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5 Biz Fri #0004: 60k MRR in two months by building around GPT

Louie Chen4 months ago

The $1M ARR Bootstrapped Startup Competing Against Google

Plausible is a lightweight, open-source, and privacy friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Completely bootstrapped and earning over $100k/mo

Louie Chen5 months ago

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Chess.com: Bootstrapping a Community to $50M/Year

How Erik Allebest turned his passion for Chess into a social phenomenon

Louie Chen6 months ago

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Unsplash: The Side Project That Saved a Company

Louie Chen6 months ago

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How ScrapingBee Bootstrapped to $1.5M ARR By Writing Quality Content

Louie Chen7 months ago

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Building a $3M one-person content business

How Justin Welsh turned his social media following into a $3 million business

Louie Chen7 months ago

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How Buffer Grew to $18M ARR

Louie Chen8 months ago

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Bootstrapping CoderPad to $4M+ ARR with 3 employees

Louie Chen8 months ago

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Baremetrics: The Side Project that Sold for $4 Million

Louie Chen8 months ago

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5 Biz Fri #0003: Making $120k in 3 Weeks

Louie Chen9 months ago

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Replit: The $800M Side Project

Louie Chen9 months ago

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Building a podcast with 100+ million downloads as an 18 year old

Harry Stebbings dreamed of being a VC. After starting a podcast as a law student, Harry quickly made his dream come true.

Louie Chen9 months ago

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5 Biz Fri #0002: $250k/mo by making Excel cool again

Louie Chen10 months ago

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Nathan Barry: Bootstrapping a side project to $33 Million ARR

Louie Chen10 months ago

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5 Biz Fri 📈 #0001: Job Boards that make $80k/mo

Louie Chen10 months ago

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Adam Wathan: Making Millions of Dollars Through Digital Books and Templates

Learn how Adam sold millions of dollars of online education content by building a large audience

Louie Chen10 months ago

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From Pinterest Employee #2 to Gumroad Founder & CEO: Sahil Lavingia

How Sahil Lavingia discovered the key to Gumroad's success was to not be a unicorn

Louie Chen10 months ago

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How to build a $20 million community like Product Hunt

Learn how Ryan Hoover built the top tech community from an experimental side project!

Louie Chen10 months ago

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Photopea: The Free Photoshop Alternative Making Millions

Louie Chena year ago

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How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees

Louie Chena year ago

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How BannerBear grew to a $50k MRR business

Louie Chena year ago

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