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Founder & Product Designer living in Florianópolis 🇧🇷 On the road to $100K MRR

Joined February 2018
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After Ritmo hit $5,500 MRR in 40 days, my girlfriend got tired of me checking my RevenueCat notifications every minute. So I started designing Receita: a watch that shows your MRR or ARR with a quick, discreet glance. No unlocking my phone. No getting lost in the dashboard. It’s still a concept but you can help make it real by joining the waitlist at receita.watch. My girlfriend might thank you even more than I will.
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C'est que l'début 👀
En 2 mois mdrrr Lancez des apps🫵🏽🫵🏽
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What happened to GPT-6 Sol? I use Opus 5.5 almost exclusively now. The gap is wild. I used Astra and GPT-5.6 a lot, but Sol feels so much worse that I’m genuinely wondering: did it get nerfed? WTF.
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Join the waitlist 👉🏻 receita.watch
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Shipaton 2026 winners, 11/20: HAMM Award 💰 HAMM is Help Apps Make Money: the award for pricing, paywalls and packaging that fit the app. GRIDLOCK: tic-tac-toe for up to four players, online rooms and eleven special moves. Everything runs on one Credits currency that you earn with rewarded ads, buy in packs or get with a subscription, and the core modes stay free. My tic-tac-toe strategy is still "start in the middle", so eleven special moves sounds scary :-) DramaSip: short dramas in a vertical feed, the next episode is one swipe away. Free episodes, a Premium subscription, coins to unlock episodes forever, and rewarded ads, all in the same app. Ritmo: Adel kept hearing "who's single?" at run clubs, so he built a dating app around sport. Subscriptions sit next to Boosts and Super Likes, and the paywall shows up when you want a specific feature. Pricing is my favourite topic, so this is my favourite category :-) If you're working on your own pricing, PricePush does the per-country part: you set one price, it suggests a fair one for every country and pushes them to the App Store and Google Play. Free for one app, pricepush[.]app Congrats Ayush, @VadimNotJustDev and @adeluxui #Shipaton #AppMonetization #Subscriptions #IndieDev
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Ritmo just won 3rd place in the HAMM Award at @RevenueCat’s Shipaton 2026! 🏆 Not gonna lie, I deserved 1st place haha But seriously, so happy to see my first app getting recognized. Huge thanks to the RevenueCat team! 🙌
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Marc's first startup was Tinder for sports lovers. He inspired me to build Ritmo. 6 weeks in: $4k MRR. @marclou, join me as cofounder. Let’s finish what you started: build the world’s #1 sports dating app and make it a $1B company. Let’s make internet history.
Congrats, you're the fastest-growing startup of the week on TrustMRR 👏🎉 Adel built Tinder for sports. His app (Ritmo) matches you with a Pilates, tennis, or running partner. 0 → $3,835 MRR in 1 month 84% growth vs. last week → trustmrr.com/startup/ritmoap… Godspeed 🫡
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+400,000 swipes in 6 weeks. One founder. No team. $0 → $4k MRR. Ritmo is a dating app born in Brazil 🇧🇷, and we're taking it worldwide 7,000 users. 4.5 ⭐️ on the App Store. Thanks for the shoutout @marc_louvion 🙏
Congrats, you're the fastest-growing startup of the week on TrustMRR 👏🎉 Adel built Tinder for sports. His app (Ritmo) matches you with a Pilates, tennis, or running partner. 0 → $3,835 MRR in 1 month 84% growth vs. last week → trustmrr.com/startup/ritmoap… Godspeed 🫡
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I don’t know what the f**k is happening right now 🤯 October 1st: $800 MRR October 14th: $2,618 MRR I launched my first-ever app just one month ago. I still don’t know how to code. This is honestly surreal. Thank you so much, @RevenueCat and Shipaton 🥹🧡 Next milestone? $5K MRR. Let’s see how far we can take this.
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Opus 5.5 > GPT 6.1 Sol What are you doing @OpenAI ?
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Get on trustmrr otherwise hard to believe
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I built a dating app alone. Now 160 people are paying for it. $1,500 MRR. $18K ARR. In just 4 weeks. 🚀 📱 5,000+ users 🔥 700 daily active users 📈 1,500 weekly active users Building a dating app as a solo founder means doing EVERYTHING: coding, design, marketing, acquisition, support, moderation, compliance… all of it. It’s exhausting, chaotic, and the most rewarding thing I’ve ever built. Forever grateful to @RevenueCat and #Shipaton for pushing me to turn an idea into a real business. And we’re just getting started. 🏃‍♂️
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And literally right after posting this, I got another nice surprise from Apple! 😂
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Only about 35 of the 3,336 Shipaton 2026 projects wrote down what their app earned, roughly 1 in 100. The ones who did are worth reading: Buck at $6K MRR, Ritmo at $830 MRR in four weeks, Mekuru from $7 to $369 MRR in 18 days. Shared your numbers? Drop them below 👇
I went through all 3,336 Shipaton 2026 projects. 88.6% built solo. Health & Fitness passed Productivity. Claude is the most-listed AI model. Only 18.4% shipped to both stores. Thanks @plahteenlahti @RevenueCat @Shipaton #Shipaton #indiedev
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Builders featured in the article, go check them out: @tryclucky @adrianabelarde_ (Clucky) @adeluxui (Ritmo) @ysfmkndon (Mekuru) @scran_life (Scran) @GetBlindspotApp (Blindspot) @jurree (Buck) @taplivenetwork (TapLive) @yana_sychevska (BookLore AI) @hidayata_ (Litmark) If I am missing someone let me know.
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I went through all 3,336 Shipaton 2026 projects. 88.6% built solo. Health & Fitness passed Productivity. Claude is the most-listed AI model. Only 18.4% shipped to both stores. Thanks @plahteenlahti @RevenueCat @Shipaton #Shipaton #indiedev
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Ritmo crossed 1k MRR today, less than a month after launch 🎉 Seeing people choose to pay for something I made still feels unreal. Thank you again, #Shipaton, for motivating me to finally launch my first mobile app. So glad I gave it a shot ❤️
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My first app, Ritmo, just hit $10k ARR. A month ago, I was a freelance designer who couldn’t code. I built and launched it solo. Without #Shipaton, I might never have shipped. Thank you @_chuckyc @plahteenlahti @RevenueCat @jeiting @HHaandr 🧡 Here’s Ritmo 👇
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