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Mac Martine
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Mac Martine
@saasmakermac
2x exited founder | DemandBird: Content pipelines that run across platforms for agencies & founders
Co-running Wildfront for bootstrapped SaaS builders
- Today, my wife, two boys and I arrived in Alicante, Spain. Spain will be our base for the next 10 months on a digital nomad visa. This makes 11 countries we've been to since we left the U.S. last July: France, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia, Hungary, Austria, Montenegro,
- I started a SaaS company on my own and sold it for millions of dollars. I hired 0 employees, and spent $0 on ads. Now I'm traveling the world with my family. Here's how I did it: 1. Start with a bunch of passion projects. Like, a lot of them. 2. Realize I wasn't getting
- After 10 years of building apps that went nowhere, I thought: What do all these successful people have that I don't have? 2.5 years later my app had taken off, and I was one of them. Sure, I had acquired some skills over the years, but nothing crazy. Nothing you don't have or
- I'm honing in on a new SaaS idea. Here are the criteria I'm ensuring I stick to:
- If you think you need a fancy SaaS idea to crush it, think again:
- We left the U.S. a year ago today on digital nomad visas… My wife, two boys, and me. So far we’ve been to: - France - Croatia - Italy - Slovenia - Bosnia - Hungary - Austria And I went to Malta on my own for MicroConf. In the next 45 days we will be adding: - Montenegro -
- I spent close to two years to launch my first SaaS that generated $200, and I had to refund $100 of that. I spent four weeks to launch on my SaaS that made seven figures. Let that sink in.
- My wife, two boys, and I have been "slowmading" since July 2022. We've been to 14 countries. Here are the most common questions we get about how and why we're doing this: First: what is "slowmading"? Digital nomads work remotely while traveling the world. We're doing the
- Want to know how to have an overnight success? You build a ton of apps, for years. So many that you can only recall a fraction of them. And you don't stop. Then at some unpredictable point, things change (as visualized in my X banner). Here are some of my app attempts, and how
- I went from $0 to $58k MRR in 30 months. But the path leading there was long. Here's how I got there: [🧵 thread]
- Replying to @daniel_nguyenxMy success rate isn't much different than that of @levelsio The true art isn't in simply launching everything you can, but in (quickly) knowing when to double down, move on, pivot, or dump it altogether (and not fall prey to sunk-cost fallacy). Believing in your ideas, but not
