marclou

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by marclou 2y ago
I hate marketing. But I need to grow my startups. So I built a Twitter bot that extracts some data from my SaaS and posts it on Twitter. 9 days after the launch, it has 707 followers and grew revenue by 56% Background: I built a link-in-bio
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Show HN: I made a bot and it grew my SaaS revenue by 56%(x.com)
3 points by marclou 2y ago|3 comments
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I made $1M as a solopreneur (what it means for us)(marclou.beehiiv.com)
4 points by marclou 2y ago|2 comments
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by marclou 2y ago
Hey HN, I use Canny to collect customer feedback and build the right features, but… 1. It’s way too complicated for a solo dev 2. $99/month… really? So I built a free alternative called Insighto: - Collect feedback from your customers
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Show HN: I made a free Canny alternative (customer feedback management tool)(insigh.to)
5 points by marclou 2y ago|2 comments
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I outsmart myself to be productive(marclou.beehiiv.com)
6 points by marclou 3y ago|4 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
I thought I found the perfect name but you proved me wrong ah!
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I built a SaaS in 31 hours(marclou.beehiiv.com)
4 points by marclou 3y ago|3 comments
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I made $250k selling JavaScript(marclou.beehiiv.com)
2 points by marclou 3y ago|1 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
Because 1 customer would have to generate 49,000 invoices before I start losing money. Too many businesses are greedy with subscriptions. I won't join the trend.
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Show HN: I made a tool to ditch the Stripe invoicing fee(zenvoice.io)
27 points by marclou 3y ago|9 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
Are you Pieter Levels from NomadList? :)
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The 24-Hour Startup(marclou.beehiiv.com)
2 points by marclou 3y ago|3 comments
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Marketing for Product-Obsessed Developers(marclou.beehiiv.com)
90 points by marclou 3y ago|21 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
Affiliates are getting great results, good luck!
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by marclou 3y ago
Hard 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%
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My NextJS boilerplate made $200K in revenue in 4 months
37 points by marclou 3y ago|19 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
Noted. Do you share your learnings/stories anywhere?
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by marclou 3y ago
Correct. Although my definition of success is: 1. no partner/employee — total freedom 2. building apps all day 3. that have a purpose/use case Somehow, I'm already there and have no intent to do much more
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by marclou 3y ago
Good point. Either I'll build an audience on YouTube And/Or I'll build new startups Also, my Twitter is really small so there's much more work to do there. Any thoughts? Note: I've been building an audience there fo
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by marclou 3y ago
100% with you. It's so hard to find real problems if you spend 90% of your time finding problems. Having a job is a great fix. Building side projects with no purpose works too. For instance, you can sell a boilerplate to make it faster
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by marclou 3y ago
OP here. I call my products startups because I need to believe each will make $ at some point, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to grind for 6 years. Some are actual startups with decent userbase and recurring revenue, and some are
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Lessons from building nine startups in 2023(marclou.beehiiv.com)
129 points by marclou 3y ago|58 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
This is exactly the summary of my last 6 years. So happy you could see through. Do you have any social? Would love to connect.
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by marclou 3y ago
I agree, but that would take much more than a 7-minute read. I wrote about everything I know about marketing in other posts in my newsletter. You'll see dozens of articles about writing good copy, launching on social media, growing an
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My solopreneur story: 0 to $65K/mo in 2 years(marclou.beehiiv.com)
11 points by marclou 3y ago|9 comments
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by marclou 3y ago
Weather is sh*t here but too but here are my 2 cents: I got depressed after trying go-big-or-go-home entrepreneurship for 4 years. In 2021, when I discovered cool kids like Pieter Levels building apps out of curiosity and making $ with them
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by marclou 3y ago
Yep I did and it worked well.. Which icon did you try? Might trying another one?
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by marclou 3y ago
I added a link to Lucide at the bottom right of the editor, did I miss something?
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by marclou 3y ago
What was your input? will check

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