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Hitting $15k/mo by purchasing defunct domains and building for pre-existing demand

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I Just Discovered My Analytics Numbers Are Mostly Fake. Here Is Why.

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Your users want to interact. Your roadmap doesn't have weeks to spare.

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How I built a source-backed UK and Netherlands financial calculator platform

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I’m building PickTests, one small browser test at a time

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Hivemind: "It's not a model problem, it's an instruction problem." Icarus buried its best sentence below the fold

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“I’ll just post on Upwork” is not a client strategy. Here’s what I built instead.

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Growing a talent marketplace to $2.5M+/yr after two years of losses

David Stepania had an idea and funded it with credit cards. Now, his talent marketplace is bringing in $2.5M+/yr. Here's how.

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DiscountHub Find real discounts and promo codes in one free app 1

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I built Orbator — See if ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity recommend you. Then get listed where AI reads.

IbexAI Finds high-intent leads on LinkedIn 3

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This full-time data scientist built a $7k/mo portfolio of side projects

Ramsri Goutham Golla handles a portfolio of products with 250M users while working a full-time job as a data scientist. Here's the story.

46 upvotes 28 comments

Featured

Exiting his agency and hitting $10k MRR within 60 days of launching his SaaS

Ivan Nedelkovski created a validation framework and used it to find the right idea. He hit $10k MRR in two months, and now he's at $20k MRR. Here's how.

68 upvotes 40 comments

Featured

Side-hustling for three years before going all-in and hitting $6.4k MRR

Jonathan Geiger found traction on his fifth and sixth products, so he quit his job. Now, he's bringing in $6.4k/mo. Here's the story.

90 upvotes 82 comments

Featured

Leveraging a marketplace and existing user bases to hit a 5-figure MRR in two years

Adi Leviim found a problem and quit his job. Two weeks later, he launched the solution. And two years later, it has a 5-figure MRR. Here's the story.

73 upvotes 99 comments

Featured

Hitting $15k/mo by purchasing defunct domains and building for pre-existing demand

Erik Aronesty found defunct domains with existing traffic and built what visitors needed. Thirty projects leader, he's bringing $15k/mo as a side hustle.

101 upvotes 79 comments