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Buster Benson.
Launched 750 Words in 2009 as a neglected side project, then watched it grow for 17 years while he worked at Amazon, Twitter, Slack, Patreon and Medium. About 5,800 paying members and about $26k/month. Now full-time on it.
$26,000MRR · Nov 27, 2025
1Active products
0Retired products
0Employees
2009First launch
1Sourced datapoints
Revenue History.
EVERY ROW SOURCED · CSV ↓
Not enough dated datapoints yet for a chart — see the table.
| Date | MRR | Kind | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 2025 | $26,000 | Interview | Source → |
Products.
1 ACTIVE · 0 RETIRED
750 Words
Private daily journaling with streaks, badges and analytics. $5 or $10 a month.
Stack — what they build with
Ruby on RailsVue
Lessons — worth stealing
ALL SOURCEDL-01
Get your values straight and build something that, if it does become successful, you will be proud of contributing to the world.
SRC: Source → · Nov 27, 2025L-02
Remaining independent is not a guarantee of success, but in my book, it's a necessary-but-not-sufficient kind of thing.
SRC: Source → · Nov 27, 2025