Photopea
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Sam Parr shares the success story of Photopea, a free Photoshop alternative.
"Photopea is a free version of Photoshop created by this guy named Ivan. Ivan was one of these indie hacker guys who was really open about it. He built this Photoshop clone which obviously took off right away. In 2021, he posted that he made $1,000,000 in revenue, 90% of that being ads. Then in 2023, he said that he was now making close to $300,000 a month from this Photopea website. It's huge, it blew up. It has 15,000,000 visitors a month. For all I know, it's just one person."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.