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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- I was fired from my software engineer job in November 2021.
So I decided to pursue my dream of starting my own business (SaaS, AI tool, habit tracker). No boss, no meetings, no deadlines.
I've been coding daily for 900 days. Here are the 23 websites I made and how much revenue it generated.
🔗 All my startups - www.marclou.com
⚡️ Ship your startup in days, not weeks - shipfa.st/
💡 Newsletter for solopreneurs (14K readers) - marclou.beehiiv.com/
📸 Instagram - / marclouvion
💼 LinkedIn - / marclouvion
🐦 Twitter - / marc_louvion
00:00 - Intro
00:24 - 1. Mood2Movie
01:19 - 2. Habits Garden
04:15 - 3. BooksCalculator
05:45 - 4. 50 Hacks
07:29 - 5. BuddyCrush
08:34 - 6. Decision Game
09:14 - 7. Gamify List
10:37 - 8. Visualize Habit
12:22 - 9. HeroFit
13:53 - 10. NavalAI
14:50 - 11. Naval 25
15:15 - 12. Fake It Till You Make It
15:52 - 13. IndiePage
18:08 - 14. MakeLanding
20:55 - 15. WorkbookPDF
22:21 - 16. ShipFast
24:10 - 17. ByeDispute
26:01 - 18. LaunchViral
27:34 - 19. LogoFast
29:22 - 20. ZenVoice
30:33 - 21. PoopUp
31:40 - 22. VirallyBot
33:49 - 23. GameWidget
35:22 - Outro - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
I read your comments about marketing, I'll make videos about it ASAP.
Until then, this is how I get my 1st customers: marclou.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-get-your-1st-customer-for-a-micro-saas
Appreciate all the support btw ❤
That's great to hear! I'll definitely check out your videos when they're ready. Thanks for sharing the link on how to get your first customers for a micro SaaS. I appreciate your support as well! Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.
This guy builds a product, then builds another product to market the first product, then builds another product to market the marketing product 🤯This is some next level dedication and discipline. I think AI will be scared of him. 😹 Truly inspiring journey sir!🙌
yeah, he is truly inspiring
*Then he makes a video to market the product that markets the product - Love this inception style of marketing.
On the surface this sounds unquestionably smart. In detail though, this is a silo model. If one domino falls then the whole system fails. This doesn't indicate that a silo model is inferior. It simply means that there are more points of possible failure. I advise to not replicate this model without considering your risk tolerance and ability to recover should one part fail.
it’s not the end my man ;) he also creates TH-cam video to drive even more clients to all of the products. Ultimate checkmate!
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! I'm glad you found the link on getting your first customers for a micro SaaS helpful. I'll be sure to keep you updated on my progress with my videos. Let me know if there's anything else I can assist you with.
Marc conquered Product Hunt last year and this year wants to conquer TH-cam! The goat! 🔥
I learned coding with your videos - the circle is completed
@@marc-louvraiment,felicitation Marc. Je prend des ciurs actuellement pour devenir Engineur Logiciel. J'apprend Python pour le moment..
Absolutely, it is amazing to see such dedication and discipline in constantly improving and marketing products. It really shows the hard work and determination required. The advancement of AI will have to rise to the challenge to keep pace with individuals like this.
Yes, this level of dedication and discipline is truly inspiring. It takes a lot of hard work and determination to continually improve and market products. AI will definitely have to step up its game to keep up with this guy!
That's amazing! Marc is truly unstoppable and I have no doubt that he will conquer TH-cam just as he did with Product Hunt. He's a true inspiration and a goat in his own right!
A golden nugget for me is how the apps are loosely related to each other, so he uses some of them to drive traffic to the other ones
Absolutely, it is amazing to see such dedication and discipline in constantly improving and marketing products. It really shows the hard work and determination required. The advancement of AI will have to rise to the challenge to keep pace with individuals like this.
3. Books Calculator
You can actually monetise it. The books recommendation given by website below calculator can be replaced with affiliate links to buy those books .
Gr8 work btw
Same goes for the mood-movie page
Yes, this level of dedication and discipline is truly inspiring. It takes a lot of hard work and determination to continually improve and market products. AI will definitely have to step up its game to keep up with this guy!
You're welcome! I'm always here to help with any questions or support you may need. Keep working hard and I'm sure your micro SaaS business will be a success. Don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything else. Good luck!
I can confidently say that you have a habit of making habit apps 🤣 Great stuff though Marc, love your videos.
These videos are the best! Best format!
shipfast is another great example of "don't sell gold in a gold rush, sell shovels". nice case study, Marc. well done! :)
TLDR: Most income is from tools that help make apps.
It is the old story of "During a gold rush, sell shovels"
Yep, this is what he is doing here.
can you explain ? how can you make money from tools that help make apps ?
Bravo, you pump out projects so fast, that have real quality. Look forward to seeing what you make next.
Excuse me, this response contains 103 characters. Would you like me to revise it within 100 characters?
This is what we need, real actionable project examples. No scam stuff.
Awesome Marc! Personally I would love to see some more technical stuff like for example: how to build those amazing js ui builders or logo builders with canvas etc..
Your story is really inspiring, but I missed showing how many followers you had on Twitter at the time of the project launch and what your costs were in creating each application and the "daily" costs you incur for maintaining your profitable projects, thank you for sharing
A friend of mine has just sent me this video. As a Software Engineer myself, I find your work really interesting and inspiring.
I have one very important, life-determining question for you: Who does (or how do you deal with) the UI/UX design for your apps? The attention to those little details in the design is just awesome. As someone who likes to work solo, that's the challenge I always face, and it often makes me dislike my apps later on.
I would love to know that too, that's same problem i have all the time, i've created some apps and when im too long designing i start lose some creativity or motivation, but if i start code before the design is done, most of the time my code can be bit more messy because im prototyping while coding. I would love to hear your thoughts
The same concern, he would have an ekip in the backend :))
I think you may hire some UX/UI designer from Fiver or Upwork to handle this area. They wont cost you much, and the results are great. You need to just focus on the Coding part.
He stated in the video that he designs it himself
I do everything myself, it's mostly constraints. Will write about it soon in my newsletter
Dude you're so inspirational. I love working on side projects but they never go anywhere, I hope I can one day figure out how to make stuff people would actually pay for :)
Wow, this is top top top!
I'm so glad to have found this video, can't wait to keep following you on this journey.
Keep posting this type of videos. It's your own unique niche in this space and it will get a lot of people out of the tutorial hell and into building actual real word projects.
That's why I personally subscribed.
PS: Big fan
Thanks Brayden. Been victim of tutorial hell and over-explainer teacher, this is coming straight from my heart :D
I'd love to see how you actually style your websites. All of your websites design look amazing.
He uses daisy ui with some custom themes
@@wilson_333 yes tailwindUI is a great option to but not free
- daisyUI as a component library
- Refactoring UI book to learn
- get inspired by top sites (i.e. Product Hunt)
- ship, ship, ship
I was looking for this exact comment. The UI couldn't be more clear and attractive
@@marc-lou What framework do you use? React or Angular or Vue?
Hello Marc, I've watched many of your videos and found them incredibly educational, especially on business-related topics. Like many of your viewers, I am considering moving to Bali. I think a great video idea would be to delve into the practicalities of relocating there, with a particular focus on health insurance, as well as the tax implications and cost of living. This information would be invaluable for potential expatriates.
This was such an enjoyable video to watch as a person who's barely starting their web development journey. Keep up the great work you are an inspiration to us all.
Wow, what an incredible journey you've been on! Your dedication to building and growing these products is truly inspiring. Keep up the amazing work!
Hi Marc, great video! I really like the one time pricing model that you have adopted. I would like to try the same pricing model in my projects. How would you handle potential litigation if/when in the future your one-time payment SaaS closes down?
Hey Marc, thank you for sharing! Are you getting some traffic also from desktops or is majority from mobile?
Hi marc, could you also talk about the legal side of the solo entrepreneurial journey? Have you had any troubles about this? And what do you do to avoid potential problems?
after watching this man's works, I'm really motivated .
Excellent work!!
Thank you for sharing this bro ❤
Damn bro just found your page , never subscribed so fast, thanks for the transparency! This is some valuable information right here.
Welcome!
Hey, good start! Just few questions, do you promote your website somehow on the begining? Did you buy clicks?
Hey Marc, great stuff. Can you make more end-to-end building startup videos? I am super excited and want to do something of my own
Do these live help?
www.youtube.com/@marc-lou/streams
@@marc-lou Absolutely, it shows the thinking process.
Quick question : when you sell your products on Acquired, do you always have a dedicated company setup, or do you « only » sell the website (domain, DB, stripe…)?
And do you always build with that in mind now? (Easy separation for easy resell)
Would be cool if you made a full tutorial on how you make your websites like what stack, what tools like database solutions do you use planetscale, and vercel? are you using react, or next for frontend work. I would really watch a full tutorial with how to monetize the website and more.
This is the EPITOMY of transparency :)
Next step, open source some of your very old SaaS apps? Just an idea :P
Please make a video on how you come up with design for your websites like they seem very cool and I wanna know how you do it or get them from
Great video, thank you for sharing it. The projects look professional and it is hard to believe that all of tham
have been made by a single developer.
That’s amazing! What tech stack did you use to build them? I was thinking about building web apps but somehow I was thinking no one would pay for it unless it was like a native app on their phone!
Great stuff! You are really motivating me to build something! I have to say though, I think a lot of your success come from how great your apps look, Fantastic graphics!!
You inspired me to go solo dev, thank you.
This is amazing, you’ve done what I’ve always wanted to do
Great video, thank you. I miss the (in video) captions though 😢
How much did it cost to maintain all these apps like server , database and all .and what stack do you use
nice video man, inspirational
A video about how you do you approach marketing would be great!
this is really inspiring. well done
Great video! Very inspirational! I was curious why in general for the smaller websites you dont use ads as a way to generate revenue? I know ads can be annoying but if it’s limited to a couple ad slots it’s not too annoying - curious your POV on this!
Question: for the iOS and Android apps for Habit Tracker, did you go native or did you do some cross-platform?
Genuine and transparent as always :)
Awesome content Marc! I have never developed mobile app before so im curious what tech stack do you use to develop mobile app? Any recommendations?
When the ecommerce for the merchandise? We need it!
Hey! love your video and you got me inspired to make my own website, Quick question: Where do you code your website? Like do you use a website to make your websites?
hi Marc thank you for very inspiring stories, my question is how to considering the tech stack for each of these website, what approach you take, do you keep simple so you can market it quickly or you considering performance over anything else
I'm jealous of your design sense. It's pretty good TBH
Ever heard about daisy-ui?
Watching this video from Africa,you are a real inspiration for me as a high school graduate starting out in programming
pretty slick design, loved the UX
You're a genius. Subscribed! Very inspiring.
Congrats for this fantastic achievement. My biggest question is , where do you get ideas for these products?
Thanks man for the inspiration.... I was lacking ideas:)
Great video and give me inspiration. I am concerned that what language you have used for building these website. It works smoothly and amazing animation!
Can you make a video about company llc stuff you need to have setup for both stripe and taxes. I think this could be really valuable.
Hi Marc, can you make a video on what steps you take to launch the app. So, let's say ou build it with react and node or whatever tech stack, but then what do you use for hosting the site? Thanks, this is really inspriing
I really need to know when you started programming to see if I still have a chance to achieve something in my life.
Incredible journey from job loss to entrepreneurial success! Your story highlights the resilience and creativity needed to turn setbacks into opportunities, showcasing that the right mindset can transform challenges into substantial achievements. 👏
You so smart dude, congrats ✨
Such a find! Inspired 🙌
What courses do you recommend for learning web development?
Marc, you inspired me to create my own app! Thank you for your inspiring videos! I also quit my 9 to 5 job and want to become a solo entrepreneur because it's what once inspired me to become a developer.
It inspires me a lot. It includes all the things needed to sell a product. Not only marketing, ideas, consistency, ui, ux, development. Absoultely amazing content. It had me thinking a lot. As a software developer, I'm not sure I can make only one sevice well showed in the video with a full responsibility. But it makes me wanna try this. I became a developer to make things I want but as working as one role, I've focused on small details, stacks, and stuff like that too much. I will try to build what I want. Thanks for the video. Awesome
What are the common parts of your tech stack across these websites? For example, are they all built with NextJS? Or node/express/vue? Are there particular UI libraries that you like to work with, or is a lot of it custom built?
Great job brother. Great apps and sites
Hey Marc, could you clarify your approach to managing trademarks and setting up businesses for your side projects? Do you have a single company that encompasses all the brands, or is there a different strategy you use?
1 company that owns every Stripe account
No trademark for now
Wow, I really admire your talent and dedication. I wish I knew how to program like you.
How do I get started with the tech field. Basically, im from a non IT background. Is there any specific road map you suggest?
Marc , I built a product and want to launch soon . But i don't have good idea about hosting . Could you please create one video about how you deploy them on production with domain name and database things to store payment details record.
Nice job! What is your tech stack for developing your apps?
you are crazy man! love it. how do you sell your businesses ?
This is so inspiring! :)
I'm wondering how much is your hosting charges every month to be able to host so many sites handling so many visitors? What are you using to host?
This text language text book thing is absolutely brilliant and I love it.
Appreciate that!
Thanks so insightful!
Please show us how do you design your websites and landing pages 🙏 It could be very useful for other indie hackers watching you here 👌
I'm quite impressed by your creativity and entrepreneurship! Hope the company which fired you deeply regret it 🙂
Inspiring! Could you share how your websites are being built?
Nice video. Most of the websites you've created received a large amount of traffic in the first month, which then decreased. Could you share how you promoted these websites initially?
Marc, I love your product. Only a question, why in books calculator you doesn't insert amazon affiliation for books?
Hug from Italy
can we create these kind of web apps on webflow and framer? or do I need to learn the coding part?
I'm more curious how much of this was made from scratch, what tools were used, what was built with pre-made assets and generative products, etc. I'm most interested in the processes. HOW everything was built and marketed.
very inspiring. could you please tell how much did it cost for getting a db, server, etc for any one of the website?
A GREAT EXAMPLE!!!
THANK YOU, MARC
I've seen you dsharing your stuff on Twitter and I have a question about the habit tracker.
You sold it but the website is still entirely with your branding and you even have an account.
Did the buyer just get interested in the apps?
1. How do you manage to create complex web apps like creating website builder using chat gpt?
2. And how much time did it took you?
3. And what's your process looks like for things that you dont know?
Actually I also want to build web-apps but get stuck on development part.
Cools apps Marc. Can I ask do you use any front end / component libraries to make the dev process faster? Like shadcn for example. Your apps look great!
daisyui.com/ all the time!
Hi, i have a doubt. Wont the pages that dont generate money anymore, still require an early pay for the domain amd the other tools that it uses. So like, shouldnt we close them because they dont make money now.
Most productive dude I've ever seen
Whice software use for record your screen Marc?
what framework did you use for the front end?
hi ! good video ! what is the name of the software you use to record your video ? thx !
Interesting, how do you generally find startup ideas?
Really inspiring! As a full stack dev, I also try to generate side income by creating saas websites. However, one blocker for me is the need to consistently market them. I suppose, in the end, it boils down to discipline. While I love seeing people use what I've created, I don't enjoy marketing as much as I enjoy building the product.
Additionally post more videos of you building real word products. Your processes and etc. It will help a lot of people globally
Talent and dedication 🚀
Marc, love you content. Curious about your journey - while you we're bootstrapping all of these from Bali we're you doing anything for side income? Or just living off savings? I'm thinking about moving to Bali to work on my side business and going all in and relying on savings until I can get profitable.
Living off savings from my SE job
Also, Bali was pretty cheap (back then ^^)
@@marc-lou good shit, man. Yeah, it's so much more expensive now. Keep grinding man - love watching your journey. Cheers.