SaaS
I passed $10M/y in revenue and investment gains with a 94.5% profit margin 𝕏
I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded services, so about $25,000/mo savings 𝕏
I vibe coded my own Scrapingbee alternative and replaced my $249/mo plan with a $1/mo scraper 𝕏
I've tried for weeks to build my own ScrapingBee but I'll keep paying $99/mo 𝕏
There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever 𝕏
Never stop talking about hotelist.com until everyone finds out 𝕏
Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct as AI lowers the cost of execution 𝕏
BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps for indiehackers 𝕏
I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myself 𝕏
AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying 𝕏
All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3 𝕏
2 hours after a German signs up to your site 𝕏
Indie hackers build fancy AI factories but have no money or traffic 𝕏
Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challenge 𝕏
My daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code 𝕏
Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo 𝕏
Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
Made an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be 𝕏
Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit 𝕏
How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏
Moved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI 𝕏
Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins 𝕏
The difference between free users and paying users is about 1,000x from my experience 𝕏
I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the Lex Fridman podcast 𝕏
The web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe 𝕏
Guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire 𝕏
If you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for Switzerland UAE US and Singapore 𝕏
Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏
How I'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with TikTok and Stripe preorders 𝕏
Actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300 𝕏
Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing 𝕏
Photo AI is almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP making $61,808 per month 𝕏
Photo AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models 𝕏
Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company 𝕏
If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏
My new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio 𝕏
Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏
How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days 𝕏
Don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead 𝕏
My First Million Podcast: Sam Parr + Shaan Puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation
Pov building an immigration-as-a-service startup 𝕏
You only need 26 customers paying you $99/mo to make an average U.S. income 𝕏
Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS 𝕏
Remote OK is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month 𝕏
This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online 𝕏
Normalization of non-deviance
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month 𝕏
In the future writing code will be like using a pro dslr and no code like a smartphone camera 𝕏
The only real validation is people paying for your product
It took 4 years to reach $1m annual revenue with Nomad List and Remote OK 𝕏
Overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo 𝕏
Odds of launching something successfully 𝕏
Launched no more Google on product hunt 𝕏
Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low 𝕏
Don't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months 𝕏
I just passed $52,843 in monthly revenue 𝕏
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day 𝕏
Nomad List, Remote OK and MAKE generated $34,733 in revenue last month with $3,950 in expenses 𝕏
VC startups vs bootstrapped startups 𝕏
A new trend of fast food type web apps that are tiny single feature tools with no sign up and quick charging 𝕏
I battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years 𝕏
Make your own Olark feedback form without Olark
Bootstrapping side projects into profitable startups
How to add shareable pictures to your website with some PhantomJS magic
My 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding 𝕏
Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app
WordPress's success shows it doesn't matter how great the code is, it's about the user experience first and foremost 𝕏
How I built Remote | OK and launched it to #1 on Product Hunt
How I hacked Slack into a community platform with Typeform
How to successfully build a community around your startup
How I built Nomad Jobs, a remote job board for 100% distributed startups
My 3rd startup: Tubelytics, the real-time dashboard for YouTube publishers
On self-funding startups
I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months
