Los Angeles, California, United States
Markup Hero is a bootstrapped screenshot and image annotation software company founded in 2020 by Jeff Solomon and two co-founders. The product is sold direct to consumers and business users at $4 per month, with a separate API offering in beta that charges on a per-markup basis for third-party SaaS integrations. As of early 2022, the company had approximately 10,000 paying customers and was generating roughly $20,000 in monthly revenue. Operating costs excluding founder compensation run approximately $3,000 per month, with the remaining cash distributed among the three founders. The company has raised no outside capital. Solomon, a six-time founder with three prior exits, brings a deliberate lifestyle-business philosophy to Markup Hero. His primary growth lever is organic SEO and a structured content-marketing operation that blends his own writing with third-party contributors, generating consistent inbound backlink partnerships and domain authority gains.
- Revenue
- $699.6K
- Customers
- 10K
- Year founded
- 2019
- Team size
- 3