| Wave AI | Wrote the first Swift code in small parts, so the founder could build the app without other engineers. | since 2023 | | B | Adapty case study: Wave AI, growing an indie app from $0 to $4M ARR with Adapty (published 29 July 2024, later changed; archived 10 November 2024) |
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| Wrestle AI | The founder pasted error logs into it to fix problems while building the app in Rork. | | | B | Rork blog, 25 February 2026: 18yo Made $131K in 6 Months with Rork |
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| 3AK Track & Field | The founders used it to debug problems while they built the app in Rork. | | | B | Rork blog, 9 March 2026: Two college athletes are making $19K/mo with an app they built in Rork |
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| IntentPost | Made the share image of the About and pricing pages on 6 September 2025, by the image file name in the page source. image generation | since September 2025 | | B | IntentPost pricing page, read 25 October 2026 |
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| Talknotes | Coding help; also used to rephrase the app description for each startup directory. | | | C | Starter Story, 4 April 2024: I Taught Myself To Code And Now Make $5K/Mo |
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| Postiz | Turns the founder's weekly video into a long article for X in his own voice. ChatGPT Astra | | | C | Nevo David on X, 7 September 2026: I make $2.2m ARR, and this is how I sell SaaS with ChatGPT Astra |
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| Umax | The founder learned to code with it and used it to write much of the app's code. | | | C | Superhuman AI podcast, 3 September 2024: How Blake Anderson built a $6 Million app with ChatGPT, page at Podwise |
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| DocsBot AI | The founder uses it for marketing images, writing, brainstorming and some coding. ChatGPT Plus | | | C | A public page outside the story's source list |
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| My AskAI | Both founders use it every day for small questions, text and short pieces of code. | | | C | Starter Story, 18 June 2024, interview with Mike Heap: I Built A $300K/Year AI Business For Less $50 Bucks |
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| Neural Frames | Helped the founder write his first web application in about seven weeks; later also blog posts. | | | C | Starter Story, 16 November 2023: How A Doctorate In Physics Built An AI Video Generation Tool [$17K MRR] |
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| Superpower ChatGPT | The host web app that the extension adds features to; the user's own ChatGPT account supplies the AI answers. | since December 2022 | | C | Superpower ChatGPT pricing page, read 14 October 2026 |
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| Rank Prompt | One of six AI engines that receive the customers' prompts; the product reads each answer for brand mentions and cited sources. OpenAI; whether through the API or the app is not stated | | | C | Rank Prompt home page |
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| AI Toolbox | The first host web app that the extension adds features to; the user's own ChatGPT account supplies the AI. | since September 2024 | | C | AI Toolbox Terms of Service, last updated 1 October 2026 |
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| Vidon.ai | Listed as a feature of the AI video generator on the homepage; the page does not say what it does in the product. named only as a feature label; provider API not stated | | | C | Vidon.ai homepage, read 15 October 2026 |
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| Notis | The founder's own AI subscription for his work and coding agents. Pro plan | | about US$400 in one month, together with Claude | C | Florian Pariset on X, 22 August 2026: work routed to the subscriptions customers already pay for |
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| Langua | Used by the co-founder for code in a copy-and-paste workflow before editor-integrated tools. | replaced by Cursor | | C | A public page outside the story's source list |
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| GenAIPI | Interviewed the founder to choose the business, and researched a search-visibility firm whose methods were then installed on the site. | since February 2025 | | C | The Next New Thing newsletter, 1 May 2026: He makes $4.5 mil/year implementing AI, this is his playbook, by Andrew Warner |
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| CodeGuide | Chat subscription on the monthly bill; before CodeGuide the founder wrote the planning documents in it by hand. | | US$20 a month (June 2025) | C | CJ Zafir on X, 17 June 2025: monthly bill, 11,356 users |
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| Promptmonitor | One of the AI models that receive the customers' prompts; the product records each answer for brand mentions, position, sentiment and cited sources. OpenAI; whether through the API or the app is not stated | | | C | Promptmonitor home page, Wayback Machine copy of 8 July 2025 |
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| MakeLogo.ai | Helped the founder convert API examples into code and set up file storage. | | | C | Nico Jeannen's blog diary, 5 December 2022 to 11 March 2023: MakeLogo.ai, From idea to $65,000 exit in 3 months |
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| AI Peekaboo | Receives the customers' tracked prompts with real-time web search; the product records the answer, the brand mentions and the cited sources. OpenAI; captured through what the company calls dedicated infrastructure, not stated as the API | | | C | AI Peekaboo help center: How we get the data (last reviewed 14 August 2026) |
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| BrandAxis | Receives the customers' tracked prompts every day; the product records mentions, rank, sentiment and cited sources from its answers. OpenAI; read by scraping the consumer interface through residential proxies | | | C | BrandAxis documentation: Which AI models we track |
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| PlaylistAI | Hosts a PlaylistAI plugin so desktop users can generate playlists inside ChatGPT conversations. PlaylistAI plugin | | | C | PlaylistAI: Playlist Generator page, published 27 September 2026, updated 19 October 2026 |
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| Jetwriter AI | The first free version sent requests through each visitor's own ChatGPT account, so the founder paid nothing for the model. | | | C | chatgptwriter.ai home page, archived 27 December 2022 |
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| ChatPRD | The founder developed the first PRD prompt in ChatGPT before turning it into a product. | since 2023 | | C | ChatPRD blog, 27 November 2024: ChatPRD: The First Year (by Claire Vo) |
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| Gliglish | The founder argued with it about what to write before his Hacker News post. | | | C | Fabien Snauwaert's blog, June 2023: What I learned from being #2 on Hacker News for a split second, and how I messed up |
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| Genlook | Merchants ask it how to add try-on, and it recommends Genlook first, the founder said. | | | C | Founder Trace, Lucas Flandre, 24 August 2026 (updated 26 October 2026): App Shopify d’essayage virtuel IA : étude de cas à 14 000$/mois |
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