BOOM! Welcome to my TED talk 🎙️ Might be the first indie hacker to do this and give the community the stage it deserves. My 15+ years of entrepreneurship has been a rollercoaster. But I'm so glad I've ended up here. piped.video/9nelvg9KadA?si=9CMu…

2013: Rejected by YC 2014: First startup → FAILED 2017: Second startup → FAILED 2018: Another app → FAILED 2019: Launched tiiny (solo, bootstrapped) 2020: First customer - $10 2021: $1k MRR 2023: $10k MRR 2024: $20k MRR Today: $500k+ ARR Success is never linear.

YC rejected me. Google didn’t hire me. VCs passed. An angel investor ghosted me. Still I went on to build a $400K ARR startup. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t ship.

I applied to YC. Rejected. Tried to raise from Angels. Ghosted. Still scaled to a $500K+ ARR SaaS with: - Reddit - SEO - Twitter Just keep moving forward.

20.6 Million impressions on Google in the last 12 months for Tiiny 🤯 And I'm just a developer 🧑‍💻 (not a marketer) But how did I get started? (Hint: I didn't use an auto-blogger 🤖🚫) A thread 🧵👇

Unpopular opinion: Making $10K/mo from a B2B SaaS is much easier and faster than a B2C SaaS.

How to waste a year: - Fancy landing page - Dark mode - Cool logo - Paid ads - Wait for Product Hunt traffic How I built a $500K ARR SaaS: - Reddit - SEO - Ship fast - Iterate

41,000 new users signed up for Tiiny in July 🤯 ...and thousands in MRR 💸 But how did we acquire our first customers? Here are some key lessons I learned early on... A thread 🧵

Bootstrapping is harder than building a VC backed company. Fight me.

I have a $300k+ ARR SaaS 💸 More than 2,000 customers 📈 Solo founded 1️⃣ Fully Remote 🌎 Here’s the 5 step strategy I used to achieve this… A thread 🧵

Average Indie Hacker marketing: - Post on Reddit - Build in public - Launch on Product Hunt - Spam Twitter replies What they miss: - SEO + YouTube

Quit JP Morgan. Failed a startup. Tried again. Failed again. Worked a full-time job, built at night. And now TinyHost is a $400K ARR SaaS. Keep shipping.

"Why would anyone pay for you when github pages is free?"

Unpopular opinion: Most top founders now are just ex-devs who learned marketing.

Unpopular opinion: If your MVP has a dark mode, you’re already overbuilding.

Them: SEO is dead. Me: Turned my $40 MRR SaaS into a $400k ARR business with SEO.

I went from a 9-5 to remote freedom with a $300k+ ARR business 💸 From 0 customers to over 2,000 🚀 How? The Tiny strategy ⚡️ A thread 🧵👇

Still got 0 users? Stop building more features. - Post on Reddit until you get banned - Answer Quora questions - Cold email potential users - Join Slack and community forums That’s how I got my first 100 users.

- No payment options - No login - Files took 15+ mins to go live This was Tiiny’s MVP. I didn’t focus on perfection and now it’s a $400K ARR SaaS. Lesson in that.

BOOM! Woke up and chose $20,000 MRR 💸 Incredible how fast this tiiny app is growing 🚀 THIS is proof that you can get here with the right strategy 🙌 What did I do right? Found a problem space and went all in on it. I didn’t make small bets. I wanted it to exist, I had an interest and expertise in this space and I worked on it until it succeeded. Work on a problem you have an edge/expertise + interest in. It’s going to get tough so you better be interested in it. I chose a validated idea. If it’s your first business you want to make it easy for yourself - pick a space which is validated, validation is the hardest part. No that doesn’t mean copy another Indie Project - there are bigger products out there to improve. The simpler the better. Tech is too complicated today for its own good. If you can take an existing, validated product and simplify it - you're on to a winner. Step out of your developer bubble. Finding your single distribution channel is key. Marketing is like sprinkling seeds all over the internet and waiting to see what grows - then doubling down on what does. Code less & market more. Coding more with no users is procrastination - it’s the easy part for devs. Community is key, don’t do this alone. I honestly wouldn’t be here without the support of @RamenClubHQ & @IndieBeers don’t do this alone, they’re been invaluable. Most problems have been solved - just ask someone who’s solved it. Once you hit a cruising altitude you snowball. Getting there is the hard part. Your key distribution channel needs to be supplemented with others (e.g. YouTube, email, referral loops etc.) Lastly, thank you to everyone who's support me along the way - you know who you are 🙏 P.s. Admittedly we are way past $20k MRR but wanted to make helpful post about it.

Damn, 50 new paying customers in one day 🔥 New records 🚀

Hot question: Would you rather make $66k from 13 products or 1?

🤯 Woah - I've made over $1 million from this tiiny little app. Don't ask me where its gone 😂 Still no Ferrari in my drive.

“You're so lucky you have a $300K ARR SaaS.” Meanwhile the luck:

A friend of mine got a job earning £500,000 a year. He met his boss in the gym. Get off Twitter.

I got rejected for a job at Google in 2013. Now my startup has 20M+ impressions from Google. You can just ship things.

Saturday coffee shop shipping is a vibe 🔥☕

BOOM! Over 1Million users have registered on Tiiny 🙌 Crazy 🤯

I don’t have a big team. No fancy office. Spent $0 on ads. Still scaled to $40K+ MRR. How? Laptop. Smart work. Persistence. Keep shipping.

BOOM! $500,000+ ARR 🚀 🌕 In our first year we were making < $100 MRR Incredible how far we've come 🤯 Below are my key learnings along the way 🧵👇

Earlier this year we passed $20,000 MRR this year 🥳 It was a HUGE milestone for me. But what helped Tiiny get to it's first 10k MRR? A thread 🧵👇

Thanks PDF hosting 🙏

.@TiinyHost just passed 2,000 customers recently 🙌 Here are 15 things I wish I knew earlier 👇

Unpopular opinion: The most profitable products are the ones most people avoid building. Because they’re boring.

YO! $7,888 + $2,248 = $10,000 MRR Club 🙌 💪🎊 Damn, didn't think tiny.host had that much potential! S/O to the @RamenClubHQ gang & everyone whose been instrumental on the way🙏

Product Hunt is dead. It got me a high quality backlink and some short-term traffic, but that’s about it. Here’s what actually took Tiiny from 0 to $400K ARR: - Reddit - SEO - YouTube - Twitter - Slack groups, IndieHackers

So tiiny.host hit $50,000 ARR 👀

We just passed 2,000 monthly paying customers 🤯 In Summer - the "slowest" month Might just be on to something here 😏...

10 cold DMs/emails daily 1 tweet daily 2 blogs weekly Do this for 30 days. You won’t stay at $0 MRR 💸

The goal was never the money. It was freedom & adventure. Few will understand.

I run a SaaS with 800,000+ users. And I wouldn’t be anywhere without a team. Why are Indie Hackers so obsessed with solopreneurship?

Unpopular opinion: If you can code + you also understand marketing, you’ll never go broke.

Tiny’s journey has been a struggle. It wasn't a rocket ship when it first began. Solo founded, bootstrapped. Up against million dollar companies. Stuck @ ~$70 MRR for the first year. But I pushed through & 4 years later it's a $300K+ SaaS 🙌 What's your excuse?

Today, tiny.host has passed 700 customers😱 About 3 years ago we were struggling to keep our 20 customers with us after our payment provider back then (Gumroad) booted us off & cancelled all subscriptions. We then grew steadily since spending $0 on marketing. Towards the end of last year I quit my FT job and dedicated my time to this and honestly, I ABSOLUTELY love my life rn 🙏 It's been one hell of a journey. If you're just beginning your journey, here's proof that you can reach here. KEEP GOING.

ChatGPT API costs cut by 50% 💸 Congrats your MRR is up by 50% 📈

Unpopular opinion: You’re better off building on a validated idea than trying to reinvent the wheel.

In our first year we were making $100 per month. Today we make $20,000+ per month. Sometimes you've gotta hang in there...

BOOM! Tiiny has a re-brand ✨ 1.5M+ users have signed up to Tiiny Host with a logo I designed in 30 mins 😂 It's time for a change as we enter our next chapter.

You can literally build & scale a SaaS for just $40. $20 for Cursor $20 for Vercel Tiiny – free Stripe – free Twitter – free Reddit – free IndieHackers – free SEO – free No reason not to hit $5K MRR once you've found a distribution channel.

Unpopular opinion: Follower count doesn’t matter, MRR does. Post less. Ship more.

Big day today, just resigned from my job to work full time on tiiny.host... Let's gooo 💪🚀

Looking for a talented logo designer to redesign the Tiny logo! Who's up for the challenge? Any recommendations? 👀 Please comment/dm with logo portfolio if interested 🙌

Our @TiinyHost blog racked up over 10M impressions on Google in the last 12 months 🙌 You're building your blog in the wrong way 🚫 Here's what you need to do 🧵👇

A couple years ago tiiny was making $200 a month. Today, tiiny makes over $200 a day. What a journey, very grateful 🙏 #7kMRRClub

I didn’t go viral. Didn’t raise money. Didn’t hire backlink agencies. I just built stuff people searched for. That’s how I hit 35M+ Google impressions.

Unpopular opinion: Follower count doesn’t matter if you’re building a SaaS.

63,000 new users signed up Tiiny in the last 30 days 🚀 Bootstrapped. No co-founder 1️⃣. Hundreds of thousands in ARR 💸 Everyone thought web hosting was done 🚫 Here's the full story since I wrote the first line of code. A thread 🧵👇

I had 3 failed startups before TinyHost. One just made $100 MRR. But all of them taught me to: - Build fast - Launch early - Focus on marketing Then I launched Tiny. The failures paid off.

Hello tiiny.host HQ 🖥️

When traffic started coming in, I didn’t build more features. I built distribution. Reddit bans? I learned from it. Cold emails ignored? I iterated. I wasn’t a marketer. But I became one. You can too.

You don’t get your first 100 users with SEO. You get them by talking to people and solving a specific pain. But once the product is validated, Once you know who it’s for, That’s when SEO becomes a growth lever. It’s not how you start. It’s how you scale.

What products are $1M ARR and still look shit?

I treat SEO like code: - Find issues (find awesome keyword opportunities) - Debug (write great content) - Ship changes - Check impact Repeat. That’s how I went from DR 0 to 34M+ impressions without hiring an agency.

Captain's log: tiiny.host reaches $5,000 MRR baby! 🚀 P.s. In Lisbon next week for the summer, DM me if you'd like to meet up! 🇵🇹

The Indie Hacker Reality - FOCUS.

BOOM: ✅ $100,000 ARR business part-time 🤯 Next: $100,000 MRR business full-time (S/O to @RamenClubHQ) #indiehackers

BOOM! @AnthropicAI Claude x Tiny 🤝 Here's exactly how to create an app using Claude AI and publish it online in seconds⚡️

I built TinyHost while working full-time. 3 focused nights a week. 2 full days off every weekend. REMEMBER: You don’t need to kill yourself to build something.

- Directory listings: e.g. Crunchbase, IndieHackers - Quora: Answer questions in your field, linking to your product - Guest blogging: Write expert pieces for other blogs - Open source docs: Contribute to documentation (I got a backlink from Gatsby this way!)

At JP Morgan, I had: - The brand - The office - The job title But I couldn’t stomach 15 years of coding with no creativity. So I walked away from safety. And chased freedom. Thank God I did.

BOOM! New achievement unlocked🔓⭐️

BOOM! 👇 tinyhost.com

If you want to build something fancy, go B2C. But if you wanna make more money, B2B is the way.

Thanks PDF hosting 🙏 Been taking some time off in Vietnam 🇻🇳

Tiny is a $40K+ MRR SaaS. It still doesn't have dark mode. I don't think that needs any more explanation, does it?

If I had to start all over again, I’d: - Find a product already validated in B2B - Make it simpler - Aim it at non-technical users You don’t need an original idea. You need a clearer one.

I built Tiny’s MVP part-tine, in 4 weeks. No over-engineering. Just “upload a ZIP, get a URL.” Then I did zero feature work for months. You couldn't even login. Only marketing. That’s how I built a SaaS that now pays me to live life on my terms.

I don't know why so many Indie Hackers are fixated on Solopreneurship. Having a team is one of the best things that ever happened to me 🙏

You're looking at the LARGEST @IndieHackers MeetUp in Europe 🔥 Incredible energy last night in beautiful Lisboa 🇵🇹 Great things are definitely brewing here...👀

BOOM: New SEO Achievement Unlocked 🔓🔎

5️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ followers! 🤯 Thank you for joining the MRR journey with me 🙏 You won't be disappointed 😉

BOOM! 100,000 click throughs from Google in the last month 🤯🚀 This is a HUGE personal milestone for me 🙏 When I first started building Tiny I knew nothing absolutely nothing about SEO. It took me about 6 months to get any traffic from SEO. But when it started, it never stopped. It's an ongoing effort with many different dimensions: KW research, writing, SEO audits, backlinking But needs one key ingredient: patience. Take my word for it - it's not as mystical as it seems. But to start it's really simple: Find the right keywords & write quality AI-free content. Ahref's University is a great resource.

We're adding more MRR to just this month than we had in the entire first 2 years of operation 🚀 SaaS just snowballs 🤯 Will post charts & numbers soon.

We've just made some HUUGE new hires at Tiiny ✅ 🧑‍💻 A talented lead dev 📈 Super smart growth lead 🧩 Incredible Product Manager I never understood why IH-ers choose to do this alone. "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together " With 40,000+ new users signing up EVERY month we're about to dominate this space. Next stop: 🌕

There’s millions of SaaS products out there. How many can you name? A few. No matter how polished or clean your product is, If you can’t stand out, you’re cooked. Marketing is the only moat.

Unpopular opinion: If you’re not ashamed of what you’re launching, you’re overbuilding.

I've built and asset worth $2,500,000. When I hit $10k MRR I could have kept it solo and started another project. But then I wouldn't have 4x'd the company. I built a team and doubled down. Theres a lesson in this.

You don't need to build the best SaaS. You just need: - A simple UI - Clear copy - A channel to reach users Most people miss the last one.

~44% of my traffic comes from SEO. 4 ways you can do the same: 1. Get good backlinks (Directories, Quora) 2. Target low KD, high SV keywords (Ahrefs) 3. Publish 2x 800-word blogs/week (Handwritten) 4. Wait 6+ months

Is this you? Be honest 😂

Hot take: Most people never make it not because they’re not smart, But because they can’t stop chasing flashy ideas all the time instead of focusing on one single project.

On track to hit 2,000 customer's this month 🤯🚀

Just another great day in life of SaaS support

We have 500,000+ users 🚀 But 6 years ago, I struggled to get even 1. How did I get my first users? Reddit. If you’re just starting out, Reddit is the best channel to find your first users. Here are 7 subreddits to promote your startup and grow. 🧵👇

BOOM! Our first 100k+ views YouTube video 🚀

We get ~200k visitors a month and have been running off a single node instance. Stop over engineering. Truth 👇

The exact roadmap I used to scale Tiiny: - Find a validated problem space - Build a simple, better solution - Join a like-minded community (@RamenClubHQ) - Find ONE scalable distribution channel And one day, you’ll wake up to $10K MRR.

Hard truth: If all you do is build, You’re not a founder. You’re just a dev. Founders ship and distribute.

BOOM! Guess who now supports PHP 👀 This is probably one of the biggest updates to Tiiny since launch 🥳 We support single PHP files for now but PHP apps coming very soon. We no longer only support static content 🙌 More languages coming soon, what do you want to see?

2/15 Lesson 1: Let visitors play with your product ASAP. I built tiiny host to be simple and straightforward from the start. No fancy landing page - just immediate value. Users could create a live site in seconds without even registering.

It's a good day... Just paid off my student loan 🙌🥳