YouTube09 Dec 2025
13m

I shipped my app in 12 hours and now it makes $15K/month

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Starter Story

In this episode of Starter Story, Pat Walls interviews Louis Pereira, a part-time indie hacker, about how he built and launched Audiopen, a voice-to-text AI tool, in just 12 hours, which now generates $15,000 a month. Louis shares his background, the process of validating and building the MVP, and his approach to launching and monetizing the app. He emphasizes the importance of building in public, focusing on a specific problem, and launching quickly. Louis also provides advice for aspiring indie hackers, including building many things for fun, designing before building, and embracing the indie hacker identity. He also shares the tech stack he uses to run Audiopen.

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