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$13,500 in March
Congrats to these builders, who moved to Da Nang, Vietnam, to build their startup RankInPublic. It's primarily a directory submission service but there's also a tournament feature, so there's some gamification there too.
They dropped out of their CS degrees and made $13,500 last month. It seems like Da Nang is the new Bali!
Nas.com sold for $1.25m
This influencer was everywhere a few years ago. I've not seen his Nas Daily videos for years but now he's bought nas.com for $1.25m for a sort of vibe coding platform he's building. You upload an image and it builds a storefront for you.
I'm kinda surprised the rapper Nas doesn't own this domain already.
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Another company has stopped sharing revenue and marketing stats.
Simple Analytics has chosen to stop sharing public stats.
New Paris Hacka group
The Hacka movement has been going for a while. It started in Canggu, Bali, as a free weekly meetup with standup for tech founders. Since then, the same format has spread across the world. I've been to Hackaditch in Shoreditch, London.
Now there's Hackaris in Paris.
First Londonmaxxing meetup
Charlie from RamenClub's "Londonmaxxxing" message has been a real hit with the UK media and is now in the London mayor's Twitter bio!
There's a meetup for London builders at RamenClub happening next week: https://luma.com/ne16ot2y
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Get more MRR from LinkedIn
I've noticed a lot of companies are encouraging their employees to post on LinkedIn more. After all, in a tough marketing environment, it's an easy way to get more attention for your company, right?
Well this founder took this idea a lot further. He offered cash incentives for employees to post more. Whoever gets the most engagement gets $5k.
It has led to $153k in new MRR!
If you need someone to help you or your team get better results on LinkedIn, check out my LinkedIn ghostwriting service for founders.
An app for fixing your posture
Marc Lou has vibe coded an app called
Super Shrimp that uses your Mac's camera to tell you when you have bad posture. He also made a funny video to promote it which is worth a watch!
I made $8,539 last month
I had a good month! I made about $8,539 from a mix of ghostwriting, SEO and some newsletter ads. It's my best month since Decemnber.
After I didn't get any buyers for No CS Degree that met my asking price, I've started up that newsletter again and sold some ads for it.
I've made about $950 in ads from No CS Degree in the past 2 weeks - no ad networks, just from DMs and posting on Twitter/X. So it's nice to see that project make money again. I've also sold ads for this newsletter. So I appreciate everyone who has bought some!
$20k from slapping a mac
This guy has made $20k in 10 days from a weird app for Macs. If you slap your Mac the app makes a noise. In the demo it's an "intimate" noise. Headphones on!
It's pretty wild how much money you can make if you build something silly that can easily goes viral.
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I'm on holiday next week for Easter - see you after that!
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Pete
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