Baretto (tiny.host)⚡ (@

Baretto (tiny.host)⚡

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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡

@_baretto

Solo founder building @tiinyhost ($1M+ ARR) 🏗 | Member of @RamenClubHQ 🍜 | Sharing my journey along the way 🚀 💻💂

London 🇬🇧 / Lisboa 🇵🇹

Joined July 2012

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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Nov 18, 2025
BOOM! Welcome to my TED talk 🎙️ Might be the first indie hacker to do this and give the community the stage it deserves. My 15+ years of entrepreneurship has been a rollercoaster. But I'm so glad I've ended up here. youtu.be/9nelvg9KadA?si…
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Oct 22, 2025
2013: Rejected by YC 2014: First startup → FAILED 2017: Second startup → FAILED 2018: Another app → FAILED 2019: Launched tiiny (solo, bootstrapped) 2020: First customer - $10 2021: $1k MRR 2023: $10k MRR 2024: $20k MRR Today: $500k+ ARR Success is never linear.
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Apr 3, 2025
YC rejected me. Google didn’t hire me. VCs passed. An angel investor ghosted me. Still I went on to build a $400K ARR startup. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t ship.
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Jun 16, 2025
I applied to YC. Rejected. Tried to raise from Angels. Ghosted. Still scaled to a $500K+ ARR SaaS with: - Reddit - SEO - Twitter Just keep moving forward.
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Aug 28, 2024
20.6 Million impressions on Google in the last 12 months for Tiiny 🤯 And I'm just a developer 🧑‍💻 (not a marketer) But how did I get started? (Hint: I didn't use an auto-blogger 🤖🚫) A thread 🧵👇
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
May 14, 2025
Unpopular opinion: Making $10K/mo from a B2B SaaS is much easier and faster than a B2C SaaS.
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Sep 25, 2025
How to waste a year: - Fancy landing page - Dark mode - Cool logo - Paid ads - Wait for Product Hunt traffic How I built a $500K ARR SaaS: - Reddit - SEO - Ship fast - Iterate
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Aug 22, 2024
41,000 new users signed up for Tiiny in July 🤯 ...and thousands in MRR 💸 But how did we acquire our first customers? Here are some key lessons I learned early on... A thread 🧵
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Oct 30, 2025
Bootstrapping is harder than building a VC backed company. Fight me.
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Sep 25, 2024
I have a $300k+ ARR SaaS 💸 More than 2,000 customers 📈 Solo founded 1️⃣ Fully Remote 🌎 Here’s the 5 step strategy I used to achieve this… A thread 🧵
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Feb 12, 2025
Average Indie Hacker marketing: - Post on Reddit - Build in public - Launch on Product Hunt - Spam Twitter replies What they miss: - SEO + YouTube
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
May 23, 2025
Quit JP Morgan. Failed a startup. Tried again. Failed again. Worked a full-time job, built at night. And now TinyHost is a $400K ARR SaaS. Keep shipping.
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Oct 8, 2025
"Why would anyone pay for you when github pages is free?"
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Baretto (tiny.host)⚡
@_baretto
Apr 23, 2025
Unpopular opinion: Most top founders now are just ex-devs who learned marketing.
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