Marc Lou says TrustMRR did $427k in year one
Marc Lou says a vibe-coded leaderboard turned into $427,610 of revenue at 90% margin in twelve months, and he turned down multi-million acquisition offers. Also today: an official Claude Code extension shipped backdoors.
Real money
Marc Lou says TrustMRR did $427k in its first year at 90% margin
Marc Lou says TrustMRR turned one with 4,000,000 visitors, 208 startups acquired and $427,610 in revenue at 90% margin. He says he rejected several multi-million acquisition offers. A year ago it was a vibe-coded leaderboard built on read-only Stripe keys, where founders upload a key and get a verified revenue page plus a dofollow backlink.
several multi-million acquisition offers rejected
What changed under us
Amjad Masad says an official Claude Code extension installed backdoors
Amjad Masad says an official Claude Code extension was compromised and installed backdoors on developer machines, and he asks whether it is connected to the Binance hack. Binance says its initial investigation suggests a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, with estimated impact around $6.3B. Masad's link is speculation, not a finding, and he has published a whitepaper on sandboxing agents.
Coding agents on employee or contractor laptops are a massive cyber and national security risk
Founder fights
DHH backs Proton's CTO over staff revolt about an AI memo
DHH says there is nothing scandalous in the Proton CTO AI memo that Joseph Cox obtained and published, and tells Andy Yen not to fold. His argument: a company refusing to adapt becomes uncompetitive, customers leave and everyone gets fired anyway.
The real AI psychosis is thinking "this is just another tool