Three e-commerce tools in a row: $750K MRR at peak, with 60% of customers coming from 500+ YouTube creators
DropMagic hit $45K MRR in 4 months
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[Video] Loic, France, has built 10+ SaaS products, most of them failures — he admits "my first 5 years produced one SaaS with zero users and zero revenue." The turning point: an e-commerce owner came to him with a real problem — he went from builder to problem solver. Three successes: Influspy (find sales influencers on IG/Snapchat, $20K MRR in 2 months, since shut down), Minea (e-commerce product research/ad spy, peaked at $750K MRR within 2 years, ~80% gross margin, he has since stepped down as CEO), DropMagic (AI-generated online stores, $45K+ MRR in 4 months, with a creator co-founder guaranteeing $10K MRR at launch). Minea's minimum-risk validation path: newsletter to validate traction → no-code app to validate PMF → real development to scale.
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