Marc Lou's biggest win isn't an AI app — it's the ShipFast Next.js boilerplate
sven_ai · x · 2026-11-13
Indie maker Marc Lou's biggest earner isn't a complex AI app but ShipFast, a Next.js starter template. He kept rebuilding auth, payments, and email for every new product, so he packaged the code and sold it to other developers — making roughly $6,000 in the first 48 hours after its 2023 launch. The takeaway: the best startup opportunity is often the problem you've already solved a dozen times for yourself.
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