Yesterday, I resigned from my job. I also hit $10,000/month. It took me 88 days. Keep going friends. The world is yours.

My cost of living in London 🇬🇧 Total per month: $2,988 / £2,255 Costs: Rent: £825 Food: £600 Council tax: £215 AI subs: £200 Coffee: £115 Misc: £100 Electricity: £80 Transport: £50 Phone & Internet: £40 Gym: £30 Notes: This is on the lower end of what most people pay in London, I think. Especially living in a nice 2 bed flat in a nice area. I split rent equally with wifey & I pay more for our bills & food. I think I spend more than most on good food & coffee, altho coffee makes me quite anxious so I'm cutting that out. Also: If you'd had told me a year ago I'd be paying £200/m for AI subscriptions, I'd think you were silly! It's become super normalised.

For all new indie app builders: Posting on social media will NOT make you rich. Before I hit $10,000 MRR, I failed my first app and wasted 2 years. I loved meditation so I made Monkeyless a meditation screen time app. I couldn't let it go. For 2 years I posted organically everyday. I did not miss a single day, not ONE. I did: - 30,000,000 views in the span of 2 months after 1 year of little progress -Tortured myself with ridiculous videos like Rawdogging a clock for 8 hours -Embarassed myself in front of the camera since I'm not an extrovert -Tried slideshows, AI content, hired UGC creators, partnerships, every angle possible I still failed. I was sold the idea: "just post everyday, spark the winners and you get success". This is bad advice. Real takeaways after 2 years of failure: 1. Screen time niche is hard, I do not recommend 2. Don't post organically. Only exceptions: -To become familiar with social media in general -To become familiar with your specific niche -To get your first 500-1000 downloads But don't rely on it to make you real money. Use it as an experiment to get data and extrapolate from there. 3. Your #1 goal from launch is to discover whether your app is either a) worth scaling, or b) a flop. 4. Look at DATA. Download-to-paid rate, trial start rate, paywall showrate, optimize onboarding as much as possible especially if you have a hard paywall. 5. Be TRUTHFUL with yourself. If the data says your app sucks, your app sucks. Stop trying to save a sinking ship like I did. You don't need 2 years. You can determine this within 2 weeks. 6. Be careful who you listen to on X. I don't think people on here have bad intentions, but people like to exaggerate results and sell you a dream 7. No co-founders! You already make little money, don't split it even further. Maybe for the future, when you have more capital to scale, but don't do it for your first start-up. Luckily my social net was strong and I had many friends supporting me. Even when I failed, they liked my videos, recorded videos with me, and tried to give me advice even though their advice was bad 😂 Very grateful for them. Don't make the same mistakes I did!

I’d argue that it’s more alive then ever: You can now build software for folks, profitably, that you never could build anything for (that they could afford), before Build an app for a local high school Build a website with a custom CRM for a gym with only 5 branches Build a game for an indie movie with a budget of a few thousand bucks “Normies” don’t know that any of this is possible yet

i want to mass-produce millionaires with terrible sleep schedules (like mine). so we’re putting $20,000,000 into API cashback to help you get your shit off the ground. spend $100k → get $100k back in API credits. that’s $200k of API usage for $100k. @gregisenberg already filmed the step-by-step playbook for building a $1M+ one-person business with GPT-6 Astra and Higgsfield API. offer ends Sep 30. get rich or die prompting.

My First $1k Month!! All from organic videos on TikTok :) 4m views to $1k is really bad but tbf they are all just ai slideshows with weak ctas at the end lol Next steps: release on android, more accounts, more posts, ads (maybe)

idk what @OpenAI changed, but you lost a customer we have 2-3 years to escape the permanent underclass there's no time to be fucking around nerfing models

why is gpt-6 sol is actually unusable?? wish i was joking, i'm a better engineer 🥀 astra is the only viable model and it's expensive as shit is it finally time to go back to the dark side? (claude)

I think I've found a new marketing meta? Buying the rights to viral videos. 1. Scroll on TT or IG. 2. Find an organically viral post in your niche. 3. Message them, offer to buy rights: ~$50. 4. Only msg smaller accounts. 5. Influencers will want > $1k 6. Run these videos as paid ads. The downside: You need a rough idea of what is likely to convert. If you've already ran paid ads, or had organic success in that niche, then your chances are higher. The upside: These posts are already validated & resonate within the niche. Also, they are way better quality than remaking posts with AI. We're not quite there yet with the models yet, I think.

we've finished the mvp! and will onboard early users next few days if you have an app & want to make more money, hmu 🤙

this is the new era of meta ads time to make some money boys

Apple pays us 45 days after the month ends. I deadass forgot we even get paid for ts 🥀

Bruh my app has: • 89% onboarding completion. • ~8% download to paid. • Top 10% of my (competitive) niche. I hadn't checked these stats in 2 months. $100k offer I'll sell it now.

$0 to $10k in 90 days. I'm on track for $30k/m. Most growth happened in ~2 weeks. A lot of this I've kept quiet and only shared privately. From me to you; this is how I achieved financial freedom 🕊️