Steve Hanov
- Solo SaaS Developer
- $10,000 monthly per product
Solo dev Steve Hanov writes…
Last night, I was rejected from yet another pitch night… The feedback was simply: “What do you even need funding for?”
That’s because Steve runs multiple SaaS products at around $10K MRR each.
His total stack cost? About $20/month 
Just a $5–10 server, a free database, and a few open-source tools.
His apps are small niche tools, mostly built to scratch his own itches 
- WebSequenceDiagrams – lets engineers draw diagrams of how systems talk to each other
- Zwibbler – a drawing tool you embed on your own website
- RhymeBrain – a rhyming dictionary for songwriters
- eh-trade – AI-powered stock market research
He’s been quietly polishing them for years 
You used to need serious coding chops to ship a SaaS. AI does most of the heavy lifting now – you don’t even need to be a developer.
Steve himself uses GitHub Copilot all day.
Even if the agent spends the next 30 minutes chewing through my entire codebase, mapping dependencies, and changing hundreds of files, I still pay roughly $0.04.
Pick a tiny problem you keep running into, build a tool that solves it, charge a small monthly fee 