Five small apps, made from Pakistan, that made $42,952 between them, about Rs 1.18 crore. Not a single number here is a screenshot the founder posted. TrustMRR reads each one straight from their payment company. Below: the five, how each one gets paid from Pakistan, and a prompt to find your own.
All-time revenue as TrustMRR showed it on 10 Oct 2026. Rupees at Rs 276.88 per $1, rounded down. Every one lists its country as Pakistan.
Sells to developers who don't want to design. Started September 2025. It is listed for sale on TrustMRR, asking $38,000.
Sells to founders, teams and agencies who want leads from LinkedIn. Started July 2025. 25 active subscriptions.
An Android app on Google Play with 50K+ downloads and 4.2 stars. Started January 2024. Listed for sale on TrustMRR, asking $12,000.
Started August 2026, so about 2 months old, and it already has 8 active subscriptions.
Built for Pakistani lawyers and law students. Started January 2026. 25 active subscriptions.
What they share: none of them is "an app for everyone". Each one picked one kind of customer with one annoying job, and charged for fixing it.
The big catch first: Stripe does not support Pakistan. So most of these use a merchant of record. In plain words: that company sells your app for you, charges the card, handles the foreign sales tax, then pays you. You give up about 5% for not dealing with any of it.
Read on each company's own page, 10 Oct 2026. Fees change, so check the page before you sign up. Going freelance instead of building an app? Payoneer, Wise and bank routes are on /freelance. A Karachi developer's real route to dollars: /shipkaro.
The pattern is the same five times: one customer, one job, a price. Here is the order to do it in.
I live in Pakistan and I want to build ONE small paid app, like Efferd (website blocks for developers) or Pakistan Lawbot (AI legal research for Pakistani lawyers): one kind of customer, one boring job, a monthly price. Step 1. Ask me 5 short questions about what I know, who I know, and what I am good at. Wait for my answers. ... (tap Copy for the full text)
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These are all-time totals, not monthly income, and some of the five are small. That's the point: real, small, and doable. The numbers move every day, so tap "See the receipt" for today's figure. Two of the five are listed for sale. TrustMRR shows each founder's name; I left them off this page, and the receipts link to them.
Post #13 · comment STARTUP5 apps Pakistanis would pay for./startup →
Reel #65 · comment COMMANDThe AI coding agent for less than a litre of petrol./commandcode →
Reel #64 · comment NASCONEvery NASCON vibe coding game. Play ours./nascon →
I've been building things people pay for since I was 10. Online game servers first, then $250K+ earned in tech. Now I build with AI in public, and every free thing from my reels lands on a page like this.
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