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

What up? What's going on, man? What do you do for Valentine's Day? I, got some rose petals from Whole Foods, and I kinda spread them out on the floor of my bathroom. And then I I've got, like, you know, I moved apartments a couple months ago. My new ones got, like, a big jacuzzi tub. So I put them and filled up a tub with, like, you know, some bubble baths and bath bombs, put some rose petals in there. And Mhmm. Just watched the movie in the tub with Sarah, and we went out for a nice steak dinner before that. So it was real chill. What about these? Boring. Mark, what's going on? With a view. Hey. What's up, Mark? What did you what did you do for Valentine's Day, Mark? You you just remind me there is a Valentine's Day. Well, that's it. That's the answer. Is it, like, an American holiday? That's good. I know there's a lot of holidays that I just assume are worldwide because I'm American, and it turns out, like, nobody else even knows this is. No. I think friends friends might do it. It's just, I've been married for five years, and everything is pretty much the same. We work from home. There's no Saturday. There's no Sunday. So it 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 these, like, forced holidays, maybe I'll be proposing tonight. Anyway, Mark, we should introduce you to the audience. You are, Marc Louvian. Sounds like the name of someone I'd have on the show. My mom would be like, oh, you're interviewing Marc Louvian. Give me I think it sounds fancier in English. In French, it's just. Oh, that was way fancier. I know. That was like, woah. That was blew my mind a little bit. In February, you tweeted that you had 200 followers. You're you're burning through your savings, and you had three startups, which is, like, admittedly a lot of startups. Today, a year later, you have 13 startups. You have 14,000 followers on Twitter, and I think you just got to Ramen profitable. So you have sort of reached the first big milestone as an indie hacker where you can completely survive and pay for all your bills and need as much ramen as you possibly can dream of. And you don't have to do that on anybody else's dime. Like, it's it's all you. You've made it. Yeah. Somehow, I mean, this is pretty new to cross the ramen profitability. So this is a it's it's a good, it's a good achievement. It feels less stress. The whole the whole story of I was building in the dark for a couple years before. So it's a bit less successful if you put it …