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Building 7 micro-SaaS tools in 7 months. Sharing the revenue, the failures, and the code.

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@watchpardie @BladeoftheS "The metaverse is the future." -Mark Zuckerberg

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I build everything on a vanilla PHP boilerplate I made myself. No Laravel, no Symfony. Just PHP. Most people think that's crazy. I think carrying 200 dependencies into a project you could build in 800 lines is crazy.

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@LaunchChair Thanks, I'll stick to my own brain.

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Building 7 micro-SaaS products in 7 months. Sharing the revenue, the failures, and the code. Starting now.

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@LePoint @MistralAI @guillaumgrallet ..pour créer un modele-statistique/générateur de prochain token sur chaine qui: 1. fait des erreurs sans arret, 2. n'a aucune vraie comprehension, et 3. ne produit aucun ROI pour ses clients. C'est la plus grosse arnaque de la décenie camouflée derrieres des reves de SciFi.

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@LePoint @MistralAI @guillaumgrallet La vague coordonnée des médias qui donnent une énorme platforme a ce type, sans aucun questionnement critique, est pathétique. Cette boite, comme toutes les autres boites de GenAI n'existerait pas sans le vol avéré de la propriete intellectuelle de l'humanite entiere.

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@RTLFrance @arthurmensch @ThomasSotto Prochaine interview sur RTL: Michel, leader d'un groupe de braqueurs: "les lois contre le vol en bande organisee nous mettent en serieux danger. On devrait les abolir, et je m'engage a creer un fond pour dedomager les victimes de braquages."

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@innerwebs When you don't want to get bruises, you don't instigate fights.

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Moreover, it's interesting to note that for each 1 visitor this site gets from Google, Google robots request 20 pages.

These robots swallow the content whole and do with it as they please, including displaying AI overviews for which the site gets no credit and no visit.

4/4

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A content site's tale for data nerds:

SOURCE, Visits, RPM, Revenue
Google, 4n, $5.60, 1.3n
Bing, 2n, $21.49, 3n
Yahoo, 1n, $29.35, 2n
DuckDuckGo, 1n, $14.98, 1n

Google while owning 90%+ of the search market, sends this website just 2x more traffic than Bing.

1/4

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Even Yahoo visitors (it's 2026!) are 6x more valuable than Google visitors. Yahoo visits are 4x smaller than Google's but generate almost double the revenue.

Bing and Bing-powered search engines sent a similar amount of traffic as Google, but generated over 4x the revenue.

3/4

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@ProudlyHumanCo @CultureCrave @TechCrunch You see, they don't really care... Because with AI they keep 100% of the ad revenue, and they can push you to more Google stuff. And they don't really care about the information being true/relevant, they just need it to capture more of your time to generate more ad revenue...

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@CultureCrave @TechCrunch And where do Ai-generated answers get their information from? Stealing from the human-written articles they're de-prioritizing. Google are fucking ghouls. Do yourself a favor, use @duckduckgo.

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Hey @cloudflare @eastdakota here is a humble request feature for you: add an ASN table to Top Statistics in Security > Analytics.

It would allow to quickly see if a cloud/hosting provider suddenly decides to scrape/hit the crap out of our domain.

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I've had this account for 16 years and I suspect most of my followers have moved on. It makes it really challenging to keep posting on this platform when there is little to no reactions.

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If your SaaS requires me to email support to cancel auto-renewal, you can be sure I will cancel 5 seconds after trying it and never buy from you ever again.

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@PalmerLuckey It's not the gotcha you think it is.

What time of the day do you take your picture? Natural/artificial lighting? What's the composition? What about framing? Color balance? Lens? Depth of field?

It just shows you know as little about photography as you know about art in general.

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@PalmerLuckey "I'm an artist!"

The art you actually made yourself: