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Carving out a $6.3k MRR niche in a saturated market

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Crossing $25k MRR on a newsletter that he launched 72 hours after getting laid off

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IndieJames

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From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services company

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Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its toll

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Hitting $1M ARR in two years and working four hours per day

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The Build Board 🪧

A daily leaderboard of build-in-public posts.

Launch Nest LN Free Product Launch Platform for SaaS, AI & Indie Products 1

Launch Your Product Free & Get Discovered by Real Users

LaunchOn.it Pay-to-Rank Leaderboard for Startups 2

What happens to a pay to rank board once the day one excitement settles

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I think I fell in love with my own copy. Please tear this landing page apart.

Writizzy celebrates its 900+ users

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I built an AI fitness app solo, got banned from Reddit, flopped on Product Hunt, and found traction on Q&A sites. Here's what worked.

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We got our Shopify app approved in 72 days. Now we're stuck at distribution and people keep offering us paid reviews.

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Going all-in and hitting $30M ARR in three years

Vitalii Dodonov quit his job and teamed up with with another founder to build Stanley. Here's how they hit $30M ARR in three years.

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Crossing $25k MRR on a newsletter that he launched 72 hours after getting laid off

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From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services company

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Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its toll

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IndieJames

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Hitting $1M ARR in two years and working four hours per day

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IndieJames

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80+ people used a feature I never announced. Here's what I learned.

Writizzy celebrates its 900+ users

I built an AI fitness app solo, got banned from Reddit, flopped on Product Hunt, and found traction on Q&A sites. Here's what worked.

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Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its tollIH+ Subscribers Only

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Launch Your Product Free & Get Discovered by Real Users

What happens to a pay to rank board once the day one excitement settles

I think I fell in love with my own copy. Please tear this landing page apart.

Built an AI cofounder that remembers my startup's context between sessions

A free toolbox for the everyday chaos of running a family

I built a tool that finds where your first customers are asking. 48 signups, 0 paying. Here is what happened when I pointed it at myself.

I launched a public pay-to-rank board. The first claim is still open and I'm not sure if that's a feature.

Why PP15 ONE Deleted 5.5 Million Credits Overnight

The AI assistants are already inside. Your post isn't. I built OrionReel to fix that.

Quitting his job to grow his 5-figure MRR portfolio

Five rounds of adversarial review on a payment path, and every bug lived in the previous fix

🚀 DiscountHub is officially participating in the WebMCP Challenge — and we finally finished the demo video!

PROBAN: I build tools for competitive teams, and drafting was always the messy part.

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80+ people used a feature I never announced. Here's what I learned.

Launch Your Product Free & Get Discovered by Real Users

What happens to a pay to rank board once the day one excitement settles

I think I fell in love with my own copy. Please tear this landing page apart.

Writizzy celebrates its 900+ users

I built an AI fitness app solo, got banned from Reddit, flopped on Product Hunt, and found traction on Q&A sites. Here's what worked.

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Launch Nest LN: Launch Your Product Free. Discover the Best New Tools Free.

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Same idea, 14K views on Reddit and <15 impressions on X

Flouie: I’m building something people might love but never use.

We got our Shopify app approved in 72 days. Now we're stuck at distribution and people keep offering us paid reviews.

Going all-in and hitting $30M ARR in three years

Carving out a $6.3k MRR niche in a saturated marketIH+ Subscribers Only

Crossing $25k MRR on a newsletter that he launched 72 hours after getting laid offIH+ Subscribers Only

From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services companyIH+ Subscribers Only

Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its tollIH+ Subscribers Only

Hitting $1M ARR in two years and working four hours per dayIH+ Subscribers Only

Carving out a $6.3k MRR niche in a saturated market

Crossing $25k MRR on a newsletter that he launched 72 hours after getting laid off

From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services company

Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its toll

Hitting $1M ARR in two years and working four hours per day

From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services company

Pivoting an internal tool into a 7-figure business

Carving out a $6.3k MRR niche in a saturated market

Crossing $25k MRR on a newsletter that he launched 72 hours after getting laid off

From broke and idealess to building a $100k/mo AI services company

Making $9k/mo with a mobile app until platform risk took its toll

Hitting $1M ARR in two years and working four hours per day