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Alex Nguyen
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Alex Nguyen
@alexcooldev
Indie Hacker building AI apps:
370K users 🤙 $19K/mo (notewave.app)
20K users 🤌 $9K/mo (meddeep.ai)
partnered with @rork and @arcads_ai
HCMC Vietnam
Joined November 2022
my earnings from the last 18 months: dec 23: $3,200 (salary) jan 24: $3,200 (salary) feb 24: $3,200 (salary) mar 24: $3,200 (salary) apr 24: $0 (quit 9-5 job, full-time as indie hacker) may 24: $0 jun 24: $0 jul 24: $0 aug 24: $2,300 (salary) (fail and back to job) sep 24:- 4hours coding. 4 hours marketing. 1 hour working out. Did this every day for 11 months, and boom, 260k users, 130k$ total revenue, and $19,7k monthly revenue! Stay consistent. Small habits = big wins over time 😌
- My Tech Stack for Building a $18K/Month, 150K-User Product 💻 Frontend: - Next.js - TailwindCSS - Shadcn UI - React Query - Zustand 📱 Mobile: - React Native (Expo) 🛠 Backend: - NestJS 🗄 Database: - Supabase 🖥 IDE: - Cursor AI 💸 Payment: - RevenueCat
- Stop overthinking. Just build. A website. An API. A scrappy MVP. A Chrome extension. An AI agent. A simple automation script. That’s how you flip the script.
- I just received the bill for my app’s operational costs, running at: 💰 $17.5K/month 👥 145K users 📈 8K–12K daily active users Breakdown: - Supabase: $93 - Railway server: $47 - OpenAI API: $146 - Speech-to-text API: $80 (170.584 mins) - RevenueCat: $175 - Claude API & Llama:
- My app just hit $17.5K in revenue for the first time last month! 🎉 I've decided to resign from my current job to go all-in and focus 100% on my product, officially putting an end (at least temporarily) to my 9-to-5 journey, though I might go back if things don’t work out lol 😆.
- That's right! I dedicated: 4 hours to coding 4 hours to marketing 1 hour to exercising Did this every day for 4 months, and boom, 100K users, $25K total revenue, and $14K monthly revenue!1 hour of coding 1 hour of marketing 1 hour of exercising Do these every day this year. By 2026, you'll have built a profitable side project.
- My Tech Stack for Building a $19.5K/Month, 230k User Product. Built by Me Only 😄 💻 Frontend: - Next.js - TailwindCSS - Shadcn UI - React Query - Zustand 📱 Mobile: - React Native (Expo) - NativeWind - React Native Reusables 🛠 Backend: - NestJS 🗄 Database: - Supabase 🔑
- 4 hours to coding 4 hours to marketing 1 hour to exercising Did this every day for 9 months, and boom, 214k users, 90k$ total revenue, and $19,5k monthly revenue! Keep up good habits, and little wins will start showing up 😌
- So lucky I hosted my product on Railway. Hopefully, I won’t have to move it elsewhere 😌🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇷 Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead. We spoke about AI empowering everyone to build software and the importance of ensuring it serves quality and progress. Optimistic for peace, safety, and
- Million-dollar idea: Build a product or agency that helps B2C apps do marketing at ultra-low cost through organic growth on X, TikTok, IG, Reddit...
- After 1+ year of nonstop building, I finally rewarded myself with something big — my first car at 26. 💪
- 4 hours to coding 4 hours to marketing 1 hour to exercising Did this every day for 8 months, and boom, 180k users, 70k$ total revenue, and $18,3k monthly revenue! Keep up good habits, and little wins will start showing up 😌
