Podscan
👤 Arvid Kahl (Sold FeedbackPanda ($55K MRR) in 2 yrs; his 'Bootstrapped Founder' audience of thousands is Podscan's built-in distribution.)🌐 sitethebootstrappedfounder.com𝕏LinkedIn
Every podcast on earth, transcribed within minutes so brands catch spoken mentions no RSS tool can see.
Will it work? · our read
Distribution won. A compute-heavy business carried by the founder's audience and cash cushion, not unit economics. Clone it without both and transcription bills bury you first.
01How the money moves
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02The numbers
62M+
episodes transcribed
podscan.fm
about $10K
peak MRR, 2025
founder
$30K to $10K
infra cost/mo cut
founder
All founder-disclosed on his blog/podcast; MRR fluctuates month to month. reality-check post
about $6-10K MRR, founder-disclosed - peaked near $10K, dipped after a major churn.
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Founder: profitability vanished - about $10K/mo cost vs about $6K MRRFounder: one year in, almost $10K MRRFounder: hit profitability, April 2025Podscan pricing: $100 / $200 / $2,500 per monthPodscan: 62M+ episodes, 4M+ podcasts tracked
Revenue is first-party: Arvid Kahl publishes Podscan's MRR on his blog and podcast, but it is not audited. Figures move - about $10K MRR at profitability (April 2025), then a dip to about $6K after one big customer churned, going unprofitable again per his own reality-check post. So this is an early, still-fighting business, not a runaway win - included for the transferable lesson on compute-heavy margins and distribution-as-moat. 'Our read' badges mark inferences. Rival bars and competitor prices are our rough estimates, not audited. We never score you.