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Marc Lou: ShipFast monthly revenue hit $135,000 following a YouTube feature

Marc Lou · The Underdog: From $10/hr to $1.5M/Year · Aug 5, 2024 · at 17:46

Solopreneur Marc Lou discusses the monthly revenue growth trajectory of his SaaS boilerplate product, ShipFast, following a prominent YouTube feature.

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“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 the third month, and now it's slowing down a little bit to somewhere like around 80,000 dollars a month.”

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