Thomas Rayvol

This is my dream. I'll never back down on it. The reasons I started entrepreneurship is my family. Time is the only resource I can offer them. Even at $0 MRR I wouldn't change my path. I get to teach my daughter, learn from her, and enjoy those little things with my wife.

People romanticize "be your own boss." The actual freedom isn't no boss. It's: - I pick the problem. - I pick the stack. - I pick the hours. But it has a cost: - I'm 100% accountable of my earnings - Showing up is not an option Harder, not easier.

Is SEO starting to kick in ?! SEOMaxer send me your best roast ?!

Founders do you know what kind of DARK, like REAL DARK magic I need to use Reddit ? I want to reach my first 100 users but the POWER OF BAN is strong in Reddit ! Counsel of MASTERS PLEASE give me your ANSWERS NOW ! Or I might become the new Vador of solo building !

Let's get our first paying user together ! Nerva biometric is live and put in use ! I need acquisition and conversion now ! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I'm not selling a $500 mastermind. I'm not running a $97 course. I'm doing free 1:1 founder calls in my discord because I wish someone would have done them for me.

The real upside of solo isn't "no boss." It's: i can switch from a 3h deep work block to homeschooling and playing with my kid without asking anyone. The cost: you have to make everything work alone.

Where are the indie hackers girls ? Mothers or builders or gamers ?! Damn guys I wasn't imagining that my content is "men only" 😱

The body lags the trigger by 5-10 seconds. Rage spike → HR catches up → it stays elevated way longer than the moment that caused it. Most tilt isn't a fight. It's the aggregation of past stress residue.

Doing free founder calls inside Rayvol HQ this week. mostly tactical: outbound prospecting, stack choices, launch planning, pricing. drop a 👋 in #general if you want a slot. Link in bio.

@buttonupd Yep it's a hard way but it's also the path to freedom !

@ThomasRayvol 😂 it’s not easy !

solo founder morning: >convinced i'm 6 months from $10k MRR. solo founder night: > convinced i should crawl back to a 9-to-5. same day. same product. same brain.

Entrepreneurship: choice or necessity? For me? Necessity. No family. No network. No safety net. When you have nothing to fall back on, creating value isn't a career path. It's survival.

You "moved on" from that last game 5 min ago. Your nervous system didn't. HR still 20 BPM above baseline. Stress above 50% That's the state you're about to queue into.

@VynseDev @Skyzox You might be right to be honest ! I set up the one month free trial a while ago, but since then I saw the streamer chat talking only about the overlay, describing it as "peak content" which means value has been perceived instantly. I'll probably change that before going on PH.

1 month free trial sounds crazy long for such a "simple" tool. I guess 7 days or even 3 days would be enough for a user to test and feel the value But hard paywall directly could convert the same, if even more. Only reason why someone would want to try it first is if they're not sure it'd work on their stream, with their device/type of watch etc if you answer that already on the landing page and prove it, hard paywall would just be better I see it kind of as SuperShrimp by @marclou

Launch + hard paywall = 🏆 removed my free plan the night before being live on PH → 6 sales in 2 days I almost made that usual mistake of thinking "more free users = more virality" maybe if you've got a huge audience or you just get stuck at $0 with no real validation

@Eloise1041955 100% true 😂 The bad day are gruesome, bad sleep kid screaming and not seeing improvements on saas makes the downs real hard. But it goes both ways, every little win feels way more rewarding than any previous job I had

@ThomasRayvol It’s so true, in one day, it’s an emotional roller coaster

You're solo building a SaaS, an app, anything ? And you're tired of being the only voice in your own head ? There's a small discord where we ship, market, debug, and sometimes just discuss with each other. Rayvol HQ. Link below or QR code 4 of us so far.

@VynseDev So cool man ! You can be proud of yourself !

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO 🎉🎉 first sale since the v2 with the new pricing I needed this to happen to be honest, but wasn't expecting it as I still have low volume. great validation 🙏🏻