How an analytics engineer acquired his first AI SaaS for €2,300

Patrick wanted to escape the hourly freelancing grind. Here is the honest data, revenue, and roadmap behind his transition to SaaS owner.

Jul 02, 2026

Hey guys,

I missed you all so much! May and June were absolutely great months for us. We saw huge growth in our revenue, new user sign-ups, and the number of sold startups on the marketplace. On top of that, our newsletter just crossed the 24k subscribers mark. I’m so excited and incredibly grateful for your support.

In terms of development, we’ve been working on something big. We started implementing verified revenue and traffic data via Stripe and Google Analytics, complete with beautiful charts. This is going to hugely improve the due diligence process for buyers and make our listings much more trustworthy.

Secondly, I’m looking for creators and influencers in the startup field to collaborate with. If you read or watch someone whose content you love, please reach out and let me know. I’d love to connect with them.

Last but not least, next week on the 8th of July, Microns turns 5 years old. To celebrate our happy birthday, I decided to do something we’ve never done before in our history: provide a 10% discount on our Premium plan. You can use the code BIRTHDAY10 at checkout. It will be active until the 9th of July, so don’t miss out if you’ve been on the fence.

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🍀 Buyer success story

The Backstory: I am working as a freelance analytics engineer for startups and want to slowly switch from billing hours to my clients to recurring revenue from software businesses. I had different B2B SaaS companies as my clients and learned a lot from them in terms of how to operate a business.

Reviewcap.ai is the first step in building a portfolio of SaaS products. I am searching for Shopify, Slack, Asana, Monday.com apps in the B2B space as they have huge global usage.

The Progress: Since the acquisition I added new review integrations, changed the Shopify app listing and invested in Shopify partner ads. I gained since the acquisition 1 paying customer, bringing them to 9 paying customer. The app is currently installed on 41 shops, circa 20% of the install pay for the service monthly. Not that impressive, but the honest truth.

Revenue is at about 90$ per month with monthly expenses of 20$ for API costs and railway subscription. I bought the app for 2.300 euros in February 2026.

The Future: I will invest more time into the app with the final goal to have more installation and data points on how to improve the app and find maybe a smaller niche in which it can operate to differentiate from other larger apps that have review summaries integrated as a feature.

The Ask: The app has a generous free tier and it would be great to have a lot of readers first as users of the free tier to have feedback on the different integrations and on new features to add.

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🎉 Recently acquired startup

We recently sold a mobile app called Pinnable. It’s an iOS app that allows you to edit and share over 1,700,000 royalty free images.

The app was launched in 2015 and since then got 104 million organic impressions and over 2 million downloads. It was built using Xcode, monetised via IAP and ads.