This Guy Makes $1M+ per Year With 0 Employees

Ivan Kutskir — the world’s most underrated solopreneur

Uzman Ali
6 min readMay 11, 2024

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Have you ever heard of Photopea, a FREE Photoshop-like image editor?

Yes the genius behind him is Ivan Kutskir. This project of his get:

  • 13M monthly visits
  • 1.5M monthly user hours
  • $100K monthly ad revenue

Amazingly, he solo-handled 500K daily users and scaled Photopea to $1M+ in revenue and he spends only $700/year for maintenance & keeps ALL the profit for himself.

Let’s get into his story.

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Photopea growth index

How this all started

Born in a small village in western Ukraine, his family moved to the Czech Republic in 2001. At 11, he got his first computer, and since then he has been fascinated with computer graphics. At 14, he built his first website and with time constructed 12 more.

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