Gamifying products, shipping quickly and knowing when to quit - Marc Louvion

Indie Bites

Marc Louvion is an indie hacker with many many products. His tagline on his website is relatable for all “I was fired everywhere so I had to work for myself (even Tai Lopez fired me...)”. If you go to Marc’s Indie Page you can see all his projects, including Habits Garden, Gamify List, Visualise Habit, Make Landing & more. Marc is living in Bali and on his way to $5k MRR across his projects. You might have seen Marc on Twitter with his hilarious launch videos and candid build in public updates.

Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:32 Marc's indie hacker journey
• 03:07 Moving to Bali
• 03:39 Starting a glove business
• 05:52 Gamification
• 07:41 Challenges with gamification
• 08:29 Knowing when to quit a product
• 10:32 Portfolio of projects vs single focus
• 11:46 Marc's day to day
• 12:53 Building an AI product
• 14:00 Creative launch videos
• 15:14 Reccos

Recommendations

• Book: Why We Sleep
• Podcast: Indie Hackers
• Indie Hacker: Danny Postma

Follow Marc

• Twitter
• Explore Marc's products

My links

• Twitter
• Indie Bites Twitter
• Indie Bites YouTube
• Join the membership
• Personal Website
• 2 Hour Podcast Course
• PodPanda (hire me to edit your podcast)
• This Indie Life Podcast

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