How One Developer Turned a Simple API into a $600K/Year SaaS (2-min read)

THE BACKSTORY:

Jon is an experienced entrepreneur and developer who has spent years creating and launching software products.

In 2019, he took on an ambitious challenge: build 12 startups in 12 months.

While most ventures failed, he discovered a common problem:

Marketers and businesses were spending countless hours recreating branded visuals for blog banners, product images, and social posts.

So he built a tool to automate it.

It began as a simple image-generation API.

After using it himself, he shared it online.

People loved it.

That project became Bannerbear.

THE PRODUCT BREAKDOWN:

Bannerbear is an API and UI-based tool that automatically generates images and videos from templates and data.

You create a template in the editor.

Then send in data via:

→ Zapier

→ Airtable

→ Google Sheets