# I made a game where you have to ship an app in 30 days or...

Channel: Marc Lou
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXUPEow4Itw
Duration: 13 min
Language: English
Words: 2068
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[0:01] So, I made an app that feeds you to the sharks if you don't ship your app in [music] 30 days. [groaning] [screaming] [music] The series is loaded by the pirates. Ahoy, ahoy, ahoy. I have a big news. [clears throat] Show me what [music] you get. You ended in this big boat. Let's go. Ship or die. One,

[0:27] two, three. Good morning. Now [music] is 6:30. And obviously Mark is already woke up, which is very, very because he always, always wake after me. There must be something that excites him. What it is? Let's see. So, my cow is working [music] well. He's working nothing. Shh. Let's not disturb him.

[1:02] By the way, we rented a nice Airbnb in the middle of the countryside, as you can see. I thought this is a perfect environment for the organic, free-range cash cow to roam around and have a free, creative space to make some money. Yay. Hello. You're spotted. You're having a call with someone. Good morning.

[1:28] We're launching. Yay. You know anyway. We don't know anything, so please explain what's happening. Jack launched. He made a really good launch tweet. Mhm. I think there were 300 likes or something when I checked it out. It was like 2 hours ago, so it's sending a bunch of people to the landing page. Oh.

[1:42] You want to see the map, the globe? Wow. Here, you have to make a guess. How much? So, hours ago we launched that thing. Yeah, 2 hours ago Jack made a post, yeah. Okay, 3,000, 4,000. You can you hear Jack? 4.3 Oh, I was close. You were very very close to the actual number. In 2 hours, when? That's crazy. So proud

[2:06] of you. [laughter] I'll finish it and then we'll go have breakfast. Sure.

[2:18] Mark just called me. There's some insane news. He disturbed my breakfast. How dare you? You'd better be very good. What is that important to disturb my breakfast? Very sorry. I don't mean to chew your job, but you know, if the light is coming from there, maybe it's better if you're here. So, it's 24 hours later.

[2:36] Mhm. Do you want to see some numbers? I'll just show you numbers first and then I explain. Okay. 30K after launching 24 hours. Yeah. This is pretty crazy. [laughter] I saw Okay, number-wise, it's funny because it's not many visitors. It's like 15,000 visitors, which seems a lot maybe for, you know, when you're getting started, but this is not crazy. 1% conversion rate and $2.16 generated [music]

[3:02] per visitor, which is a lot. So, what is the secret? The secret? I'll show you. Among the people who use now, we I made a feature. When you join Cheaper Diet Mhm. you upload your profile picture and you generate a pixelated [music] pirate profile picture for you. So, you are shown on the ship. Because of this, you end up in this big boat and you can

[3:22] see those are all people who voted. Wow, there's so many pirates here. Oh, there's a little alien, too. And then, this profile picture, I let you download it. And then, people use it to change their Twitter profile picture. And so, now, when I open a conversation on Twitter, the conversations look like this. So, this is me. This is Jack with his pirate profile picture. This is the first guy who launched a startup. And then, you see all those AI avatars and

[3:45] you're like, "What the fuck?" you know. Mhm. And so, now on Twitter the Twitter is flooded by the pirates. And this is the marketing. That's so fun. Jack designed this avatar stuff and it would look so nice and now it's bringing a lot of people to the attention. That's crazy. Just ship it. Just ship it, man. And congrats to the guy Neil Neil is name on Twitter. I think I'm going to add a link to the

[4:04] description. His name is _neil_nee. He's the first one who shipped an entire startup with a buy button on the community. It's AI food tracker. But it's for babies and it helps you like detect some allergies for your babies by keeping logs of all the allergies or potential food that makes your baby react. That's really nice.

[4:22] interesting, yeah. So maybe this Neil has baby [music] and he wanted to have a product like this and that's why he built this. So I think always like um when you don't have any idea, start with solving your own problem really works, I think. Ship your idea right now. Join the challenge. Ship or die. [music]

[4:49] Hoy! Hoy! Hoy! I built a game that kicks you out if you don't ship your startup in 30 days. This is a little fun experiment that I'm doing for the first time with a friend of mine. We're sharing half half on this project with Jack Freaks. He's amazing. [music] He's my good friend. He's very smart. He's really good at marketing. So we're trying to help people ship more startups. So inside is like this dashboard where people have to start missions that last for 30 days and then it brings [music] them from step 1 2 3 4 until shipping launching the startup with a public live post and we [music]

[5:20] are reviewing to make sure that people actually ship something to the public and then we only accept the mission if they did. And if they did not, they are kicked [music] out of the community. They are kicked out of the Discord. Their account is entirely lost. And since I'm a too much of a hardcore gamer, there are many trophies and stuff to unlock. So it [music] connects with GitHub, Google search console, payment providers like Stripe, etc. And people unlock badges so they have a little public page like this one where they unlock badges based on their activity, how often they, you know, they ship code, etc. And then there is of course

[5:52] the list of their little startup at the bottom. And there's also a leaderboard where we show the people who are making money on this app, the people who are the most active in commit Holy smokes, 5,000 commits is crazy. Who unlocks the most trophies? I'm trying to bring all those years of playing World of Warcraft, too much, way too much, into something that could be doing good for people. So currently we have also this little community on Twitter where bots retweets [music] about everybody makes a commit. When someone makes money,

[6:16] someone unlocks trophies. And we're trying to bring this community on Twitter so that, you know, people have more fun together. We should we have more pirates. I don't know where I'm going with this. Jack Frakes doesn't know as well. We're trying to make stuff that we would use ourselves. So this is it. This is Ship [music] or Die. [music]

[6:39] I finally bring today. Wow, beautiful shoes. Pink for a man. Yay. Yeah. Genderless. Ah. So what are we going to do? Shorts run and kitty sitting. Oh, show me what you get. The high road shirt. [music]

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[7:17] You can get fit anywhere if you have a wish. Amazing. Muscles are built in the kitchen if you have a lovely wife who preps amazing healthy meals. What's the crystal ball supposed to be more?

[7:41] Bonjour. Oh la la le setup. Oh le setup. Doing a little traveling. I think I'm going to change career. Going to become a filmmaker. Healthy protein, avocado, bread, and fermented kimchi, which is a Korean specialty. Yay! Health in one bowl to make my cow healthy and ship it and have a positive ideas and emotion not to give

[8:07] up. [music]

[8:15] [music] So, what are you working on? I know you were doing something. [laughter] Yes. And along with the ship or die, he was cooking very secret thing. He likes stalking me. And he got the idea of making another stalking app. I'm so glad the target has changed. So, what it is, it's a new SaaS. It's something I absolutely needed because everything I do goes through Twitter and every new features I add is based on what someone says. So, I make a tool that centralizes it whenever someone mentions a keyword related to the keyword I choose to track. So, trust them all are ship fast, data fast, ship

[8:58] or die. It stores all those mentions in these database from YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and soon LinkedIn, podcast, newsletters. And then it categorizes them. Like if people report bugs on Twitter, then I can click here and I can check only bug reports. If someone makes a complaint, I can click here and add a complaint filter and I see, you know, I can do my customer support through

[9:18] Twitter. Stalker is the name of the app. Stalker without e.ai. Okay. Wow. So, you stalk everyone's reactions. I'm a professional stalker. [laughter] So, you built this tool out of your need. It's a very selfish No, I think you have to fix your own issue with the selfish reason and actually it will benefit the others. So, [music] think about what is your problem and how can I fix it and am I going to be the lawyer customer of my startup? So, make it fun and like a find something that you care and even though you fail, you

[9:51] not care because anyway you had a fun. Back to stalking. Back to stalking.

[10:07] Where are you bringing us at 6:00 a.m. so early? We need to do a call with a lot of people. For what? Pirates. Are you the leader of the pirate who is going to make a revolution or something? We're making people shipping faster. 4 minutes. Are you nervous? A little bit. Why? It's a big call.

[10:26] We don't know what we're going to do. Well, I mean this is the perfect place for a pirate, though. Hello there, kiddo. Here we go. Okay. I'm a Discord noob, so forgive me if if I'm making any mistakes here. Uh we just have a little bit uh misunderstanding with the time zone. Time zone is a really

[10:46] Yeah, the second round has started. Oh, wow, there's a lot of people now. Can you guys hear me? Is Jack on board? Is everybody on board? So many pirates. We wanted to tell you all of you guys that it's just [music] amazing. We do things but it's on the internet and you know, you push code or you tweet like it's it's always kind of cold. Now we can see your faces, on Discord like you guys are [music] I can see you're making friends, you know, you guys are tweeting like it's I can see all of your tweets. We're

[11:12] crashing your server, cool. This is my emotional moment. This is the Discord telling me like don't do a tweet right now. [music]

[11:28] [music] Ahoy, ahoy! Go, go, go, go. [music]

[11:40] [music] Don't you dare give up. Don't you dare give up. Don't you dare. Don't you dare. DON'T YOU DARE GIVE UP. Let's go. Let's go. I mean, so we just got back from the meetup, and this was the most unexpected meetup we've ever done. We're in Korea, where things kind of started for me 8 or 9 years ago. And back then, there was no one new entrepreneurs. And today, at 8:00 a.m., 100 people showed up to come run with us. That is crazy. And it's so good to see Korea finally having uh more indie hackers and entrepreneurs coming from all over the world. Uh it's a

[12:12] really good place to build startups from, cuz you can work from pretty much anywhere, since there's cafe with good Wi-Fi and AC everywhere. Very happy and proud of Korea. And that's it. Now, [clears throat and laughter] it's time to go shopping. [music] Look at this man, always working hard. Best office ever. Oh, wow, you can work anywhere.

[12:32] Yeah. No excuse to work hard. You can work anywhere in the laundry machine, toilet. Everywhere is a shipping place. Uh I have a big news, but I can I cannot share it now. This is going to be for the next video. Stay tuned. [music]

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