Starter Story · 2026-08-23

I make $32K/month from 3 simple, boring websites

Rashid Khasanov runs three investor/journalist database sites (Angel Match, Investor Hunt, Journalist Hunt) at about $32K MRR combined. The idea came from manually building an investor list to cold-email VCs for his earlier fintech app. He validated Angel Match with a Product Hunt launch ($4K first month), then grew it from ~$3K to $20K MRR (peak $43K) with six content writers, free tools, programmatic SEO and some Meta ads. Programmatic SEO now drives half of revenue.

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Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors

Turn your own hand-built investor list into a paid database and launch it on Product Hunt

~$4,000 in the launch month; showed other founders had the same problem

“So we built like 40,000 investors with a few people, and then we launched on Product Hunt. That month, we made like $4,000, and we saw that a lot of founders actually had that kind of issue that we had.”

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Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors

Hire six writers to blog steadily and ship free tools for search traffic

Traffic grew after 6-8 months; MRR rose from $3K to $20K (Meta ads added too)

“We hired six content writers. We started publishing blogs consistently. At the same time, with the tech team, we were building and launching like free tools and all types of valuable content for our users.”

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Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors

Generate search pages from your database with programmatic SEO

Brings half of revenue; no page counts or setup details given

“And I believe for directory and database products, SEO works very, very well. So, I would focus on programmatic SEO. For us, it brings half of our revenue.”

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Investor Hunt · B2B · investor database

Grow a second investor database on search traffic alone, with no other marketing

$2,800 MRR with no marketing beyond SEO

“For Investor Hunt, we don't do any marketing, it's just an SEO.”

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Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors

Add a small amount of Facebook ads on top of search traffic

Part of the $3K to $20K MRR climb alongside SEO; no separate numbers

“we grew through SEO and added like Meta ads.”

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Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors

Price plans by how many investors a customer can contact each month

Plans from $59/month to a few thousand; 33% of trials convert to paid

“The prices for Angel Match starts at $59 per month, and we have few-thousand-dollar prices as well. So it depends on how many investors you want to reach out per month.”

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Angel Match · B2B · database of startup investors

Build more look-alike database sites for nearby audiences, like journalists

Investor Hunt at $2,800 MRR, Journalist Hunt at $260; flagship still ~90% of revenue

“The other one is Investor Hunt. It's just an investor database product. And the third one is Journalist Hunt. It's a database of 200,000 journalists, which helps small businesses and media companies find journalists to get press coverage.”

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A fintech investment app · B2C · guest's previous startup

Build your own investor list by hand and cold email angels and VCs

Got calls with big-name VCs and angels; no raise amount given

“We decided to manually search through the internet and build like a list of investors to reach out to. And that list actually helped us get into calls with some of the big VC names at that time and big angels.”

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Numbers mentioned

Subject	Metric	Value	Quote
personRashid Khasanov's portfolio of three database SaaS sites	mrr	USD 32K/month approximate	“I run a portfolio of bootstrapped SaaS companies that generate about $32,000 in MRR today.”
Angel Match	mrr	USD 29K/month	“We are at 29,000 MRR as of today.”
Angel Match	paying users active subscribers	360 users	“Active subscribers is 360 users.”
Angel Match	conversion rate trial -> paid	33%	“Our trial conversion rate is 33%.”
Angel Match	count website clicks per day across organic, referral, direct and a little paid Facebook ads	800–1,000 clicks/day approximate	“Angel Match is bringing about 800 to 1,000 clicks per day across organic, referral, direct, and a little bit of paid Facebook ads.”
Angel Match	price entry tier; higher tiers go to a few thousand dollars based on investors reached per month	USD 59/month	“The prices for Angel Match starts at $59 per month, and we have few-thousand-dollar prices as well.”
Angel Match	count angels and VCs in the database	125K investors approximate	“It's a database of like 125,000 angels and VCs.”
Investor Hunt	mrr	USD 2,800/month	“And this is Investor Hunt. It's making 2,800 as of today.”
Investor Hunt	price three tiers: $57, $97, $297	USD 57–297	“Also for Investor Hunt, it's basically $57, $97, and $297.”
Journalist Hunt	mrr	USD 260/month	“And this is Journalist Hunt. It's making $260.”
Journalist Hunt	price basic and middle tiers, the ones people buy	USD 49–99/month	“people buy the basic and the middle tier, which ranges between $49 to $99 per month.”
Journalist Hunt	count journalists in the database	200K journalists approximate	“It's a database of 200,000 journalists”
Rashid's college fintech investment app	funding raised friends and family round	USD 100K/one-time	“We raised $100,000 from family and friends.”
Angel Match	count investors in the manually built database at Product Hunt launch	40K investors approximate	“So we built like 40,000 investors with a few people, and then we launched on Product Hunt.”
Angel Match	revenue revenue in the Product Hunt launch month	USD 4,000/month approximate	“That month, we made like $4,000”
Angel Match	count daily website clicks in Google Analytics before investing in SEO	60 clicks/day approximate	“I saw that we're getting like 60 clicks per day on Angel Match.”
Angel Match	team size content writers hired for the SEO push	6 content writers	“We hired six content writers.”
Angel Match	time to milestone consistent blogging and free tools before traffic started to grow	6–8 months approximate	“By doing that for like 6 months or 8 months, our traffic started to grow.”
Angel Match	mrr grew from $3K to $20K MRR through SEO plus Meta ads	+USD 17K/month approximate	“And then basically from $3,000 MRR to $20,000 MRR, we grew through SEO and added like Meta ads.”
Angel Match	mrr peak MRR	USD 43K/month approximate	“At highest point, we reached 43k in MRR.”
personRashid Khasanov's database businesses	share share of revenue from programmatic SEO	50% approximate	“So, I would focus on programmatic SEO. For us, it brings half of our revenue.”
personRashid Khasanov's database businesses	cost total software/tool costs across all apps (hosting, SEO tool, email, etc.)	USD 62/month approximate	“It's not expensive. It's like $62 per month on all apps.”