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👤 Ervin Kalemi (Built two Facebook apps for fun (only one profitable) before Publer, seeding it with about $60K of cash and an early audience.)🌐 siteervinkalemi.com𝕏
A side project for his brother's travel agency became a bootstrapped scheduler that nearly folded twice.
Will it work? · our read
Scrappy survivor. No moat, thin margins, a commodity category — but a bootstrapper who never raised prices on existing users and already had an audience has grown past $2M.
01How the money moves
Free plan hooks creators and small teams
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They add social accounts and hit limits
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Paid subscriptions, per account and seat
02The numbers
About $2M ARRStated2024 sales, bootstrapped
end 2024source:
$2M in sales, up about 40% YoY (2024) — paraphrased; source text uses a tilde for the percentage.
Founder's own figures (Publer story blog, Oct 2025); self-reported, not audited. '360K+' is a Sep 2024 count from the same post. Publer story
Bootstrapped, no VC; founder says 2025 is on pace to top $3M ARR.
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Publer blog: 'The Publer Story: From $0 to $3M ARR' by founder Ervin Kalemi (Oct 2025)Ervin Kalemi on X: revenue, salary and AppSumo threadsPubler pricing: Free, Professional (from $5/mo), Business (from $10/mo)SaaS Starter Stack: Publer founder interview
Revenue is STATED and first-party: founder Ervin Kalemi's Oct 2025 blog states Publer did about $2M in sales in 2024, up about 40% YoY (source text uses a tilde for the percentage), and returned to profitability; I headline that realized figure, framed as roughly $2M ARR for a subscription business. The blog's '$3M ARR' is his own forward projection ('at this pace, we should surpass $3M ARR'), not a booked number, so it is not the headline. Nothing here is audited. Earlier milestones (on pace for $1M ARR end-2022; $1.5M revenue in 2023 with a $140K loss; breakeven Aug 2021), the $250,000 AppSumo profit, the $39 lifetime price, the $42,000/mo X API bill, and the '360K+' Sep 2024 user count are all the founder's own claims on the same page or his X account, unverified by third parties. I read the source page's raw bytes directly (curl), so every number on this card is confirmed present on the cited page. verified:true = first-party from the founder; treat as self-reported, not filed. We never score you.