public source · not yet founder-confirmed · Aug 2021 · 🇮🇩 Indonesia (Jakarta) · Software · solo founder
A focus app that blocks the distractions, built by one person
A website-and-app blocker with a timer; first subscriber within minutes of a Product Hunt launch; solo founder in Jakarta.
- Business
- Productivity app (Session)
- Founder
- Philip Young
- Started
- August 2020
- Start-up capital
- not stated
- Revenue
- US$5,800/month (May 2021); about US$100k ARR by 2022 (as reported)
- Team
- 1 (solo)
Numbers are ranges or the figure the source published; we never publish a founder's documents.
Source, pinpointed
Starter Story — I Built A Timer App That Generates $66K/Year In Profit
founder interview (Starter Story) · Aug 2021
Cross-check: no second public source found yet; a Starter Story or press snippet is added when one exists.
First customers — the part nobody publishes
Channel: Product Hunt launch
What didn't work: An earlier task-manager product, abandoned for lack of real-time sync.
“Within minutes I got my first subscriber.”
Starter Story, August 2021: a designer-developer built the app for himself, launched on Product Hunt, and had a paying subscriber within minutes. An earlier product was abandoned for lack of the technical capability it needed.
Would it work in…
The same idea, other markets — our read from the database's country filters, not a forecast.
- Singapore — likely — the market is global; the founder's location is the point
- Ho Chi Minh City — likely — same
Similar ideas in the database
- Online ordering for restaurants, sold to friends' restaurants first · Malaysia · US$3,000/month average (2022); US$4,300 in the best month reported
- Queue-management software sold on free trials to local businesses · Singapore · US$66,000/month (October 2021); about US$790k/year
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