No co-founders.

No employees.

>$1M ARR 🔥

Here are 11 of the heaviest hitting solo indie hackers (bookmark this thread for inspiration): Ania Wysocka (@aniamargaret): $1.2M/yr

After suffering panic attacks in college, she built Rootd, a mental health app to help users manage anxiety.

The prerelease version got 50K downloads. Today it's passed 3M downloads, with users in 150+ countries. Zero employees. 👌

Vibe coding isn't just for games anymore. 🚀

Founders are using it to build real SaaS MVPs in days, not months. AI is writing 90-100% of the code.

Here are 7 top-tier examples (bookmark this thread for inspiration): A new kind of analytics tool.

@csallen vibe coded an app that turns your website into a city, so you can watch visitors walk from page to page in real time 😮

95% of the code was written by AI, using Cursor, Claude Sonnet 3.7, OpenAI's o1 pro, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Everyone's talking about “vibe marketing,”

But no one's sharing how ACTUAL founders can use OpenAI's new image gen model to grow their ACTUAL businesses.

Here are 10 examples you can copy to build and grow your startup 🧵


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Vibe coders are launching viral AI games with almost NO followers 🤯

We spent hours studying the best tactics that you can use to go viral too, even with a small audience (bookmark this thread): 1. Build a new version of an already-popular game.

@NicolasZu vibe coded “WW2 Dogfight Arena,” a more polished version of Pieter Levels' viral flight simulator. He didn't have to waste time on market validation. And it even landed him a “free” promo:

https://twitter.com/1577241403/status/1898436497428427156

Vibe Coding for Dummies 📗

We collected the best tips on X for vibe coding, so you can build cool shit without getting stuck in a loop (bookmark this): Use smarter models to plan and Claude Sonnet to vibe code.

Tell Grok, GPT-4.5, or o1 Pro Mode to make a PRD for your "junior engineer," then copy-paste its plan to Claude Code/Cursor/Windsurf. This is super useful as your code grows more complex.

https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1896926303980503067

This founder just cracked $500k/year for her 1-person business — while working just 30 hours/week.

And no, she didn’t take huge risks like quitting her 9–5 or taking on debt to get there.

Here's Marissa Goldberg’s step-by-step blueprint for building big w/out betting the farm: Marissa (@mar15sa) started SUPER conservatively.

She kept her high-paying tech exec job while side-hustling her biz Remote Work Prep until it replaced her salary.

The result?

A smooth, low-risk transition to entrepreneurship that a lot of startup insiders said was impossible.

This SaaS grew to $1M/year in 3 years.

They got their first customers using Discord.

Here's the story: Masud Hossain is the founder of Queue, a tool for for productized agencies to manage their business.

They got their first users using Discord.

"There’s a server for almost anything nowadays. Productized services, Webflow, Figma, video, gaming, etc.", according to Masud

17 types of digital products you can sell: 1. Printables

Printable products like journals, planners, checklists, and other templates are incredibly popular right now.

Printables are quite popular on Etsy.

OPPORTUNITY ALERT: TikTok just made it possible to export users' data (posts, DMs, etc.) via an API.

This means that now it's possible to create apps to backup & import TikTok posts to other platforms.

Here are the opportunities this creates for SaaS founders: More details about the announcment:

Currently, this is available in the EEA, where TikTok has over 150 million users (we have reasons to believe it will soon be available globally).techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/tik…

THREAD: This SaaS is killing it on TikTok.

The reason: Amazing videos with attention-grabbing hooks.

Here are the details: TikTok has twice as many users compared to X/Twitter.

CreatorKit is a SaaS that uses AI to help you create product images.

According to SimilarWeb, they had over 30 million website visitors in the past 2 months:

Most founders suck at UX/UI.

🧵 Here are 5 UX/UI tips to help you move from the bottom 90% to the top 20 (with before/after pictures): 🧵 Background: Elisa (@elisa_paduraru) is a chief designer at @creativetim.

She recently released her second UI/UX book and these are 5 insights relevant to indie founders like you and me:

1. Use Visual Uniformity (...)

Here are 3 ways to consistently generate good side-project ideas: 1. Keep an eye out for new features on major platforms.

iOS 16 enabled lock-screen widgets. This propelled many widget apps to the top of the App Store: appfigures.com/resources/insi…

Trouble making your promotions stand out from the crowd over the holiday season? Less popular holidays might be a better bet.

Thread 👇 A recent study found that people were 2x more likely to click promotions in an email if they were centered around a special day — and they were 25% more likely to buy. For the effect to work, the day needs to be original, unused by your competition, and on-brand.

Grow your email list with a viral thank-you page. Here's how.

Thread 👇 If someone lands on your thank-you page after subscribing, they're obviously interested in what you have to say. And that means you have an opportunity to take it a step further — make an offer.

If you're taking pre-orders, discounts might not be the right incentive.

Thread 👇 Presales are great for two main reasons: First, you can make money before you even launch the product. And second, they can help you validate the product. To order early, potential customers will need incentive, so businesses often offer discounts.

SEO isn't just about your written content — optimize your images in 5 simple steps.

Thread 👇 Here's @ItamarBlauer's 5-step process for optimizing images for SEO:

Looking for newsletters that can uplevel your founder game? Look no further.

Thread 👇 Marketing newsletters:
- Stacked Marketer: Curated marketing news, tech, and advice
- tl;dr Marketing: Curated marketing news
- Growth & User Acquisition: Opportunities for user acquisition
- Marketer Crew: The latest marketing news, tools, and insights

Here's how to spend less time making more content.

Thread 👇 Wildcard content is an SEO strategy where you write multiple pieces of content based on a search query that has a variable word. It allows you to find tons of keywords and write templatized content, saving you time and upleveling your SEO game.

Unemployed and out of college, this founder taught himself to code out of necessity.

A 🧵thread: Each morning Andy Cloke watched freeCodeCamp tutorials until he built his first project, verbly.io, a Spanish 🇪🇸 learning site.

The Spanish learning site had 1,000s of free users - but made $0.

Founders typically build products with either an audience-first strategy or an idea-first strategy.

A thread🧵: This is what an idea-first strategy looks like:

1) The founder has an idea.
2) The founder builds a product.
3) The founders looks for users for the product.

**Founders following this approach end up with a solution, and then looking for a problem.**

Want backlinks without doing all that outreach? Build something that benefits your customers' websites while linking back to yours.

Thread 👇 Typeform's domain rating is ranked #185 on Ahrefs' database, making their domain authority one of the highest in the world. That's no small feat for a relatively small company.