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@filippkowalski Because of that: x.com/deadly_onion/s…

Why did Cal AI grow so rapidly to $2-3M and then stop?

@nickbakeddesign I guess you are talking about @dgut_... Well you are not alone! A lot of us never got our investment back. Back then, he confessed to me he had already spent all the money.

I should have invested in real products, over investing $12k into a indie hacker who vanished right after sending the money! Was super active here and then poof he went offline. In return I had to follow up everywhere possible on no communication and got the right treatment for my naiveness in investing

@hiddnest @mil000 A moat is a business's unique competitive advantage

@mil000 thanks for your comment. btw do you know what moat means?

cluely pivoted from sales cheating ai to ai meeting notetaker we pivoted from ai meeting notetaker to sales cheating ai what roy saw

@lucas_chae @aamdmn Would love to know the process too !

a few days ago, i complained how hard it is to reach my desired audience on tiktok (even with vpn) then @aamdmn dm'd me with a long, step-by-step guide now 98% of my viewers are from US/Canada i love this community so much ❤️ reply if you want to see what I did!

@DmytroKrasun @marclou Do you keep eating natural sugar (fruits, honey and so on) or did you entirely quit sugar ?

Marc (@marclou) once shared that he didn't crave croissants, sweets, and sugar anymore once he was back in France. 1. He recommended reading "Good Energy," and indeed the book helped reformat my brain and how I perceive refined sugar and other food. But yet it wasn't enough. 2. I had mood swings, brain fog, was tired often. I just rebelled and decided to try. And Since beginning of March I quit refined sugar and bread. 3. It was super hard at the beginning. But recently, sugar cravings have faded out. And I noticed that I have mental clarity as never before. I play a few games per day. I find it funny, and I don't know if it is fully related, but my chess rating skyrocketed once my cravings are gone.

No more posting on X until I ship itslaunchday.com - it's a promise. Please hold me accountable and bully me if you see me around.

@cormachayden_ That starts with solving your own painful problems imo. Not someone else's.

Most overlooked growth strategy: build something people actually want to use and share

@Thomasbcn @desmondhth and @alexcooldev scaled their apps (Rise and Feynman AI respectively) to ~$20k in monthly revenues using only organic content on insta and Tik Tok. Not bad I would say !

The "viral tiktok" trend is refreshing to give indie distribution. ASO, SEO, AIO & referrals don't What those repurposing this tactic don't tell you: -effort is higher than it looks -gazillion views leads to limited revenue -it looks like shit -not scalable -not sustainable

@thepatwalls @starter_story PS: that was not a dig at him. I'm just surprised at how capital intensive his business is.

@TheNickVerger @starter_story How much profit are you making?

$2M AI app. Solo founder. Started with $150 And he built it with almost zero coding skills. I visited his house in FL and he told me the whole story: – Why the Feds fined him $150K (3:45) – How he found his idea (5:48) – Scaling with a tiny budget (8:45) – Why he ignores 90% of feature requests (9:41) – 3 steps to finding winning ideas (12:34) – Marketing > product (14:30)

@thepatwalls @starter_story Double that. 80% operational profit margin.

@elliot_garreffa interested

you DO NOT need followers to go viral you DO NOT need big $$ to grow your app I'm the sharing the full guide to how we grew Clippit to +30k users over 2 months covers organic, influencers, AI UGC, targeting the US & more it's FREE. drop a comment below and i'll dm you

@phlpcrlsn @sleepcycle According to public records, they’re doing $21M in annual revenues and $5.3M in profits 🤯

someone must've done this by accident... @sleepcycle had a 4.7 rating on App Store, backed up by almost 400k users, but it's now been reset 🥶 their conversion rate has without a doubt taken a hit from this NEVER RESET YOUR APP RATING

@tibo_maker Damn, at first I thought your car was vandalized or something 😅

Best or worst Tesla ever? Spotted in Luxembourg where some people have interesting taste 😅

@filippkowalski Something does not add up. How can they have a 4.8 average rating when 44% of their reviews are 1 star ? Genuinely curious about the trick here.

3rd party tracking tools confirm their revenue, so there is nothing fake here -- they bring a lot of traffic via paid UA and tiktok/ig with B2B it's not as straightforward to achieve such rapid growth, but with B2C this is a different game and possible

@johnrushx Very honest and candid feedback here: it feels like you're trying to brute force your way into success. Maybe do less to achieve more ? Get some rest man !

Last month was the best & the worst for my Startups in years. Through blood, sweat & tears, I'll keep sharing my founder diary 🧵 : (it gets very personal at the end).

@adrian_horning_ Great timing ! I'm interested

Clutch is a great way to find leads. I just built a free tool that will scrape the search results page for you. Get tens of thousands of results in a few minutes. Drop a comment to get it 🔥

Perhaps because the founders you know naturally gravitate toward B2B ? And selling a B2B product to a 15-20 yo kids is... mission impossible ? Tik Tok marketing is tailored to a super young audience and only works for the B2C/prosumer market. Also, MRR claims can be verified in most cases (sensortower for instance); what makes me sceptical beyond revenues is the profitability and long term viability of these apps. A lot of them claim to be going viral without spending a penny when they are, in fact, probably burning through 70-80% of their cash reserve to get there.

Behind every new bullshit million dollar MRR claim is a wishy-washy story of how they worked with influencers and went tiktok viral. Meanwhile I know real founders who went tiktok viral and got like, 8 sales.

Back in 2017-2018 the term "indie hacker" didn't have the stigma associated to it right now. It was mainly a community of software engineers who wanted to make a living out of their craft on their terms. But over the past 3 years the community got much bigger. A lot of people with self-limiting beliefs and a questionnable professional ethic joined giving the movement a bad rep... FWIW, just call yourself an entrepreneur. Don't use etiquettes like "indie", "solo", "hacker" and whatnot. It sends a negative signal. Traps you into a niche and does not inspire confidence to prospective buyers.

I started to understand why people dislike the word ‘indie hacking’ Because any indie product you built could have the potential to $100k MRR if you play all cards right (iterating, distribution, pricing…) And calling yourself ‘indie hacker’ limit your mindset and makes you think that $10k MRR is the ultimate goal

@piotrkulpinski @heymattia Understandable ! But yeah, a 4th column added to your grid would be better on larger screens without impacting (too much) your whole design system

@TheNickVerger @heymattia They use bigger fonts so it makes sense to go full width. I don't want to redo the entire design so I'll stuck to the current font sizes for now. I'll consider adding another column to the grid, but then it creates more visual issues on other pages.

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