Indie hacker ships AI video site in 18 hours, lands first $9.90 sale after 16 days
gefei55 · x · 2026-11-09
Indie developer @chaogetalks documents his first-ever sale: an AI video site built in 18 hours took 16 days to convert, earning $9.90—his first revenue after building a dozen websites. He breaks down the full timeline of where the payment came from in a build-in-public retrospective. The quoter's takeaway: making a website is easy; making one that earns money is not.
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