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AI apps built by solo developers

Solo developers are shipping native apps, browser extensions and mobile apps with AI inside, and often with AI coding agents doing much of the building. These examples show which apps found paying users and how they grew.

3 cases · earnings are as each source states and are not guaranteed.

Vaultaire: iPhone vault app built with coding agents

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A former Google engineer built his first iPhone app, an encrypted photo and file vault, in about three weeks by mostly prompting coding agents, then grew it through ASO, SEO and pricing tests.

💰 $26,384 gross App Store sales in July, $41,425 in August (mostly lifetime purchases, not MRR)
Tool: AI coding agents · 2026-10-08
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Superpower ChatGPT Chrome extension

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A developer built a Chrome extension that adds folders, search and prompts to ChatGPT, kept it free for months, then added Pro.

💰 $20K/month reported
Tool: ChatGPT · 2024-08-01
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BoltAI: native Mac AI client

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After three failed projects, a solopreneur built a native macOS AI client that took off after going viral on X.

💰 $10k/mo one-time sales + $5k MRR
Tool: OpenAI, Claude APIs · 2024-01-01
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