Marc Lou posts $105k October across 16 products
Marc Lou says October brought $105,147 in revenue across 16 streams with zero employees, and one of those streams is a 16-day-old email tool at $2k MRR. Meanwhile France just passed a tax on every gigabyte of internet traffic.
Real money
Marc Lou posts a $105k October across 16 products, no employees
Marc Lou published his October breakdown: $42,531 from TrustMRR, $31,103 from DataFast, $18,990 from Ship or Die, then thirteen smaller lines down to $9 from PoopUp. He first posted $107,142, then corrected the total to $105,147, blaming his own arithmetic. He says that is 16 revenue streams with 0 employees and 90% profit margins.
That’s 16 revenue streams with 0 employees, 90% profit margins, and time for the gym every day.
MailCheap doubled to $2k MRR six days after hitting $1k
Marc Lou says MailCheap went from $1K MRR at day 10 to $2K MRR at day 16, framed as an answer to people saying you cannot vibe-code a real business. His separate October breakdown lists MailCheap at $2,050 for the month. We covered the $1k mark last week, so this is the second doubling in under a week.
What changed under us
levelsio says France passed a tax of 0.055 euros per gigabyte
levelsio says a French tax on internet traffic actually passed at 5.5 cents per GB, which he had assumed was only a proposal, and he quotes a report that the stated target is up to 10 billion euros a year. A day later he flagged a Polymarket post saying a German minister proposes taxing all economic value created by AI.
Europe is running out of money