I made a tier list of all growth channels that I used to go to $16k MRR. If I were starting today, I’d focus on 3 things: • making top product - so people love and share it genuinely (70%). • side projects factory (20%). • writing good stories - 𝕏, Reddit etc (10%).

listed my best projects for sale: isora.me/i-quit/ only sites with traction 🫡 .. . .. want to enter the game of indie making? don't start from nothing -> buy my thing(-s). the prices are ridiculous (starts from $500). got both SaaS and no-code sites.

I've figured out why I'm often scared to launch!! 🤩 Not launching is comfortable. I live in a future world where my product succeeds, users love it, $$$ flows. It's perfect because it's not real. I like being there.

I don't understand what is the point of consulting calls 🤷 - Most playbooks are public and cheaper. - Buying certainty is fooling oneself. - Renting brain is an illusion: no skin in the game - no care. - You buy opinions, not evidence. - Calls create a false sense of progress.

Made my first domain sale! 🤩 Unlike a SaaS, this project started with a negative balance. I only invested by bidding on auctions for months. It was mentally hard to feed it and not seeing even a $1 in profits. saas.page is still net-negative. But validated.

AI will replace me in 5 years. And you too. I have 2 serious questions: 1. Why do everybody pretend everything is fine? 😅 2. What is your plan for the post-AI era? Here is my plan as a maker:

AI will replace me in 5 years. And you too. I have 2 serious questions: 1. Why do everybody pretend everything is fine? 😅 2. What is your plan for the post-AI era? Here is my plan as a maker:

Indie makers' checklist (tick all to win the game 😁): [ ] lighthouse score: 100 [ ] launched on Product Hunt, got 12 upvotes [ ] reposted by levels [ ] ruined dopamine system [ ] caffeine addiction [ ] got blocked by garry tan [ ] 10+ hours wasted on setting up auth

Building a b2c product is the worst decision a founder can make 🫠🔫 Why b2c sucks: 1. Individuals pay little money (most paid iOS apps cost <$2). 2. There are tons of competitors. AI makes it even worse.

1 year ago I created a subr𝔢ddit for SaaS founders. My goal was to provide makers with stressless access to R𝔢ddit. So far: 1) Got 2.8k members (+10/day). 2) Average post gets 700 views and 3 comments. 3) 2.5 posts/day are published.

If I were selling my guide in 🇪🇺, my offer would be illegal 😁 Possible fines I could get if I lived in: Germany: up to €50k France: up to €300k Netherlands: up to €900k But I'm not in the EU. So I can do crazy things 😎

I realized I'm a quick dopamine junkie 😥🫤😖 I thought I'm cool and smart. But I'm not. I work 3-5 hours per day. Gym 2 hours per day. Sleep 8 hours per day. The rest 10 hours are procrastinated via watching youtube/netflix, eating food, scrolling news. 10 damn hours. ...

Just released this great update. Music makes a video much better 😎

I hate to say that, but UI/UX are to become a history within 10 years. AI chat is the new user interface. Everything a good UI can do, AI chat can do better and faster. Chat is the most natural interface. Gen Z use chats all their life. If your app does not have a chatbox, you'll be outcompeted.

- Sugar made people sluggish - Tiktok made people easily distracted - Video games made people addicted to fake progress - Influencers made people watchers, not doers - AI makes people lazy Simply avoiding these obvious traps automatically puts you in the top 1% of makers 🤷

My message to all first time makers: 🙅‍♂️ AVOID VC 🙅‍♂️ What is NOT the goal of a VC: 1. make you rich 2. pay your bills 3. keep you away from burning out 4. give you good compensation 5. make a great product 6. make users happy 7. “change the world” The goals of a VC:

2 proven methods to find ideas for a directory website. Explained step by step. 1 min each: [tap to see 👇]

Serious question to all who wants fast growth: WHY DON'T YOU JUST BUILD A GREAT PRODUCT? A great product promotes itself. Take a look at Screen Studio, Typefully, Scraping Bee. They are spreading like a virus.

Anyone else here having problems with combining coding+marketing? if I code, i turn into a soulless machine with ▭.▭-shaped eyes. I can't pull out a single tweet from my organized brain. i become grumpy and irritated when someone disturbs me from the creation process.

I sold my SaaS for $800k. Here are the shiny things I bought after I became rich 💍🏎️ 🛍️ :

Made a graph of all my projects & growth strategies. Takeaways: 1) I'm terrified how huge it is. Must. Stop. Making. New. Projects. 2) I'll regret not starting the SEO/pSEO game for @paracast.io earlier, but I'm too busy with the product rn. 3) Seeing a big picture helps 👍

prepping a great update for @paracast.io basically, i'm turning it into a motion design tool. Unicorn Platform fixed Webflow. Paracast will fix Adobe After Effects.

2018: The SaaS is the foundation. Marketing supported it. 2025: Marketing channels are the foundation. The product is a monetization tool. Sounds novel? Well, sorry, but it's as old as the hills! 👇😄

working on my sponsor video and @paracast.io makes it so easy. got this done in 3 minutes flat. thanks for building it @isora.me <3 1/2

Announcing my new (most controversial 🫣) project: saas.page It is a store of premium domain names for SaaS. I mentioned that I've started investing in domains 9 months ago. And almost got cancelled for that! (Thread...)

8 free magic features Cloudflare that you have been missing: Tap to see real use examples 👇👇👇 (saves me $200/m)

I created 14 directories in the past year. Let me show you all of them. And the result I achieved in 6 months (profit $$, traffic, content) ⤵

Logbeat demonstrates a perfect example of the post-AI era UX 🙂 The past: you had to set up hundreds of analytics events manually. The future: 🤖 does it for you: AI automatically scans the app and finds events worth tracking. No need to code. Just hit `npm i logbeat` once.

I'm a courseboi now, and I'm proud of it! 😎 My SaaS growth guide is the easiest project I have ever started. But, perhaps the most important in my career ☝️ People really need it — I'm the one who can satisfy the demand.

Announcement! 😎📢 I've started working on a SaaS growth guide. It will be a set of ~350 $0 actionable steps. If you do them all, you will get the first hundred paid clients for your SaaS 💯% (but ONLY if your product is good. Reply it below to be rated).

i sold a directory for $10k 😎 here is the story of making, growing and selling it: [ tap to read ⤵ ]

this is what a true vibe coding is: - grab a cup of coffee ☕️ - free up at least 6 hours for work - queue up a playlist - open docs - open your favorite IDE (there was more than 1 IDE! 😮) - set a clear goal for today - immerse deeply into the code, forgetting about the outer world

Have these 15 SaaS growth ideas that NEVER worked for me. Open the thread 🧵👇

I gathered 54 growth ideas of how to find the first 100 paid clients for your startup. These are from my indie maker career: 7 years of actually making a SaaS from $0 to $16,000 MMR and observing others. MEGA JUMBO THREAD! LFG! 🧵🧵🐘🐘 [ bookmark it ]

I gathered 54 growth ideas of how to find the first 100 paid clients for your startup. These are from my indie maker career: 7 years of actually making a SaaS from $0 to $16,000 MMR and observing others. MEGA JUMBO THREAD! LFG! 🧵🧵🐘🐘 [ bookmark it ]

am i the only one who constantly fails to keep the desk organized and clean? share your workspace, but ONLY if it looks life dumpster!

The future is owned by ADHD people! 🫨 We often switch, so we always learn new. Soon, we all turn into generalists. 1/5

Why having kids if you can just see your SaaS growing 😊

AI agents are impossible AI agents are expensive AI agents are stupid AI agents are not smarter than me = = = you are here = = = AI agents are smarter than me AI agents took my job

Gonna run an LTD campaign for @paracast.io and earn $56k soon. The primary goal of this campaign is not to earn cash, but to build a community.

Called my mom for the first time since 2023. It wasn't that bad. Maybe you should too?

I just had the best Xmas holiday in my life.

Todo lists kill my productivity!! 😡 Every time I open my tasks board I'm like "meh, not in the mood doing that." But I can't just ignore the damn list. It has the most important tasks. I must do them in the first place if I want to progress fast. So my brain turns into a brick. And I do NOTHING 😭

I'm followed by 2,612 blueskyers. Those are mostly new people to me, so let me quickly introduce myself and tell you how I can be helpful ⤵

this is how i regularly felt (before i switched to Cursor)

building backlinks is a new trendy way of procrastination. what is the point of doing SEO before getting product-market-fit? SEO is a scaling mechanism. it is not needed at the 0 to 1 stage.

dear Internet, i must confess 😶‍🌫️ i'm a bad programmer: - i commit directly to main branch - i don't use vscode shortcuts - i think `git rebase` is a gym exercise - i always use `let` - my idea of server optimization is "just add more RAM/CPU" - i know only one algorithm (bubble sorting)

i’m building a new “Unicorn Platform” 😁 when i sold Unicorn Platform to John Rush we had no formal agreement. so in theory i could take the cash, say “goodbye” and create a better landing page builder. a much better one. that’d be unethical and boring, so I did not. 🧵⤵

investing in info security is the biggest mistake an indie maker can make 😸

Let's make Bluesky a better place for indie founders. It's a fair criticism that Starter Packs were a great marketing strategy. That once the novelty wears off, Bluesky might go downhill just like Threads. And to prevent that, we need to put effort to nurture the community ↓