devs.dev daily: Steal a money-making startup idea every morning by devs.dev crew

All issues

One founder’s screenshot API hit $25K a month 📸

And the proposal trick that took one closer from under 10% to 39%

And the proposal trick that took one closer from under 10% to 39%⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ ⏯γ
A boring screenshot API hit $25K MRR with one founder, devs.dev daily issue #11

Issue #11 · Tuesday, November 3, 2026

☕ THE COLD OPEN

  • 📸 A screenshot API nobody brags about: $25K+ a month, one founder
  • 🤝 The proposal habit that took a closer from under 10% to 39%
  • 💌 “Open when” letters, one $3.99 upgrade: $17 to $436 a month
  • 🔧 An AI front desk for plumbers just raised $52M
  • 🍒 A designer who went to $16K+ a month working under other agencies’ names

Boring keeps paying the bills. 5 minutes. Money first. Let’s go.

👀 ALSO MAKING MONEY

🆓 $375K a month from software anyone can get free: Nevo David’s Postiz, a social media scheduler, is free to run on your own server. Most people don’t want a server, so they pay for his hosted version. About $700 a month in Nov 2024, $375,142 a month as of Nov 2 (Stripe-verified via TrustMRR, per Dan Raine). One cheap move: an add-on for n8n, plus emails to the people running n8n communities on Skool, took monthly revenue from about $6.5K to $12.6K in a month (his posts, via Aiolum). Fine print: a small team now, and lots of paid hype. Copy this: build a plug-in for the tool your buyers live in, then email whoever runs its communities.

Keep reading

Enter your email to finish this story and get devs.dev crew's next one straight to your inbox.

Already subscribed? Enter the same address and you'll go straight through. · Free, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Share

More issues

All 16 →
#10 Nov 2, 2026

AI skills pack hit $10.5K in 30 days 🧠

Read issue →
#9 Nov 1, 2026

Faceless YouTube tool hit $69K MRR in 4 months 🤯

Read issue →