TrustMRR的开卷赌注：验证收入以599票登顶Product Hunt第2

做的是什么生意

TrustMRR is a public database of verified startup revenue with a marketplace attached. Founders connect a read-only account from a supported payment provider — Stripe at launch, later RevenueCat, Superwall and Creem — and the platform pulls MRR and total revenue straight from the processor, refreshing it hourly so the number cannot be edited or cherry-picked. Each startup gets a public profile and leaderboard ranking, listing is free, and profiles feed an acquisition marketplace with an API that buyers such as ExitBid use to verify revenue at the source.

启动资金：None raised — TrustMRR is bootstrapped by solo maker Marc Lou; no funding round was reported in the sources read.

起因

TrustMRR grew out of the build-in-public world's fake-MRR problem: anyone could type numbers into a dashboard mockup or crop a chart at its best week. Marc Lou — the solo indie maker behind ShipFast and DataFast — launched the platform in late October 2025. Leedlime's October 30 story described founders connecting a read-only Stripe API key and appearing on a public leaderboard ranked by last-30-days revenue, with free listings and a dofollow backlink on every verified profile.

经过

The Product Hunt launch on Nov 11, 2025 put TrustMRR at #2 Product of the Day with 599 upvotes (Talo led the day with 625), and it finished #5 on the November monthly leaderboard with 770 votes. Leedlime reported that within 48 hours of launch the database drew 35,000 visitors and Marc Lou sold ad slots worth $10,085 in MRR. By August 2026 ExitBid described the top of the leaderboard above $3.5M in verified monthly revenue, hourly-refreshed numbers across Stripe, RevenueCat, Superwall and Creem, and said it had built on TrustMRR's API to verify sellers' revenue inside its own auction listing flow.

结果

As of September 2026 TrustMRR remains live and bootstrapped. Its homepage shows a leaderboard whose top entry sits above $3.5M in verified MRR with data updated hourly, and claims roughly 200,000 monthly visitors browsing startups for acquisition. The product has expanded from a leaderboard into a marketplace and an API used by third parties, and no funding round, acquisition or shutdown has been reported.

可借鉴之处

让信任成为产品：TrustMRR将人类从收入报告中移除，因此可信度变成自动、免费、无法伪造——并且社区传播了它。