Post by @starterstory

He locked himself in a hotel room for 2 months, taught himself to code, and walked out with the skills to build 17 apps in a year. Majority failed. But two didn’t. MakeLogo.ai → $26K in sales, sold for $65K. Talknotes → $77K in sales, sold for $200K. Combined exit: $265,000. Nico’s playbook is brutally simple: ship fast, kill your ego, and don’t chase $10K on your first project just make your first dollar online. For Talknotes, he validated organically to $1.5K MRR before spending a cent on ads. Then he ran “ugly” Facebook ads - just a guy in his office reading a script at $20-$100/day. The app’s name didn’t even appear until the very end. It worked because it didn’t look like an ad. When it came time to sell, he listed on Acquire.com and intentionally underpriced to spark a bidding war. One buyer closed it cash in 2 weeks just to end the auction. His advice to his hotel-room self: don’t get emotionally attached to your products. Build the prototype, talk to users, compound the small wins.