marclou on his coding course: 9 months of work, one launch spike, then revenue hit zero
petergyang · x · 2026-09-08
Developer marclou explains why his course revenue went to zero: he launched it once but never scaled it — the Stripe dashboard shows one big spike followed by nothing. With 100k followers at the time and constant questions about how he learned to code, he spent 9 months at 6 hours a day building the course he wished he'd had when starting out.
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