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A solo founder with one Twitter follower count of 800

Built a vertical saas for indie-author royalty tracking across 7 platforms.

180 paying authors at $19/mo within 4 months — $3.4K MRR

Six days to v1

The story

Lovable built the app, dashboard, and Stripe billing in 6 days. Claude powers the per-platform parsers. Mercury holds the money. He validated demand in a single Reddit post before writing a prompt.

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