Tony Dinh

Built TypingMind in the week after OpenAI opened the ChatGPT API in March 2023 and has made it his main focus since.^{Source [2]Source [10]}

• Reported $22K of license revenue in the first seven days after launch (self-reported).^{Source [2]}
• Added a subscription Team version for organizations, closed enterprise deals including a 3,000-seat contract, and pursued SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR compliance.^{Source [7]}
• Reported $1M in trailing 12-month revenue in November 2024 and about $130K to $160K a month in October 2025 (self-reported); his X bio lists $137K a month in October 2026.^{Source [7]Source [8]Source [1]}
• Relaunched the product on Product Hunt in June 2026 after adding Agent Skills.^{Source [10]}

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Built a micro SaaS that generates open-graph social images automatically, first used for his own products.^{Source [12]}

• Shipped the first version during a visit to the Hackagu indie maker group in Bali in 2024.^{Source [12]}

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Built and sold Xnapper, a macOS screenshot-beautifying app, which he sold in March 2024 for $150,000.^{Source [6]}

• Launched it on Product Hunt in August 2022; it was nominated for the Golden Kitty Awards 2022 in Design Tools.^{Source [14]Source [15]}
• Sold it for $100K upfront plus $50K through revenue share to keep his focus on TypingMind.^{Source [6]}

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Built Black Magic from a Twitter profile progress-bar script into a Twitter analytics and CRM SaaS, then sold it to Hypefury in 2023 after Twitter's API price change.^{Source [2]Source [5]}

• Grew it to about $14K MRR as a solo founder (self-reported).^{Source [5]}
• Sold it to Hypefury for $128,000, after declining a $500K offer a few months earlier.^{Source [5]}
• Stayed on to work on the product after the acquisition.^{Source [16]Source [4]}

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Built DriveStats.io as a side project and sold it on MicroAcquire in July 2021 for $1,800.^{Source [17]}

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Built DevUtils, a macOS developer toolbox, as his first paid product while still employed as a software engineer.^{Source [2]}

• Reached the Hacker News front page with a Show HN post in September 2020 and made his first online sale at $9.^{Source [18]Source [2]}
• Still sells it; his X bio lists it at $5K a month (self-reported, October 2026).^{Source [1]}

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