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Damon Chen.

Spent 8 years as a software engineer at Cisco before quitting to go full-time indie in 2021. Built Testimonial.to from scratch and later acquired PDF.ai.

x.com/damengchentestimonial.topdf.ai
$109,000MRR · Nov 25, 2025
2Active products
0Retired products
0Employees
2020First launch
2Sourced datapoints

Revenue History.

EVERY ROW SOURCED · CSV ↓
DateMRRKindSource
Nov 25, 2025$109,000Self-ReportedSource →
Jul 1, 2023$100,000Self-ReportedSource →

Products.

2 ACTIVE · 0 RETIRED
● ACTIVE

PDF.ai

Chat with your PDF documents using AI. Acquired, not built, by Damon.

 ● ACTIVE

Testimonial.to

Video and text customer-testimonial collection widget.

Stack — what they build with

ReactNodeFirebaseStripe

Lessons — worth stealing

ALL SOURCED
L-01

It's just a traditional app. No AI, no hype. Not a hockey-stick curve, but $109K MRR still feels good.

SRC: Source → · Nov 25, 2025
L-02

PDF.ai crossed $60k in revenue in November — that's 3x what I paid to acquire the product. Sometimes you build your luck, and sometimes you just buy it.

SRC: Source → · Nov 1, 2023