// Creator teardown ·
How Marc Lou grew to 416k on X and $90k a month
X is the engine. YouTube broke out in spring 2024. He has no TikTok of his own; he pays fans to clip him.
Who Marc Lou is
A solo founder based in Cyprus who has built 38 startups, among them TrustMRR, DataFast, CodeFast and ShipFast. He posts on X every day, writes the Just Ship It newsletter (50k readers) and wrote a book on making $3M with 36 startups.
- 416,184
- X followers
- 158k
- YouTube subscribers
- 29,787
- Instagram followers
- $90.2k
- a month
The timeline
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Feb–Aug 2023
Posting on X about 35 times a month. The typical post gets 50–120 likes.
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Sep–Dec 2023
X steps up: the typical post goes from 141 to 326 likes in four months.
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Mar–Apr 2024
YouTube breaks out. Three videos reach 416k–766k views against a usual 7k. He posts 21 videos that half-year and 37 Instagram posts.
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Feb–May 2025
X peaks: the typical post gets 770–838 likes and about 65k–98k views.
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Jul–Nov 2025
X halves to 255–304 likes a post, while his single biggest post lands (10,098 likes).
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Feb 2026
Posting on LinkedIn every day. The typical post gets 46–123 likes.
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Aug–Oct 2026
X recovers to 605–657 likes a post. A HYROX race he was paid $112k to run becomes his biggest Instagram post (49,078 likes).
What a typical post gets on X, month by month
YouTube: his four biggest videos
I made these 23 websites (and earned $562,943)
Apr 2024 · 766k views
Starts from being fired from a software job in 2021, then tours all 23 sites he built since, one by one, with the revenue each made: some nothing, some five figures, three sold.
"I'm going to show you every website that I made as well as the revenue"
I earn $1,753/day with this SIMPLE tech stack
Mar 2024 · 486k views
Opens with the numbers (21 products, 260,000 page views and over $50,000 a month, a $67 a month stack), then walks through each tool he uses: React, Next.js, Stripe, Vercel.
"I always stick to the exact same tech stack"
I built a startup in 31 hours (SaaS)
Mar 2024 · 416k views
A recap of a 31-hour livestream: the idea (he noticed $1,600 of Stripe fees), four shortcuts to build fast, the landing page, and $2,000 profit in the first week.
"from the first line of code to the first customer within 31 hours"
I vibe-coded $300,000 in 9 months
Aug 2026 · 208k views
TrustMRR's story: a leaderboard built in six hours after a Pieter Levels tweet about fake revenue screenshots, a $1M offer he turned down, now $44,000 a month and a 3% fee on startups sold through it.
"I got an offer for $1 million that I rejected"
What they share: Every one puts a dollar figure in the title and opens by promising to show everything: every site, every tool, every hour. The usual video before them got about 7k views.
Instagram: fewer posts, bigger ones
His biggest posts are about him, not his products
I visited the Trump Gold Card website and went for lunch. When I came back, it had downloaded 3.5Gb of data. The site is nice, though.
.@mntruell launched Cursor 8 times, and nobody cared. Don't give up.
10 years as an entrepreneur and 1 takeaway: Don't you dare give up.
Why I'm leaving Bali after 6 years: - Far from everything - Not cheap anymore - Air is polluted - Food chain is polluted - Ocean is polluted - Not walkable - Too hot all year - Wife gets catcalled often I want mild weather, walkable areas, organic shops, clean air…
I gifted an @eightsleep to my parents last Christmas and they're so happy to have it now
I made an app to turn web analytics into a Severance episode. Every page on your site is a department. /pricing is a department. /blog is a department. Your visitors are innies now. When they visit your site, they arrive through the elevator…
The funnel
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Post on X daily. His bio is a product list with monthly revenue next to each one (TrustMRR $53K/m, DataFast $31K/m…), then "+35" linking to his page.
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Clip him everywhere. ClipMarc pays anyone $3 per 1,000 views to post clips of his videos. That's why TikTok has Marc Lou clip accounts but no Marc Lou.
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3
One page for everything. marclou.com lists 38 startups with their monthly revenue, his newsletter and his book.
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Capture the reader. The Just Ship It newsletter with 50k readers and a book, "I've made $3M with my 36 startups".
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5
Sell what he used. ShipFast (the starter is $199, down from $299), CodeFast (with an affiliate scheme paying up to $150), DataFast (14-day free trial, no card).
Where the money comes from
| Product | A month | |
|---|---|---|
TrustMRR
Buy and sell startups with verified revenue
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Buy and sell startups with verified revenue | $46.6k |
DataFast
Web analytics tied to revenue
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Web analytics tied to revenue | $31.5k |
Ship or Die
Ship your app in 30 days
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Ship your app in 30 days | $4.4k |
CodeFast
Learn to code course
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Learn to code course | $3.8k |
ShipFast
Startup boilerplate
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Startup boilerplate | $1.7k |
| The other 12 with revenue $9 to $821 each | $9 to $821 each | ≈$2.2k |
What to copy
- Post on X every day, and put your products and their numbers in your bio.
- Tell personal stories with numbers in them. His top posts are about leaving Bali, being depressed with $0 income, and a race he was paid to run.
- When something works, push it everywhere at once. His YouTube breakout came with a burst of Instagram posts in the same months.
- Let other people do the reposting: pay clippers per view instead of running every platform yourself.
- Share revenue in public, month by month. It's content, and it's proof.