Charles Nguyen

@pcshipp that gap is brutal — i’m feeling it with slidelabs too: people can like the product but not have a painful enough reason to pay for it.

I have 1,400+ active users in my app 95% of the reviews are 5 stars But users are still not purchasing Premium What do you think is going wrong here?

@yuqih i’m on the 0->$1k mrr grind building an ai marketing workspace; agents for content still feel 80% demo magic / 20% actually useful. curious how your youtube + fiction brain thinks about that split

Hi I’m Yuqi! I recently moved to SF. Bit about me: - live in a growth house - 10k on youtube - used to live in nyc, paris and london - writing a novel on the caltrain - working at an ai startup Let’s connect about agents, ai models, making content and writing fiction

@arthuryuzbashew $1.4k is the headline, 3 startups buying is the signal. building slidelabs taught me buyer pattern > revenue spike.

Craziest days ever Made over $1.4k in the last 3 days... ...and TODAY woke up to sales from 3 different startups 💰 Had my morning training, had a call with Lukas Making a coffee and back to startupmaxxxing ☕️

@JinJung Thanks man 💪

@charlesng116 Let's go Charles! Patience tax is real for sure. You will achieve your goals man

My 𝕏 Journey. 1 days : 0 followers 30 days : Monetized 60 days : Paid $34.81 75 days : Paid $119.30 90 days : Paid $45.02 105 days : Paid $206.75 120 days : Paid $131.69 125 days : Subscription eligible Result : 👇

@orcdev that first $1k feeling must be wild, i’m still in the ugly part with slidelabs where every signup feels like a referendum on whether i’m building something people actually want

passed $1k MRR for Shipper Club ⚔️ this honestly feels unreal people always say the first $1k online is the hardest milestone to reach what happens next? thank you to every legend inside the club 💚

@DanielSmidstrup the week i realized nobody cared about the “ai magic” demo and i’d built the wrong workflow, i just went quiet and rewrote half of slidelabs. kept the launch tab open like everything was fine

"building in public" but only posting the wins. what's the worst week you haven't shared?

@MDALISHANALI2 that $20 drop can mess with your head more than a $200 win sometimes. churn is data, ego is the expensive part.

day 38 building in public. mrr dropped. $204 → $184. this used to ruin my mood. now i see it differently: subscriptions expire people churn. numbers go down that’s not failure. failure is quitting because one bad week hurt your ego. still building. goal: back to $200+ mrr.

@nanahrii first user hits harder than any launch metrics tbh, someone actually trusting fobalanz is the real validation

A month ago I started building Fobalanz Today I got my first user It’s really rewarding seeing people using your app!!

@DevinSoto @TTrimoreau totally agreed

@charlesng116 @TTrimoreau shipping products especially software is at a heightened week

Building is 100× easier Marketing is 100× harder

@josephmiclaus that's right, I often reply and interact with people to increase engagement and create networks 🙌

@charlesng116 Solid engagement rate. Are those mostly on replies?

small win this week 🙌 1.2K impressions. 12.4% engagement rate. Profile visits up 300% just showing up consistently that's it 💪

@DanielSmidstrup 275 in a day is wild, my x is sitting at 29 followers so that kind of compounding feels like a different sport. what changed today, one post hit or just consistent replies finally paying off?

2200 followers 🥳 almost 2300 already +275 today alone. Love to see it!

@simplydailey @DanielSmidstrup Sure, happy to connect with you

@charlesng116 @DanielSmidstrup I'm a college student building, lets connect!

If you're building with AI, let's connect

@itshimanshugup Thanks man 🙌

@charlesng116 Congrats,keep going…

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@DanielSmidstrup great to connect with you

@charlesng116 Happy to connect, and sounds like an interesting point to just see how it all goes.

@matthewmillerai i’m early on the road to $1k mrr, so the 175 days part hit. was there a stretch where effort felt flat but you kept going—what were you tracking besides MRR then?

$15,404 MRR. I wake up every day and give it my best. That's all I have control over. What I've learned over the past 175 days is that when you give it everything you have over long periods of time, you make progress. Not always when you want it. Not always how you expect it. But it comes. Consistency compounds. It always has.

@manoj_ahi 32 paid in 1.5 months is the part that hits — i’m at 119 registered / 2 paid with slidelabs, and that gap between “interested” and “card out” is brutal.

In 1.5 months MRR - $2,081 ARR - $24,970 Total revenue so far - $3,298 Total paid customers - 32 goal is to reach $10K MRR by this year's end