Real AI businesses, real revenue, with sources.
AI Money Cases · 2026-10-20
6 cases this issue. 4 come with payment-platform data on TrustMRR (rechecked 2026-10-21): Brawler, an AI boxing coach app, at $22,550 MRR; QR Code AI, AI art QR codes, at $14,827 MRR; Fiddl.art, several image and video models on one site sold via points, at $13,336 in the last 30 days (a window metric, not monthly revenue); and OpenTweet, an X scheduler a DevOps engineer first built for himself, at $4,006 MRR. The other 2 amounts are self-reported, unverified: the founder of Dropmagic, an AI store builder, says $120K MRR, and the maker of CountryTaxCalc, a multi-country tax calculator site built with AI by someone who couldn't code a year earlier, says about $1,000 a month in ad revenue. Each grew differently: Brawler through Meta ads and influencers, QR Code AI, Fiddl.art and CountryTaxCalc through search traffic, OpenTweet through the founder growing his own X account with it, and Dropmagic through YouTube creator partnerships.
Business model: iOS app subscription: launch price not disclosed. Current price (TrustMRR page, 2026-10-20) $9.99/month or $59.99/year, plus a discounted $29.99 yearly plan. Paid through the App Store; subscriptions managed in RevenueCat (TrustMRR's verification source).
Business model: Freemium SaaS subscription: launch price not disclosed. Web paid tier price: not disclosed (the official pricing page on 2026-10-20 shows only "Free · No watermark"; paid prices appear only after login). iOS app Premium: the App Store page says "Monthly subscription: $8.90/month (amount in USD)" (checked 2026-10-20). Payments via Stripe (TrustMRR's verification source).
Business model: Pay-as-you-go points: launch price not disclosed. Current pricing (TrustMRR page, 2026-10-20): "Free to start. Pay-as-you-go point packs from $10 to $280, with volume discounts up to 30%. Optional monthly subscriptions include 15% bonus points." Subscriptions launched in Q1 2026 and brought $5,385 that quarter. Payments via Stripe (TrustMRR's verification source).
Business model: SaaS subscription: earliest public price $5.99/month (his 2026-02-10 Uneed launch post: "all of this for $5.99/month"). Current price from $19.99/month (pricing page title "Starting at $19.99/mo", checked 2026-10-20), with Pro / Advanced / Agency tiers and a 7-day trial that needs a card. Payments via Paddle (TrustMRR's verification source).
Business model: SaaS subscription: launch price not disclosed. Current price (official pricing page, 2026-10-20): Free $0/month (1 store) and Pro $79/month. Payment processor not disclosed.
Business model: Free content site + display ads: nothing is charged to users. He uses Raptive and says "From what I remember I needed 25k monthly page views."; he did not mention monetizing before that threshold, and we recommend applying to Google AdSense first (its official eligibility page lists no traffic minimum).
Strong at long tasks and repo-wide refactors; the most frequently mentioned tool in our cases.
None of the 6 products is complicated; the difference is where the money comes from. Some pay for users with ads, some wait for Google to index them, some start as their own first user. QR Code AI and CountryTaxCalc both grabbed one search term first and built pages around it; Fiddl.art worked out the cost of each generation before pricing its points. Pick a channel you can keep feeding before you build.
