metrics, data as of 12 October 2026
    Read the markdown profile. The revenue, MRR and subscription figures are read by TrustMRR from the company's Stripe account through an API key; the profile text (founded date, description) is founder-written and graded C.
  2. A TrustMRR profile of Postiz, archived copies of 2 March, 2 April, 20 April and 15 May 2026
    Read the four archived pages at web.archive.org (timestamps 20260302012033, 20260402143739, 20260420205145, 20260515174532). Each states that revenue is verified with a Stripe API key. Source for the spring 2026 MRR and subscription counts.
  3. C Nevo David on X, 7 September 2026: I make $2.2m ARR, and this is how I sell SaaS with ChatGPT Astra
    Read the article text through api.fxtwitter.com. Founder's own statement with a link to his public Stripe profile. Source for the US$2.2 million ARR claim, the view count and the sales tactics.
  4. C Postiz blog, 8 September 2026: The $2.2M ARR SaaS marketing strategy
    Read in full. The company's own retelling of the X article, with the US$186,000 MRR figure and the MCP and command-line setup.
  5. C Nevo David's X profile, @wickedguro, read 12 October 2026
    Read the profile JSON through api.fxtwitter.com: 23,287 followers, account created July 2025, profile text with the US$245,000 a month figure. His earlier handle, @nevodavid, no longer resolves.
  6. C Nevo David on dev.to, 21 November 2025: I did it! My open-source company now makes $14.2k monthly as a single developer
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the November 2025 revenue, the Docker downloads, the n8n turn, the affiliate program, the non-funded status and the burnout.
  7. C Nevo David on Hacker News, 28 November 2025: My SaaS jumped from $6,523 to $12,648 monthly, here is how
    Read in full through the Hacker News API. Source for the n8n node, the cold email method, the Skool outreach and the community feature.
  8. C Nevo David on dev.to, 9 January 2025: You can open a startup in open-source and quit your daily job
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the US$2,100 a month after four months, the 800,000 Docker downloads and the marketing channel list.
  9. C Nevo David on dev.to, 26 November 2024: I am making $700 monthly with my open-source scheduling tool
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the November 2024 revenue, the 26,000 Docker downloads and the support load.
  10. C Nevo David on dev.to, 24 January 2025: You don't know it, but your open-source might be worth millions of dollars
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the 1.5 million downloads, the statement that the product made only a few thousand a month, and the crypto coin.
  11. B GitHub repository gitroomhq/postiz-app, metadata read 12 October 2026
    Read the repository metadata, the README, the contributor count and the LICENSE commit history through the GitHub API. Source for the stars, forks, contributors, creation date and license change.
  12. B Product Hunt, Postiz launches page
    Read in full. Source for the four launch dates and vote counts.
  13. C Nevo David on dev.to, 2 December 2024: I built an open-source social media scheduling, and it blew up
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the 1 September 2024 start date, the 14,000 stars, the Product Hunt ranking and the Novu background.
  14. B postiz.com as archived on 28 July 2024
    Read the archived page. Shows the product live with a free plan and a Launch plan at US$30 a month. Source for the July 2024 launch date.
  15. B Postiz pricing page as archived on 21 September 2024
    Read the archived page. Shows the four plans at US$29, 39, 49 and 99.
  16. C Postiz news page: posts of 20 November 2024, 17 April 2025, 30 January 2026 and 11 February 2026
    Read the four posts in full. Source for the self-funded statement, the MCP release, the OpenClaw skill and the Skool and Whop channels.
  17. C Postiz about page and terms of service, read 12 October 2026
    Read both in full. Source for the two companies, their addresses, the 17 documented agents, the 30+ channels and the founder's description of the product.
  18. C Nevo David on Hacker News, 17 December 2023, in Ask HN: Where should I incorporate my business
    Read the thread through the Hacker News API. The founder writes that he is Israeli and discusses Hong Kong and Delaware.
  19. C Nevo David on dev.to, 4 April 2024: I sold my startup because of bugs
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the Linvo background.
  20. C Nevo David on dev.to, 26 March 2024: My new open-source repository to schedule all your content
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the Gitroom launch, the Novu work, the dev.to view counts and the first stack.
  21. C Show HN, 24 August 2024: I built a social media scheduling tool and open-sourced it
    Read the thread through the Hacker News API. The first Hacker News post under the Postiz name; the repository link still says gitroom.
  22. C Show HN, 30 August 2024: Postiz, open-source social media scheduling tool
    Read the thread through the Hacker News API. Source for the 9 networks, the Apache-2 license at the time, the stack and the rename from Gitroom.
  23. C Nevo David on dev.to, 3 September 2024: How I built my open-source social media scheduling tool
    Read in full through the dev.to API. Source for the OAuth2 provider design, the Redis and BullMQ queue, Prisma and PostgreSQL, and the Reddit launch.
  24. C Hacker News, 15 April 2025: Postiz introduces MCPs, founder's comment
    Read through the Hacker News API. The founder announces the MCP server and lists the 18 networks supported at the time.
  25. A Nevo David's public Stripe profile
    Could not read; the page loads its figures by script. Listed because the founder links it as his proof. The same Stripe account is read through TrustMRR, source 1.
  26. C Postiz pricing page, read 12 October 2026
    Read in full. Source for the plan prices, the yearly prices, the quotas, the trial and the refund rule.
  27. C Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startups
    Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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AI agent and MCP server for ad campaigns · USA

Adspirer

Evidence A
US$656,208still running, revenue growing · 7 months after launch
The product

An AI agent for paid advertising that works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and other AI assistants. It connects to the customer's ad accounts at Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Amazon and ChatGPT Ads, researches keywords, builds campaigns (always created paused), reports results and finds wasted spend. Scheduled agents can also watch the accounts and make reversible changes. The customer pays the ad platforms directly.

Why it worked

It went where the users already were: an app in ChatGPT's app store, a plugin in Claude's directory and in Claude Code, and setups for Cursor and Codex, in the months when these directories were new. It charges per tool call instead of a share of ad spend, so a small advertiser starts at US$49 a month. And it applied to the platforms' own API programs; the company says Google approved it in June 2026 and Amazon admitted it to its partner network.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch November 2025Status June 2026Channel Inside another platform Read the story
LinkedIn lead finder for sales teams · USA · Funded

traxy

Evidence A
US$645,024still running, revenue growing · 5 months after launch
The product

A LinkedIn lead finder for B2B sales teams. You list LinkedIn profiles to watch; traxy collects the people who like, comment on or repost their posts, scores each one against your ideal buyer, adds an email address and phone number, and an AI agent can write and send the first message.

Why it worked

The founder already ran a LinkedIn ghostwriting agency and built the lead tool that the agency needed. He sold it with the tool itself: traxy found the leads, and his team contacted them. Daily posts on X added trials, and credit-based prices let heavy users pay more.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch 1 May 2026Status October 2026Channel Cold outreach Read the story
AI writer and scheduler for LinkedIn posts · India

Supergrow

Evidence A
US$386,592still running, revenue falling · 34 months after launch
The product

A web app that writes LinkedIn posts in the member's own style from an idea, a voice note, a video, an article or a short interview with an AI, then schedules and publishes them. Team plans add approvals, a shared calendar and analytics for each employee. It can also be used from inside Claude and ChatGPT.

Why it worked

It entered a market where people already paid for tools such as Taplio, and did the one core task better: writing the post. The founders' public posts brought the first customers and a lifetime-deal platform, and that deal paid for growth without investors. Subscriptions, partnerships with LinkedIn influencers, affiliates and a move to team plans came after.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch April 2023Status February 2026Channel Founder's posts and audience Read the story

Built with the same tools

Businesses whose sources name tools that Postiz also uses: fal, Next.js, Cursor, Redis. Every tool has its own page in Tools.

AI audio mastering from text prompts · Turkey · Funded

SoundBoost.ai

Evidence A
US$217,705still running, revenue growing · 32 months after launch
The product

A website and phone app that masters a song from a written request such as "warm, powerful and wide stereo". Each request comes back as a new revision that the user can compare with the earlier ones, and a Spotify link can serve as the reference for loudness and tone. The same subscription includes a splitter that separates a song into vocals, drums, bass and instruments. Since September 2026 the company also offers a generator that makes a music video from the song. Unlimited use costs US$16 a month or US$48 a year on the web.

Why it worked

For its first 20 months the product brought in about US$3,500 a month. Then three things came together: phone apps with weekly plans from August 2025, web plans with unlimited use at US$4 a month billed yearly, and a new group of customers, people who make songs with AI generators such as Suno and need the last step done for them. Monthly revenue rose 7.2 times between January and July 2026. No source states which of the changes caused the rise.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed2/4
Launch 8 February 2024Status October 2026Channel Creators and short videos Read the story
AI music-video generator for musicians · Germany

Neural Frames

Evidence C
US$1Mstill running, revenue growing · 29 months after launch
The product

A web application that turns a song into a music video. The musician uploads an audio file; a feature named Autopilot writes a storyboard, renders each scene with a rented video model and cuts the scenes to the beat. Customers pay a subscription from US$39 a month that includes credits, and buy more credits when they run out.

Why it worked

It began in January 2023 as an easy web interface for animation with Stable Diffusion, when the alternative was an open-source library that only programmers could run. Three months later the founder rebuilt it for one group of customers: musicians, who need a video for every song they release and cannot pay a film crew. He calls this the best decision he made.

Evidence strength1/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed2/4
Launch 9 January 2023Status June 2025Channel Search and AI answers Read the story
AI designer for mobile app screens · USA

Sleek

Evidence A
US$246,516still running, revenue falling · 11 months after launch
The product

A web app that designs the screens of an iPhone or Android app from one sentence or a reference image, with AI. You chat to change the design, then paste it into Figma as editable layers, export HTML or React code, or send it to an app builder. AI coding agents can also use it through an API.

Why it worked

It took a narrower job than the general AI design tools, mobile apps only, for people who build apps without design skills. The three founders reused what they had learned from four earlier design tools, built it in three weeks, and showed finished designs on X before the launch. Each new Gemini model gave them a better result and a new demo to post.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch 17 November 2025Status October 2026Channel Founder's posts and audience Read the story

Same pattern: Open source first

The founder published the code for free. Developers who did not want to run the code themselves paid for a hosted version. All 4 stories with this pattern.

API gateway for AI models · USA

LLM Gateway

Evidence A
US$999,309still running, revenue growing · 16 months after launch
The product

One API address, in the same format as OpenAI's API, that forwards each request to one of more than 200 models from more than 40 providers, such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and records the cost of each request. Customers prepay credits at the providers' prices plus a 5% fee, bring their own provider keys for free, or run the open-source code on their own servers. DevPass is a monthly subscription for AI coding agents.

Why it worked

Every team that builds with AI models ends up with several provider accounts, keys, invoices and SDKs. One gateway with open code replaces them, and a developer can read the code before sending traffic through the hosted version. In 2026 the founders added DevPass, a flat monthly price for coding agents with an allowance of up to three times the price in model usage. The verified monthly receipts grew from US$57,994 in January 2026 to US$249,922 in August 2026; TrustMRR does not split them by product.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch 22 May 2025Status September 2026Channel Open source Read the story
AI tool that turns screenshots and screen recordings into front-end code · USA

Screenshot to Code

Evidence A
US$62,779still running, revenue falling · 35 months after launch
The product

A web app that turns a screenshot, a mockup, a Figma design or a screen recording of a website into front-end code: HTML with Tailwind or CSS, React, Vue, Bootstrap or Ionic. The code is open source under the MIT licence and free to run with your own model keys. The hosted version at screenshottocode.com sells monthly credits, so the user needs no API key and no setup.

Why it worked

The founder released it as a free open-source tool nine days after he wrote that the new GPT-4 Vision and Turbo API previews allowed only 100 requests a day. Hacker News and GitHub trending brought the repository more than 35,000 stars in under three months, and the README sends readers on to the paid hosted version for people who do not want to set up keys and servers. It had made US$1,000 within 19 days, with a Stripe payment link and no user accounts.

Evidence strength3/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch 15 November 2023Status October 2026Channel Open source Read the story
AI quiz generator and AI meme generator · India

Questgen and Supermeme.ai

Evidence C
US$78,000still running, revenue falling · 67 months after launch
The product

Three small AI web apps from one founder, run beside his full-time job. Questgen turns text, PDFs, web pages, images or videos into quizzes (multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank) and exports them in the file formats that school learning systems import. Supermeme.ai, built with two co-founders, turns a sentence into memes: it finds fitting meme templates and writes the captions. AiArtist.io, the newest, makes short motion-graphics videos from text.

Why it worked

Questgen started as free open-source code on GitHub whose README sends readers to questgen.ai, where the paid plans are. Both apps then won search traffic for exact phrases such as "AI meme generator", and Supermeme says it has spent nothing to acquire its users. Costs are low: in June 2022 the founder said his two products were profitable at US$500 and US$100 a month. So a part-time team with no investors can keep them running.

Evidence strength1/4
Copyable pattern2/4
Capital needed1/4
Launch December 2020Status July 2026Channel Open source Read the story

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