Indie dev Marc Lou says he turns down $5K-per-tweet promos, refuses to sell his opinions
marclou · x · 2026-11-12
Marc Lou pushed back at commenters calling him a grifter. He says that amid the AI gold rush, companies routinely offer him $5K for a single promotional tweet, and he declines them all because he doesn't want his opinions to be for sale. He cites his HYROX sponsorship experiment as evidence of how much brands will pay for visibility.
Now financially free, he says the real validation is people paying for apps he built himself, and what motivates him is building weird experimental products — after seven years of building alone, he has finally found his community.
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