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Marc Lou: MailCheap is at three-figure MRR

Marc Lou says his three-day-old Beehiiv replacement is at three-figure MRR and profitable from day one. Tibo's agent-run YouTube channel broke 1,000 views on a video, and dax says his new DeepSeek rack beats every inference vendor he tested on price/performance.

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Marc Lou says MailCheap is at three-figure MRR and profitable from day one

Marc Lou says MailCheap is now at three-figure MRR, days after he put the self-hosted newsletter tool on sale. He says delivery rate is currently 99.2% but there is not enough data yet for the number to be reliable, and he plans to open up delivery, open and bounce rates publicly.

Marc Lou
@marclou
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I have no investors to please, so I won't raise prices every few months.
Oct 15, 2026 · View on X

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Tibo's agent-run YouTube channel breaks 1,000 views on a video

Tibo says the first video on his fully agent-run YouTube channel passed 1,000 views, with the second above 1k too. The channel, "How It Actually Works", picks its own topic, writes the script, makes the video and posts it every day, using Revid for the videos and Squad to run the agent scheduling through PostSyncer.

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dax says his new DeepSeek rack beats every inference vendor on price/performance

dax says a first test run on a new GPU rack with their DeepSeek inference setup is getting better price/performance than every vendor they have found. He says there is still more optimization to do. No cost figures, tokens per second or vendor names were given.

dax
@thdxr
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the price/perf we're getting is better than every single vendor that we've found
Oct 18, 2026 · View on X

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