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Southeast Asia · UTC+8

Available for consulting

Allan Ninal

I build small software products that solve real problems.

Shipping micro-SaaS in public since 2021. 2,847 subscribers follow the journey every Sunday.

Public revenue numbers · Updated May 2026

$5,540 Current MRR 3 live products
$142,000 Lifetime Revenue Since 2021
2,800 Active Users Across all products

I share these numbers publicly because I wish more founders did. It normalises the messy middle — not every SaaS is $1M ARR.

Shipped products

Everything I've built

Five products, three currently live, one sunset, one sold. Each card shows the real numbers — good and bad.

FormCraft

Live

FormCraft lets non-technical teams build embeddable forms, collect responses, and route leads to email or Slack — without writing a line of code. Built for the operators who are tired of paying $99/mo for Typeform when they only need 5 forms.

$3,200 MRR
1,847 Users
Mar 2022 Launched
AstroSupabaseStripeTailwind
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PingAlert

Live

PingAlert checks your URLs every 60 seconds and fires an SMS or Slack message the moment something goes down. No dashboard to babysit — just quiet until it's not. Intentionally simple: one screen, one plan, $9/mo.

$1,450 MRR
612 Users
Sep 2022 Launched
Node.jsTwilioPlanetscaleRailway
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DocuFlow

Live

DocuFlow is a REST API that accepts HTML or a template ID and returns a rendered PDF in under 2 seconds. Built for developers who are tired of wrestling with headless Chromium in production. Pay-per-use, no monthly minimums.

$890 MRR
341 Users
Feb 2023 Launched
BunPuppeteerAWS LambdaStripe
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ListPilot

Sunset

ListPilot cleaned and validated email lists to reduce bounce rates before sending campaigns. Launched into a market that already had three well-funded competitors. Couldn't differentiate on price or features — turned off the servers in December 2022.

I solved a real problem in a market I didn't understand. Validate the competitive landscape before you write a single line of code.
$420 peak Peak MRR
Users
Jun 2021 Launched
Next.jsVercelSendGrid APIPostgres
Shut down · servers offline

ShipKit

Sold

ShipKit was an opinionated Astro + Tailwind starter with auth, billing, and a dashboard shell pre-built. Sold to a developer tools studio in October 2023 who wanted to build on the foundation rather than maintain their own.

Sold for $8,500 Sale Price
Users
Jan 2023 Launched
AstroTailwindLucia AuthStripe
Acquired · no longer mine

What I'm building now

VaultNote Public beta

Encrypted personal knowledge base with an offline-first Markdown editor. Your notes never touch a server unencrypted — zero-knowledge, end-to-end. Public beta open now.

ElectronSQLitelibsodiumAstro
Started January 2024

I post weekly updates on X with metrics, learnings, and the occasional mistake. No vanity metrics — just the real numbers.

About

The story

Location
Southeast Asia · UTC+8
Building since
2021
Products
5 shipped, 3 live
Stack
Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind

Available for

Micro-SaaS consulting, technical writing, advisory.

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I quit my job in 2021 to build things on the internet. I had no plan, one half-finished side project, and a vague feeling that I was better at solving problems than following roadmaps.

Three years and five products later, two are growing, one was sunset (I learned more from that one than the others), and one sold — which paid for about eight months of runway to keep going. I share everything publicly: the numbers, the mistakes, and the occasional win.

I work from Southeast Asia, stay in the same timezone as my morning coffee, and try to ship something every quarter. If you're building something too, I'd love to hear about it.

Ship early, learn fast

A working prototype in two weeks beats a perfect plan in six months. I launch the moment there's something real to validate.

Transparent by default

Revenue, churn, mistakes — I share all of it. The indie community runs on honesty, and I'm trying to add more signal, less noise.

Small products, real problems

I'm not chasing unicorn multiples. A $3k MRR product that solves a genuine pain point is more interesting to me than a $50k ARR product with massive burn.

Sustainable, not VC-funded

I've taken no outside money. Revenue funds the next product. Constraints are a feature — they keep me focused on what actually matters.

Ship It Weekly

Follow the journey

2,847 makers reading · Every Sunday · ~5 min read

Honest updates from a one-person software business — MRR numbers, what's working, what broke, and the tools I'm using. No fluff, no hustle-porn. Sent every Sunday.

Real numbers

MRR, churn, and milestones shared openly — not polished highlights.

What I'm building

Weekly updates on current projects, decisions, and direction.

Tools & learnings

The tools I actually use, and lessons from when things go wrong.

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Get in touch

Let's connect

Building something and want to compare notes? Interested in micro-SaaS consulting? Or just want to say hi — I'm genuinely happy to hear from other builders.

If my open-source work or writing has helped you, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. No obligation — I build in public regardless.