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i build websites and convince google they’re worth finding

Joined January 2025
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i’ve been using cloudflare more and more for ai stuff lately still feels weird that you can’t just buy a vps, dedicated server or even basic hosting from them like you do with ovh, hetzner, etc. why not go after this market? @eastdakota $net
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i loved using shopee while living in bali great prices and selection! but my international debit/credit cards never worked, so i had to visit a convenience store to top up my balance before ordering @ShopeeID any plans to make payments easier for foreigners?
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J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
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just a reminder markets do not typically top out with extreme fear instead, markets tend to bottom out during periods of extreme fear
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seo guys, what if we vibe-code screaming frog?
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want to spend less on SaaS? click “cancel subscription” there’s a good chance you’ll get a “wait, how about 30% off?” offer before you reach the final button at this point, every saas I pay for seems to do it lol
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why can’t we just tell google, inside gsc, “rank this page for x, not y”? we already know the intent mismatch. google clearly doesn’t. let us override it
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i’m managing 20+ projects between my own sites and client work got tired of paying $40/month for analytics, so I vibe coded a datafast-inspired alternative sorry @marclou, i genuinely love datafast, but i had to cut costs 😅
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if you’re paying for codex or claude and leaving tokens unused, put them to work cut the subscriptions you don’t need, vibe code your own tools, and the ai subscription starts paying for itself also you learn a ton along the way
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i don't know what's happening but codex 20x really feels unlimited rn
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what would i do without cron triggers thanks @Cloudflare
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right now i'm replacing paid tools with ones i vibecode myself in 2/3 hours they cost me maybe 1% of what the monthly subscription would wild that this is normal now
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founders / builders / marketers / indie hackers, looking to connect with people working on: • seo • affiliate sites • travel projects • ai / llms • web apps • building in public • marketing • freelancing what are you building right now? drop it below, let’s connect 👋
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just hit 100 followers today small milestone, but a fun one would love to connect with more people building stuff here if we’re not connected yet, let’s connect 🤟
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i made €4,934 in september 2026 🧑‍💻 seo consulting — €4,175 🌍 affiliate sites — €759 (new) first proper month taking the affiliate sites seriously still early, but pretty happy with the start let’s see what october brings
I made $217,071 in September 2026. 💪 HYROX — $112K ⭐️ TrustMRR — $53K 📈 DataFast — $31K 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $7K 🐥 Twitter — $7K 🏴‍☠️ Ship or Die — $3K ⚡️ ShipFast — $2K 🍜 Indie Page — $685 🕵️‍♂️ Stalkr — $319 🎞️ YouTube — $263 🦐 SuperShrimp — $221 🌱 HabitsGarden — $143 🧾 Zenvoice — $138 🚀 LaunchViral — $129 🛡️ ByeDispute — $97 📚 WorkbookPDF — $67 💩 PoopUp — $9 ✂️ Margin: 90% The HYROX experiment hyrox.marclou.com inflates this month's revenue, but it's the best month ever for my marketplace TrustMRR.com ($53K) and my SaaS DataFa.st ($31K). I do everything solo, and I'm not going to lie, I'm fucking proud of myself. Since I was a kid, I've been told to focus on one thing. I find that boring. I want to play and try a bunch of things. I never felt confident because nothing really worked out for 7 years. I ended up being average at everything: coding, marketing, design... But building 37 startups (marclou.com) taught me something far more important: resilience, discipline, and optimism. Over the past decade, those skills have compounded. I now run a tiny portfolio of startups making $1M+/year, sleep 8 hours a night, work out 2 hours a day, and spend plenty of time with my wife. Anything is possible if you're hungry. Believe in yourself.
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first month running my affiliate sites: 7,613 visitors €759 revenue ~€100 rpm still very early, but pretty happy with the start excited for month two, let’s see what it brings
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i guess we're good with this google spam update
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62,500 chatgpt credits just landed in my account $2,500 worth of work + codex usage yeah, i'm pretty happy with this one but hey @thsottiaux, we're still waiting on those extra resets
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when will google release free official mcp servers for search console and google ads?
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just got a $5/mo vps where i’m going to host all my websites also moving codex to run remotely over ssh, because it keeps eating my macbook's ram and sometimes makes it painful to work let’s see how far a $5 vps can take me lol
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