#272 – Escape Rooms, Side Project Marketing, and Getting to Ramen Profitable with Marc Lou of Habits Garden

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Marc Lou (@marc_louvion) talks living in Bali with a private chef, monetizing habit trackers, first date ideas, growing on Twitter, and building over 10 products in a year to finally reach ramen profitability with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

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0:00.0	What up?
0:07.0	What's going on, man? What do you do for Valentine's Day?
0:11.0	I got some rose petals from Whole Foods, and I kind of spread them out on the floor of my bathroom.
0:19.0	And then I've got like a you know I
0:21.2	moved departments a couple months ago my new one's got like a big jacuzzi tub so I put them and fill
0:25.5	up the tub with like you know some bubble baths and bath bombs put some rose petals in there and
0:29.7	just watched the movie and the tub with Sarah and we went out for a nice steak dinner before that so
0:34.7	it was real chill what about you's boring Boring. Mark, what's going on?
0:39.3	Hey, what's up, Mark? What did you do for Valentine's Day, Mark? You just remind me there's
0:45.1	a Valentine Day. Well, that's it. That's the answer. Is it like an American holiday? I know there's a
0:52.3	lot of holidays that I just assume are worldwide because I'm American.
0:54.8	And it turns out like nobody else even knows what this is.
0:56.8	No, I think friends might do it.
0:59.3	It's just, uh, I've been married for five years.
1:02.3	And every day is pretty much the same.
1:04.3	We work from home.
1:05.5	There's no Saturday.
1:06.4	There's no Sunday.
1:07.1	So it feels like we're leaving the same day over and over, which it's a beautiful day, but we forget about things like Valentine's. Well, listen, man, if being married for five years means that I get to not have to do these, like, forced holidays, maybe I'll be proposing tonight. Anyway, Mark, we should introduce you to the audience. You are Mark Luvian.
1:28.3	Sounds like the name of someone I had had had on the show and my mom would be like, oh, you're interviewing Mark Luvian. I think it sounds fancier in English. In French, he's just, Lovium. Oh, that was way fancier. I know, that was like, whoa, that blew my mind a little bit. In February of last year, you tweeted that you had 200 followers, you were burning through your savings, and you had three startups, which is like admittedly a lot of startups.
1:51.4	Today, a year later, you have 13 startups. You have 14,000 followers on Twitter, and I think you just got to ramen profitable.
2:00.3	So you have sort of reached the
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