plaette

Failing towards FIRE by 45 with cashflowing micro-SaaS.

💰 $60 MRR · 🎯 23% to FIRE

Freelance data engineer 🇮🇹

[plaette @plaette91]

Most FIRE advice: buy index funds, wait 30 years. I'm impatient. So I'm acquiring small cashflowing SaaS to pull my freedom forward. Freelance data engineer 🇮🇹, building in public. Real numbers, real deals, real mistakes.

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@dagorenouf @OSCAR_Answers What kind of hardware do you have in mind?

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@marc02200 I have a small Position in BTC, but I am not that conviced that BTC will remain a clear alternative to FIAT money once Quantum computing makes it less safe. Whats your opinion on that?

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I am 34.

I have:

• € 0 debts
• € 0 in properties
• €90k in Stocks
• €10k as emergency fund
• a 10 year old car
• € changing monthly Freelance income
• € 60 Micro SaaS Income
• 35hrs work weeks

What would you do preserve this Lifestyle or would you make changes?

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@venkateshdotdev Travel the World freelancing, but at 24 i was Not ready to do it. I had neither the skills nor the courage.

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@Tim_Denning I am turning 35 in two months guess i am too late 😅

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@BraedendotTECH I think they are, they silently took the consumer ai Market by integrating gemini in google search

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@aminnnn_09 B. Switch Models, a lot of chinese models are very good at doing a similar job, for the fraction of the price.

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@Anas_founder How stable is a $5k salary in the age of ai?

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@shaguncrypto I am buying index funds since the birth of my kids steady growth until the can choose for themselve what to do with the money.

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@JonBuildsHQ 3 failed projects and still waiting for the one that works well enough😅

[plaette @plaette91]

People think FIRE means stopping work.
For me it's the opposite: keep doing work I like, from a campsite in the Algarve, kids playing next to me.
That's the actual dream. Not the beach. The freedom to choose where.
Building in public, real numbers 👇 https://t.co/lXPni65ktC

[plaette @plaette91]

Working on my SaaS from a camper van in Portugal with 2 kids in the back.
Everyone sells the "laptop on a beach" dream. Reality is messier.
Here's my actual remote setup 🧵

[plaette @plaette91]

This is why I bet on micro-SaaS instead of a startup.
No team to manage. Everything runs serverless, so revenue keeps coming in whether I'm working or driving Lisbon to Faro.
The software works so I don't have to babysit it.

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Third: I keep the scope tiny while traveling.
Support and small fixes only. And honestly, Claude Code does most of the heavy lifting there. I describe the fix, it ships it. No big refactors, no risky deploys from a campsite.
Low risk means I actually relax.

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Second: connectivity runs entirely off my phone.
Vodafone hotspot, no fancy nomad router, no coworking space. Just tethering from the van.
Works across Europe, which is the whole point. I don't want to think about SIMs every border.

[plaette @plaette91]

First honest truth: I don't get 8 hours. I get maybe 2.
My workday starts when the kids are asleep, evenings into the night. That's the whole window.
On the road, focus time is the scarce resource, not motivation.

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@micronsio Doing pretty good, learning so much on the journey.

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A few months ago I acquired my first micro SaaS: https://t.co/lXPni65ktC, the first step in building a portfolio of SaaS products, slowly shifting from freelance hours to earning subscription revenue.

@micronsio

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@ilyanovohatskyi @micronsio I made $95 in may with https://t.co/lXPni65ktC acquired on @micronsio. Its not much but a great feeling making a little on the side.