ShipFast
Est. 2023Marc Lou had 16 flops behind him — so he stopped inventing and just sold the boilerplate he kept rewriting, glued together in a week.
▶ SHIPFAST · 2023
SHIPFAST · 2026 ◀Drag the handle — ShipFast, 2023 → 2026.
The ugly part. Across four years Marc Lou shipped 16 products, and the best of them made about $3,000 a month. He kept rewriting the same plumbing every time — login, Stripe webhooks, email, a pricing page. So instead of a new idea, he packaged the recycled scraps into a Next.js boilerplate called ShipFast and built the whole thing in roughly a week.
What he shipped anyway. The launch-day site was a dark landing page, '$50 off for the first 50 customers,' and the line 'Ship your startup in days, not weeks.' He posted it to Product Hunt. It made $6,000 in the first 48 hours.
Now. ShipFast crossed $250,000 in about five months at near-90% margins and grew into a seven-figure business — run by one person, out of the recycled leftovers of 16 failures.