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The spread between how one-person dev teams are building software is fascinating: 1. Multiple agents, shipping at inference speed, not reading the code (but very involved designing it) - some 2. Heavy use of AI IDEs and a single AI agent - many 3. Mostly in the IDE - fewer
you're NGMI if you don't post on these subreddits to get your first users: r/InternetIsBeautiful (17M) r/Entrepreneur (4.8M) r/productivity (4M) r/business (2.5M) r/smallbusiness (2.2M) r/startups (1.8M) r/EntrepreneurRideAlong (593K) r/SideProject (430K) r/Business_Ideas (359K) r/SaaS (341K) r/thesidehustle (184K) r/ycombinator (132K) r/indiehackers (91K) r/MicroSaas (80K) r/GrowthHacking (77K) r/growmybusiness (63K) r/vibecoding (35K) r/AlphaandBetaUsers (21K)
If you build it, don’t forget to publish it
Publishing your work increases your luck
TrustMRR now earns more revenue than my 3 main startups. - DataFast was built in 14 months - CodeFast was built in 9 months - ShipFast was built in 7 days - TrustMRR was built in 1 day Entrepreneurship ≠ linear
In ~5 years the Tailwind creators made millions of dollars for themselves and enough money to never need to work again by monetizing a beloved open source library, something that almost no one manages to do. Where’s the failure in that? I would be very proud of that story.
Harvard university has an underrated lecture on building a product that can scale. every indie maker can learn from this! adding my notes below for your help:
Stop overthinking. Build something. A site. An API. A messy MVP. A Chrome extension. An AI agent. A tiny automation. Momentum changes everything.
Most highly competent people could replace their salary by talking about one thing they do exceptionally well on the internet every day for 18-24 months.
we'll see more people selling .md files than courses soon mark my words
The great surprise of the technical and financial requirements being removed from coding and video creation is that all the same people are doing it—and that there hasn’t been an explosion of new software builders and filmmakers. After a decade of the media telling us that the most glamorous life is entrepreneur, filmmaker, or short-form video influencer: no one new jumps at the opportunity when the primary obstacles are removed.
This is my failed project. I spent $8,400+ on this website. And wasted over 300+ hours of time. Remember, Failure is also a part of success...
I keep thinking of this term in my head because it's so good "Shotgun to Sniper Strategy" @marclou coined it You want to start with a shotgun strategy where you try lots of ideas, launch lots of projects, MVPs etc. add a Stripe buy button to everything Then see what really gets traction, goes viral, makes money (!) and then what keeps making money over time (like months) Then you wanna sniper and focus on that project to make it big
If you have multiple interests, don't let anyone convince you that you should narrow your focus. You may be confused for a while, but if you stick it out, you will blow past everyone else.
If you have applied @ycombinator you should also consider these equity-free grants too 1. @GoogleStartups : $100k in credits 2. @vercel : $3,600 in credits 3. @aforevc Grants $1,000 4. @joinedgecity grants : $5k-40K 5. @emergent_vc : upto 100k 6. @thielfellowship : upto 200K
2025 as an entrepreneur: Earned $885K with my startups Launched 3 new startups Built a $780K SaaS Made $147K in the stock market Got 107K followers on 𝕏 Read 10 books Traveled to 9 countries Exercised for 340+ days Gained 4kg of muscles Walked 4.2M steps Top 1% sleep score on WHOOP Reached 57.4 mg/kg/min VO₂ max Reached <18 yo biological age Drank 0L of alcohol Spent 365 days with my wife I hope 2026 unfolds like 2025: peace of mind, discipline, more startups. Happy New Year
2025 as a solopreneur: - $2.834M+ in revenue - Operated at ~91% margins - Sunset my 2 top products - 134K new followers on LinkedIn - 45K new followers on 𝕏 - Traveled domestically 12x - Traveled internationally 8x - Threw 7 small masterminds - Exercised 348 days - Walked 2,460 miles & 6.15M steps - Lost 8 pounds - Took my wife to lunch 60x - Visited 10+ breweries - Lived abroad for 60 days - Flew our parents on vacation first class Life came first, business supported it.
claude code will probably make 50,000 people millionaires if not more