ShipFast went from $126k/mo to $2k/mo
Marc Lou posted ShipFast's four year arc and the last line is $2,000 a month. The product that made his name is now the smallest thing he owns.
Read the whole week in one goAnthropic's S-1: $16.3B in six months
Real money
Marc Lou posts ShipFast's decline: $126k a month in 2024, $2k now
Marc Lou published ShipFast's year by year revenue: $0 in 2023, $126,000 a month in 2024, $25,000 in 2025 and $2,000 a month in 2026. He wrote it as a thank you, saying the lows taught him more than he expected. He was quoting shirish, who says TrustMRR and DataFast are pulling $84k a month combined right now.
never bet your whole life on a single product
Stolen playbooks
levelsio vibe-coded an Alexa skill to replace Spotify in an afternoon
levelsio says he built his own jukebox by putting purchased MP3s in an R2 bucket and having Claude Code write an Alexa skill, so saying "Alexa, coffee jazz" plays his own files. He says Claude wrote a package.json and index.js, he built it in the Alexa Developer Console, then added a Routine by hand to map the phrase.
What changed under us
levelsio says a friend's employer is cancelling a $10k CMS to build their own
levelsio says a friend with a regular software job at a traditional company in small town Austria just went fully AI-pilled, and his employer is dropping a CMS licence to vibe code a dashboard instead. The friend asked to stay anonymous and the only evidence is group chat lines levelsio quoted.
My employer yesterday said we our CMS renews soon for a $10K/year license, so we'll cancel it and vibe code our own dashboard now lol