TrustMRR Turns One: 4M Visitors, 208 Startups Acquired, $427K Revenue at 90% Margin
marclou · x · 2026-10-30
Indie hacker marclou celebrates TrustMRR's first birthday: what started as a vibe-coded leaderboard is now a verified-startup-revenue database with 4M visitors, 208 startups acquired, $427,610 in revenue at a 90% margin—and several multi-million acquisition offers rejected.
The mechanics: users upload a read-only Stripe API key and get a free page showing their verified revenue plus a dofollow backlink. Data runs on his own servers so it can't be gamed, and the site includes a leaderboard of top-revenue startups plus a marketplace where SaaS apps and digital businesses list at 0.2x–5x monthly revenue multiples.
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