BlogToPin
👤 Nic Polotnianko (Ukrainian dev, coding since 16. Burned 1.5 years on flops, then won on speed and relentless SEO — not a moat.)🌐 site𝕏
After 1.5 years of dead products, a Ukrainian dev built one thing bloggers pay for: hands-off Pinterest traffic.
Will it work? · our read
Execution wins. No moat, high churn, Pinterest-dependent. It still clears about $15K MRR because Nic adds signups via SEO and referrals faster than 10-15% monthly churn removes them.
01How the money moves
Blogger links a content feed (WordPress, Etsy, YouTube, Medium)
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AI generates titles, images and unique pins, then posts to Pinterest daily
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Pinterest returns free traffic; blogger pays $25-125/mo to keep it running
02The numbers
$15K MRRStatedfounder-stated (IH)
2026-06
the sentence on the page
after four years and multiple failed products, two products are profitable and growing: BlogToPin is at $15k MRR, and Sequenzy is at $1k MRR. Here's Nic on how he's doing it. Contents The first…
Combined with his second product Sequenzy, Nic reports about $16K MRR total. Indie Hackers — $16K MRR
About $15K MRR, founder-stated (about $180K ARR run-rate).
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Indie Hackers — Nic on hitting $16K MRR: pricing, 10-15% churn, channels, backgroundStarter Story — "I make $16K/month even in a tiny niche" (founder interview)BlogToPin — product and pricing ($25-125/mo; 3.7M+ pins uploaded)Product Hunt — BlogToPin launch (May 2023)Nic Polotnianko (@nikpolale) on X — build-in-public updates
Revenue is founder-stated (Indie Hackers post + Starter Story interview), not audited: BlogToPin about $15K MRR, about $16K combined with his second product Sequenzy. Pricing and the 3.7M+ pins figure come from BlogToPin's own site; the launch date (May 2023) is from its Product Hunt page. The origin — a cocktail blog that needed traffic, where Pinterest worked best — is founder-told. The 'full automation is both the wedge and the churn driver' framing is [our read], not a founder quote. No drama invented: he won on speed, SEO and surviving 1.5 years of failed products. We never score you.