Marc Lou
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π» https://t.co/Y30jsaI4oH $40K/m β‘οΈ https://t.co/vatLDmiHKe $23K/m π https://t.co/3EDxln5U2Q $2K/m π https://t.co/r07EpGTwyA $1K/m 𧬠https://t.co/SfrVXVtU38 $1K/m π§Ύ https://t.co/7olaOzVGML $1K/m π‘οΈ https://t.co/LFgSlrZaip $1K/m +18 https://t.co/4zCWHGJWRq
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I spend most of my time behind a computer. But I think I've found my perfect fitness routine:. - That is easy.- That costs almost $0.- That gets me energized. Here are 6 rules I follow every day:
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Learn how to code a SaaS from 0 using AI. I made this free course for beginners to build an internet startup:. 1. Learn the coding fundamentals.2. Build a SaaS with a modern tech stack.3. Code and design 10x faster with AI. (the video is 3 hours long, bookmark this)
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In 2021, I was depressed, living with my parents and 0 income. One day, I saw a tweet from @levelsio:. A guy building startups with a laptop and no employee β Freedom. I took the plunge, moved to Bali, and shipped like a madman. I showed up every day, even when I didn't feel
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How I would learn to code in 2024 (if I could start over):. (WARNING this is NOT for people who want to get a 9-5 but for those who want to learn to code fast, build a business, and quit their 9-5). π§΅.
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Anyone can get 1,000 visitors for $0 by doing this:. - Post in r/SideProject.- Post in Show Hacker News.- Launch on Uneed.- Launch on TinyLaunch.- Launch on Product Hunt.- Make a short video for Instagram.- Make a longer video for YouTube.- Write 280 characters for a tweet.-.
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FUCK YEAH. I made $1M as a 30-year-old solopreneur. 85% is profit. 80% was made in the last 365 days. It took 7 years, 2 burnouts, 1 depression. Thanks, hard work. Thanks, JavaScript. Thanks, wife.
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Building AI wrappers now is like buying dotcom domains in the 90s. Those who show up will get rich.
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So I met the final boss of the game @levelsio π€©. His tweets resonated with me when I was at my lowest. He's why I jumped into the solopreneurship journey and built tiny startups. We had dinner, and he's incredibly kind, humble, and fun. And boy he speaks Portuguese too. Now
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1 hour of coding.1 hour of marketing.1 hour of exercising. Do these every day this year. By 2026, you'll have built a profitable side project.
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3 levels of entrepreneurs:. - Buy domain names.- Buy domains, ship apps.- Buy domains, ship apps, do marketing.
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I made $111,567 in February 2025. π§βπ» CodeFast β $73.8K.β‘οΈ ShipFast β $31.5K.π Indie Page β $2K.π DataFast β $1.7K.ποΈ YouTube β $589.π¨ Zenvoice β $512.π‘οΈ ByeDispute β $510.π± HabitsGarden β $334.π LaunchViral β $258.π₯ Twitter β $208.π WorkbookPDF β $128.π© PoopUp β $28.
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I'm French. - My wife is South Korean.- My bed is 12,000 km from where I was born.- My friends are Russians, Indians, and Australians.- My cleaning lady speaks Indonesian, and I read French on my phone.- I learned how to code from a faceless YouTuber.- I think in English. If.
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Hustle culture is dying. 6-hour sleep Me:. - Built 5 startups.- Made $100,000.- Frequent burnouts. 8-hour sleep Me:. - Built 24 startups.- Made $1,600,000.- Steady mood and happy. Sleep well is the new work hard.
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I stopped using sonnet. It felt like coding with a drunk friendβfun until he installs new packages or edits other components βfor fun.β. My prompt used to be 50% instructions and 50% dont-dos. Switched to gemini-2.5. Finally, some peace.
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He hacked my site. So I paid him $300. @JonasScholz19 emailed me yesterday about potential security issues on DataFast. - He didn't ask anything.- He didn't post it publicly.- It was legit. So I sent him $300. We are a small community of ambitious people trying to never work
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My entrepreneur revenue after being fired from my software engineer job:. 2021 β $4,300.2022 β $9,700.2023 β $263,000.2024 β $1,223,973. Believe in yourself, you can do it too! πͺ.
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AI wonβt replace developers, but itβs making it easier for us to replace entire startups.
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2024 as an entrepreneur:. π° Earned $1.2M.π Launched 5 startups.π¦ Got 87K followers on π.π₯ Got 104K followers on YouTube.π° Got 24K readers on my newsletter.π Read 14 books.βοΈ Traveled to 8 countries.π Started DCA $5,000/week in SP500.ποΈ Exercised 340+ days.π Sacrificed 0.
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To make $1M, you need:. - $50M in revenue with a grocery store.- $20M in revenue with a restaurant.- $10M in revenue with an e-commerce brand.- $5M in revenue with a real estate agency.- $3M in revenue with a mobile gaming app.- $1.2M in revenue with a SaaS. Revenue β Profit.
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If you're in your 20s, fuck around:. β’ Build stuff.β’ Read books.β’ Try jobs fast.β’ Quit even faster.β’ Learn new skills.β’ Start a side hustle.β’ Use AI all the time.β’ Question everything.β’ Travel where people don't go.β’ Do what your friends donβt do.β’ Meet people outside.
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I never change my tech stack. My 21 products get 550,000 page views per month using this simple β not fancy β tech stack:.
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Me in January:. - 8 startups.- 5,000 followers.- $1,500/month. Me in December:. - 17 startups.- 57,000 followers.- $59,000/month. Show up daily β a lot can change in a year.
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I made $90,790 in March 2025. π§βπ» CodeFast β $59.8K.β‘οΈ ShipFast β $23.4K.π DataFast β $2K.π Indie Page β $1.5K.𧬠BioAge β $1K.π‘οΈ ByeDispute β $716.ποΈ YouTube β $712.π¨ Zenvoice β $581.π± HabitsGarden β $354.π LaunchViral β $258.π₯ Twitter β $244.π© PoopUp β $187.π.
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There are 2 ways to make money online:. - Build ambitious startups and earn millions in years.- Copy an existing business and get profitable in weeks. Pay the bills first, and go big later.
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This guy dropped a free course to build a SaaS from 0 using AI.
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I built 17 startups in 2 years. - I don't party.- I don't do meetings.- I don't test my code.- I don't use git branches.- I don't sacrifice my sleep.- I don't change my tech stack.- I don't use my phone before 3 pm. I sit at my desk every day and work. Less is more.
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I could never get a job at FAANG. But who cares?. - 3M+ people visited my websites.- 100,000 people used my apps.- I don't have to commute.- I earn $1.2M/year.- I can't get fired. I don't build resumes; I build startups.
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3 years ago, we were all broke. β.But we had the dream of becoming financially independent and free. β.After a few messages on Twitter, we became friends and started hustling. β.We launched 50+ projects together. Most of them never took off. β.For 2 years, each failure was a slap
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I shipped 17 startups in 2 years because I gamified the process:. - Build in 14 days max.- Launch with a fun video.- Talk about it on Twitter. You can't give up if you're having fun.
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My new startup π‘οΈ ByeDispute is live! Prevent disputes before they happen:. - Save $15 fee.- Don't get banned from Stripe.- 1-minute no-code setup. Get $20 off for the launch for 24 hours β Would love your support π
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Real software engineers won't approve, but hear me out:. Front-end first, back-end second. If you can't make a good design, that feature shouldn't be in your app. At least you saved yourself the backend time.
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I made $123,120 in November 2024:. π§βπ» CodeFast β $88.5K.β‘οΈ ShipFast β $27.9k.π Indie Page β $3.6k.π¨ Zenvoice β $1.1K.π DataFast β $941.ποΈ YouTube β $461.π© PoopUp β $226.π± HabitsGarden β $112.π₯ Twitter β $136.π‘οΈ ByeDispute β $96.π WorkbookPDF β $48. π’ Business is up by.
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This guy makes $10,000/month with. - an idea thatβs already taken.- in an oversaturated market.- without adding AI features everywhere.- and he only started coding two years ago. Stop over-engineering your startup. β @jackfriks
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I'm back home in Bali π΄. Batteries fully charged. Building a $1M SaaS for 2025 π«‘
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Future You is wondering why the heck you didnβt lock in during the AI gold rush. Donβt let this happen.
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Thanks, Javascript, for letting me pay the bills from anywhere in the world
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Reminder:. Send emails from a subdomain, not the root. Your domain reputation won't be ruined if your startup gets DDoS.
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Nowβs the time to make money online with AI arbitrage. OpenAI released a new image-generation banger, but most people wonβt catch on until next year. Hereβs what I'd do:. 1/ Create a dead simple AI wrapper. - Create a 1-feature product: upload a photo to generate images in.
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I built a revenue tracker. β.First, I created an API:.- Fetch all payments on my 10+ Stripe accounts.- Store them in the database.- Periodically fetch new payments.- Returns total revenue.β.Then I bought LaMetric (no affiliate):.- Use the Data DIY app.- Poll my API endpoint every
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You can ship an iOS + Android app without writing a single line of native code. I used @capacitorjs to push @HabitsGarden to the app stores in 14 days. I have no clue how Swift, Java, or even React Native works. My app is a NextJS project. Capacitor wraps it in a native
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New Zealand is so, so, so nice!. My wife and I have been here for 3 weeks and we already want to move. Nature is stunning. There are sheep everywhere. It's quiet AF and the air is pure (PM2.5 <3Β΅g/mΒ³ everywhere). You can surf, ski, mountain bike, trail, or hike pretty much
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I tried a new diet for 2 weeks (didn't change my workout plan):. β Cut carbs completely.π Eat only nuts, meat/fish/eggs/tofu, vegetables, and dairy.π½οΈ 2 meals per day (breakfast at 10 am, dinner at 2 pm). This happened:. - My body fat has decreased to the lowest I've had.- My
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Yes, you can grow a startup with 0 followers and $0. This is how I get 300 visitors a day from Google, for free, using programmatic SEO β
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I've given up 2 times in 6 years β but I'm still here. - 2017: I left my GF, country, and friends after spending 1 year building an app with 0 users β thinking I was Mark Zuckerberg. I started smoking again. - 2020: After 4 years as an entrepreneur, 0 successful projects, lived
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The.only.productivity.hack.is.putting.this.damn.phone.away. .
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I was a virgin, an hour ago. I've never blocked anyone after 3 years on Twitter. But my feed in the past 30 days is made of developers who think the world can be fixed with more tests. Dozens of people try to screw my sites every day. And they claim a CRITICAL VULNERABILITY.
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That's why so few entrepreneurs succeed. You need:. - To show up.- To show up every day.- To show up every day even if you fail.- To show up every day even if you fail and nobody supports you.- To show up every day even if you fail and nobody supports you for years.
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Fuck yeah. $100,000 in revenue in the last 30 days. In November 2021, I built a movie recommendation app based on your mood (Mood2Movie). It made $0.
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I built 24 startups in 3 years. - I don't plan.- I don't do calls.- I don't drink alcohol.- I don't do small talks.- I don't sacrifice my sleep.- I don't use productivity apps.- I don't change my tech stack.- I don't check my phone before 4 pm. I sit at my desk every day and.
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I canβt sleep. AI has made us hyper-creative and hyper-productive. 100 startup ideas are running through my mind, and I can build all of them in 24 hours. In 10 years, the world will look back and realize how lucky we were to discover this tech. Thereβs never been a better.
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I made $131,520 in May 2024:. β‘οΈ ShipFast β$123,400.π Indie Page β $3,600.π¨ Zenvoice β $1,500.ποΈ YouTube β $1,100.π© PoopUp β $718.π LaunchViral β $663.π₯ Twitter β $325.π‘οΈByeDispute β $166.π WorkbookPDF β $57.
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SaaS is the worst business to start entrepreneurship. You need to deliver so much value + build insane trust + solve a painful problemβit's like playing a new game in hardcore mode. Instead, start with:. - A blog.- A book.- An agency.- A free tool.- A directory.- A newsletter.-.
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I made $124,772 in January 2025. π§βπ» CodeFast β $82.6K.β‘οΈ ShipFast β $36.2K.π Indie Page β $1.3K.π DataFast β $1.2K.π LaunchViral β $903.π¨ Zenvoice β $699.π‘οΈ ByeDispute β $580.ποΈ YouTube β $440.π± HabitsGarden β $374.π₯ Twitter β $287.π© PoopUp β $122.π WorkbookPDF β $67.
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Startups in 2015:. - VC funded.- 12hrs workday.- Pizza diet.- Team of 5 employees.- $1,000,000,000 ideas. Startups in 2025:. - Bootstrapped.- 6hrs deep work.- Brain food diet.- Team of 100 AI agents.- $1,000,000 revenue. Healthy founder, healthy business.
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HELL YEAH!. My weekend project made $1,000,000. β’ in 1.5 year.β’ at 85% margin.β’ 0 all-nighters. A little story about money-printing startup ideas. π§΅π
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You don't need:. - Another course.- Another video.- Another tweet. You need:. - To work on that project. Close this app, and ship something.
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- I wake up without an alarm.- And earn money while I slept.- Iβve never met 99% of my customers in person.- I've never seen a $1 bill, yet I own a million of them.- I can instantly share my thoughts with 250,000 lovely people.- AI handles 50% of my work; all I do is think. If.
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The biggest mistake I made as an entrepreneur was thinking product-first:. I wasted years building apps that made $0. Instead, do this:. 1. Pick a problem.2. Build a feature to solve it.3. Write a headline to sell it.4. Add a buy button.5. Share it. Validate your ideas ASAP.
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π: "You can schedule tweets". Also π: "Only if the font is not bold"
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It's not vibe coding. It's ADHD coding. - prompt.- tweet.- prompt.- snack.- prompt.- watch a video.- prompt.- ???.- prompt.
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I built 21 products using the same tech stack:. π³ Stripe.βοΈ Vercel.π NextJS.π¨ daisyUI.π ReactJS.π§ Mailgun.π Plausible.πΏ MongoDB.ποΈ Tailwind CSS.π¦Ύ GitHub Copilot. Pick one. Never change it. Ship fast.
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I made $68,530 in April 2025. π§βπ» CodeFast β $39.6K.β‘οΈ ShipFast β $22.3K.π DataFast β $2.4K.π₯ Twitter β $1.1K.π Indie Page β $1K.π¨ Zenvoice β $729.π‘οΈ ByeDispute β $488.π± HabitsGarden β $334.ποΈ YouTube β $268.𧬠BioAge β $197.π© PoopUp β $85.π WorkbookPDF β $29. β I lost 1.
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I wish this book would never end. - If you're thinking all startup ideas are taken, read it. - If you're not into tech, read it. - If you're an optimist, read it. Kevin Kelly makes 12 predictions about how new technology will impact our lives and what the future could look
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Me in 2022: Earn $5,000 in 1 year. Me in 2023: Earn $5,000 in 1 day. Ship. Launch. Iterate. Don't quit. That's all.
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"Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."
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I met my hero @bryan_johnson in Singapore. He's just as you'd expect from watching his videos. Warm and sharp. The world is full of over-stimulants (food, social media) and our brains are naturally prone to consume. Bryan has 2M+ followers and it's the first time I see a big
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If you have:. - 1 product.- 0 audience.- $0 for marketing. Here are 4 marketing strategies I use to get customers for all my startups:
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It will probably never happen again. so I'm posting this for the record:. I made $300,000 in the last 30 days. 3 years ago, my bank account was empty, I didn't believe in myself and had 0 followers. But that didn't stop me from shipping tiny startups. - I coded every day.- I
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$1000/month in Bali, you get:. a Chef π©βπ³. a Cleaner π§Ή. a Nanny πΈ. a Driver π.
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I spend $60,000/year for @stripe. Yet, it's the service in my tech stack causing me the most headaches and keeping me awake at night. Stripe considers a 0.75% dispute rate excessive. If I get banned, all my 9 Stripe accounts are frozen and I might have to close all my tiny
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It took 3 years to recover from depression and cross $1M/year. - I built 29 websites.- I wrote 22,532 tweets.- I made 96 YouTube videos.- I wrote 48 newsletter issues.- I worked out every single day.- I never sacrificed a night of sleep. Keep shipping and take care of your
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I've spent all of February in New Zealand, repeating the same day over and over:. βοΈ Morning coffee and reading.π¦ 2 hours of exercise.π§βπ» 6 hours of deep work.βοΈ Enjoy time with my wife (hiking, surfing). NZ is stunning and such a great place to build tiny startups in the nature.
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My $45,000/month solopreneur business costs $183/mo:. - Hosting β Vercel $20/mo.- Database β MongoDB $7/mo.- Analytics β Plausible $30/mo.- Newsletter β Beehiiv $99/mo.- Assistant β Co-Pilot $10/mo.- Marketing β Twitter + Typefully $17/mo.
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Now I don't need to get a job anymore, my LinkedIn is finally honest:
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The best productivity hacks are unproductive:. - Work less.- Sleep more.- Take a break.- Take a day off.- Use fewer tools.- Say no more often.- Do one thing at a time.- Stop optimizing every minute.- Delete most of your to-do list.
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If you want to make money online, ride waves:. - @levelsio rode the nomad wave in 2017, and now he's riding the AI wave.- I'm riding the "be my own boss" wave. There's another, bigger wave coming: Health. The food we eat makes us sick. The morning alarm makes us sick. Being.
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Here. An opportunity to make millions. You can now bypass the Apple 30% tax with a web payment. - Wrap an HTML app with @capacitorjs.- Add a buy button with @stripe.- Push to app stores. Go build something.
NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax. Appleβs 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there. 4 years 4 months 17 days.
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I spent 9 months working on this. Introducing β Build your SaaS inΒ 14 days π§βπ». β
Learn to code from 0.β
Even if you're a complete beginner.β
Everything to create an online business. It's 50% off for Black Friday β 48 hours left. Enjoy!
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I made $268,463 in December 2024. π§βπ» CodeFast β $219.2K.β‘οΈ ShipFast β $43.1k.π Indie Page β $1.9k.π DataFast β $1.1K.π LaunchViral β $1K.π¨ Zenvoice β $700.ποΈ YouTube β $455.π₯ Twitter β $353.π‘οΈ ByeDispute β $270.π± HabitsGarden β $253.π© PoopUp β $84.π WorkbookPDF β $48. π’.
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2035:. βThey were lucky; they had just discovered AI, free reach on TikTok, and unlimited ideas.β. Thatβs usβright now. This is the gold rush. Start building.
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I made $68,140 in August 2024:. β‘οΈ ShipFast β 60.2k.π Indie Page β $5.1k.π¨ Zenvoice β $1.1k.ποΈ YouTube β $476.π LaunchViral β $405.π© PoopUp β $310.π‘οΈByeDispute β $228.π₯ Twitter β $206.π WorkbookPDF β $115. π’ Business is up by 2% (July) and highest month for IndiePage.
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How to make $10,000 for your startup with Free Tools Marketing. - It costs $0.- It's addictive.- It can make ur app go viral. As a developer, this is my way of doing marketing without doing marketing.
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I built 30+ startups with this simple tech stack. They will make you feel like you SHOULD try the latest npm killer or this new UI component library. It's a trap. Pick one tech stack and stick to it.
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My salary as a 7-year-old solopreneur. - Scratch your own itches.- Code daily.- Ship fast.- Do marketing.- Move fast
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