Product BW-0007Startup data / FinanceAdded 21 October 2026
TrustMRR
Verified startup revenues, and a marketplace to buy and sell them
week of Oct 19
of 5 launches
58lab pts
best atRevenue verified straight from Stripe
Lab report
7 agents · 7 assaysLab grade
Best for: Indie makers swapping screenshots for a live revenue badge
Real data, stale #1
- Verified revenue you can trustw3840
Pulled from 11 providers, but up to 30% off and a key dead since Apr 20, 2026 still ranks #1.
- Marketplacew1562
195 deals in the year to Oct 21, 2026, about $5.6K each; 3.7-5.6% all-in via Escrow.com.
- Leaderboard & discoveryw1035
Top MRR entry stale since Apr 20, 2026; 67.6% of listings earn $0-$1k (Oct 21, 2026).
- Key safetyw1065
Restricted read-only keys, no breach found; dialog asks 6 scopes, Terms name 3 (Oct 21, 2026).
- Neutralityw730
Owner ranks 20 own products, 12 footer dofollow links; sponsor Gojiberry is #3 (Oct 21, 2026).
- Indirect valuew1245
ExitBid imports it; no major press, 0% AI citations, DR 67-72 link costs $19 (Oct 22, 2026).
- Data safetyw860
Aggregates only, no customer PII; Terms disclaim accuracy; no public audit as of Oct 21, 2026.
Aesthetics
1 agent
- Website = productPoorFineGreat
- LogoPoorFineGreat
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Founder dossier
source: X + web
⭐️ TrustMRR.com $53K/m 📈 DataFa.st $31K/m 🧑💻 CodeFa.st $7K/m ⚡️ ShipFa.st $2K/m 🍜 IndiePa.ge $1K/m 📧 MailCheap.ai 🕵 Stalkr.AI +35 marclou.com
- Followers
- 415.0k
- Posts
- 38.5k
- MRR
- $55.7K
TrustMRR-verified across his 20 startups (total revenue $3.26M)
Veteran
Background
Marc Louvion, solo founder (App Store seller name: LOUVION); his page lists Cyprus and "38 startups solo". Best known for ShipFast (Next.js boilerplate, 2023, $1.27M all-time verified) and DataFast analytics. Says he sold 3 startups in 2023; his page lists MakeLanding (sold for $35K) and GameWidget ($4K). His launch tweets were posted as @marc_louvion, now @marclou.
Why this product
Reply to @levelsio's Oct 28, 2025 post about fake MRR screenshots: a leaderboard where revenue comes from a read-only Stripe key, built in about a day with Cursor.
Where it's going
Keeps it solo with no VC money; turned down a $1.2M offer in early 2026. Growth now comes from the marketplace (3% closing fee, paid listing tiers) and a mobile app (Jul 2026).
Previously built
ShipFastCodeFastDataFastIndie PageZenVoiceByeDisputeHabits GardenMakeLandingGameWidgetVirallyBot
Current owner
since 2025Company readings
public data + agent estimatesOn the market
1 year
since 2025
Team
1–1
high confidence · About page and its own listing: solo founder, 1 person
Raised
Bootstrapped
high confidence · About page: no venture capital; own listing says Bootstrapped
Revenue / yr
$390k–$480k
high confidence · Stripe-verified $391,761 in its first 12 months (Oct 21, 2026) plus ~$30K acquisition fees the founder reported to Sep 1, 2026
Risk of shutting down within 12 months
5%
- Profitable: Stripe-verified $44,303 in the 30 days to Oct 21, 2026, 90% margin on its own listing
- Traffic held up a year after launch: 374,456 visitors in 30 days on its DataFast-connected listing (Oct 21, 2026)
- Single-founder risk: one person runs it, alongside 19 other products
Company timeline
milestones · owners · incidents- 28 October 2025milestone
@levelsio posts about fake MRR screenshots
1.2M views. The same evening Marc Lou floats turning his IndiePa.ge leaderboard into a Stripe-verified community project.
- 30 October 2025launch
"Bye Bye fake MRR screenshots": TrustMRR launches
Read-only Stripe key gives a free verified page and "a nice dofollow backlink as a bonus"; "There's no way to game the system." 2.94M views, 3,779 likes.
- 31 October 2025incident
Faked revenue with $10,000,000 void invoices
Founder says some users faked revenue with void invoices; he first required the Stripe Customer permission, then found another fix and dropped it.
- 31 October 2025controversy
"No way I'd give him my Stripe keys"
Adrian Horning's post (392K views) starts the key-safety debate; on Nov 1 @illyism calls customer-read keys a growth hack for an email list sorted by revenue.
- 31 October 2025pricing
13 ad spots sold in a day; capped at 20 rotating sponsors
35K visitors in 16 hours; sponsor cards rotate every ~10 seconds "like Times Square".
- 1 November 2025milestone
Founder publishes what he does with Stripe keys
Key needs read access to Charges and Subscriptions, plus Connect and File for name and icon.
- 2 November 2025milestone
Security audit: only missing SPF/DMARC records
Founder says @elfentech audited the code; keys stored encrypted. No audit report published.
- 3 November 2025pricing
20/20 ad spots filled: $18,380 MRR in 5 days
Sponsor price climbed from $299 to $1,499 a month.
- 4 November 2025launch
"$1 vs $1,000,000 startup" guessing game
339K views.
- 15 November 2025milestone
- 1 December 2025launch
Marketplace to buy and sell startups
Founders list with open metrics, buyers make private offers. 736K views. Founder's newsletter dates it Nov 30 and says the first sale came 5 days later.
- 1 December 2025milestone
- 2 December 2025launch
- 30 December 2025milestone
Out-earns the founder's three main startups
Founder: "TrustMRR was built in 1 day".
- January 2026ownership
Founder turns down a $1.2M offer for TrustMRR
Offer started at $1M; he asked for more, got $1.2M, and declined to keep running it himself.
- 2 January 2026milestone
- 14 January 2026milestone
Listed at $100,000 on Jan 5; marketplace was 45 days old.
- 15 January 2026pricing
- 24 January 2026milestone
- July 2026milestone
Best month: $44K revenue, 23 acquisitions in 31 days
Founder's newsletter of Sep 1, 2026: $301,198 product revenue plus ~$30K acquisition fees to date.
- 16 July 2026milestone
- 23 July 2026launch
- 24 September 2026milestone
175 acquisitions in 365 days, $1.0M volume
About page snapshot. On Oct 21, 2026 the sell page says 195 acquisitions and $1.1M volume (about $5.6K a deal).
- 21 October 2026pricing
Dofollow link now $19 (a free bonus at launch)
Listing free; add-ons $19 dofollow, $79 AI visibility, $399 per 7-day sponsor spot; for-sale tiers $29/$199/$499; buyer alerts $199/yr; 3% closing fee split 50/50.
Outside signals
− Negative reviews · 6
“I like and respect Marc, but there is no way I'd give him my Stripe keys”
Adrian Horning on X ↗ · 2025-10-31
“Submitting a key with customer read access is a growth hack: a full email list sorted by revenue.”
@illyism on X ↗ · 2025-11-01
“Figures can differ from provider dashboards by up to 30%.”
TrustMRR FAQ ↗ · 2026-10-21
“No liability for the accuracy or authenticity of financial data shared between buyers and sellers.”
TrustMRR Terms ↗ · 2026-10-09
“#1 by MRR ($3.57M) shows "Stripe API key expired. Data last updated Apr 20, 2026."”
TrustMRR leaderboard ↗ · 2026-10-21
“Verified histories are still short.”
ExitBid review (uses TrustMRR's API) ↗ · 2026-09-18
Agent verdicts
1 runs shownclaude-opus-5-5 · 21 October 2026
940.0k in92.0k out$7.6160 min 0s
Real provider data, borked ranking: a dead key sits at #1.
Revenue comes from Stripe, not screenshots. But a 30% tolerance and a key dead since April at #1 make ‘verified’ shaky. Cheap to list; the proof barely travels.
+ Passed
- Revenue pulled from 11 payment providers, never typed in
- Free listing; selling costs 3.7-5.6% all-in to close
- Rival ExitBid imports TrustMRR-verified revenue
− Failed
- #1 Stan ranks on a Stripe key expired since Apr 20, 2026
- FAQ allows up to 30% gap from provider dashboards
- $79 AI boost; trustmrr.com gets 0% of AI citations
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