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⭐️ https://t.co/MZc8tG9xWi $44K/m 📈 https://t.co/3EDxln5mdi $26K/m 🏴‍☠️ https://t.co/YBGJuAsUZ4 $13K/m 🧑‍💻 https://t.co/Y30jsaHwz9 $6K/m ⚡️ https://t.co/vatLDmi9UG $4K/m 🍜 https://t.co/r07EpGSYJ2 $1K/m +29 https://t.co/4zCWHGJp1S

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I made $82,221 in August 2026. ⭐️ TrustMRR — $42K 📈 DataFast — $26K 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $4K 🐥 Twitter — $4K ⚡️ ShipFast — $3K 🏴‍☠️ Ship or Die — $2K 🍜 Indie Page — $595 🌱 HabitsGarden — $244 🦐 SuperShrimp — $153 🛡️ ByeDispute — $117 🎞️ YouTube — $112 I didn't work much this month. I travelled to 5 countries and spent time with my family. It's nice to have 6% churn 😇

I made $82,221 in August 2026. ⭐️ TrustMRR — $42K 📈 DataFast — $26K 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $4K 🐥 Twitter — $4K ⚡️ ShipFast — $3K 🏴‍☠️ Ship or Die — $2K 🍜 Indie Page — $595 🌱 HabitsGarden — $244 🦐 SuperShrimp — $153 🛡️ ByeDispute — $117 🎞️ YouTube — $112 I didn't work much this month. I travelled to 5 countries and spent time with my family. It's nice to have 6% churn 😇

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I love this, so I made a minimalist version for myself. When an agent is running in Codex, Pac-Man is eating 👾 and becomes all big and green 🤢 when the agent is done, so I know it's time to prompt again. On hover, the notch expands to show the list of running and completed threads. Edward Luo came up with a banger, and I think the Codex team should consider adding this natively because it's really nice 🤗

I love this, so I made a minimalist version for myself. When an agent is running in Codex, Pac-Man is eating 👾 and becomes all big and green 🤢 when the agent is done, so I know it's time to prompt again. On hover, the notch expands to show the list of running and completed threads. Edward Luo came up with a banger, and I think the Codex team should consider adding this natively because it's really nice 🤗

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I made an app to turn web analytics into a Severance episode. Every page on your site is a department. /pricing is a department. /blog is a department. Your visitors are innies now. When they visit your site, they arrive through the elevator. When they navigate to another page, they walk to the next department. When they bounce, they walk out. It's called MACRODATA:

I made an app to turn web analytics into a Severance episode. Every page on your site is a department. /pricing is a department. /blog is a department. Your visitors are innies now. When they visit your site, they arrive through the elevator. When they navigate to another page, they walk to the next department. When they bounce, they walk out. It's called MACRODATA:

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I want to be sure they remember me when AGI takes over

I want to be sure they remember me when AGI takes over

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The masculine urge to redesign TrustMRR's chart with this gorgeous library

The masculine urge to redesign TrustMRR's chart with this gorgeous library

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Bye bye San Francisco 👋 It was my first time in the USA, so here is what surprised me: - SF is like X IRL. Tons of billboards ads for Vercel, PostHog, and AI startups - You can bump into anyone and start a conversation. Ppl are very friendly - Food is mediocre imho - It’s expensive AF. $10k/mo is just above survival - The tech grind is contagious. Makes you wanna ship more, as Dominik Sobe ツ said. - Air quality is awesome (very low PM2.5) - You go from multibillion startup office to super poor area in 1 block (note to self: don’t follow Google Maps “busy area”) - The city is infested by self driving cars. It’s dystopian Thanks again for having us Stripe. It was awesome to meet my indie friends IRL

Bye bye San Francisco 👋 It was my first time in the USA, so here is what surprised me: - SF is like X IRL. Tons of billboards ads for Vercel, PostHog, and AI startups - You can bump into anyone and start a conversation. Ppl are very friendly - Food is mediocre imho - It’s expensive AF. $10k/mo is just above survival - The tech grind is contagious. Makes you wanna ship more, as Dominik Sobe ツ said. - Air quality is awesome (very low PM2.5) - You go from multibillion startup office to super poor area in 1 block (note to self: don’t follow Google Maps “busy area”) - The city is infested by self driving cars. It’s dystopian Thanks again for having us Stripe. It was awesome to meet my indie friends IRL

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Today's gym: - 4x5 heavy bench (100kg) - 4x60 russian twists (+10kg) - 4x6 heavy push press (40kg) - 4x10 sec V-hold - 3x10 T-bar row (30kg) - 3x10 bicep curls (25kg) - 3x20 flies (4kg) - 3x10 pike pushups - 3x16 archer pushups - 3x10 pullups

Today's gym: - 4x5 heavy bench (100kg) - 4x60 russian twists (+10kg) - 4x6 heavy push press (40kg) - 4x10 sec V-hold - 3x10 T-bar row (30kg) - 3x10 bicep curls (25kg) - 3x20 flies (4kg) - 3x10 pike pushups - 3x16 archer pushups - 3x10 pullups

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Our Chief Health Officer Bryan Johnson said 10 air squats beats a 30 min walk, so I’m holding my family and friends accountable after meals

Our Chief Health Officer Bryan Johnson said 10 air squats beats a 30 min walk, so I’m holding my family and friends accountable after meals

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What ‘overnight success’ actually looks like:

What ‘overnight success’ actually looks like:

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 one-shotted this. We're cooked 🥹

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 one-shotted this. We're cooked 🥹

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I made TinderMRR. Instead of people, you swipe on startups for sale. Swipe right to acquire. Swipe left to pass. All startups have verified revenue from Stripe, LemonSqueezy, etc. It's connected to my $1.2B database of verified startups, TrustMRR. Goal: Someone buys a $50k MRR SaaS because they swiped right on the toilet >

I made TinderMRR. Instead of people, you swipe on startups for sale. Swipe right to acquire. Swipe left to pass. All startups have verified revenue from Stripe, LemonSqueezy, etc. It's connected to my $1.2B database of verified startups, TrustMRR. Goal: Someone buys a $50k MRR SaaS because they swiped right on the toilet >

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Are you even a developer if you don't ship bugs for Halloween? 🎃👻

Are you even a developer if you don't ship bugs for Halloween? 🎃👻

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I made a tool that turns website analytics into a 3D city you can explore. Each page (i.e. /dashboard) becomes a building. More visitors = taller skyscraper. It's called DataCity:

I made a tool that turns website analytics into a 3D city you can explore. Each page (i.e. /dashboard) becomes a building. More visitors = taller skyscraper. It's called DataCity:

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felt cute, might delete later

felt cute, might delete later

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I built a social network inside TrustMRR. Now founders can post updates, buyers get notified, and strangers can like each other's revenue. It's 𝕏 but everyone's MRR is public:

I built a social network inside TrustMRR. Now founders can post updates, buyers get notified, and strangers can like each other's revenue. It's 𝕏 but everyone's MRR is public:

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I built a tool that stalks Reddit for you. Every time someone mentions your startup on Reddit, it shows up on your DataFast analytics chart with their avatar, upvotes, and subreddit. You can finally see which Reddit post caused that random traffic spike at 3:12 am. Free for all users on Growth.

I built a tool that stalks Reddit for you. Every time someone mentions your startup on Reddit, it shows up on your DataFast analytics chart with their avatar, upvotes, and subreddit. You can finally see which Reddit post caused that random traffic spike at 3:12 am. Free for all users on Growth.

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I was bored of traditional lifting so I made today’s workout explosive! 🧨 Tri-set A (4x) - 6 Zercher squats (70kg) - Depth drop → 5 pogo jumps - 10 toes-to-bar Tri-set B (3x) - 8 walking lunges/leg + DB rotation (24kg) - 5 DB jump squats (2×16kg) - 30m 1-arm overhead carry/side (24kg) Tri-set C (3x) - 8 Romanian deadlifts (90kg) - 4 broad → vertical jumps - 12–15 calf raises (160kg) Finisher - 7 min plank Adding jumps and impact improves bone density which reduces risks of fracture when you get older

I was bored of traditional lifting so I made today’s workout explosive! 🧨 Tri-set A (4x) - 6 Zercher squats (70kg) - Depth drop → 5 pogo jumps - 10 toes-to-bar Tri-set B (3x) - 8 walking lunges/leg + DB rotation (24kg) - 5 DB jump squats (2×16kg) - 30m 1-arm overhead carry/side (24kg) Tri-set C (3x) - 8 Romanian deadlifts (90kg) - 4 broad → vertical jumps - 12–15 calf raises (160kg) Finisher - 7 min plank Adding jumps and impact improves bone density which reduces risks of fracture when you get older

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I tested my V02 max for the first time today: 🫀 57.4 ml/kg/min According to ChatGPT, that's the top 5–10% of men my age. The test was done in a lab using the Bruce protocol. Every 3 minutes, treadmill speed and incline increase: - stage 1: 4 km/h at 10% grade - stage 2: 5.5km/h at 12% - stage 3: 6.7 km/h at 14% - etc etc I passed out at the end of stage 5. It's just a horrible test because you're fighting inner demons to get a little farther. V02 max is a key biomarker in predicting longevity, so from now on, I'll focus my training on increasing that number.

I tested my V02 max for the first time today: 🫀 57.4 ml/kg/min According to ChatGPT, that's the top 5–10% of men my age. The test was done in a lab using the Bruce protocol. Every 3 minutes, treadmill speed and incline increase: - stage 1: 4 km/h at 10% grade - stage 2: 5.5km/h at 12% - stage 3: 6.7 km/h at 14% - etc etc I passed out at the end of stage 5. It's just a horrible test because you're fighting inner demons to get a little farther. V02 max is a key biomarker in predicting longevity, so from now on, I'll focus my training on increasing that number.

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I was bored today, so I made this ad in 45 minutes. 1. I got inspired by an ad on French Instagram (proven format) 2. AI rewrote the script for my startup 3. AI generated subtitles (SubMagic) 4. Nico is going to run the campaign on Meta I'll report the ROI in a few days ✌️

I was bored today, so I made this ad in 45 minutes. 1. I got inspired by an ad on French Instagram (proven format) 2. AI rewrote the script for my startup 3. AI generated subtitles (SubMagic) 4. Nico is going to run the campaign on Meta I'll report the ROI in a few days ✌️

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This guy made a Chrome extension that exposes everyone's real MRR on 𝕏

This guy made a Chrome extension that exposes everyone's real MRR on 𝕏

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New PR: 8 minutes 🎉 I realized it’s 50% muscle 50% mental. My shoulders are basically dead after 3 minutes and then it’s the little voice inside telling me to hold until {{goal}}. I don’t know if this one counts tho, because I lifted my elbows a few times and I wasn’t in proper form. Not an excuse but the floor was getting slippery. Anyway I’m Pretty proud of it!
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New PR: 8 minutes 🎉 I realized it’s 50% muscle 50% mental. My shoulders are basically dead after 3 minutes and then it’s the little voice inside telling me to hold until {{goal}}. I don’t know if this one counts tho, because I lifted my elbows a few times and I wasn’t in proper form. Not an excuse but the floor was getting slippery. Anyway I’m Pretty proud of it!

Marc Lou

126,738 views • 11 days ago

$180/night hotel in China
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$180/night hotel in China

Marc Lou

250,951 views • 22 days ago

- hits $4K/day - all-time @ $44K/month - Emergency in Japan 🇯🇵 - MARKETING OR DIE - is stale I hope you enjoy the VLOG!
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- hits $4K/day - all-time @ $44K/month - Emergency in Japan 🇯🇵 - MARKETING OR DIE - is stale I hope you enjoy the VLOG!

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⚠️ MEETUP UPDATE — PLEASE READ Unfortunately, we have to cancel today’s meetup. Because of the typhoon and heavy rain, the venue is now partially flooded, with water getting inside. For everyone’s safety, we strongly recommend not coming to the meetup today. However, I know some of you took flights or trains to Shanghai specifically for this meetup. We’ll still be at the venue at 2 PM to welcome anyone who already made the trip. ❤️ But please don’t travel just for the meetup today. Stay safe, and I’m really sorry about this last-minute change. Thank you for understanding 🙏
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⚠️ MEETUP UPDATE — PLEASE READ Unfortunately, we have to cancel today’s meetup. Because of the typhoon and heavy rain, the venue is now partially flooded, with water getting inside. For everyone’s safety, we strongly recommend not coming to the meetup today. However, I know some of you took flights or trains to Shanghai specifically for this meetup. We’ll still be at the venue at 2 PM to welcome anyone who already made the trip. ❤️ But please don’t travel just for the meetup today. Stay safe, and I’m really sorry about this last-minute change. Thank you for understanding 🙏

Marc Lou

179,327 views • 24 days ago

Shipped from a Chinese taxi ✅ 🖼️ Embedable <iframe /> with live data 📸 Shareable screenshots Thanks for the idea, Sivaram!
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Shipped from a Chinese taxi ✅ 🖼️ Embedable <iframe /> with live data 📸 Shareable screenshots Thanks for the idea, Sivaram!

Marc Lou

141,450 views • 21 days ago

I made a game where you compete with a friend to see whose startup makes more money 🤑🥇 Beat them:
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I made a game where you compete with a friend to see whose startup makes more money 🤑🥇 Beat them:

Marc Lou

135,613 views • 26 days ago

I made an app to fix my terrible posture. It uses my MacBook Pro camera to watch me work. When AI detects that I’m sitting like a shrimp 🦐, it sends me a notification with a preview of my posture so I can reposition myself. Everything stays local. It works offline too. > And because apparently my brain only responds to fake rewards, I added XP: good posture makes my shrimp evolve (currently level 7).
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I made an app to fix my terrible posture. It uses my MacBook Pro camera to watch me work. When AI detects that I’m sitting like a shrimp 🦐, it sends me a notification with a preview of my posture so I can reposition myself. Everything stays local. It works offline too. > And because apparently my brain only responds to fake rewards, I added XP: good posture makes my shrimp evolve (currently level 7).

Marc Lou

647,699 views • 5 months ago

I built a bot traffic tracker for DataFast 🤖 It shows what crawlers and AI assistants do on your website: ✨ ChatGPT / Claude fetching pages to answer users 🔎 Google / Bing indexing your site 🧠 OpenAI / Anthropic / Meta crawling for training 📄 The exact pages they crawl 🚫 Pages they try to crawl that return 404s The 404s are interesting because if ChatGPT keeps requesting /free-trial and that page does not exist, that is a signal you should build it! Free for early users, probably not forever. If you try it, I’d love feedback. PS. Let me know your bot/human traffic rate (mine is ~300%! 🤯)
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I built a bot traffic tracker for DataFast 🤖 It shows what crawlers and AI assistants do on your website: ✨ ChatGPT / Claude fetching pages to answer users 🔎 Google / Bing indexing your site 🧠 OpenAI / Anthropic / Meta crawling for training 📄 The exact pages they crawl 🚫 Pages they try to crawl that return 404s The 404s are interesting because if ChatGPT keeps requesting /free-trial and that page does not exist, that is a signal you should build it! Free for early users, probably not forever. If you try it, I’d love feedback. PS. Let me know your bot/human traffic rate (mine is ~300%! 🤯)

Marc Lou

227,876 views • 2 months ago

I documented my SaaS journey to $20K MRR. It took 512 days. I got excited, I cried, I laughed, I lost hope. I got literally every moment on camera. This video is the raw story of what building a startup actually feels like.
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I documented my SaaS journey to $20K MRR. It took 512 days. I got excited, I cried, I laughed, I lost hope. I got literally every moment on camera. This video is the raw story of what building a startup actually feels like.

Marc Lou

235,178 views • 2 months ago

Throwback to 3 years ago. Building startups out of curiosity and launching them with goofy little videos.
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Throwback to 3 years ago. Building startups out of curiosity and launching them with goofy little videos.

Marc Lou

31,170 views • 13 days ago

I bring you along for the chaos of running 13 startups solo 😵‍💫 ☠️ Launching SHIP OR DIE with jack friks 🔎 Pre launching a new SaaS 🤩 Meeting with 100+ founders in Korea 💦 Running & calisthenics routine 🥦 Superfood diet 💍 My w̶i̶f̶e̶ farmer's wisdom
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I bring you along for the chaos of running 13 startups solo 😵‍💫 ☠️ Launching SHIP OR DIE with jack friks 🔎 Pre launching a new SaaS 🤩 Meeting with 100+ founders in Korea 💦 Running & calisthenics routine 🥦 Superfood diet 💍 My w̶i̶f̶e̶ farmer's wisdom

Marc Lou

90,016 views • 1 month ago

Twitter, let's talk?
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Twitter, let's talk?

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952,039 views • 1 year ago

I flew to San Francisco and ended up doing all of this: 🏎️ (self) driving a Cybertruck 💳 attending Stripe sessions 🍻 drinking non alcoholic beer with JR Farr 💰 making 100 no-VC founders do 20 squats 🤖 making my SaaS DataFast AI agent first 👴🏻 meeting our indie hacking father Courtland Allen 🤝 meeting my favorite indie hackers jack friks ILIAS ISM Dominik Sobe ツ Marc Köhlbrugge Minh-Phuc Tran kyzo Yasser John O'Nolan and more 🔼 meeting the G Guillermo Rauch CEO of V 🇰🇷 heading to Korea
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I flew to San Francisco and ended up doing all of this: 🏎️ (self) driving a Cybertruck 💳 attending Stripe sessions 🍻 drinking non alcoholic beer with JR Farr 💰 making 100 no-VC founders do 20 squats 🤖 making my SaaS DataFast AI agent first 👴🏻 meeting our indie hacking father Courtland Allen 🤝 meeting my favorite indie hackers jack friks ILIAS ISM Dominik Sobe ツ Marc Köhlbrugge Minh-Phuc Tran kyzo Yasser John O'Nolan and more 🔼 meeting the G Guillermo Rauch CEO of V 🇰🇷 heading to Korea

Marc Lou

102,944 views • 2 months ago

2 new options on ⚖️ VC or Bootstrapped 🤝 Team size Please fill in this data so we can finally prove we're 90% more profitable than VC startups 😁
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2 new options on ⚖️ VC or Bootstrapped 🤝 Team size Please fill in this data so we can finally prove we're 90% more profitable than VC startups 😁

Marc Lou

50,144 views • 1 month ago

I want more startups to get acquired, so I built this. 🤝 TrustMRR Affiliate Program 🤝 1. Refer a buyer 2. TrustMRR handles the rest 3. Get paid when the startup gets acquired TrustMRR takes 3% on deals. We split 50/50. No cap. A $100k acquisition = $1,500 payout.
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I want more startups to get acquired, so I built this. 🤝 TrustMRR Affiliate Program 🤝 1. Refer a buyer 2. TrustMRR handles the rest 3. Get paid when the startup gets acquired TrustMRR takes 3% on deals. We split 50/50. No cap. A $100k acquisition = $1,500 payout.

Marc Lou

120,949 views • 3 months ago

Done ✅ - 📈 TrustMRR startups now have an embeddable revenue chart - 🖼️ Your founder page shows a new revenue chart with all your startups' revenue combined
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Done ✅ - 📈 TrustMRR startups now have an embeddable revenue chart - 🖼️ Your founder page shows a new revenue chart with all your startups' revenue combined

Marc Lou

41,134 views • 1 month ago

I spent 9 months working on this... Introducing — Build your SaaS in 14 days 🧑‍💻 ✅ Learn to code from 0 ✅ Even if you're a complete beginner ✅ Everything to create an online business It's 50% off for Black Friday — 48 hours left. Enjoy!
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I spent 9 months working on this... Introducing — Build your SaaS in 14 days 🧑‍💻 ✅ Learn to code from 0 ✅ Even if you're a complete beginner ✅ Everything to create an online business It's 50% off for Black Friday — 48 hours left. Enjoy!

Marc Lou

461,194 views • 1 year ago

I've created a monster... My web analytics now scans 𝕏 for mentions of my startup. Whenever someone tweets a keyword I track, like “DataFast”, the post appears directly on top of my traffic and revenue charts. Boring analytics are dead 💀 (this tweet will literally show up on top of my own revenue chart)
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I've created a monster... My web analytics now scans 𝕏 for mentions of my startup. Whenever someone tweets a keyword I track, like “DataFast”, the post appears directly on top of my traffic and revenue charts. Boring analytics are dead 💀 (this tweet will literally show up on top of my own revenue chart)

Marc Lou

248,857 views • 11 months ago

Our kids will wonder why so few people were making money online. It’s time to lock TF in.
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Our kids will wonder why so few people were making money online. It’s time to lock TF in.

Marc Lou

99,533 views • 4 months ago