10 businesses that make millions without employees

I'm obsessed with 1-person companies and have spent over 50 hours researching them. Here are the 10 most impressive ones that have generated millions in revenue with 0 employees:

1. Star Dew Valley

It’s a country-life role-playing game
Developed by Eric Baron
It has generated $300M+ in revenue in 6 years
Eric could become the first 1-person founder to do $1B+ in sales

Here’s how he did it

2. BuiltWith

It helps you find what technologies and services a website uses
Founded by Gary Brewer
It generates $14M in revenue per year

Here’s the full story of how Gary built it and operated with 0 employees

3. Viral Nova

It’s a curation site for the most viral content on the Internet (similar to Buzzfeed)
Founded by Scott Delong
At its peak, it generated $5-$10M per year in revenue and 100M readers per month with 0 funding and 0 employees

4. Photopea

It’s a free photo and graphics editor
Made by Ivan Kutskir
It generates 10M visits per month and ~$1.5M in revenue per year
People spend 1.5 million hours a month using Photopea

5. Digital Inspiration

It builds google plugins for docs, sheets, slides, and more
Founded by Amit Agarwal
It gets 5M visits per month and earns $10M in revenue per year
40M+ have downloaded the plugins

Here’s how Amit built it

6. Rego apps

3 of its apps (5-0 police scanner, remote for tesla apps, and police scanner+) are the most downloaded apps in their category)
Founded by Allen Wong
He has made over $100M+ from these apps

Here’s his Reddit AMA

7. Portfolio of diverse businesses

@thejustinwelsh has built several businesses that generate $3M+ in revenue (94% margins)
He earns through consulting, courses, paid community, newsletter sponsorships, and more

Here’s how Justin did it