TypingMind
👤 Tony Dinh (A 130K-follower dev audience on X meant he launched day one to a crowd already looking to buy — distribution was pre-built.)🌐 sitetonydinh.com𝕏
Five days after the ChatGPT API shipped, one dev sold the power-user UI millions were quietly waiting for.
Will it work? · our read
Sold the UX. But he rents the moat from OpenAI. Features copy in a weekend and the model isn't his; what's left is brand, speed and an enterprise tier, not anything OpenAI can't ship.
01How the money moves
OpenAI opens the ChatGPT API to everyone
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Power users want folders, search, own-key access
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They buy a $39 license + subs for the better UI
02The numbers
$30K/moStatedavg/mo, founder-stated
2023-09
the sentence on the page
and building a B2B version for companies to create their own ChatGPT UI. The app is currently making ~ $30K/month revenue on average. And this is where I am at right now. Building a team One thing…
Mixed model: one-time $39 licenses plus recurring cloud-sync and enterprise subscriptions. $500K milestone post
About $30K/mo (product); $500K in year one — all founder-disclosed.
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Revenue is first-party: Tony Dinh discloses it on his own newsletter — about $30K/mo for TypingMind, $500K in year one, $22K in the first 7 days, and $15K MRR from subscriptions. The model is mixed (one-time $39 licenses plus cloud-sync and enterprise subs), so a single 'ARR' number oversimplifies. Secondary claims of '$1.6M ARR' and Fortune 500 3,000-seat deals are unverified, and current 2026 figures aren't disclosed — I anchored only to founder-stated numbers. No drama invented: he won on being first (5 days after the API) and pre-built X distribution. We never score you.