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Trend #024 - The million dollar indie makers club ✨ | Creator In Residence 💎 | Real-time AI conversations
Growth strategies used by Pieter Levels, Marc Louvin and Damon Chen
Hazel Lim
October 20, 2023
Hey,
Pieter Levels. Marc Louvin, Damon Chen.
Some indie makers become wildly successful.
And yet others struggle for years with nothing to show for it.
So what is it? What is the secret sauce to building million-dollar SAAS as an indie maker?
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What you will learn:
Why the time to build is NOW
Which industry has the biggest opportunity for founders
Who you can expect to learn from in the coming weeks
How to have real-time audio conversations with AI
How Elon Musk validates ideas
🔎 The start of the indie maker movement?
Michia Rohrssen built and sold his SAAS for $110m at the age of 25. In a recent interview, he said something that is very relevant for many indie makers:
“Right now, the biggest opportunities are in the indie technology space. Don’t try and build the next Facebook where you’ll be competing against the smartest people in the world, but build something - anything - from your laptop with an internet connection. I just don’t understand why anyone would do anything else right now.”
🔥 Why you, why now?
You are reading this newsletter because you see the possibilities in the creator economy, solopreneurship and indie making.
Right now, there is an abundance of tools at your disposal, both code and no code that can help you build your ideas fast.
All you need is a blueprint to help you build your digital empire… right?
👀 The Indie Maker blueprint
I am not here to sell you a guru course.
Frankly, anyone who promises a simple blueprint to success is most likely lying to you.
However, there is a lot of knowledge hidden in the brains of indie makers who have been building and shipping for years.
Indie Makers like:
Pieter Levels, who famously started the 12 start-ups in 12 months movement, ultimately creating 4 million dollar businesses.
Damen Chen, who just hit $100k MRR between the 2 businesses he started since the start of the AI wave.
Marc Louvin, who went from nearly giving up on indie making to running 5 profitable micro startups this year.
👁 Your deep dive reports are coming soon
Having spoken to many of you, I now know that stories like these are inspiring to you.
In the coming weeks, we will pick out some of these success stories and reverse engineer their growth - how they picked ideas, how they launched, how they got their first 100 customers etc.
Why do some indie makers like @levelsio create million-dollar startups while others fail?
In August, I spent 2 days reading 114,000 of @levelsio tweets to figure out what he did differently.
Wrote a deep dive covering:
· How he created 1-time offers that landed him +$203k
·… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Hazel Lim (@byhazellim)
10:22 AM • Oct 18, 2023
It’s going to be a series, so hang in there while I figure out the best way to give you the juicy details.
Until the next one,
Hazel
👁 Elsewhere on the internet
💎 Patreon is holding its first Creator Fest on November 4th.
💎 Real-time AI conversations are here. Historically, it takes a while for AI to first generate a text response and then convert that into audio output, but PlayHT has figured out how to have an AI conversation with you in real time.
💎 How Elon Musk validates ideas using three criteria.
💎 A proposal to create a Creator In Residence program to help founders land sponsorships while they build their businesses.