Indie acquisitions, platform risk and life after selling Tweet Hunter for 8-figures
Today we’re joined by Tibo Louis-Lucas (https://x.com/tibo_maker), who is most well known for starting Tweet Hunter and Taplio in 2021, before selling the company in 2022 for 8 figures. Since then, Tibo has gone on to acquire an AI video creation tool, Typeframes, which he spun Revid.ai, and Feather.so, a Notion blogging platform.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:17 Leaving Lempire and starting from scratch
03:00 Learning from failures
05:29 Growing MRR with influencers
13:38 How Tibo felt selling Tweet Hunter
18:55 Why Tibo will never sell a project again
25:14 Feeling paralysis after selling your startup
27:36 How Tibo has approached acquiring products
29:28 Have Tibo's acquisitions been a success?
34:15 Why Tibo acquired another project for $250,000
36:01 Did Tibo waste $250,000 on buying Feather?
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr (https://twitter.com/jrfarr) & @jmckinven (https://twitter.com/jmckinven)— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
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20 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT
Lemon Squeezy CEO mid-year reflection: funding, features and football
Today we’re doing a a behind the scenes episode with JR. We haven’t looked at what’s going on since December, so it’s about time I posed some questions to JR about everything from features to growth and more.
Links
John O'Nolan episode: https://youtu.be/QXwiTZiO46g (https://youtu.be/QXwiTZiO46g)
Simon Pittman episode: https://youtu.be/L11ii1qKD5o (https://youtu.be/L11ii1qKD5o)
Rob Walling episode: https://youtu.be/M_JbjtIYUh0 (https://youtu.be/M_JbjtIYUh0)
JR's features tweet: https://x.com/jrfarr/status/1791819342784655760 (https://x.com/jrfarr/status/1791819342784655760)
Product links feature: https://x.com/lmsqueezy/status/1801252160941797848 (https://x.com/lmsqueezy/status/1801252160941797848)
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Guess that guest quote
06:02 - Reflecting on 1 year since rejecting venture capital
07:57 - Marketing for Lemon Squeezy
11:07 - JR embracing the hat-free life
12:26 - New features launched
14:26 - Do people still want or need merchant of record?
18:38 - Lemon Squeezy JavaScript SDK package going gangbusters
21:25 - Update on feature requests
28:38 - Trends for sellers JR is seeing
30:06 - Was Lemon Squeezy easier to build than Mojo?
34:56 - JR's dream non-founder guest
38:08 - Why JR hates soccer
41:43 - How is life for the CEO of Lemon Squeezy
As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr (https://twitter.com/jrfarr) & @jmckinven (https://twitter.com/jmckinven)— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com.
If you're looking to sell digital products online, be sure to check out Lemon Squeezy (https://lemonsqueezy.com/) or follow us on X @lmsqueezy. (https://twitter.com/lmsqueezy)
6 Jun 2024TRANSCRIPT
Taking on Adobe with his bootstrapped tool, Screen Studio - Adam Pietrasiak
Today we're joined by one of the most successful sellers on Lemon Squeezy, Adam Pietrasiak (https://x.com/pie6k). Adam is the founder of Screen Studio (https://www.screen.studio), a beautiful tool for creating and editing screen recordings that he started at the end of 2022 and now has thousands of paying users. In this episode we talk about how Adam made $30k in his first month, his approach to creating a well-polished product, and why he's not planning to take VC funding any time soon.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:47 Adam's background
02:23 Learning from past failures
05:20 Life building from Poland
07:46 Screen Studio founding story
10:25 Building without validating
12:44 Building in a very competitive market
18:44 Being a designer developer
19:53 Making $30,000 in the first month
25:18 Discovering marketing and growth channels
27:50 Adam setting up a powerful affiliate programme
34:23 How Adam designs in code
37:10 VC funding or bootstrapping
39:42 Monthly recurring vs single license pricing
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Indie acquisitions, platform risk and life after selling Tweet Hunter for 8-figures
Published 27 Jun 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So in both cases they were actually moving, they moved on to something else before setting. Like Banu, Banu wanted to sell for like nine months because he has a very, another very successful product like SyJPT and, and Lillian was giving up on Typerium. And, and by the way, just if, if anyone of your listener wants to acquire something one day, I think that that's the best acquisition to ever do, like buy something where the founder has, has moved them from. It's going to be the acquisition where you can get the most out of your money, because the, the, the, the founder is not doing anything with the product. […]
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