Indie hacker Marc Lou hits $107K MRR in October across 16 products with zero employees
marclou · x · 2026-10-31
Indie hacker Marc Lou shared his October revenue: $107,142 total, a personal record.
Top earners:
- TrustMRR $42,531
- DataFast $31,103
- Ship or Die $18,990
- Twitter $5,619, CodeFast $4,134, plus 10+ smaller products
Highlights:
- 16 revenue streams, 0 employees, 90% profit margins, and still time for the gym daily
- New stream this month: MailCheap, a newsletter tool priced up to 83% below beehiiv/Mailchimp ($19/mo, pay per email sent)
- MailCheap markets itself as work "your AI agent can do too"
A rare public breakdown of stacking many small products instead of one hit to build MRR.
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