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My NextJS boilerplate made $200K in revenue in 4 months
Hey HN,
I'm a self-taught mediocre dev without a job.
I love building apps and launched 17 products in the last 2 years ( all of them: https://www.marclou.com/ )
I realized I was doing the same thing over and over: set up DNS records, listen to Stripe webhooks, design pricing section... So I built ShipFast ( https://shipfa.st/ ) for 3 reasons:
1. Save time and focus on what matters: building a business
2. Avoid headaches like emails ending in spam or waiting 3 days for Google to approve
3. Get profitable fast
When I launched 4.5 months ago, I told my wife "we're lucky if we make $100"
Fast forward to today, the boilerplate has made $220K in revenue (~$200K in profits) and helped 1,500 devs launch their startups.
I created a community on Discord and there are new products launched daily and makers earning their first $1 online, which makes me happy.
Revenue isn't slowing down ($1.9K today, $2.2K yesterday). That's the first time in my life having enough money without having to think about paying the bills.
I have no clue what's next. Just thought it would be nice to share here on HN where my journey started (in Show HN: to be precise)
— Marc
- cranberryturkey 3y agothis is fucking brilliant!
- cranberryturkey 3y agoI just signed up for your affiliate program and am going to make us some money hopefully. You beat me to it, I have been wanting to do something like this for about 8 years now.
- marclou 3y agoAffiliates are getting great results, good luck!
- cranberryturkey 3y agohow long is the affiliate cookie good for? i referred about 300+ people so far.
- marclou 3y ago[dead]
- swah 3y agoBut you're famous! How much your fame and good looks helped with that?
- marclou 3y agoHard to quantify. But clearly a lot, that's for sure. I played with ads (cold audience) and it worked well too (~$15K rev for $5K spent) so the Twitter audience isn't 100%
- jasontlouro 3y agoWhat type of ads? Twitter or elsewhere? Google?
- meiraleal 3y agoAnd he is also smart! I bet he wouldn't be able to achieve it without those qualities! /s
- big_paps 3y agoNice. Congrats !
- thenaturalist 3y agoIn a goldrush, sell shovels. Congrats to your success man!
- binsquare 3y agoCongrats! that's incredible man
- max_ 3y agoCongratulations!
- oumua_don17 3y agoYou actually exemplify - `To see a miracle, be the Miracle`!!! Congrats!!!
- giantg2 3y agoFuck me. Congrats
- operatingthetan 3y ago>Customers do NOT buy code. >Customers buy a life transformation. Selling react like this to hapless people is gross. This is 100% a grift.
- anaforcenit5 3y agohow come?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- orliesaurus 3y agoWell done Marc! You're an inspiration because your story is just been awesome to watch on twitter!
- marclou 3y ago[dead]
- geniium 3y agoWouhou congrats Marc
- freshyjmp 3y agobased based based based based