Ashley Rudland 🦍
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Started my first project for my new agency () yesterday, took 6 weeks from no clients to contract signed.
Our pitch is very simple:
Software Development that's 2x Faster & 80% Cheaper 🚀
If you're looking to build an MVP or full product, DM me or email
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You write blogs of other peoples success.
Go build an actual product.
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inspired by
@levelsio
I migrated my $5/mo nextjs VPS where it did 30,000 writes/second to sqlite
a single index.php file + jquery
it took me an hour and does 2x the writes per second, super easy to code with too, no dependencies
try it yourself:
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Spent the last hour reading the source to this built by
@mayowaoshin
Insanely impressive. Basically allows you to ingest any text, extract embeddings (knowledge) and then chat with said data via GPT-4
This could create a large array of products
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After 20 years coding I just realised, commit messages are pointless.
Now I just run:
make g
Shout out to
@levelsio
for the motivation. Deploys to prod around 12 seconds later.
#buildinpublic
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On Hetzner, €3.29/mo VPS, it's 14,000 writes/sec 🤣🤣🤣
Okay serverless might be dead hahaha
@ImSh4yy
try it yourself 👉
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That little €3.30/mo VPS I built a few weeks ago is still doing 30,000 writes per second with 103M records in the table 😂
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MRR hit an all time high! 🎊 $25,000!
MRR is up 35% this month. Goal was 10% 🤯
Next up: $30K!
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Nothing better than SaaS. I need to seriously build another one, this has been going for 4 years now. Revenue has gone up 30% every year. It’s choppy AF short term but stable long term.
Literally spend 1 hour per month on this. Does ~$22k/mo.
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@MrLottaHoes
@sneako
@MrOverpaid
@yourealazyfvck
@Mr_HadiH
@hoesandcash
@kingvakalis
Low energy, sad vibe guys.
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These tweets about running your own VM instead of using Vercel went a bit viral.
Here's the summy:
- It's possible & it was pretty easy (if you use Cloudflare to handle HTTPs traffic & Kamal for auto deployment)
- Latency/perf is amazing - 40ms
- It's crazy cheap
- SQLite is
code now available for NextJS on VPS
demo 👉
auto deploys to $5/mo VPS
all NextJS features work out the box
for some reason writes/second to SQLite are only 236/sec on Docker on the VPS, whilst it's 2,600/sec on my Macbook Pro
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@WealthInc247
Terrible.
My fiancé passed away & my Mums Lukemia progressed.
But I changed more (in so many ways) than any previous time in my life, and all for the better. So there is gifts in deep grief and pain.
Life is short, appreciate every fucking second.
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After listening to a podcast with
@levelsio
- simple is best. I built a bot to send me total revenue and profit across all startups every morning.
So nice. Barely used Telegram before, really great.
Will add errors, uptime and more. All runs for free on GitHub.
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Don’t give up.
That inflection point since August 2023 is us literally just fixing the dumb issues with the product, nothing special.
I’ve only gone full time since this week.
Watch this go to £100K MRR soon!
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code now available for NextJS on VPS
demo 👉
auto deploys to $5/mo VPS
all NextJS features work out the box
for some reason writes/second to SQLite are only 236/sec on Docker on the VPS, whilst it's 2,600/sec on my Macbook Pro
I think I've been red pilled by
@ImSh4yy
Got my $6/mo VM running with NextJS in 1 hour - had to setup Docker locally, get an account, setup a registry, SSH bla bla bla
But now auto deploys on each commit
Let's see what the perf is like!
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Massive game changed for indie devs. Have one VPS, put all your apps on it.
Traffic routed by domain name. Point CloudFlare at the machine.
Delete Vercel/cloud/PaaS.
Best stack IMHO is SQLite + PHP/NextJS
Fast as hell. Cheap as hell to run.
Using Kamal 2 to deploy a brand-new Rails 8 application first to the same shared box where we put our Go Hello World app, then moving it onto a 3-server Hetzner deployment behind Cloudflare. All in 20 minutes. Enjoy!
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How does SEO tools like ahrefs get it’s data?
Google Search API?
How exactly?
I think a new tool that is actually affordable and uses the benefits of GPT would kill the game.
They do $100M ARR btw
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vercel might be unnecessary...
went from 200 to 6,863/writes per second achieved on SQLite on $6/mo VPS
try here 👉
source code 👉
setting journal_mode to WAL did it, also increased mmap_size to 128mb
@levelsio
@ImSh4yy
code now available for NextJS on VPS
demo 👉
auto deploys to $5/mo VPS
all NextJS features work out the box
for some reason writes/second to SQLite are only 236/sec on Docker on the VPS, whilst it's 2,600/sec on my Macbook Pro
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First air fryer meal is banging. Tastes like it should be a lot more calories.
108g protein
760 calories
Thanks to
@levelsio
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Things are not good but I’m giving it my absolute all. I remain positive but I must be honest. Facts are facts.
Last quarter I personally made after tax about $3,500/mo. By expenses are around $8K/mo. Expenses have increased, earnings are going down.
I’m working myself to burn
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@sovereignbrah
@hollowearthterf
I love your entire vibe/thesis TBH. The world needs more men who have families, protect loved ones, provide and be righteous.
Doing my best too.
Seems the world is splitting into the soulless and the ones building families.
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✨ new app coded & launched in 6 hours 🚢
Low Difficulty AI - get's you on the first page of Google, fast.
Inspired by
@dannypostmaa
tweets on SEO.
Finds the lowest competition but highest traffic keywords and uses a mixture of LLMs to the find keywords!
And for the first 2
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Inspired by
@ZackStrength
380g rump steak
4g beef tallow
7g of butter
280g of eggs
884 calories, 114g protein 💪
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I’m in the wrong damn vertical 😔
8x my MRR.
😂 just joking, this is so inspiring to me.
My long term goal is $500K/mo.
There’s a difference between freedom and complete and utter f*ck you money.
Q1 goal: $40K MRR.
My goal for 2023 was to hit $10k MRR
just surpassed $220K MRR
The goal for this year is $1M MRR, here is how I will get there
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Until it starts generating PROFIT, anything else like: clean code, unit testing etc, makes zero sense. And also for the record, whenever I'm trying to figure out where something went wrong, commit are not the thing I look at, it's the code changes in the commit.
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@ImSh4yy
I do email with a one time passcode - I found many users were either using different browsers or devices at the same time and magic links was annoying as a result. Slight difference but much better experience
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✨ i'm going to launch an indie hacker podcast
like My First Million, BUT not for the guys who sold their company for $20M, but...
for those who got to $10K MRR 🥳
a down to earth & genuine podcast
this is the future of business, and something I would actually listen to
it's
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@AndresReibel
@levelsio
All simplified with Kamal. Simple “kamal setup” and “kamal deploy”
You need docker running locally and a repo on your docker account to ship the image to the machine.
But basically it does the whole thing, very easy now.
PHP is shockingly simple and just works.
Back to
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💰We will take Dealsourcr from $22K MRR to $50K MRR by year end.
I’ll share all the experiments and failures.
🔫 High level: we are doing so many things wrong, our product isn’t good enough, our pricing doesn’t provide any lower entry points, our landing pages are confusing,
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Going full time as an indie hacker in a few weeks, quit all other incomes today...
After VAT, splitting profits etc, income taxes, I make about £2K/mo with . My personal exp are £5,600, so I'll be burning £3,600/mo..
Scary but I already have a SaaS that's
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absolutely glorious 🔥
commit are now just "x"
thx to
@levelsio
, got so much more done today
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@rauchg
Caching in Next 14, I’m rebuilding my entire product and it’s proving painful. It should be opt in not opt out.
The local router cache is the part I want to disable the most.
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I constantly have funds held in reserve at Stripe for this reason.
We go through periods of 0% disruptes then at random 5% in one month.
And in 99% of cases it’s because we didn’t refund in 2 hours from the request.
It’s dispute fraud basically.
Why are people like this? We offer a fully automated refund system at HeadshotPro, no questions asked. Yet, folks still dispute.
Funnily, most of them upload garbage, or break ToS.
Anyone here have experience how to bring this down even further?
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Added all my startups. At $6,413 MRR now. This updates every 30 mins.
That graph is net revenue. Being an indie takes a long time. Don’t give up, keep shipping.
@yongfook
@levelsio
#BuildInPublic
#OpenStartup
#indiehacker
#indiemaker
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Indie hacking pays 🤑
Spent the day in the sun driving my beast…
718 Spyder with the 4L 911 naturally aspirated engine 😍
Bought for cash with profits from coding.
The sound is unreal 🤯
2 videos below (listen)..
Never give up!
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Updated my Twitter bot to suck MRR data from all my startups and add it to the bio.
💰 Currently: $19,740 MRR
🎯 Goal: $50,000
See in the screenshot, the YT Automation Channel revenue is hardcoded, YT API is too painful to code against 🤣
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Having a linter is literally the opposite of shipping fast.
All the apps I started with clean code generate $0 & are dead.
The one with the worst code ever generates $20K/mo
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Finally spinning up a VM for NextJS using this post by
@ImSh4yy
👏
Going to test latency/load times & requests/sec
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Daily revenue doubled again, now $26/day.
~$780 MRR now, and that’s all profit.
assuming it doesn’t go up or down that is 😂
~13% annual net yield on investment
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@gregisenberg
There is a fuck load of these douches on X.
“I make $50,000/mo with my SaaS, here’s 5 strategies to…”
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But even then, I'll probably continue to work alone so I'll prob keep doing it anyway.
Also my most profitable startup ($20k MRR), has zero unit tests, dirtiest code ever and frameworks haven't been upgraded for years. So YOLO 😂
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🤑 Total MRR across all apps just jumped from $16.5K to $17.3K overnight.
😴 No extra work, no lines of code changed.
I ❤️ SaaS
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Seriously WTF is wrong with me, I just found this variable, written around summer 2019, app does $22K MRR LOL.
#RefactorInPublicLOL
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Based on the number of likes alone I’d say it’s about 90% agree with me. Which you wouldn’t think reading the comments.
People are tired of BS.
It’s strange how consensus is also massively controversial at the same time.
I actually thought his blog was some kind of product /
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After 20 years of coding, I’ve realised commit messages are pointless.
Now I just run:
x
Commits to main & deploys to prod 12 seconds later. Shout out to
@levelsio
for the suggestion.
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I think I've been red pilled by
@ImSh4yy
Got my $6/mo VM running with NextJS in 1 hour - had to setup Docker locally, get an account, setup a registry, SSH bla bla bla
But now auto deploys on each commit
Let's see what the perf is like!
Finally spinning up a VM for NextJS using this post by
@ImSh4yy
👏
Going to test latency/load times & requests/sec
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We seem to have 4x our revenue from just changing our pricing model
$16K in a week 🤯
Here’s what we did…
✅ switched from 4 plans to 2 (creating false choice)
✅ default to annual billing
✅ increased price of monthly plan by 2x, reduced annual plan by 30%
This pricing
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MRR posts get 50,000 views, and lots of follower growth, normal posts get 300 🤣
MRR hit an all time high! 🎊 $25,000!
MRR is up 35% this month. Goal was 10% 🤯
Next up: $30K!
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I completely forgot about , last month random annual sub of $624.78 😂
The power of SaaS.
I really need to grow that sucker at some point, too busy with Dealsourcr ATM.
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@kylegawley
I thought the same until I used it, I'm probably 5x faster than before, everything you ever need in a bunch of utility classes
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@mooretoddy
@levelsio
This is a new revelation for me on indie projects 😂 not for teams...
git add . && git commit -m "yolo" && git push origin main
I can tell you after being an engineer for 20 years, most of the stuff we do is all mental masterbation. It's all BS, pointless.
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@marc_louvion
to be fair, it's not that useful for shipping fast.
I bought it and tried, it actually slowed me down
who's making the highest revenue with shipfast?
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react query is such a pleasure to code with on real world apps
some component far away from where I was making queries needed to force some queries to refetch, how?
just ran queryClient.refetchQueries(['xyz']);
works!
thank you
@tan_stack
@TkDodo
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MRR jumped $3K today.
Indie Tools picked it up straight away.
Watch below.
I strongly advise to watch unmuted to hear the lofi music and my wooooooo at the end 😂
Next: Twitter bio update (in progress)
#BuildInPublic
Stripe Connect all setup and working. Just testing out production keys.
Next: write code to update profile, mostly copy & paste with a few edits from GitHub Action bot.
Features after release: analytics, SMS & email alerts.
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Daily revenue on YT automation channel starting to work. Around $12/day 😂
Was about $1 a week ago
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Built a chatbot to spider any website, took about 20 mins to build, this example is PhotoAI by
@levelsio
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🤔 Stuck between choosing a high-paying job ($15k-$20k/mo + equity) and my passion for hacking...
🚀 From now until November, I'm launching 4 new projects. If they don't make money in 4 weeks, I'll pivot. LFG!
🌱 Introducing 2 new productized services + 2 new apps:
1️⃣ Your MVP
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🤑 Total MRR across all apps just jumped from $15.8K to $16.5K overnight.
😴 No extra work, no lines of code changed.
I ❤️ SaaS
🤫 p.s. tbh, code is a mess and I've spent MAX 2-4 hours coding on it in 12 months! Around 1hr per month of customer support.
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@levelsio
LOL this triggered quite a few, to add some context. I've worked in 2,000 peoples companies, ran my own startups for years. What I am doing there works because I am an indie hacker. I'm coding on a new project (), and it's prerev, still being built.
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dealsourcr has now generated more than £1M in revenue
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I’d rather be honest & authentic than be liked.
The fact remains, I’ll always respect the person building a product than a content creator selling ads.
Prove me wrong, you’ll see how hard it is. And how awesome it is when it works.
Back to work 💪
I used to think like this...
Judging other people's businesses:
- "that's not an actual product"
- or "try building a real business"
This is a very limited way of thinking.
And even worse, it might make you poor forever.
It was only once I dropped this mindset and embraced
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just cancelled GitHub Copilot, just subscribed to CursorAI.
Product, Market, Fit.
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wtf am I doing with my life 😂
i like duolingo on my lock screen
whats on yours?
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It's amazing watching the misjudgements in human psychology** in real time
Remember, hate never comes from above.
@levelsio
has probably increased the GDP of the internet and inspired 10 of 1,000 of people to build their own software products & live a free life.
I'd list the
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🔫 Deleted LinkedIn. No way back now.
Deleted Instagram, had an empty Facebook account for dev API, deleted that too.
Goodbye 😌
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@thesamparr
@levelsio
Starting from zero today, with no following, just ability to code, what would he build assuming all his current startups are already created?
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now entered supreme leader status:
alias g='git add . && git commit -m "x" && git push origin main'
added to bash profile
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Well that’s good. Almost 800 people came to the site today
Honestly I was losing the will during this 4 month dev cycle. Sometimes you need some wins to keep the momentum
I know the potential is around $200K per month, but it’s been a hard slog recently
Relaxing for 5 mins 😌
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Im late to this but I’ll explain exactly why.
You built something people don’t want.
YC/Altman have explained this simple fact a million times and it’s the advice people avoid the most.
“people something people love”
yes it requires ungodly effort, luck, perseverance,
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I quit my $15k/mo freelancing yesterday, now all in on indie hacking and YouTube
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$35,000 in trials today on .
Conversion rate is 25%, so revenue next Saturday should be ~$8,000 🤯
Monthly revenue is now at $35,000/mo!!!
The only thing we changed was our pricing.
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🤕 MRR contracted 14% from $27,000 to $22,600
📈 up 30% from the summer
we are about to drop a brand new version, we will email the 20,000 on our email list, let's see what happens
the v2 is now getting insanely good
it's the darkest before the light!
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Today is the first day, me & my wife discussed leaving the UK 🇬🇧
We actually even considered moving to South Africa.
That shows you how bad things have got in the UK.
It’s trending in the direction that we’ve actually considered going someone more dangerous now.
Because if
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If you were wondering, I don’t respect this either.
Everyone with a laptop should have a course that earns $1,000,000 per year.
Sadly, most people think it takes years to build.
Here’s the playbook to build a 7-figure course in the next 60 days:
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@MasculinePeak
Lucky for us 99.999% of men don’t know daygame or have the balls to approach. And thus it’s almost always the first time for the girl, they always blown alway. But you need good game.
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a lot done today:
- fixed a lot of annoying bugs
- hooked up Facebook Pixel, following
@nico_jeannen
course
- speeded up load times from 1.5s to 600ms
- built 90% of zoom in/out for search on deals, it's really enjoyable to use now - lots of painful edge case bugs to fix
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@nilansaha
I got it to 14,000 writes with WAL mode then
@ImSh4yy
made it super fast.
Here’s the source:
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Holy sh*t this works. So many products can be built with this.
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Just bought a house and took out a mortgage for £506,000. 5.84%, costs me almost £3k/mo.
I really need to make more money now.
Nothing like a bit of pressure to get your head back in the game.
Plan on launching other products once Dealsourcr churn is down and MRR is up.
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Going to do Ayahuasca this weekend in Portugal, I have to quit coffee, go vegan, no sugar, salt or processed foods.
The headaches have already begun, but nothing that bad.
I’ll let you know what the experience is like.
I went through serious trauma last year so hoping it helps
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If you’re a man & don’t want to end up in an unhappy relationship over your lifetime…
It will serve you to read this in full.
I can tell you from experience it’s bang on.
I Hit It First: Why A Girl’s Sexual Past Matters
by LaidNYC
Sept 6, 2013
A girl’s sexual past matters.
You will hear otherwise from delusional sluts who have been pumped and dumped yet are still hoping to attain commitment from a decent man, and from white knight feminist males
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