Going viral VS. building a business for 2 years

Sep 22, 2026 · 10:41 AM UTC

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Replying to @marclou
DataFast truly is not on hype and prints Smth that will be active for years now
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I hope so, until AI swallows everything :(
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Replying to @marclou
Really the business was built by going viral consistently for 2 years 😏
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$203 from 42k visitors is weird🤔
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The difference is that there are already tons of alternatives to your Stalkr product built by your audience (indie hackers and wannabes) years before you even thought about this idea. They do not need to buy this from you; even more, you promoting your own alternative to their products makes them angry instead.
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Replying to @marclou
Are you at all concerned about disappointing stalkers who think “finally an app for me”
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Do you feel like this could also be because one of them is more of a painkiller than the other?
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damn, my listener is in the lead 🙇
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well the stalkr name is misleading - I guess most of the visitors were expecting a platform that helps them efficiently stalk their favourite celeb with AI assist. that's why you have the numbers, it is not easy to stalk Dua Lipa these days with all the security etc 😅
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Replying to @marclou
Wow, how is that possible?? What do you think might be wrong with Stalkr?
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Because there's an alert from google its free, that's why maybe people don't want to pay more?
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Two years of shipping beats one lucky week every time
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So far yeah, ive been trying to make money from, if i remember correctly 15 tries, including this one. So far made about 400$ of total income (although most of that cost was going back into it because of material costs.). Hopefully this one will be better.
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What a terrible conversion rate Marc.
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Now i understand why people do cheap stuffs on Instagram to go viral 🙌🏻
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Would like to see you using stalkr for yourself and showing us what one can do with it
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Going viral leads to many people come in, wandering a while, then leave without doing anything.
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The difference in conversation rate is wild
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I think both can complement each other. Going viral can get you visibility which works for your long term business
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That conversion rate difference is kinda crazy.
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A viral spike gets attention. Two years of paying customers tells you if there is a business.
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Virality & Audience ≠ Revenue.
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People don’t understand ‘virality does not equal revenue’
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Nice work. Good to see the side by sides.
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Great lens! I wonder if stalkr is a feature and not a product. In the age of building easier - I fall on that sword a lot
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The first didn’t convert much
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Replying to @marclou
Absolutely felt like building a simple analytics platform in my free time the other day, but came across datafa.st and changed my mind 😅
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Going viral is fun until you realize it doesn't pay the rent, It is all about converting the attention you get, Thats why we built FollowToDM to fix this exact problem on Instagram, It automatically DMs new followers the second they follow you, so you never miss a chance to turn a viral moment into real revenue
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2 years of building > one viral post imo..
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Thanks for bringing all that up, dude! Don't you think the game has changed now and we're not in the "ship ship ship" mode anymore, but rather building something solid with real distribution thinking?
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Ended my own launch-spike experiment this morning. 50 and building after my day job, launched a directory on Sep 8 and nobody has fed a listing since day 8. Did the viral one keep anyone past week one?
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I got the exact opposit Going viral - $2,888 6 months of work - $65
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Replying to @marclou
How to you can do that , can you possible to touch with me
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Damn.
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