here are all the businesses i’ve ever started:
❌ AI tutor app
❌ dating app for groups
❌ landscaping
✅ Parallel Live ($2+ million)
imagine if I gave up?
Three years ago, i got my first taste of internet money.
since then, i’ve built Parallel Live to 7 figs/year, all without a SINGLE full time employee.
how tf is that possible?
i give all the credit to organic growth & Content-Market-Fit. i figured out how to tell the best
burn out isnt real. I have infinite energy to work on companies that make me rich.
I have nearly 0 energy to work on projects that are failing. Humble yourself and accept that you failed.
move on.
don't waste time on things that aren't working. It will make you miserable and
Would you rather make $10k a month with no competitors vs $50k a month with a competitor that copied your idea.
The downside is that they are making 70k a month from your concept….
My app originally cost $10 dollars one time for premium. I was making 10k a month until a
competitor duped my app.
and I’m fucking fuming.
not bc they ripped me off, but because they did it better lmao
ngl hats off, very well executed.
best believe I’m taking notes from em.
“Winners never give up” is the biggest fucking lie….
My first company was a failure. I worked on it for 5 years and truly believed winners never give up.
In the end, if the market rejects your solution, no amount of tech, sales people, or marketing will make your company
This is a story about an AI app thats doing 100k MRR.
And its heart breaking...
Someone reached out to me on instagram saying that their app, that uses AI to fake live Instagram streams (went viral a few months ago) was making $100k monthly.
They wanted me to promote it on
I got called “embarrassing” by a y-combinator graduate. They suggested I work on a new company.
Their company raised a bunch of vc money with no profits ever.
My company is doing 50k MRR PROFIT and growing. I own 100%. Like the money all goes to me, crazy idea.
The only
Moved from monthly payments to weekly payments for my micro-saas, and it’s fucking CRUSHING.
Risky move. But so far we’re reaping the rewards.
MRR has SHOT up 🚀
HOWEVER, this isn’t the time to get comfortable.
Time to look at the data and analyze:
What’s retention like
How to expose your fake friends…
1. Make a fake Instagram account posing as a reporter for a major media outlet.
2. Dm your “friends” from fake IG account asking for information about you. Say you’ll pay 500 dollars.
3. See what friends are interested in the offer vs who
6 months ago, I invested $30k in building a micro-SaaS.
Now it does $22k MRR and takes just 3hrs/week to maintain 🤯
But I've gotta be honest. I can't take credit for this.
It's ALL the team.
The killers by my side make this journey easy.
WHO you work with >> what you work
i feel depressed everyday I’m not productive.
doom scrolling really impacts my mental health to the point I delete my social apps and throw my phone.
how have people beaten their social media addiction?
Ask yourself, who would you be impostering? Majority of pitches are for terrible businesses. VCs see them all the time. Feeling like an imposter would actually mean you are impostering a bad business. So have no stress and do the best you can do!
I’m not gonna lie, 😮💨 massive imposter syndrome as I start putting together my pitch deck & dream list of investors. Founders, how do you cope with your imposter syndrome ?
Linkedin:"It was a honor to speak at ... " gets rewritten to "HEY EVERYONE LOOK HOW IMPORTANT I AM" with the new anti-brag AI tool i built.
Who else is tired of humble brag post like, "It was a honor to speak at ... " or "Thank you ___ for featuring me blah blah" on linkedin? I
i had a fucking gigantic problem when i started Parallel Live.
i couldn’t scale.
i relied on Paid Ads to sell the product for me, which worked rlly well… for a while.
it was just fucking IMPOSSIBLE to scale.
for every 1000 clicks, only 10% converted to users.
and the
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Last month my app Parallel Live got 150k downloads. The explosion of short form content on TikTok and instagram has dramatically lowered the customer acquisition cost for indie developers! Keep up the great work
@mattfischer415
i LOVE having competitors.
its nice to have people ahead of you.
it motivates tf out of me.
if their roadmap is crystal clear, steal from it.
being in your silo is hard.
the most successful people do not reinvent the wheel.