Marc Lou

Marc Lou reflected on his 2024 journey, highlighting his achievements, including earning $1.2M, launching 5 startups, and gaining 87K followers on Twitter. He also shared his goals for 2025, such as getting 330+ days with 10,000 steps, 100% sleep score, and no sugar.

Marc Lou shared updates on his startups, including CodeFast, ShipFast, and DataFast. He also revealed his revenue for December 2024, which was $268,463, and mentioned that his business is up by 118%. Additionally, he talked about the importance of building and experimenting to find successful startup ideas.

Marc Lou announced a free open meetup in Paris to discuss building internet startups, entrepreneurship, and remote work. He also shared his excitement about meeting like-minded people and building a community.

Marc Lou shared inspirational stories and motivations, including his own journey from being fired to becoming a successful entrepreneur. He encouraged others to believe in themselves and start building their own startups, highlighting the importance of taking action and being consistent.

This week, Marc Lou shared updates on DataFast, including the ability to attribute revenue on the backend and link customer data to visitor data with nearly 100% accuracy. A user also created an open-source Chrome plugin to exclude own visits from analytics without coding.

Marc Lou talked about riding waves to make money online, mentioning the 'be my own boss' wave and the upcoming health wave. He also shared lessons learned from growing a YouTube channel to 100K followers in 10 months.

Marc Lou shared his personal experience with outsourcing biomarkers for himself and his wife, tracking ~10 important markers and relying on data from doctors, ChatGPT, and Bryan Johnson to make decisions.

Marc Lou shared his experience of creating a course, CodeFast, and the amount of effort that went into it. He also mentioned that making a course is super hard, but kudos to all course creators out there. He shipped a new course and shared the story of its creation.

Marc Lou shared his experience of building 30+ websites and growing them to millions of visitors. He also shared the story of Typefully, a SaaS that grew to $1.6M ARR in 4 years. He emphasized the importance of shipping features and building an incredible product.

Marc Lou shared his thoughts on learning to code and entrepreneurship. He mentioned that there's never been a better time to learn to code and that showing up every day and iterating are key to success. He also shared his own experience of building a startup, Zenvoice, in 8 days and making $1K+/month.

Marc Lou shared his success story of making $300,000 in 30 days and emphasized the importance of creating something valuable, distributing it, and not quitting. He also shared his thoughts on happiness, health, and wealth, and how they are all connected to living in the present and building the future.

This week, ShipFast customers can enjoy $100/month off for 6 months. Additionally, ShipFast Perks now include a 30% discount for any of DataFast's yearly plans.

The launch of CodeFast has sparked questions about using AI to code. The author advises learning the basics of coding first and then using AI to code faster. They also shared their approach to learning to code in 2024, focusing on building a business and quitting the 9-5.

One of the author's domains went from 0 to 43 Domain Rating in 10 days, thanks to cross-linking with other high-rated domains and affiliates promoting the domain.

The author shared their perspective on becoming a millionaire, emphasizing that it's not about chasing money, but about offering value to the market. They also advised finding what makes you special and leaving your comfort zone to achieve success.

CodeFast had a successful launch with 45K visitors, 1,022 students, and $200,000+ in revenue. The founder hired someone full-time to answer tech questions on Discord to help students. They also added the CodeFast bundle to ShipFast and are considering removing the starter plan.

ShipFast added the top 25 startups (most revenue) to its homepage and is tracking outbound links. The founder also built a free logo maker in 3 days, which made $5,000+ in revenue and helped 50,000+ people design logos.

The founder is running Meta ads for CodeFast, which are showing promising results with $10 in ad spend resulting in $149 in revenue. They are also using affiliate marketing, with affiliates 'printing money' and the program being brand new and showing the best conversion rates seen so far.

The founder shared lessons learned from building and launching products, including not needing to know everything to build an idea and focusing on simplicity. They also shared their experience with depression and how it took 3 years to recover and cross $1M/year.

CodeFast, a SaaS product, was launched this week. It's a course that teaches people how to code and build an online business in 14 days. The product has seen significant success, with over $32,000 in sales in the first 24 hours. The author is thrilled with the response and is encouraging people to join the affiliate program.

The author made several updates to their products, including setting up compound indexes on DataFast to improve analytics loading times. They also rebuilt the CodeFast landing page from scratch after receiving feedback from friends, which has resulted in a significant improvement in conversion rates.

The author launched an affiliate program for CodeFast, which has already seen some success. They also shared their revenue figures for November, which show a significant increase of 118% compared to the previous month. CodeFast has become one of their top-earning products.

The author reflected on their journey and shared some lessons learned, including the importance of asking for feedback and being open to criticism. They also talked about how their high school teachers told them they would never go anywhere, but they have proven them wrong by building successful products and teaching people how to code.