EODHD
👤 Denis Alaev (Ran Mail.ru's 30M-user social network, then product at Ahrefs; knew how to run big data infra cheap before selling any.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
A solo founder pivoted from a B2C investing app to selling the raw data feed, and bootstrapped it to $3.5M a year.
Will it work? · our read
Quietly profitable. A one-man data shop undercut the terminal giants on price and friction for developers and small fintechs, hitting $3.5M/yr with no funding and no sales team.
01How the money moves
Ingest + clean data from 60+ exchanges
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Publish it via one simple JSON/CSV API
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Developers self-subscribe from $20/mo
02The numbers
$3.5M ARRStatedannual revenue, profitable
Mar 2025
Coverage figures from EODHD's own site; revenue is founder-stated. eodhd.com
Founder-stated on Indie Hackers, Mar 2025 — profitable, zero funding.
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Indie Hackers — Denis Alaev interview: founder states $3.5M/yr and the pivot story.Starter Story breakdown: $3.5M/yr, about $292K/mo, profitable, pricing tiers.EODHD pricing: self-serve tiers from $19.99/mo.EODHD about: 60+ exchanges, 150K+ tickers, active since 2015.Denis Alaev on LinkedIn: founder, Unicorn Data Services SAS.
revenue.sourced=STATED: the $3.5M/yr headline is the founder's own words in his Indie Hackers interview (Mar 2025), which prints "is making $3.5M/yr" and "$3.5M ARR" in the title and body; verified first-party but not audited or filed. Starter Story independently lists the same $3.5M/yr (about $292K/mo). Coverage figures (60+ exchanges, 150K+ tickers, 30 yrs history) are from EODHD's own site. Company is Unicorn Data Services SAS, Lyon, France; founded April 2015, pivoted to the API in May 2017. Rival prices are rough public anchors and our read of mindshare, not revenue, and are illustrative. No documented drama: won on a clean pivot, low-cost data ops, and organic growth. Note: the cited page also carries a stats-box figure of "$875K a month" (about $10.5M/yr annualized) that the title and body never reconcile with the page's own $3.5M/yr claim; this card uses the lower, title-stated $3.5M/yr figure rather than the stat-box number. We never score you.