iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 29/01/2026

I made a tier list of all growth channels that I used to go to $16k MRR. If I were starting today, I’d focus on 3 things: • making top product - so people love and share it genuinely (70%). • side projects factory (20%). • writing good stories - 𝕏, Reddit etc (10%).

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 04/09/2025

I don't understand what is the point of consulting calls 🤷 - Most playbooks are public and cheaper. - Buying certainty is fooling oneself. - Renting brain is an illusion: no skin in the game - no care. - You buy opinions, not evidence. - Calls create a false sense of progress.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 01/09/2025

Made my first domain sale! 🤩 Unlike a SaaS, this project started with a negative balance. I only invested by bidding on auctions for months. It was mentally hard to feed it and not seeing even a $1 in profits. saas.page is still net-negative. But validated.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 29/08/2025

AI will replace me in 5 years. And you too. I have 2 serious questions: 1. Why do everybody pretend everything is fine? 😅 2. What is your plan for the post-AI era? Here is my plan as a maker:

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 29/08/2025

AI will replace me in 5 years. And you too. I have 2 serious questions: 1. Why do everybody pretend everything is fine? 😅 2. What is your plan for the post-AI era? Here is my plan as a maker:

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 20/08/2025

1 year ago I created a subr𝔢ddit for SaaS founders. My goal was to provide makers with stressless access to R𝔢ddit. So far: 1) Got 2.8k members (+10/day). 2) Average post gets 700 views and 3 comments. 3) 2.5 posts/day are published.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 09/07/2025

If I were selling my guide in 🇪🇺, my offer would be illegal 😁 Possible fines I could get if I lived in: Germany: up to €50k France: up to €300k Netherlands: up to €900k But I'm not in the EU. So I can do crazy things 😎

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 15/05/2025

My message to all first time makers: 🙅‍♂️ AVOID VC 🙅‍♂️ What is NOT the goal of a VC: 1. make you rich 2. pay your bills 3. keep you away from burning out 4. give you good compensation 5. make a great product 6. make users happy 7. “change the world” The goals of a VC:

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 14/05/2025

1️⃣ / 2️⃣ Method by John Rush. It is simple and easily reproducible. But requires time doing the routine (suitable for unexperienced makers with poor imagination). 1) Pick a niche which has good money in it: startups, luxury items, cars, properties, resorts, stock trading, private jets.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 14/05/2025

2 proven methods to find ideas for a directory website. Explained step by step. 1 min each: [tap to see 👇]

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

I use silly fruit pillows as armrests. My wife found them in trash (true story).

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

All my hardware is used (macbook, hard drives, mic, adapters, apple watch) I buy it from friends or from Amazon's "used" category. Saved me thousands.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

I buy whole foods. My wife cooks it. We eat.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

My $0 cat has no breed. His mom left him after he was born. We found the kitten freezing and screaming under a car and gave him a second life.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

ChinaPods Pro. A random brand's $27 pods (which are 90% as good as apple's but x10 cheaper).

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

My cloths are mostly second-hand. My wedding jacket (on the photo) was bought for $10, my wife dress is ~$20.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

A lifetime GYM membership for $10. Yes it is a handmade kettlebell which is a piece of cloth stuffed with broken engine parts.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

A roomy coffee mug (yes it is an empty tomato sauce can).

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 21/04/2025

A car. Honda Civic 1992 (older than me). Costs less than a past-gen macbook.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 18/04/2025

Made a graph of all my projects & growth strategies. Takeaways: 1) I'm terrified how huge it is. Must. Stop. Making. New. Projects. 2) I'll regret not starting the SEO/pSEO game for @paracast.io earlier, but I'm too busy with the product rn. 3) Seeing a big picture helps 👍

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 17/04/2025

prepping a great update for @paracast.io basically, i'm turning it into a motion design tool. Unicorn Platform fixed Webflow. Paracast will fix Adobe After Effects.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 14/04/2025

Announcing my new (most controversial 🫣) project: saas.page It is a store of premium domain names for SaaS. I mentioned that I've started investing in domains 9 months ago. And almost got cancelled for that! (Thread...)

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

8. web analytics Clunky and inaccurate. But it works! 😁 If you are too lazy setting up analytics, and you just need the basic numbers, use this! No scripts, no sign-ups. Just click a button and start gathering visits.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

7. free storage Cloudflare R2 is a free AWS S3 alternative. It costs $0 per GB of bandwidth. I like this type of pricing models 😁 I use it to store static files and user uploads for @paracast.io and as the main storage for uploadfile.click

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

6. Always Online™ Caches a static version of a website so it is available in case of an origin server downtime. Very useful when you have 20+ websites to take care of 🥴

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

5. invisible CAPTCHA I use it to protect uploadfile.click from bots. It was an easy walk installing it with Cursor AI (God bless vibe coding! 🙂)

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

4. buying domains Technically, Cloudflare is the cheapest domain registrar in the world! They charge no extra fee besides the ICANN's base price. So it is $10.44/y for a dotcom. I like it so much I pushed it on the first place on my directory domainregistrarslist.com 😁

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

3. Static hosting. You can host your simple html+css+images site there for free. I host saas.page there. I like it because it is as simple as drag and drop a zip. Yes, I know about github pages, but I'm too lazy to configure git, okay 😁

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

2. CDN I was too lazy to set up an S3 image storage for startupswiki.org and got charged $29 for AWS EC2 traffic in March. Fixed that by setting up image caching in Cloudflare. Now all images are stored there, and I pay pennies to AWS (sorry, Jeff! 😎).

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 10/04/2025

1. email forwarding This one is my fav 🧡 Cloudflare forwards all incoming emails from any of my domain inbox to a single gmail. E.g. you can email me at alex(@)isora.me or dsa123(@)isora.me and i will receive those.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 02/04/2025

I found this domain accidentally on an auction: startupideaspodcast.com/ The previous owner was running some weird stuff there in 2016. My goal: grow it into a community and sell to Greg Isenberg 😁🤙

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 02/04/2025

I bought his domain name for $1,000 because it has some good backlinks. My plan was to bring some search traffic there. It is my SEO playground. cmscrawler.com/ Btw, I have earned $1.12 with ads placement via TinyAdz.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 01/04/2025

Logbeat demonstrates a perfect example of the post-AI era UX 🙂 The past: you had to set up hundreds of analytics events manually. The future: 🤖 does it for you: AI automatically scans the app and finds events worth tracking. No need to code. Just hit `npm i logbeat` once.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 24/03/2025

I'm a courseboi now, and I'm proud of it! 😎 My SaaS growth guide is the easiest project I have ever started. But, perhaps the most important in my career ☝️ People really need it — I'm the one who can satisfy the demand.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 05/03/2025

it was a smooth and easy deal. but why i decided to sell it? ... ⤵

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 05/03/2025

And then magic happened: people started to share it across the Internet. they loved it! 🥰 The virality effect occured. cool. but why exactly did this happen? 🤔 ... ⤵

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 05/03/2025

how to make the site. I'm truly sorry, but I'm biased here. I can't recommend you anything but @unicornplatform. I only use 🦄 for all my directories, blogs and landing pages. (Perhaps somebody in the reply section knows more tools? Please recommend some alternatives! 🙏)

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 05/03/2025

let's check out the demand in Google keywords planner (ads.google.com/home/tools/...). aaand yes, people do look for "stripe alternatives" on Google. it means the problem exists. time to make a solution! 🦹‍♂️ but first, I need data for my future website. ... ⤵

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 05/03/2025

i sold a directory for $10k 😎 here is the story of making, growing and selling it: [ tap to read ⤵ ]

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 05/03/2025

this is what a true vibe coding is: - grab a cup of coffee ☕️ - free up at least 6 hours for work - queue up a playlist - open docs - open your favorite IDE (there was more than 1 IDE! 😮) - set a clear goal for today - immerse deeply into the code, forgetting about the outer world

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 04/03/2025

Make it generate smth. Then it will be valuable and loved by the community. And only then it will be giving you clients.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

This thread took me 7.5 hours to write 🙂 If you like it and want more, follow me @isora.me and subscribe my email list: 10k.isora.me C ya! 😘

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Try so-called "Nostalgia Marketing". Design a retro landing page, icons set, font, UI library or smth similar. Example: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428...

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Start a personal blog. Mine isora.me brings me 165 clicks per month. No huge, but it has a compound effect. Every time you write a post on 𝕏 or on гeddt, copy-paste the whole text on your blog first.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Generate pretty hi-res illustrations and give away as a free set. I made these with recraft.ai/invite/Zqgb...

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Find the top vloggers on YouTube in your niche. Sort their videos by "popular". Steal the top 3 videos ideas. Make better versions of those.

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Make a reply under someone's else viral tweet. It takes time and luck to make really fit. But if you monitor 𝕏, you'll be able to do it eventually. A perfect example from John: x.com/johnrushx/s... Bonus: the list of startup influencers to follow: x.com/i/lists/177...

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Run a tiny LTD campaign. Aim for 20-50 purchases. Do it for the sake of getting your initial community build up, not for the sake of money. Here is my story of raising $10k with LTD: isora.me/i-raised-10...

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Alexander Isora 👽 @isora.me · 27/02/2025

Create an ULTRA-minimalistic micro tool. Those get viral on 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩 and hackernews. Put your add there later, after they get trending. Example: uploadfile.click/ — deal simple no-sign up dropbox alternative.

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