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20, building @usehercules! 8x hackathon winner, 1x swe, 2x swe intern, freelance(d), hit me up if anything, dms open! prev founding engg - @ninjatools_ai

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@Maaztwts last year man

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as someone who has met Marc in person and had the pleasure of having lunch with him, this man is incredible, he radiates joy every moment you talk to him and you can tell he loves what he does and is very, very humble.

he organized these massive indie hacker meetups for free in multiple cities all over the world. why would he do this? he didn’t plug shipfast or datafast at the end of the meetup either. there was no economic incentive, it was almost surely a loss for him. why would he do this if he is “squeezing as much money out of his audience as possible”?

he is definitely just doing this for the love of the game and i fully believe it and i fully believe in him. thank you Marc. throwback to when i met him, not sure if he remembers haha

[Marc Lou @marclou]

Sometimes I see people calling me a grifter, saying I’m just trying to squeeze as much money as possible from my audience.

And honestly it hurts to read because it couldn’t be further from what motivates me.

We’re in the middle of an AI gold rush. Startups are raising millions, and if you have an audience in tech right now, there’s an insane amount of money to be made.

People don’t realize how many offers I turn down from companies willing to pay $5K for a single tweet promoting their product.

I could probably make a ridiculous amount of money doing this. But I’ve always refused because I don’t want my opinions to be for sale.

And I’ve seen firsthand how much brands are willing to spend on visibility with my HYROX sponsorship experiment. If money was my goal, I’d just double down on that.

The last few years have completely changed my life. I’m financially free, I have everything I need, and I genuinely don’t care about making more money just for the sake of it.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE making money from my apps.

Not because I need more of it, but because someone paying for something I built is the ultimate validation. It means I’ve created something valuable enough that someone is willing to pull out their credit card.

And if one person is willing to pay for it, maybe others will too. That’s what makes building businesses so exciting to me.

But what actually gets me out of bed is making weird stuff, experimenting with ideas, and seeing people use things I’ve built.

From 2015 until 2022, I was building apps alone, with barely any entrepreneur friends. I felt lonely.

Now I’ve finally found my people, made enough money to live comfortably, and get to do what I love every day.

I don’t need more. I just want to have fun building stuff with people who love it as much as I do. ❤️

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@marclou 🫶

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@ParssaKyanzadeh claude loves northwind

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@gabriel1 i convinced an AWS acquired founder to hire me as the 4th employee and 2nd engineer at his new startup when i had only 2 years of experience

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about to be insane

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

Hercules launch week next week. Lots of great features and announcements coming

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@himanshutwtxs @ilavanyajain unfortunately correct

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@himanshutwtxs @bot im in

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@achhra_nikita @sigmoidfunc_ we went to si nonnas

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i went to bkc today in mumbai with @sigmoidfunc_.
i was thinking constantly - i wanna be able to walk into any of the stores at the jio plaza and buy whatever i want on a whim.

i went last year too with a friend, thought the same exact thing, and am closer to that vision this year.

it is incredible looking at these buildings and just the scale of them and the grandeur of them all coming from the efforts of really just a few very significant people. and thats VERY few people, enough to count on one hand

people like that feel bigger than i can comprehend, and there’s no doubt they were at the intersection of effort, time, luck and skill. the perfect combination propelled them to a distance which most of us cannot even imagine in our wildest dreams

they only got to such heights by trying to achieve things nobody thinks of achieving

and so i came to the conclusion (yet again) that my ambition is not large enough :)

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a few pictures from today

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@ruchirajags mumbai

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next station: dharavi
next to next station: bkc

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@Archilyte_ bkc

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@shivamrun nah just mumbai bruh lmao

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@0xrenarin @ETHGlobal @kartiktalwar @NakwaChinm580 lfg!

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@davepl1968 if 25 cents seems extra to you, rock on. but it's not like that

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Opus 5.5 has been lobotomized

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@vercel This looks amazing

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

We are urgently looking for a technical recruiter to come support us. Contract/part-time/full-time. Just need you to get started quickly!

If you're interested, please DM me. If you know someone, please tag them below!