Arsène Laurent

@ProductHunt just gave Product of the Day 🥇 to my silly vibecoded app I made for fun. Moreover, today marks exactly 10 days since SlapMac went live, which made me $20,700 in gross revenue. I'm still gasping at the screen 🫠 Many may think it's another absurd and lucky overnight success, but while it might seem that way, it wasn't. Let me explain. My story: Back in 2018 I was just a backend corp. guy who stumbled on @levelsio and his book MAKE, and something genuinely broke open in my brain. I wanted that life so badly that I went full obsessive: every @starter_story video, every @marclou marketing technique dissected and noted. Tweets from @tdinh_me were my inspo too. I started doing my small experiments (like @FpvBuddy): my playground to learn frontend, BaaS and the world of indie such as requesting payments, marketing & SEO. Then I started meeting people in the space: builders in Southeast Asia, then in Amsterdam. The kind of delusional, hungry optimists who bet everything on themselves. Those conversations changed how I think about making money online. Recently I even got my whole X profile roasted by @robj3d3, which was equal parts painful and clarifying haha, thanks dude. @transitive_bs also said something that stuck with me around that time: "what is blocking you from doing this full time. How can we make that happen?" I was about to give out with content making and tweeting when I met @did0f and his way of teaching tech through video format truly inspired me to keep going. And so, a few months later I made a video for fun, reviewing a repo that makes your laptop moan when you slap it, and things moved pretty damn quickly from there. 24 hours of hacking with the Hackadam crew later, there was a real app, written from scratch at the speed of light thanks to AI. Is SlapMac a business? No. But it's the kick that starts one. I'm done accumulating knowledge and ready to build for real this time. Overnight success is very often a lie. Mine took 6 years of learnings and a single slap 👋💨