Brand

Side-Project Microsites

on Carrd / Notion

The play

Free single-purpose tools/sites that promote the main product. Pat Walls / Marc Lou playbook — every side-project funnels back.

3apps use this channel

Used by

Case studies

Apps that grew on Side-Project Microsites.

3 apps

Carrd

Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites

$100K

Solo founder, $1M+ ARR. Carrd's free tier + 'used to build literally every indie SaaS landing page' became distribution by default.

ShipFast

Next.js boilerplate for indie hackers

$90K

Marc Lou

Built in public on X for 8 months before launch. Pre-sold to 200 followers; opened to $1M ARR in year one. Every product Marc ships afterward funnels back to ShipFast — meta-distribution.

Place Card Me

DIY wedding place card generator

$8K

Cory Zue

Side-project SaaS targeting bridal-search SEO. Cory built it as a 'small bet' demo for SaaS Pegasus.