The future is one of polymaths, not specialists.
Learn to learn. Learn to think.
Blake Anderson
4,439 posts
- Avoid all zero-sum methods of making money.
- I've gone from idea to execution 3x on this playbook in one year. RizzGPT ($2.4m arr), Umax ($5m arr), and Cal AI ($8m arr). I'm no longer doing it. Ask me anything and I'll share all of the secrets.I recently discovered a part of the internet where a bunch of cracked 18-22yr old indie hacker kids from no-name unis run bootstrapped mobile apps growth-hacked on TikTok. Each app has 100k+ monthly users and makes $1M-5M/yr. Never underestimate the kids.
- Built my first app with ChatGPT and launched with no version control + code ONLY local on my laptop. + $250k mrr Reinvested every dollar and did it on my own. + $600k mrr Partnered with two 17 year olds. + $1.3m mrr Broke every rule in the book. Listen less, do more.
- Cursor is cooked 🔥 Bolt and Replit "build an app on your phone" tools are incredible... In just a matter of minutes, anybody can build an app that doesn't work.Introducing Native Mobile App support on Bolt You can now go from idea to App Store just by prompting Bolt, no coding necessary
- 5 Ivy League applications 100 job applications 4 YC applications All rejections, not even an interview. Never had a job. 6+ years of selling vapes, driving DoorDash, tutoring, and taking tests for other students. I watched as students with 1/100th of my drive were handed
- I made $3.94m in July 2025 🍎 Cal AI — $3.31m 💦 PlugAI — $0.36m 👄 Umax — $0.27mI made $48,921 in July 2025. 🧑💻 CodeFast — $20.6K ⚡️ ShipFast — $18.2K 📈 DataFast — $6.1K 🐥 Twitter — $1.5K 🍜 Indie Page — $1.2K 💨 Zenvoice — $394 🚀 LaunchViral — $387 🎞️ YouTube — $215 🛡️ ByeDispute — $96 🌱 HabitsGarden — $96 📚 WorkbookPDF — $67 💩 PoopUp — $66 🔴 Every
- My father’s software / consulting company did over $100m in revenue and he walked away with nothing. He raised too much, growth slowed, and investors got nervous so they forced a sale. Pretty tough to watch it unfold as a child.
- It is mind-blowing how bad Anthropic is at distribution.
- My “successful” businesses - ai apps My “failed” businesses - ebooks - RuneScape botting - madden mobile coins - Minecraft servers - eth mining machine (2017) - drop shipping - instagram meme pages - social media marketing agency - youtube - online tutoring - amazon fba -
- Easiest path to 7 figures liquid right now 1. Start an app studio w/ your smartest friends 2. Build things that excite you 3. Double down on whatever works best
- Advice I recently gave to a founder whose app is taking off...
- Elon this, Trump that Back to cursor buddy AI slop isn’t gonna code itself
