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He Built an App in 24 Hours and Made $20,378 the Next Day. Here's the Part Nobody Screenshots.
Marc Lou read a tweet, slept on it, and woke up still annoyed. The tweet, from Pieter Levels, was about all the fake revenue screenshots on X. By the next evening Lou had built a thing to fix it. By the day after that, the thing had made $20,378. That is the part everyone retweets. I want to walk you through it, and then I want to show you the line in his own year-end letter that complicates the whole legend. The setup Lou got fired by Tai Lopez in November 2021, was broke and depressed, and moved to Bali. He started shipping tiny products in public, copying the playbook of, yes, Pieter Levels. His breakout was ShipFast , a Next.js starter kit that did $40,000 in its first month in September 2023. By December 2025 he was running 15 startups generating about $84,900 a month, with cumulative revenue past $2.26 million, per his verified TrustMRR data. The reason I trust his numbers more than most is that he verifies them through Stripe on his own product, TrustMRR , which brings me to the 24-hour story. The moment something worked, absurdly fast TrustMRR exists to kill fake MRR screenshots. You connect a read-only Stripe key, and it shows your verified revenue on a public page nobody can edit. Lou built it in a day on top of his own boilerplate, which is the cheat code here. He was not starting from zero, he was starting from ShipFast. "TrustMRR is 24 hours old and was built in 24 hours." @marc_louvion on X He monetized it with sidebar ad slots. He listed them at $299 a month, then raised the price each time one sold, all the way to $1,499. In his newsletter he wrote that within three days every slot was gone and the side project had made $20,378. He called it the third fastest-growing thing he has ever built. Five days in, he posted the run-rate dream out loud. "20/20 spots filled! TrustMRR went from $0 to $18,380 MRR in 5 days. That's $220,000 ARR if I'm allowed to dream a little" @marc_louvion on X It kept going. By December 2025 TrustMRR was his single biggest inco
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2026-07-14 23:20
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TechCrunch
New York State halts construction of all new data centers
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2026-07-14 23:17
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Ars Technica
New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry
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HackerNews
Show HN: I built a smart proxy so your coding agent can run loose
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2026-07-14 22:55
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Wired
New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
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2026-07-14 22:54
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Show HN: Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22)
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2026-07-14 22:40
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TechCrunch
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
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HackerNews
Show HN: Oodle.ai – $10 per million agent traces
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2026-07-14 22:36
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TechCrunch
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
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TechCrunch
Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
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TechCrunch
Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
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The Verge AI
Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world's richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet - from Apple. OpenAI's expensive hardware bet is what's on the line. Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, filed in Northern […]
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TechCrunch
Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
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InfoQ
Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents
Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dynamic capability discovery while leveraging existing protocols such as MCP and OpenAPI for execution and emphasizing trust and interoperability. By Leela Kumili
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InfoQ
Meta's Noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface Brain2Qwerty Achieves 61% Accuracy
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