Indie maker Tibo turned years of failure into an $8M acquisition and $1M MRR portfolio
tibo_maker · x · 2026-11-05
French indie maker Tibo Maker (Thibault Louis-Lucas) shares his journey: after a string of startup failures, he rebuilt in 2021 around a simple rulebook — build from pain, ship fast, charge early, let revenue tell the truth. That led to Tweet Hunter and Taplio, acquired by Lempire in 2022 at $8M ARR, plus Product Hunt's Maker of the Year.
He now runs a portfolio of AI/SEO/content tools: revid.ai (auto short videos), outrank.so (autopilot SEO traffic), squad.so (AI teammates), SuperX, PostSyncer, feather.so and more, totaling $1M MRR. He also publishes a free growth newsletter to 75k+ founders and runs a $99/month Founder Room with a private Slack of 200+ bootstrapped founders at $1k+ MRR and weekly founder 1:1s.
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