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Krzysztof just shared his startup story in my newsletter. He hacked his most recent project - Launch Directories - in just one night. www.fakemayo.com/p/krzysztofs...

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From the archives ... Katt, co-founder of Build The Keyword, built the first version of the tool in just two weeks using no-code and launched it on Product Hunt. She also experimented with tweets, IndieHackers, Reddit, Hacker News, Quora, and directories to grow awareness. @kattrisen.bsky.social

Pierson build an app that turns newsletter subscriptions into a personalized daily podcast. He drove growth through blog posts - one became the top-upvoted post in r/SaaS, bringing ~1,500 visits and a 3% conversion to users - and an AI YouTuber’s feature added ~200 users.

The 25 most influential creators of 2025 according to Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Instead of trying to be a genius and do something new to grow your company, first ask “what are we doing that’s stupid as hell, that we should just stop doing?” - Shaan Puri

From the archives ... Stas Kulesh is the co-founder of Karma Bot. It took a year to land the first 100 customers, and growth was slow - with just ~$200/month for two years. After joining YC School, he ramped up to ~$2k/month within months.

I still aim for 5000 subscribers to my newsletter (link in profile) in 2025. I grew by about 100 in August. Not enough. But not giving up!

Lucas built Roast My Photo and launched version 1.0 within a week. The tool let users upload a photo and receive an AI "roast" video. After sharing it in Dutch AI Telegram groups and a glowing post from a tech influencer on X, his site went viral. In its first month, over 10k videos were created.

From the archives ... Sarwech built Birdbanner, a tool for creating banners for X. He promoted it via authentic, build-in-public tweets: a teaser post went viral with ~300 followers. That traction led to 3,000 site visitors, 12 early customers from a $1 intro offer, and a Product Hunt debut.

From the archives Evhen created the AI apps directory 100apps To gain early momentum, he invited app owners to join for free and promoted each via posts on X. He also bought about 50 apps (for ~$50) and shared his reviews on X. This engagement persuaded some owners to pay for directory listings,

Painting some wooden posts for a new fence + promoting my newsletter (link in profile). Nice and diverse Sunday 🙂 How about you?

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If you do not subscribe to my newsletter (link in profile), I will look for you, I will find you and I will tickle you.

From the archives Danial, an entrepreneur from Stockholm, created Sleepsaga, an AI bedtime-story generator, to solve the challenge of inventing new stories for his son. He built and launched the app in two nights. Through storytelling in AI Facebook groups, he gained 500 users in two weeks.

From the archives Cameron Scully founded The Growth Archive, a B2B marketing newsletter. He gained his first 100 subscribers using shareable founder-involved content, high-value Reddit posts, strategic comments on trending threads, Facebook group teasers, $100 in Refind ads, and direct DMs on X.

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Off topic - and away from the PC. Spending the day kart training with my son. Maybe the last summer day here in Denmark. Enjoy your Saturday 👌

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"If you’ve built a little internet business, if you own a domain and it’s live, if it’s making any money, even $100/month, you’re already in the top 0.1%." - Marc Lou

Big milestone reached for my newsletter. It’s been a wild number of hours to get here, but honestly, I couldn’t be prouder.

What are you working on? Yes - it’s time to promote your product.

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Just found this interesting thing onemillionscreenshots.com Is your website among the top 1 million? Mine is not 😢

Out touching grass today - or actually asphalt. With my son karting. Nice break away from the PC.

AI is getting out of hand. This is not even my real body.

My newsletter performance in July. Check it out at fakemayo (dot) com.

"The common thing I have heard in the indie hackers community is that people who quit their well-paying jobs to work on their indie products, end up making way less than their salary, but they are much more happier with their freedom." - Tony Dinh

Still not quitting my day job. But still … thanks Beehiiv

Just bought this book by Tony Dinh. Looking forward to reading it. Don't know much about Tony but expect a lot of hands on learnings from it.

Even though it's Sunday, I have an appointment at an auto repair shop. They claim they can fix this nasty scratch on my car door in just two hours. That's why I brought my laptop to work on the next newsletter issue for fakemayo.com while I wait

Many inspiring entrepreneurs have shared their starter stories in my newsletter this year. A huge thank you to all you good looking people for contributing. Subscribe to my newsletter at fakemayo.com to dive into these stories and more.

The harder you work, the luckier you get

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My monthly newsletter goal update. Still only growing by 100 subs per month. Not enough to reach my 2025 goal. Subscribe to help me out 🙂 fakemayo (dot) com

Skylar Gregory just shared his starter story in my newsletter. Check it out on fakemayo (dot) com

For anyone interested - my newsletter growth the last 4 weeks.

Alexander Le just shared his starter story in my newsletter. Check it out at fakemayo (dot) com

Just reached a nice milestone for my newsletter. 1,700 subscribers. Yeah!! Wanna check it out? Go to fakemayo (dot) com

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The power of high agency Just read this inspiring 30-min article on spotting and cultivating high-agency individuals who take charge and make things happen. A must-read for anyone looking to level up. www.highagency.com