How Marc makes $50k+ every month with multiple products

In today's edition:

💡 Case Study: How Marc makes $50k+ every month with multiple products

🍿 Video: Watch this software engineer building a startup in New York!

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👨‍💻 The founder:

I’m Marc Lou, founder of ShipFast.

I shipped 16 products in the last 2 years, from AI tools to SaaS. In 2021, I was depressed, living with my parents and 0 income.

One day, I saw a tweet from Pieter Levels, a guy building startups with a laptop and no employee — Freedom.

I took the plunge, moved to Bali, and shipped like a madman.

I showed up every day, even when I didn't feel like it. 2 years later, I'm making $50K/month with my 20 products.

🌱 The early days:

From shipping this many products, I realized I was doing the same thing over and over: Set up DNS records, listen to Stripe webhooks, design pricing section…

I spent a week gathering all the code I used in the last 2 years and made a boilerplate — ShipFast.

I launched it on Product Hunt a few hours before going to Hong Kong and kept adding features in the plane.

🔥 The biggest growth hack:

Twitter is big.

That’s where I get my first users all the time.

It’s hard to get visibility when you get started, but there are 2 ways to make some noise:

1. Have a very catchy headline that challenges the status quo
2. Make a killer demo video.

I embed myself in popular movies and it works well all the time, even when I had 1,000 followers.

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