Papermark
👤 Marc Seitz & Iuliia Shnai (Marc ships open source; Iuliia does programmatic SEO after 11 dead products. Their edge: distribution — OSS + SEO, not code.)🌐 sitemfts.io𝕏LinkedIn𝕏 Iuliia
A weekend hack that open-sourced DocSend — the breakout after 11+ failed products. Now past $1M ARR.
Will it work? · our read
Distribution won. Real demand, recurring revenue, flat pricing that undercuts DocSend per-seat. But the code is open — the moat is SEO and brand, not anything a rival can't clone.
01How the money moves
Free, open-source doc sharing + SEO
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Free users hit limits, upgrade
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Teams pay EUR 24-99/mo, flat
02The numbers
$1M+StatedARR · 2025 · disclosed
2025
the sentence on the page
2025 for Papermark, what a year! We crossed 1M document views and $1M ARR. Thanks to all our amazing users and customers! (If you not yet sharing documents via Papermark yet. Y
$1M ARR run by 2 people. LinkedIn 2025 recap
Crossed $1M ARR in 2025 (founder-stated); Latka lists about $900K.
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- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
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Marc Seitz: "crossed $1M ARR" (LinkedIn, 2025)Papermark revenue on Indie Hackers (about $42K/mo)Podcast: bootstrapping to about 60K/mo MRRPapermark on GitHub (open source, 6.9K stars)Latka: about $900K revenue, 2-person team
Revenue is first-party but unaudited: Marc Seitz stated Papermark "crossed $1M ARR" for 2025 on public LinkedIn; Latka lists about $900K. Traction (27K companies, 6.9K GitHub stars) verified via GitHub and Indie Hackers. Prior-product counts are founder-stated. We never score you.