I launched my 24th startup (SaaS)

[@kitano47]

mans a machine, all ive done the last two weeks is drink beers and watch youtube

[@HehLul]

real

[@Schisek]

Legend 😂

[@thenextguy32]

but did you work a job? this _is_ his job. i get more done in 2 days working for myself than i did working on the side for 6 months

[@hamidseifsaid]

Brutal🤣🤣

[@marc-lou]

You're watching videos about shipping startups. Life's about to change!

[@WizardOfSaaS]

Man, your efficiency is crazy. "Think less, build more" I'm going to make this my motto.

[@denis-tarasenko]

Marc, you probably don't even realise of how much impact your videos have on fellow devs, including me. Having a living example like you, that life actually can be the way we want, keeps me motivated to take from time everything I'm possibly able to. Wish you even more heights!

[@wildernns]

Thanks for the reminder to just build simple products to ship fast; I needed it. I so easily get sucked into bigger ideas with more and more features. I build fast, but never ship. Time for that to change.

[@paulkoch8045]

I appreciate your strategy to minimize time-to-market and obtain quick feedback, allowing to focus on what truly matters to the user.

[@devdivine__]

I just launched my first Saas product. A no-code resume and portfolio maker with Live Site and Platform Previews. Thanks sir for the tips and inspiration.

[@tillcarlos664]

link?

[@vvill-ga]

plug it

[@clemmos]

Very interesting Marc ! Personnaly, I usually get my ideas when reading a book, or when I do nothing. But here is the thing. I get new ideas only when I take action. When I wasn't programming, i didn't get ideas and felt very bad. So guys, as Marc mentionned in the video, how can you start (because to take action you have to have an idea) ? Ask yourself what do you like, and start a project about it. Try to make it a SaaS or not, but start by something that is genuinely interesting to you.

[@jameshizon4861]

Thanks Mark. I am working on 2 SaaS products where one is directly inspired by you. Have full time job so may take ~4 months to build.

[@daemon2880]

The way he's describing how to get ideas is the same way the founder of Amplitude, Spenser Skates described how he got his idea, and Webflow founder Vlad Magdalin too. Also, Rob Walling of Microconf says this all the time. That's how I know this video has so much value. Great content !!

[@fuuman5]

What stops me from launching anything is that I'm worried about commitments or responsibilities. After all, I store customer data. To what extent am I liable if this data is deleted? Is it because the database provider has made a mistake or I have installed a bug? After all, someone has paid money for this service. Are there any tips or things to bear in mind in this regard so that I don't score an own goal? I don't want to be legally prosecuted.

[@StartupCaptain]

Excellent thumbnail, great video title, awesome video intro. Clearly a pro. 👍👍👍

[@rlqd]

So basically when there is a gold rush, you are selling shovels (tools for startups) 😃

[@everythinggoeswithpascal]

Thanks always for your videos Marc! You have inspired me to learn React which I have been wanting to learn for a while but have been putting off. I started posting study session content while I learn React to hold myself accountable and I have been getting feedback that the videos have helped some people to stay focused and productive together too which is a big plus. ☺

[@dkzbrandt1]

I would LOVE a crash course in how you do UI. I'm done with my backend, but god does it look horrible. How do you go from a pretty wireframe to a pretty webpage so fast?

[@NirBenita]

Some points to consider 1. Understand the basics (Consitent margins and padding, 1 or 2 fonts max, find a color palette online and stick to it) 2. Collect a few examples that look good on Dribbble/Pinterest 3. UI is not where you want to innovate - stick to familiar UI patterns, keep it simple. 4. Make sure the overall flow makes sense (Google "Shapeup Breadboarding")

[@anguswetty]

Me too!

[@kaptaincreative]

Solid advice! Just what I need to look over as I'm building the landing page for my potential startup lol

[@Max-Hansen]

Let’s gooo! new Marc video = good day

[@stefanhyltoft]

The just build and ship tip to get ideas was pretty good. I've stuck in a rut for a long time with not being able to come up with ideas. About 4 days after the video and I'm about to launch an emberassingly low functionality mvp app soon that I've had on the shelf for months, just so I can get it off and move on to the next project.

[@jonoisedev]

This is great advice. People sometimes they need to come up with the greatest idea of all times, but nothing like just build something and have your friends to use it, once that app is out there your very friends who used the app and liked it will start giving you other ideas for features or other products to develop.

[@henrimiessan3881]

Hey there! 😊 I just filled out your Google form about the coding mentorship. Thanks a lot!

[@quentinvaisala3134]

Hello link ?

[@codenamemoe9337]

I love your journey so far, and your landing pages are killer! 🎯

[@theaccountantguy]

This is an amazing video and congratulations on the launch. But I have a very simple question coming from a non-coding background, I am learning how to code with python all with the help of AI. While you are using JavaScript to build your products, can you recommend me a tech stack that I can stick to for development in Python and yes, is it ideal to use Python or JavaScript for building basic web apps especially with the use of AI embedded to the web app. Thanks!

[@christianhabermann6527]

Marc i feel you so much! 500+ micro startup ideas in my apple notes, but i have little time to do them... fires me up so much seeing other living the dream ;)

[@la_mouette]

Whaaaat, I started follow you journey 2 months ago. Start taking note about SAAS idea. And guesss what? A SAAS idea named "Wewantt" was a tools like that

[@FFSu-yq1gk]

Thanks Marc. I need something like this. I first tried Canny but the bummer is that it requires the users to sign in in order to vote. Seems your insighto also does. Can you make that configurable? I want to link it from my App, and mandating login will have big frictions as most users wouldn't bother to do that.

[@ahmedsami5183]

who creates your UI design?

[@Dom-zy1qy]

The hardest part for me is providing an intuitive frictionless UI. I always go super over the top with multiple pages that dont need to exist. So now im just tearing down a bunch of UI and putting them on the dashboard on a single screen. I probably wasted 2-3 weeks of dev time working on pointless components + styling & design. Meanwhile my backend logic & infrastructure took less than that. Anyone have any good actual UI "templates", I see a lot of them for generic dashboards, but not for more nuanced things like file uploads followed by text inputs in multistep forms.

[@mazen.alsenih]

I really needed to hear this, thank you for sharing your journey and tips, I’m a full stack developer and I also use Next.js and tailwind for my frontend. Keep it up this is so aspiring

[@jonathanzawadke2214]

Simple and useful I will definitely try this product

[@nerdism9325]

"Think less, build more" - guys stick to that, i wasted so much time on projects, and features and not even finishing the project. this week i launched 1 app, 1 portfolio 1 saas in the making. all just because of throwing away my complicated mind and build. thank you marc

[@wingsaber629]

Wow, I had the EXACT same idea too, simple feedback board. Nice!

[@GolthierSantos]

Awesome, very cool video. You sound very humble and down to earth. Got a follower, who’s also embarking on the indie journey

[@_launch_it_]

I have completed developing my product and documented my progress through short videos on my channel. However, I still need to focus on the marketing aspect to successfully launch it. The app manages the inventory and track sales

[@tw4vesx332]

thanks man you videos are clearly honest and straight to the point. keep it up frère.

[@jseneque]

Another fantastic video Marc. I am in the pit of trying to find ideas instead of learning while building. I’ll take this advice and see where it leads me❤

[@dav6983]

Marc, I love your content ! What frustrate me is all the legal stuff behind being solopreneur. How to earn the money legally abroad without living in France ? if possible not quit 9-5 at first but maybe asking too much

[@brendanriel888]

I'm looking for a programmer to collaborate with on an idea but don't know where to find one. Any tips on finding like-minded collaborators if you don't know anything about coding or building products?

[@praneetsingh9695]

Same problem here brother

[@ArtVandelayInc]

Learn coding man. It's not that hard

[@ben1777]

Always be shippin. I agree, drop all the enterprise processes and ship.

[@chandankumarnetha]

What is that Dashboard for checking all Websites analytics

[@eduardofcgo]

Honestly there is formbricks which is open source and very well maintained, which could solves a similar problem.

[@Superuser-r1y]

Sir why you are not using Reactjs instead of nextjs? Can you tell me sir?

[@samsharpdev]

Hey Marc. Love your work! You're story is really inspiring. I was wondering if you could please make a video on the legal stuff. Once I've built my project how do I go about creating terms of service, privacy policies, and so on for the project. Any other considerations I need to think about? Thanks so much!

[@user-eu5ij3es8v]

Could you make a video about what provider and stack you use for cloud deployment?

[@HyperUpscale]

I am glad you finally understood that your statement "don't offer for free" IS WRONG :)

[@syrecodes]

This is great, currently building my first startup hoping to launch soon

[@mameesie]

there is a bug, when suggest a new feature with the same name as someone else it will reference to the earlier created feature of someone elses app, and second the terms you use are for shipfast not for insighto

[@WayOfTheMonk-zz6df]

Great vid!! would love to learn how you started hosting your products, and what software you use for server hosting development and things like that.

[@MatthewNeary-sj5pf]

Love everything about this video Marc 🎉

[@tanvirashraf728]

Mr. Lou how do let the world know that you have brought a solution to their problem ?? how do you impress them, convince them??

[@-it759]

That's cool asf! can you make more videos on how to market your startup if you have low followers and what subreddits to post from?

[@marc-lou]

Not at video, but I wrote about marketing here: marclou.beehiiv.com/p/how-to-get-your-1st-customer-for-a-micro-saas Thanks btw!

[@-it759]

@@marc-lou thanks for the reply!

[@etienneweidenfeld6468]

Hey Marc, could you maybe make a MongoDB tutorial? This would be greatly appreciated!

[@TobCraft]

I've got a question, where do you get these hook clips like in the x video? I cant find them anywhere

[@Bob-en9sw]

I have no problem coming up with startup ideas and even building the startup software because I’m a developer. My problem is, I don’t know what to do next.

[@voidtraveller01]

You are a legend too

[@cortepodcats-hrsrs]

Hello, I'm from Brazil and I started following your videos. Where do you get the project designer’s ideas from?

[@Commonsovier]

Lol, i was working in a similar idea. Congrats for the launch!

[@karimsherif6428]

what do u use to view web analytics? great content btw

[@ExploreSciFi]

Sir, is it required to build a SAAS we must be a Full-stack developer? 🤔 What about knowing ML along with it please make a video?

[@andykeith1]

+1 for Mailgun. Does your ShipFast lib basically contain the tech stack you mention in this video? Wondering about trying it out

[@marc-lou]

Yep. It was built on top of ShipFast!

[@kieronboz]

I wonder if you being a good promoter of product hunt, leans into you getting accolades? Pessimistic view I know but just a thought.

[@arpit2195]

wow thats so cool! So do you work at stripe? If so can you please teach me how they made their navigation bar? I think it is really cool but i cant get mine to function exactly the same in terms of animation. I think my formulas for calculating the position of the drop down may be wrong. But i still think its really cool that you are at stripe. The front end team there is doing great work!

[@MyFukinBass]

Awesome to see your whole journey :)

[@nassimbennouar4295]

Ta chaîne est géniale, là je suis chez mes parents depuis quelques mois avec mon diplôme d'ingé en poche : je suis passé par ta phase 2016 en construisant une start-up REVOLUTIONNAIRE avec mes potes (50 users, dont des investisseurs mais visiblement ils ont pas kiffé...), puis j'ai eu une errance de quelques petits mois à me chercher, en faisant des trucs à droite à gauche. Puis le mois dernier je suis tombé sur levelsio et toi-même : la première chose que j'ai faite c'est me remettre au code en codant n'importe quoi pour me remettre dans un mood productif (mon portfolio, des trucs IA que j'ai même pas launch...), et là ça fait une semaine que je suis sur mon premier produit en mode indie hacker (l'algo est fonctionnel ! Manque plus qu'une interface sommaire et une landing page !)

good product, gold content, would be worth to be able to add more likes 👍🏻

[@bencosmin2692]

Amazing Work Marc.

[@strathausen]

For me, the biggest obstacle to launching products is the legal stuff and paperwork. How do you deal with privacy policies and terms of conditions? Is it a thing you do once and then re-use the texts everywhere?

[@Daniil_bgtr]

What tool do you use for analytics?

[@madhanganesh1]

thanks Marc. One question what is tech stack on the mobile side?

[@jenifer_rajendren]

I am in the process of validation of my SAAS idea, if you could help somewhere here that would be appreciated 👍

[@pallavggupta]

Hey @Marc, great content as always I have just one query, Considering the pay parity in West and in Asia if it would be possible to have different pricing for shipfast for different regions. Thanks for listening in !!

[@Neverhood.]

Cool!🤩 Could you provide some kind of roadmap for us beginners to get into your steps in a year or so? Thanks in advance!

[@hussainbhagat8855]

This is actually a really good idea, I'd love to collab and go the B2B SaaS route

[@HDChif]

Do you use an ORM for mongodb or just the regular driver?

[@kaiwollherr712]

Hey Marc, Could you please do a Tutorial Video on deploying a next.js project. I cant figure it out! I would really appreciate it to see a step by step guide. Starting with a finished project and show how to deploy it. Static exports are easy. But my exports with dynamic routes dont work…and I admit that I‘m stuck.

[@rajausamah7569]

Something integrated onto your existing product would be much more useful like a forum maybe to interact with users

[@bravo1oh1]

good idea.. very insightful process..

[@HunterBBQ]

Always so cool with your videos keep up bro

[@mohammadmikati8213]

That's amazing! One question in mind, is it important to register a company for that? Or you haven't?

[@IRFAN39175]

Love the content! Btw. what a view 1:01!

[@ankushmaurya1822]

hey marc been watching ur videos from few days is content amzing .u need to work in ur audio and improve the color grading and add bit transitions its bit appealing it can get more engaged audience just an observation Lemme know if you need an video editor

[@alexqu592]

What about Privacy Policy or Terms of Services etc? Are you creating them with online free generators or with a layer? Have you ever had any legal issues?

[@PsychoDude]

Would like to know aswell

[@Lurkingstill]

Congrats Marc! Would love to know how much code you or time learning code you had before you started your 1st project! Currently trying to start too but not sure how far into it I should go ! Going the self taught coding path 😅 Where can I find the mentoring form?

[@0nai]

I become motivated to launch my startup 😊❤ Discipline is important sometimes your not motivated 😢

[@kovruktv]

awesome, that guy is genious!

[@NikitaSmolenskyi]

what if connect this SaaS with github api and if a merge request contains # its automatically marks a feature as done ?

[@fabiojonathanarifin1]

my problem is keep building features and not doing enough customer acquisition... i don't know why i can't stop coding new features! i know it's dumb

[@TheBlackManMythLegend]

Bro!!! alaala mon gars. Je suis aussi IT et voila quoi je penses qu'il faut faire ces trade off car ya pas assez de temps dans la vie. C'est toi qui a raison.

[@Ni3l5]

Anyone got tips on when to use no-code frontend like Bubble and when to switch to custom code?

[@ephraim009]

What do you use for file storage?

[@lostinthenarrativve]

Hey Marc, should I go from vanilla Javascript to React fast or I should spend a few months with plain JS first ?

[@marc-lou]

1. Learn the 80/20 of JS 2. Jump to React WITH NextJS

[@arlau777]

Impressionnant !

[@romangrunin3906]

Hey, thank you for the content Your UI always looks great Can you please show the UI design process?

[@marc-lou]

Sharing everything I know, here, for free: marclou.beehiiv.com/archive?tags=Design

[@FranMcOd]

why no git? its free, just gotta push and pull. If your pc dies, rip?

[@gedw99]

I heard that he does not use got branches. He uses git , just not git branches , which makes sense , because there is no merge. If he has a feature that is unfinished he will be blocked , so not sure how he can really void branches

[@zaynmalice7106]

Yeah he says branches for a reason. It does feel weird to create and merge your own pull requests, and like a bit redundant cause you're gonna miss your own mistakes when merging just like you did to begin with haha

[@DavidChoiProgrammer]

This guys amazing

[@viejoxa]

Hey Marc! Which email service do you use ? (not just for send email)

[@iamyou6555]

Do you make the landing page yourself from scratch and how do you add a feedback page in your site is that a template or you also make from scratch

[@marc-lou]

I get inspired by what I see on the internet and design my own version of what i like

[@AlLaqta]

a legend

[@alblez]

Hey Marc, How do you measure the stickiness of a product?

[@TomiwaAdisa]

Hello. Great work. Just discovered your channel. The Shipfast is talking to developers but the demo seem to me I can use it if I get a step by step guide. I am not a developer but I know some HTML, CSS, Python, and Java. I can read and understand basic codes. Just a little to feel like a coder :) Do you have a guide for someone like me. I surely want to shipfast too. All the products you have are SaaS. Does it work for startup offering services? Thanks for your great work for the community.

[@wiktorkokosik8747]

Great video, thank you!

[@martg0]

how can you manage relational entities with MongoDB?

[@marcelpolak6494]

you mostly avoid them - but if needed there is a $lookup function for cross-collections linking