Two indie devs shipped 3 products in a year, totaling 36K users
cneuralnetwork · x · 2026-10-20
Indie developer recounts launching three products from scratch in 2026 with real traction: LattEdit (a local-first browser LaTeX editor with pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX support, structured compile logs, and a key-free JSON compile API for agents) hit 1.5K users in 2 days; product two reached 4.6K users and $1.5K revenue in 7 months; product three hit 30K users and $405 revenue in 2 months. Combined: over 36K users.
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