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Marc Lou

Founder, ShipFast · 1 appearance on the record.

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Marc Lou is an indie maker and build-in-public creator who builds and monetizes digital products and SaaS tools. He created ShipFast, a Next.js boilerplate for launching startups, alongside tools like Habits Garden, CodeFast, and TrustMRR.

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Disclosure
Marc Lou vows to never raise VC, hire employees, or build slowly
“I will never spend months on a product. I will never raise money. I never have employees. I'll never do all the things that frustrated me in the past.”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 12:59 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
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Marc Lou: Building in public hedges against failed app launches
“I also decided to, at the same time I built stuff, I'm going to try to share this publicly so that people can see it, so that if my app goes wrong, if nothing happens, then in the worst case, maybe I'll have created a little following that's for the next proje…”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 13:25 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
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Marc Lou: Viral marketing skits boosted monthly revenue from $1K to $4K
“And I started to make those, like, skits where I would go on a podcast with Joe Rogan, or I would be on a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and this did really well. Like, people felt that I was having fun, and that's where my revenue went from, like, around a tho…”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 15:08 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
Disclosure
Marc Lou: ShipFast monthly revenue hit $135,000 following a YouTube feature
“And there's obviously the YouTube episode that came a little bit later. Added lots of revenue to the product, ShipFast. So it went from, like, 50,000 dollars a month to somewhere around 85,000 dollars on the first month, then 135 In the second month, a 135 in …”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 17:46 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
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Marc Lou states he failed approximately 30 startups before succeeding
“I failed 30 startups around that”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 18:52 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
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Marc Lou lived with parents and earned $10/hr building first app
“As I chose a different path, I lived with my parents, working as a waiter part-time, like at night, basically, to make, I think, 10 dollars per hour. I was so arrogant that I spent a year working on this app.”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 3:02 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
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Lou: Six-Month AI App Venture Acquired Zero Customers
“It took six months to make an app, but we didn't get any customers.”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 4:20 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
Disclosure
Marc Lou: Pre-sold an unbuilt software tool on a cold sales call
“Why don't you just try to sell it before you make it? I listened to him. I did exactly what he told me. I sent some cold emails, and I'm supposed to have the call with his business in Australia. It's the first time I do a, like, a call with a lead. I'm thinkin…”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 6:15 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year
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Marc Lou: COVID-19 wiped out $4,000 MRR business in 24 hours
“Revenue went from 4000 dollars a month to zero in, like, 24 hours.”
Marc Lou Aug 5, 2024 ▶ 8:25 The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year

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Who brings them up most Pat Walls 2Jack Fricks 1

Statements about Marc Lou, by other people (1)

Disclosure
Fricks: Tech Stack Centers on Next.js, React Native, ShipFast, and Supabase
“So my tech stack is Next.js mostly, and for mobile apps, it's React Native. With Expo, and I use also a boilerplate to start all my web projects called Shipfast from my friend Mark Lou. I use Supabase for the database every time”
Jack Fricks Mar 25, 2025 ▶ 15:15 I Built a $10K/Month App from My Mom’s Basement

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The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year Aug 5, 2024 13m
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