Marko

Indie Dev - launching things until I make it
💰0 MRR - MRR -

[Marko @marko_morrow]

STEP 0

I’m Mark.

A divorced but dedicated father of 4, and an IT veteran with 25 years of experience.

About 10-15 years ago I took my first shot at startups and indie hacking. I learned a lot, burned out, and eventually went back to a software engineering career. At the time, the effort-to-reward ratio simply made more sense.

Now things feel different.

AI has dramatically lowered the cost of building, life is more stable, and I finally have the time and energy to give it another serious shot.

My goal isn’t to build a unicorn. If I can reach $20k MRR, I’ll consider that a dream outcome.

I love breaking things down to first principles and understanding how they work. I have a bit of a hacker mindset.

Over the coming months I’ll be building SaaS products, Chrome extensions, mobile apps, whatever solves real problems and creates value. I’ll ship fast, experiment often, and accept that many ideas will fail.

I already know how to build.

Now I want to learn how to distribute, market, and sell at scale.

This account will be an honest log of that journey, the wins, the mistakes, and everything I learn along the way.

If that sounds interesting, follow along.

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https://t.co/FqZ5afQ23Y

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@idanmasas @jonathan_wilke also wash trading helped 🫣

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If you’re building SaaS or side projects, this repo is worth bookmarking:

https://t.co/RUqS9pmBV6

It’s a huge list of free tiers for hosting, databases, storage, auth, email, monitoring, APIs, CI/CD and more.

Example $0 MVP stack:

Frontend → Cloudflare Pages
Backend/API → Cloudflare Workers
Database → Neon or Supabase
Redis → Upstash
Files → Cloudflare R2 / Backblaze B2
Auth → Supabase / Clerk

For many early-stage SaaS projects, that can be enough to run at $0/month until you actually get users.

Even better: give the repo to your AI coding agent and tell it what you need:

“Find a free way to host this Node.js API with PostgreSQL, file storage and scheduled jobs. Prefer services from this repo and avoid paid infrastructure.”

Let the AI pick and wire together the free stack for the problem.

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@buildwtim cant hurt but only really works with builders. you dont see all this inflencers building tools for plumbers

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@levelsio So they synch with each other in that way?

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@FabioClickTime LOL

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@sreenandhanpp @hirurg lets

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@alexabelonix so you dont take equity as form of payment?

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@alexabelonix seems its mostly soy then whey then pea

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@thesupermanmx … and more mental diseases :(

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@0lupee what about 40is?

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@SimonHoiberg 003

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like there is so many dating apps out there now.
and everybody is frustrated with all of them as the whole concept is broken with bad actors, crazy people, perverts and apps miliking the users for money, not really trying to help you match as that is agains their benefit

We as people need some "online profile" systems that could be universal and credible. Then many things could work better if we solve that.

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@thekitze We all have this disease :D

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@alexabelonix Building new products for that, where the aim is to make something very useful they will just be tempted to buy it, also that has high enough demand.

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STEP 8

I made a exercise website that has purely altruistic aim. What I wanted to do is see how people react when you give them some value for free and how does that go on reddit.

So many people liked it and thanked for doing it, there was solid spike in visits but then after that initial boost thing dropped off and its very little used now.

So the test was success and people will actually like something that is useful and you can share it on reddit and it will get traction. Its a nice feeling but doesnt last long and you dont get paid from this. So its just a step in direction to get to the final outcome where we have something useful but also people who are willing to pay for it.

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@alexabelonix hope you do it 🤟

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@marclou Thinking about no2 and that Levels did that all his carrier.
He followed trends or even made them in a way in the indie dev niche.