The best user research is being your own customer.

To make TrustMRR the most transparent startup marketplace, I’ve added listing analytics: 👀 Buyer visits over time ❤️ Saves 🪙 Offers & inquiries If your startup is listed for sale, open your dashboard and click 📈 Analytics to see how buyers are engaging with it.

This year is my 10th year as an entrepreneur. 10 random facts and thoughts: - It took me 2 years to make $1 - 88% of my projects failed - You never know when it’ll work - Once it works, everything is easier - Understand momentum. Ride the waves. - Product market fit, or No - It's a lonely journey

DataFast just passed $25K MRR after almost 2 years 🥳 It has been growing more slowly after $20K MRR, but it has never declined, and churn hits an (almost) all-time low of 7.12%. I'm working on a new vertical now to remain AI-proof. Launching soon!

2 new options on TrustMRR.com: ⚖️ VC or Bootstrapped 🤝 Team size Please fill in this data so we can finally prove we're 90% more profitable than VC startups 😁

I’m organizing the 10th Indie Hacker Meetup 🇨🇳 📍 Shanghai, China 📅 Sunday, August 9 🕣 8:00–9:00 AM People have met cofounders, built startups together, and made real friendships at these meetups, so join us ❤️ RSVP below 👇

"must be nice"

July was the biggest month for my startup marketplace @trust_mrr $44k/month, 90% margin, and 100% solo. The monthly traffic hits an all-time high at 210K unique visitors, and 23 founders got acquired. Almost 1M AI bot crawled the site too.

The moat is being cringe and not giving a shit.

I made $98,417 in July 2026. ⭐️ TrustMRR — $44K 📈 DataFast — $26K 🏴‍☠️ Ship or Die — $13K 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $6K 🐥 Twitter — $4K ⚡️ ShipFast — $4K 🍜 Indie Page — $785 🛡️ ByeDispute — $132 🦐 SuperShrimp — $187 🧾 Zenvoice — $69 🎞️ YouTube — $102 🌱 HabitsGarden — $104 📚 WorkbookPDF — $38 ✂️ Margins: ~85%

> turn ON fast speed > realize i'm the bottleneck > turn OFF fast speed

The 10th payment provider just landed on @trust_mrr 🤩 You can now list a Shopify store and get a 69 DR dofollow backlink! After you've connected the TrustMRR Shopify app, you can claim the page to edit your store and list it on the marketplace.

How to build a $20k/mo business - Build a product people really need - Add features customers request - Reply kindly

MRR distribution B2B vs. B2C It's easier to make $1K MRR with B2C, but you should build a boring business to make a living. (n=5,193) x.com/marclou/sta...

Anthropic training Sonnet 6?

I just added more verified metrics to TrustMRR: 🍎 App Store ratings ▶️ Play Store ratings And a new section "✅ My product is a mobile app" in your startup's dashboard to enter the store URLs.

I find it funny that the generation that warned us social media would rot our brains also thought lifting weights was dangerous, while normalizing sleeping 6 hours a night and bringing alcohol to every social event.

Octopus is actually superfood! 🐔 30g of protein per 100g (same as chicken breast) 🐜 Super low fat (2x less than chicken breast) 🦵 Low cal (150kcal per 100g) 🧬 Selenium, copper, vitamin B12, and iron

The masculine urge to redesign TrustMRR's chart with this gorgeous library x.com/grimcodes/s...

I just added this supplement to my health stack: 1. Butyrate triglycerides — 300 mg 2. Pasteurized Akkermansia muciniphila — 10 billion TFU The former helps nourish and protect your gut lining, while the latter supports a healthier gut microbiome and may improve metabolic health.

I added this to the /stats page of TrustMRR: It shows the median all-time revenue for startups, broken down by payment provider. How can I make it more interesting?

What my wife and I are eating in the next 4 days 🤤 (does not include protein, black beans, lentils, chickpeas, kimchi)

✅ Startup Acquisition #136 on @trust_mrr ✅ AI language learning app sold for $40,000 👏

AI bot traffic on TrustMRR in the last 30 days: 🤖 850K+ visits 🧑‍💻 4.25x human traffic 🧠 Meta dominates LLM training (87%) 🔎 OpenAI makes 2x crawls than Google for indexing 🙋 ChatGPT crawls my site 20X more than other assistants to answer user questions

I just realized that if I never touch my SP500 investment, it'll be worth $36M at 60.

Top marketing channels for startups on @trust_mrr: 🔎 SEO — $10.3M ✍️ Content marketing — $8M 📸 Instagram — $7.6M 👍 Facebook — $6M 🗣️ Word of mouth — $5.7M 📝 Blog — $5M 🔵 Google Ads — $4.8M 🤝 Affiliate — $4.8M 🎯 Meta Ads — $4.5M 🎵 TikTok — $4M n=1,162 (channels are self-reported)

What would you answer?

Congrats to @garmdotcom for being the fastest growing startup of the week 🥇👏🎉 - 2,300% MoM growth - $4,213 revenue last 30 days It's a MacOS app that reduces Claude Code & Codex token usage with optimized prompts. It makes money by helping users save money 🤗

10K weekly downloads 🤯 x.com/marclou/sta...

I accidentally vibe coded a software engineer