Jack Friks: Post Bridge from Personal Tool to $48K+ MRR Solo SaaS
Canadian indie maker who turned daily cross-posting pain into a simple, bootstrapped social scheduler now near $50K MRR, run solo with high margins.
Editorial profile. Written by IndieFounder Editorial Team from publicly available information. It is not a direct interview: the first-person answers are our summary of the founder's public statements, not verbatim quotes. Figures are approximate and not independently verified. Report an error.
- MRR
- $48K+
- ARR
- $500K+
- Users
- 1,600+ paying
- Founded
- 2024
- Team
- Solo
- Stack
- Next.js, Supabase
How did Post Bridge start?
Jack Friks was already deep in the indie maker life when the pain became obvious. He had been posting short-form content daily to grow his consumer app Curiosity Quench (which later passed 100,000 downloads). The work took about an hour a day, half of it spent manually copying the same video into Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and other platforms. Existing schedulers felt expensive and bloated for what he needed.
He first mentioned the idea of a tool that would post the same content across platforms in a September 2024 build log. He validated with mockups before writing much code, then built the first version in roughly a month. Post Bridge launched in October 2024 with a hard paywall and no free tier. The product was simple: write once, publish to multiple accounts and platforms from one place. He ran it under Jack Ingram Media Inc. in Ontario, Canada, and answered support himself.
This was not his first attempt at making money online. Before learning to code in earnest in 2023, Friks (then posting under Jack Ingram) had spent years on YouTube channels, print-on-demand, affiliate blogs, and cryptocurrency content and projects. He has been open that most of those efforts produced modest or temporary results, and that the crypto period in particular ended with significant losses after taxes and market declines. Curiosity Quench was the first product that gained real traction through short-form video. Post Bridge was the tool he built so he could keep doing that marketing without the daily friction.
From early traction to a real business
Early numbers were modest. Friks has reported reaching roughly $6K–$7K MRR within the first several months and over 500 customers. Growth then plateaued for a stretch. In spring 2025 he publicly declined a $1 million acquisition offer, noting at the time that the business was probably worth less and that the attention from saying no appeared to help. An eight-month period of limited growth followed.
By mid-2026 the picture had changed. He reported MRR roughly doubling to around $35K (with figures near $40K appearing in later updates). He has shared detailed cost breakdowns on X, showing infrastructure (Supabase, Vercel, Trigger.dev, Unkey, X API, and smaller items) totaling under $2,000 per month against $35K+ MRR, implying gross margins above 90% and net margins in the high 80s after payment fees. In one May 2026 update he listed Post Bridge at about $36K for the month as part of a broader personal revenue total across products.
As of mid-November 2026, TrustMRR (which reads directly from Stripe) showed Post Bridge at approximately $48,500 MRR, about $582K in all-time revenue, and roughly 1,600 active subscriptions. The about page has listed 1,600+ paying customers and 29,000+ signups (as of a September 2026 snapshot). Friks has also noted the business crossing $500K ARR. These are founder-published and payment-processor-verified figures; they move with churn, new signups, and annual plans.
He has remained fully bootstrapped. In late 2025 he posted that Post Bridge was entering its second year with no outside investors beyond family support. He has described turning down Y Combinator as well.
Distribution and product evolution
Growth has come primarily from building in public on X, short-form video formats he already used for his apps, and word of mouth among creators and founders. Product Hunt and community posts on Indie Hackers contributed early visibility. He has been explicit that he does not treat paid acquisition as the core engine.
The product itself expanded beyond the original “post everywhere from one dashboard” use case. It added per-platform caption overrides, a calendar, bulk upload, analytics (initially in beta), workspaces, and team features on higher plans. Pricing is based on the number of connected accounts rather than per channel, with unlimited posts on paid plans. Marketer starts at $39/month for 15 accounts; Operator is priced per account at higher volumes. Existing customers are grandfathered on price changes.
In 2026 the positioning shifted further toward AI agents. Post Bridge ships a REST API, an npm CLI, and an MCP server so tools like Claude and ChatGPT can schedule and publish on a user’s behalf. It is listed in the Claude connector directory and as a ChatGPT plugin. Friks documented a spike after the ChatGPT listing appeared in early September 2026, with consecutive daily signup records well above the prior average of ~50. Guides for posting from ChatGPT, Claude, and other models followed.
Support stays with the founder. The about page notes that emails go to Jack and that most replies land within a few hours. There is no separate support team.
What the work looks like
Friks is still the sole operator. He has described mornings starting with support, then product work. He continues to ship other apps (including the couples app Lovelee and various experiments) and has spoken about the freedom of variable hours: some weeks light, others heavier, once the business covers living costs. He has been open about the emotional side of earlier years of near-zero results and about treating the current business as something that does not yet feel fully real.
Margins stay high because the product is software with low marginal delivery cost and because he has not hired a large team. The main ongoing costs are infrastructure that scales with media storage and API usage, plus the time required for support and development. He has publicly debated whether to optimize infrastructure further or simply keep growing.
Lessons that still feel true
Scratch a real itch you have yourself. Post Bridge existed because Friks needed it daily for his own marketing. The early product was intentionally narrow.
Charge early and stay transparent. The hard paywall filtered for users who valued the tool. Publishing numbers (good weeks and flat ones) on X and through TrustMRR built trust and continued distribution without a large content machine.
Be willing to say no. Declining the $1M offer was a public decision. Growth later accelerated for other reasons (including interest in agent workflows), but the choice kept the business independent and bootstrapped.
Keep the surface area manageable. Pricing by accounts rather than channels, unlimited posts, and founder-led support kept the product understandable. Adding agent interfaces later extended the same core job (publish once) rather than turning it into a full enterprise suite.
Finally, the earlier years of modest results were part of the path. The same person who documented failed or low-earning projects for years is now running a high-margin solo SaaS near $50K MRR. The through-line is continuing to ship and talk about the work in public.
Caveat: all revenue figures above are those Friks has shared or that appear on the Stripe-connected TrustMRR dashboard as of the dates cited. They are not audited financial statements, and they will change. Team size and operational details are as described by the founder on his site and in public posts.
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