ShawnShi: Laid off, built a tool site mostly with Claude (V2EX series)
- MRR
- $5,000self-reported Source checked 2026-10-17
- Total revenue
- -
- Active subscriptions
- -
In one line: An overseas tool site (product not disclosed), charged by subscription plus pay-as-you-go.
- Founder
- ShawnShi · Solo
Timeline
- About $1000 of new subscriptions that month; a paid TikTok creator video gets about 200k views (self-reported)
- 5 months in: 3300$ monthly subscription revenue, 490 Stripe subscribers (self-reported)
- Hosting provider is attacked, long outage, Google traffic drops; moves to Vultr (self-reported)
- 7 months in; traffic recovered (self-reported)
Sources: V2EX post by @ShawnShi (June); V2EX post by @ShawnShi (August).
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Business model: B2C subscription + credits (video → AI notes)
Data source: V2EX, checked 2026-10-16
