In 2021, I started shipping 1 product per week.

Most failed.

But 1 winner emerged and led to an $8m acquisition

Here's the system I use to find great ideas FAST (copy this): Before that, I spent 2 years building a product nobody wanted. Twice.

Perfect features.
Beautiful code.
Zero customers.

I was lying to myself about "product-market fit."

Never. Again.

What's the fastest way to hit $100k/month?

Easy:

Sell a $50 subscription to 2000 customers.

Sounds simple. But getting those 2000 customers?

That's where 90% startups die.

Here are 5 proven methods that got me there (4 times):

↓ Method 1: The free tool strategy

Launch a free tool that gives users 10% taste of your product.

Tweet Hunter example: "Best Time To Tweet" tool

→ Dead simple, one button
→ Shows custom engagement graph
→ Hundreds converted to paid

Free candy before buying the whole store.

SEO = begging for backlinks

Cold emails with 2% response rate
Guest posting on irrelevant sites
Buying sketchy links that get penalised

And that's why most people don't get traffic.

But I created a system to get 10 backlinks every week.

Here's how I cracked the code 👇🏻 Teaser:

At the end, I will give you a hack to save 40 hours of your time every month.

And you will also get 5 backlinks on autopilot.

Stay tuned 👇🏻

I thought ChatGPT image generation was a gimmick.

Until I tried it myself.

It's insane, and a lot of industries are getting disrupted 🤯

Here are 7 wild use cases (with prompts): 👇🏻 1/ Image styles and feels

This one is pretty common by now.
8 billion people have used it 🤣

You can convert any of your images to Ghibli studio or any image

> Ghibli studio
> Anime style
> Minecraft style
> 3d character

So many more...

Imagination is the limit.

LOL!!

Claude (via Cursor) randomly tried to update the model of my feature from OpenAI to Claude 🤯

(my request was totally unrelated) PS: "gpt-4" fallbacks to 4o in my code, maybe that's why it didn't that? It knows that it's outdated and tried replacing it?

In the last 3 years, I've bought 11 products for a total of over $400K

One of the most successful acquisition Typeframes just crossed $10k MRR

The crazy part?

I acquired it last September, while it was trending down

Here's my guide on how to acquire products the right way🧵 I'm going to break this down into six steps:

1. The Right SaaS Acquiring Philosophy
2. How To Search
3. Assessment + Due Diligence
4. Negotiating And Giving An Offer
5. Acquisition Process (How To Pay Only 50% Cash Upfront)
6. How To Grow Profitable Post-Acquisition

Every year, I get more than 10 million impressions from SEO.

The trick is simple,

Be useful.

Here's a guide to crack SEO within 6 months🧵 Google processes 99,000 search queries every SECOND

That's 8.5 BILLION daily searches and 2 TRILLION search queries every year

Still, think SEO is dead?

LIFE UPDATE

Tweet Hunter and Taplio' acquisition earnout period is OVER

from $1.5m ARR at signature, to $8m ARR today, I am happy to call it a success

Story & numbers, I'll share it all: In 3 years with my cofounder@tomjacquesson, we:
✅ launched Tweet Hunter
✅ launched Taplio
✅ sold both
✅ worked with lempire for the transition

This is the story of how it happened and what it means to "sell a startup"

The drama around MKBHD is fair.

Today, 18 yo can burn millions $$ of brand value with a 500-second video.

But is he really at fault here or people can't accept the power shift that has taken place?

Let's dig 🧵 Today Marques "MKBHD" Brownlee:

- Has over 18.6M subscribers
- 4.2B total views on YT
- Makes $5M+/year

Safe to say he is one of the best tech reviewer on the internet.

But how did he reach here?

This guy makes $2M per year and keeps all the money.

He refuses to get on client meetings and works 100% async.

Here's the EXACT playbook he used to scale his businesses as a solopreneur.

Test his strategies RIGHT NOW 🧵 @BrettFromDJ founded DesignJoy as a side project.

Since then the product:

- Achieved $130K MRR
- Done monthly visits of over 130K
- Used by over 30K designers

Here's how Brett Davis did it all 👇

https://x.com/BrettFromDJ/status/1679501620550434816?s=20

I've sold a $10M business through Twitter.

And built an audience of 113K people while having fun.

Starting being active here is probably the BEST biz decision I took in the last 5 years

So here's my cheat sheet to grow to 100K 🧵

(Bookmark this thread for the future) Stage 1: 0-5K followers

Growing here is the biggest challenge.

To get followers, your tweets need to reach more people.

But for your tweets to reach more people, you need to have followers in the first place.

The biggest conundrum.

After scaling 2 products to $1M+ (and 7 failures), I realized ONE thing

Picking the right problem to solve is as important as executing it.

How you can find your next million-dollar startup idea 🧵 The best ideas come down to one thing: serving someone with money who has a problem and actively looking for a solution.

The idea determines:

• Customers (and their purchasing powers) 📈
• The market you serve

Here's what you should know about finding great ideas 👇

I've grown 2 SaaS products from 0 - $1M+ ARR.

There are so many ways to grow your SaaS revenue,

Read to learn growth tactics 6 SaaS companies used to grow at an insane rate in 2023👇 1. Shipfa(dot)st

Founded by @marc_louvion in August of 2023, is a NextJS boilerplate that helps indie hackers launch their own SaaS, AI, and other web apps much faster.

And made $63K in Revenue in 60 Days!

Here are some growth tactics he used 👇

The future of influencer marketing is AI.

This IG model doesn't even exist but she is set to make $10M this year.

Brands like Prada & Samsung have already collaborated with her.

Here's my 5-part theory on why more businesses will use AI influencers in the future 🧵 The girl in the picture above does not exist.

She is Miquela, a global AI pop star and influencer with 2.7M IG followers.

And look at what she has already achieved:

In 2012, this guy quit everything to start his own company.

In 2022, his company was acquired for $200M.

He captured an entire market by giving away software for FREE while making profits & 100% bootstrapped.

The unknown story of Patrick Campbell & Profitwell 🧵 Patrick grew up milking cows. Today he has the largest subscription financial database in the world.

His product ProfitWell:

- Used by 30,000 companies
- Did a revenue of $22M in 2022
- Turned 13 employees into millionaires when it was acquired.

2023 was only the tip of the iceberg in the world of AI.

2024 will be a deep dive. And you will need your sources of oxygen if you want to survive.

Here are 11 accounts doing God's Work by sharing the best AI updates (go follow them right now) Who: Mckay Wrigley

Tweets about: His opinions about the recent developments in AI which gives you as a reader a whole new perspective

Business: @TakeoffAI - an AI assistant for your computer.

https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1707101465922453701?s=20

Twitter (𝕏) has ~530M monthly active users.

But 50% of you have less than 100 followers.

This is the best time to grow on X with the creator monetization features and freedom of speech.

Here's your step-by-step cheat sheet to grow to 100K in 2024 👇🏻 Firstly, if you post regularly, pat yourself on the back.

90% of people are passive readers, so kudos!

But if you want to grow, you have to do more than just post.

I'll break down your growth into 3 stages

- 0 to 1K followers
- 1K to 10K
- 10K to 100K+

I had to face 2 shutdowns, 1 bankruptcy, and 7 winding years of hustle to finally have my first win - a $10M acquisition.

This is the first time I'm sharing the full story here.

A thread on the reality of startup success 👇🏻 Over the last 7 years, I've gone from:

Raising money from VCs & working on a product for years → Shipping within weeks.

The change in mindset helped me secure a $10M acquisition.

But two of my businesses failed and I learned my lessons the hard way.

Let's dive in👇🏻

An anonymous tech guy scaled his side project to a $1M+ with $0 marketing budget (and just 2 employees)

His product is so good even Kim Kardashian promoted it (without knowing)

The story of how AJ scaled Carrd to millions 🧵 Carrd. io was one of AJ's side projects. He was testing ideas to see which ones worked.

Today it has scaled to:

- $1.2M revenue per year
- 2.6M users in total
- 4M websites

Building a business just got 10x easier in the last 7 days.

I used GPT3 to scale my SaaS business

Now custom GPTs have rigged the whole game!

Here are 15 golden GPTs to accelerate your next startup 🧵 1. SEOMaster GPTs, learn how to rank your websites super quick with SEO.

By @aleyda

https://twitter.com/aleyda/status/1723678044101943573?s=20

Look at this man.

He built the first-ever bootstrapped SaaS to cross 100M+ users.

The business made $1B in revenue in 2023, and he operates it from his village in India.

This is his story 👇🏻 His company Zoho:

- Crossed $1B in revenue recently.
- Teaches students for free and later hires them.
- Employs 12K+ people across various continents.

The story of how he built it is insane 👇