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I just sold MakeLogo.ai for $65,000 🤩🚀 Launched it 3 months ago, with 0 budget and less than 600 followers. I learned to code only 9 months ago. Big thanks @agazdecki & @acquiredotcom to have made it possible! If you're curious, here is the whole story: December 2022, 20:40. I had a sudden idea. What if I made an app to generate logos using AI? I was making AI logos already for my other projects, so I knew how to do it. However, I needed to validate 2 hypotheses: 🤔 Can I make logos in an automated way? 🤔 Would people pay for it? I decided to make an MVP in 48 hours, as deadlines are the way to go when launching anything: x.com/nico_jeannen/s… 48 hours, 1 earthquake and 2 power outages later, I had my crappy MVP ready 🥳 By crappy I mean a static HTML page linked to a Typeform to collect payment. The back end was literally me generating the logos and sending them by email. No framework, no fancy stuff, just text and pictures. I made a few posts on Twitter and generated a couple of sales from it: x.com/nico_jeannen/s… Sales = Validation. The next step was to make an automated version, so I made another challenge of making an automated version in 48h and launching it on @ProductHunt 🚀🚀 And oh boy, things went crazy! I launched on December 11 and generated +$1000 of sales, ended up Product of the Day, and got tons of followers on Twitter, so I knew I was into something 🤩 However, it was far from perfect. Lots of logos needed additional editing or ended up weird because the customer inputs/prompts weren't good. So, I started from scratch again and made a brand new version in January. The new version offered way more options, and better results overall ✨ Then, I added the app to every startup directory I could put my hand on. And that's how most of my traffic came. I also kept posting on Twitter, every time someone asked "what are you working on?" I replied with the name of the app, and the same when someone asked for AI-generated logos 🤓 And... That's pretty much it. I tried to run some ads on Twitter & Reddit but it didn't work that much, as it's not targeted enough. Now, I don't have much interest in logo/design, and I don't have the technical skills to improve the app further, so, I decided to sell it in February. @acquiredotcom made the process pretty easy, I received a few offers, and ended up choosing the best offer. Then I did the transfer and here we are 🥳 In total, the app made +$23,000 in sales and $15,000 in profit. So, that's around $80,000 in total (profit + sale), which is equivalent to at least 5 years of safety net where I live 😱 If you want a more detailed post, I wrote everything I was doing in real-time back then: jeannen.com/making-ai-logo/ Now, keep in mind that it's not my first shot at entrepreneurship. In the last 5 years, I launched around 35 projects and most were total failures. Just between October and December 2022, I released 7 different apps. I never gave up. I kept showing up. It's a number game. The odds are against you, but at some point, you'll get something that sticks 😉 So... What's next? 🤔 I hate customer service. So I hired an assistant to do it on MakeLogo.ai. But in most cases, it's the same questions over and over. So I made an app to help my assistant works 2x faster. Last weekend, I made a post to show it and some people asked for a public app, so I made it. If you want to join the beta, you can go to galeby.com. For testers, it's $15/month forever instead of +$30 later. It's also a crappy MVP, there is not even a Stripe integration, I’ll DM users to give them the payment link 😁 And again, thanks to everyone for the massive support I got with MakeLogo along the way. Couldn't have done it without you 🥰

I just sold my startup Talknotes for $200,000 on @acquiredotcom 💸🤯🤩💰🥳🎉 I launched it last August when I was looking for an idea I could grow with paid ads, and made a MVP in one week. I took it from $0 to $7500 MRR in just 11 months. 👉 Here is how I grew it from zero: 💡 Idea: I got the idea when I tried to write a tweet using Google Doc's transcription tool, but it was terrible. And I was pretty sure I wasn't the one too lazy to type. So I made my own solution, and Talknotes was created. The audience is pretty broad so it was a perfect fit for Meta ads However… ✅ Validation: My rule is to only reinvest what the project generates, so, no ads until I make enough cashflow ❌ Listing on startup directories + a few Twitter sales generated $700 after 10 days. Yes, it's not much, but more than enough to show there is interest in the product and tell me to keep working on it 🤩 x.com/nico_jeannen/s… I started adding the features users requested, but the launch effect started to wear off and daily revenues quickly went to $0 after a few weeks 🫥 I got depressed and almost gave up on the app... 😔 But luckily, my friends @marc_louvion and @DanKulkov pushed me to continue And I'm glad they did because In October, I launched on @ProductHunt and it blew up 🤯 It got Product of the Day and reached $1500 MRR thanks to the media coverage 🚀🚀 Until then, everything was done using vanilla JS/CSS/HTML + Node for back end. It's simple and easy, but I saw the limitations, so I remade the app using @nuxt_js to make it easier in the future 🏗️ (thanks to @blackevilgoblin and @piotr_jura for the content/courses! @Timb03 as well for the basics!) After that, I took a break and then launched ads on Facebook. The strategy is simple: Catch people's attention, and show them how the app can help them improve their life. No need to over-complicate 🙅‍♂️ Making good creatives is 80% of the job when doing ads on Facebook, most of the technical stuff is done by AI now. Thanks to the boost in traffic, I implemented a feedback loop: 1) Get new users 👥 2) Learn to know them with the onboarding form 💬 3) Make more ads based on the data you get from onboarding 📝 And it completely blew up. MRR doubled in ~2 months However... In May, I had a bad burnout 🥵😩 Multiple bugs slipped into the app, and I had to spend 2 days fixing everything in an emergency while revenues plummeted. This completely fucked me up mentally and had a hard time working on the app after that (x.com/nico_jeannen/s…) 💀💀 So I decided to list it on @acquiredotcom and made a Twitter post (x.com/nico_jeannen/s…) I listed it for $200,000, a pretty low price considering the revenues and fast growth. I could have gotten $300,000 if I accepted payment over time, but $200,000 today is better than $300,000 tomorrow for me. 🚨 The process went smoothly until we tried to use Escrow, which almost fucked up the whole deal. (details: x.com/nico_jeannen/s…) I got extremely lucky because the buyer really wanted to buy the app, but this could have ended the deal. We had to wait over a week to get the money back from them, even tho they said they already refunded it. But luckily, after threatening them, they sent it back the next day 🙃 The buyer finally got the money back, I transferred every asset to him, and he sent me the wire. With the profit made from the app + the sale, and other projects, I'm 30% away from being a millionaire 🤯 With this amount, I can pretty much retire in Asia if I want to. But that's just the beginning, I’m going to launch new projects soon! 🚀 But before that, I need to take a real vacation and detox. My brain is completely fucked up by those last 2 months. I gained weight, and got brain rot from scrolling all day waiting for the acquisition to move forward 💀💀 Surprisingly, doing absolutely nothing is 10x more exhausting than working 15h per day 🥱 Now, all this might sound like an overnight success. It is not ‼️ This is the result of 7 years of failure and working like a madman. I launched over 40 projects in those 7 years, and most of them failed. But a few took off, and that’s all I needed All those weeks working 15h/day without weekends and vacation feels soul-sucking when you don’t see the end, but this is what took me there You only need to win once to snowball everything. Work hard, focus, fail a lot and keep shipping fast. 🚀🚀 Thanks to you for reading until here, and thanks to everyone who supported me 🤞

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Part 2, it gets worse 💀💀 Apparently, @OpenDevLog was threatened by a Vercel employee because his domain name was too similar to the employee's personal project. He threatened to get lawyers involved if the name wasn't changed within 3 days The employee used his access at

Imagine being a customer at @vercel and they launch a free open-source version of your app 💀💀 Every time a type of app gets popular, they make an open-source version as a marketing freebie As a marketer, I find it smart 👍 But as an indie maker, I find it annoying👎 This is

I'm selling my startup on @acquiredotcom! You get: * 💸 $7000+ MRR * 🚀 Growing fast (+50% MRR in the last 3 months) * 🔐 Low churn (~7%) * 🎁 Include the premium .com domain freshly acquired. Reason for selling: Last month's burnout makes it almost impossible for me to work on it 😕 I also want to focus on other projects I enjoy more Bids start at $200k (which is ARR x 2.5) I received some offers already but I want to move on fast, so I would rather do $200,000 in 2 weeks than $250,000 in 2 months. 👉 DM me to get the link and more info (no offer under $200k)

I just sold my startup Talknotes for $200,000 on @acquiredotcom 💸🤯🤩💰🥳🎉 I launched it last August when I was looking for an idea I could grow with paid ads, and made a MVP in one week. I took it from $0 to $7500 MRR in just 11 months. 👉 Here is how I grew it from zero: 💡 Idea: I got the idea when I tried to write a tweet using Google Doc's transcription tool, but it was terrible. And I was pretty sure I wasn't the one too lazy to type. So I made my own solution, and Talknotes was created. The audience is pretty broad so it was a perfect fit for Meta ads However… ✅ Validation: My rule is to only reinvest what the project generates, so, no ads until I make enough cashflow ❌ Listing on startup directories + a few Twitter sales generated $700 after 10 days. Yes, it's not much, but more than enough to show there is interest in the product and tell me to keep working on it 🤩 x.com/nico_jeannen/s… I started adding the features users requested, but the launch effect started to wear off and daily revenues quickly went to $0 after a few weeks 🫥 I got depressed and almost gave up on the app... 😔 But luckily, my friends @marc_louvion and @DanKulkov pushed me to continue And I'm glad they did because In October, I launched on @ProductHunt and it blew up 🤯 It got Product of the Day and reached $1500 MRR thanks to the media coverage 🚀🚀 Until then, everything was done using vanilla JS/CSS/HTML + Node for back end. It's simple and easy, but I saw the limitations, so I remade the app using @nuxt_js to make it easier in the future 🏗️ (thanks to @blackevilgoblin and @piotr_jura for the content/courses! @Timb03 as well for the basics!) After that, I took a break and then launched ads on Facebook. The strategy is simple: Catch people's attention, and show them how the app can help them improve their life. No need to over-complicate 🙅‍♂️ Making good creatives is 80% of the job when doing ads on Facebook, most of the technical stuff is done by AI now. Thanks to the boost in traffic, I implemented a feedback loop: 1) Get new users 👥 2) Learn to know them with the onboarding form 💬 3) Make more ads based on the data you get from onboarding 📝 And it completely blew up. MRR doubled in ~2 months However... In May, I had a bad burnout 🥵😩 Multiple bugs slipped into the app, and I had to spend 2 days fixing everything in an emergency while revenues plummeted. This completely fucked me up mentally and had a hard time working on the app after that (x.com/nico_jeannen/s…) 💀💀 So I decided to list it on @acquiredotcom and made a Twitter post (x.com/nico_jeannen/s…) I listed it for $200,000, a pretty low price considering the revenues and fast growth. I could have gotten $300,000 if I accepted payment over time, but $200,000 today is better than $300,000 tomorrow for me. 🚨 The process went smoothly until we tried to use Escrow, which almost fucked up the whole deal. (details: x.com/nico_jeannen/s…) I got extremely lucky because the buyer really wanted to buy the app, but this could have ended the deal. We had to wait over a week to get the money back from them, even tho they said they already refunded it. But luckily, after threatening them, they sent it back the next day 🙃 The buyer finally got the money back, I transferred every asset to him, and he sent me the wire. With the profit made from the app + the sale, and other projects, I'm 30% away from being a millionaire 🤯 With this amount, I can pretty much retire in Asia if I want to. But that's just the beginning, I’m going to launch new projects soon! 🚀 But before that, I need to take a real vacation and detox. My brain is completely fucked up by those last 2 months. I gained weight, and got brain rot from scrolling all day waiting for the acquisition to move forward 💀💀 Surprisingly, doing absolutely nothing is 10x more exhausting than working 15h per day 🥱 Now, all this might sound like an overnight success. It is not ‼️ This is the result of 7 years of failure and working like a madman. I launched over 40 projects in those 7 years, and most of them failed. But a few took off, and that’s all I needed All those weeks working 15h/day without weekends and vacation feels soul-sucking when you don’t see the end, but this is what took me there You only need to win once to snowball everything. Work hard, focus, fail a lot and keep shipping fast. 🚀🚀 Thanks to you for reading until here, and thanks to everyone who supported me 🤞

I just sold MakeLogo.ai for $65,000 🤩🚀 Launched it 3 months ago, with 0 budget and less than 600 followers. I learned to code only 9 months ago. Big thanks @agazdecki & @acquiredotcom to have made it possible! If you're curious, here is the whole story: December 2022, 20:40. I had a sudden idea. What if I made an app to generate logos using AI? I was making AI logos already for my other projects, so I knew how to do it. However, I needed to validate 2 hypotheses: 🤔 Can I make logos in an automated way? 🤔 Would people pay for it? I decided to make an MVP in 48 hours, as deadlines are the way to go when launching anything: x.com/nico_jeannen/s… 48 hours, 1 earthquake and 2 power outages later, I had my crappy MVP ready 🥳 By crappy I mean a static HTML page linked to a Typeform to collect payment. The back end was literally me generating the logos and sending them by email. No framework, no fancy stuff, just text and pictures. I made a few posts on Twitter and generated a couple of sales from it: x.com/nico_jeannen/s… Sales = Validation. The next step was to make an automated version, so I made another challenge of making an automated version in 48h and launching it on @ProductHunt 🚀🚀 And oh boy, things went crazy! I launched on December 11 and generated +$1000 of sales, ended up Product of the Day, and got tons of followers on Twitter, so I knew I was into something 🤩 However, it was far from perfect. Lots of logos needed additional editing or ended up weird because the customer inputs/prompts weren't good. So, I started from scratch again and made a brand new version in January. The new version offered way more options, and better results overall ✨ Then, I added the app to every startup directory I could put my hand on. And that's how most of my traffic came. I also kept posting on Twitter, every time someone asked "what are you working on?" I replied with the name of the app, and the same when someone asked for AI-generated logos 🤓 And... That's pretty much it. I tried to run some ads on Twitter & Reddit but it didn't work that much, as it's not targeted enough. Now, I don't have much interest in logo/design, and I don't have the technical skills to improve the app further, so, I decided to sell it in February. @acquiredotcom made the process pretty easy, I received a few offers, and ended up choosing the best offer. Then I did the transfer and here we are 🥳 In total, the app made +$23,000 in sales and $15,000 in profit. So, that's around $80,000 in total (profit + sale), which is equivalent to at least 5 years of safety net where I live 😱 If you want a more detailed post, I wrote everything I was doing in real-time back then: jeannen.com/making-ai-logo/ Now, keep in mind that it's not my first shot at entrepreneurship. In the last 5 years, I launched around 35 projects and most were total failures. Just between October and December 2022, I released 7 different apps. I never gave up. I kept showing up. It's a number game. The odds are against you, but at some point, you'll get something that sticks 😉 So... What's next? 🤔 I hate customer service. So I hired an assistant to do it on MakeLogo.ai. But in most cases, it's the same questions over and over. So I made an app to help my assistant works 2x faster. Last weekend, I made a post to show it and some people asked for a public app, so I made it. If you want to join the beta, you can go to galeby.com. For testers, it's $15/month forever instead of +$30 later. It's also a crappy MVP, there is not even a Stripe integration, I’ll DM users to give them the payment link 😁 And again, thanks to everyone for the massive support I got with MakeLogo along the way. Couldn't have done it without you 🥰

Imagine being a customer at @vercel and they launch a free open-source version of your app 💀💀 Every time a type of app gets popular, they make an open-source version as a marketing freebie As a marketer, I find it smart 👍 But as an indie maker, I find it annoying👎 This is

⚠️ @escrow_com ruined my 6 figures acquisition💀 It could happen to you too if you use them 🚨 Last month, I listed my startup for sale, and after negotiating with buyers, I agreed to a 6-figures amount with one of them 💸 Everything was ready. Yesterday, the buyer sent the…

I'm launching my new app TestIt.so 🥳🥳 💸 It helps you improve your conversion rate in just a few clicks! Test It is the first A/B testing tool that's BOTH super easy to use AND affordable. It’s been over a year since Google Optimize was shut down, and since there is no decent alternative, I decided to re-create my own version. - 👍 No-code Visual Editor to create experiments fast without coding - 💾 …and also server-side experiments for full control - 📈 Easy Insights to help you understand your results - 💸 Revenue tracking to optimize revenue per visitor - 👵🏻 Super easy to setup, even your grandma could do it You can get started in just 5 minutes. I saw lots of makers who wanted to optimize their landing page but had to rely on gut feeling or doing “before/after” (I’m also guilty of this 😬) But neither is reliable and can end up in lowering your conversion rate ‼️ The only way to know for sure if something converts better is to Test It properly and calculate statistical relevance 📊 👉 So, if you want to improve your conversion rate and revenues, go to TestIt.so 🏗️ Behind the scenes 🚧 That’s the most polished project I’ve released so far. I’ve been working on it non-stop for over a month now to make sure everything works 🫡 I didn’t want to delay any longer, so I decided to launch in early access after beta testers approved the app. - 😬 Con: The app is working, but features are still basic. I will add more based on feedback - 🤩 Pro: You can get special offers with no subscription and choose the next features For server-side experiments, the most popular frameworks are supported, but I will keep adding more based on requests. I’m really excited about this app and want to try lots of things to grow it, so I hope you will like it 😄

I'm selling my startup on @acquiredotcom! You get: * 💸 $7000+ MRR * 🚀 Growing fast (+50% MRR in the last 3 months) * 🔐 Low churn (~7%) * 🎁 Include the premium .com domain freshly acquired. Reason for selling: Last month's burnout makes it almost impossible for me to work on it 😕 I also want to focus on other projects I enjoy more Bids start at $200k (which is ARR x 2.5) I received some offers already but I want to move on fast, so I would rather do $200,000 in 2 weeks than $250,000 in 2 months. 👉 DM me to get the link and more info (no offer under $200k)

So, @Wise used to be good but now it is the worst online bank app Needed to make a wire for my rent TODAY, they blocked it asking for more info. I uploaded the doc they needed, still blocked. Of course, no live support available for emergencies I moved most of my money out