Michael Que
@michaelque22
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20. Bootstrapping $50K/month
nyc / bay
Joined August 2016
This is how I started with $0 back in June -> $50K/month now. You're on the right track. Downloaded TikTok only May of this year. Was in the trenches doing UGC myself to develop my viral sense and my ability to train others. You got this bro.
day 3 of building my first app submitted a new update to the app store with improvements to onboarding and bug fixes spending most of my time learning how to make good tiktoks realizing it's pretty hard to make good ugc since this is my first time doing it it's really all
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You should be extremely happy that your competitor is doing well. Our competitor hasn’t charted in the US since the summer but is now beating us by a mile in App Store rankings. I felt bad for about 15 minutes before I realized now there’s new formats to copy and make $$$
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Was hyped for one of my creators until he told me he paid TikTok to boost views
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Back in Bay Area now. A few months ago I would not have expected to be managing UGC creators on my laptop while at a Tesla supercharger.
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meanwhile i have 3 clones of my app with the same name, even after the new apple rules against copycats.
my apple developer account got terminated and stoppr got delisted from the app store 2 weeks ago. post 1 out of 2 i was in paris visiting my grandpa at the hospital when i read the message in app store connect. honestly, i laughed internally when i saw the accusations because
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Finally started to crack meta ads, then got banned
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The best feeling in the world is waking up excited about your work.
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For app founders who've successfully scaled with paid ads, where are some good resources to learn how to do it. I scaled my consumer app to 30K/month through $1 CPM UGC, so down to exchange info as well.
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Goal: crack 100K/month by the end of the year. How: Creating new UGC formats to target parents, + finally doing paid ads Results: Will update on Jan 1, 2026
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I want to clarify why I made this post. A lot of people on X have the mentality of "just ship bro". Yes that's the first step, but if you have shipped your 20th saas and gotten no traction it's pretty clear that distribution/validation was the problem, not your ability to
No shade to Marc but I looked through all of his businesses and seems like he makes most of his money selling a dream to indie hackers and NGMIs in buildinpublic. Selling shovels instead of mining gold.
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No shade to Marc but I looked through all of his businesses and seems like he makes most of his money selling a dream to indie hackers and NGMIs in buildinpublic. Selling shovels instead of mining gold.
I made $90,148 in November 2025. 🧑💻 CodeFast — $29.8K ⚡️ ShipFast — $21.1K 📈 DataFast — $16.7K ⭐️ TrustMRR — $17.5K 🐥 Twitter — $2K 🍜 Indie Page — $1.1K 💨 Zenvoice — $394 🛡️ ByeDispute — $380 🎞️ YouTube — $323 🚀 LaunchViral — $258 🌱 HabitsGarden — $197 🧬 BioAge — $147 📚
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there's too much cringe content on LinkedIn and it's because people are too scared to post hate comments. That's why i love X.
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Working with this view rn Can’t believe this is a view from a NYU dorm (not mine)
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One of my creators blew up with a proven format that guarantees a good conversion. It completely flopped in terms of conversion. It wasn’t the region that was the problem. He put the plug at 0:17 of the video. The video was 0:18. Only 9% of people watching the video saw
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we are testing giving a free trial through notifications. It's a 3 day trial -> $60 a year. So far everyone who bought it has been able to get a refund even though we make it very clear that's the structure. Anyone have tips to prevent so many refunds from happening?
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i have no idea how Series is still alive, but their LinkedIn UGC is killing it and a great playbook for any career oriented startups.
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Day 1 of going from $30K/month -> $100K/month by the end of the year just had 20 UGC calls with moms. It's such a weird position to be in to be 20 and deciding which 35-50 year old women I should hire. some are even school teachers. Hoping the mom UGC strategy will take me
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