Tibo Louis-Lucas

Co-founder of Tweet Hunter and Taplio (sold to lempire); builder of Revid and Outrank^{Source [4]}^{Source [7]}^{Source [1]}

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Thibault "Tibo" Louis-Lucas is a French software founder known online as Tibo Maker (@tibo_maker). He builds and grows a portfolio of bootstrapped SaaS products and shares revenue figures and growth tactics publicly on X and in a weekly newsletter.^{Source [1]}^{Source [2]}^{Source [3]}

His first two startups failed. Pistache, an app for parents co-founded in 2015 with Thomas Jacquesson, was sold after two years without scaling, and Dreamz, a venture-funded educational coding game started in 2017, went through bankruptcy. He has said the two consumed about 700,000 euros and left him with about 250,000 euros of personal debt; he then worked as CTO of a larger startup.^{Source [4]}^{Source [5]}^{Source [6]}^{Source [3]}

In early 2021 he and Jacquesson formed the studio Pony Express and shipped a new product every week until Tweet Hunter, a growth tool for X, gained traction in May 2021. They added Taplio for LinkedIn and in 2022 sold both to lempire for $2 million in cash plus an earnout. lempire's CEO Guillaume Moubeche, a middle school acquaintance, published the deal story in January 2023.^{Source [4]}^{Source [7]}^{Source [8]}

He has said combined ARR reached about $8 million by the end of the earnout and that the total payout came to about $8 million, which he has publicly described as a poor trade. He left Tweet Hunter in 2024.^{Source [9]}^{Source [3]}^{Source [10]}

He now runs TMAKER, a portfolio that includes Revid, Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer, Squad, Bazzly and Feather, often built with partner developers he calls co-makers. He reports about $1 million in monthly revenue across the portfolio; these figures are self-reported.^{Source [1]}^{Source [3]}^{Source [2]}

Career

2015

2017

2021 to 2024

2021 to 2024

2023 to now

2024 to now

Company	Years	Role	Status
Outrank Partnered with Eugene Zolotarenko to reposition his AI blog generator ContentPie as Outrank, an autonomous SEO product, and drives its distribution.^{Source [11]}^{Source [3]} Renamed and repositioned the product from a content generator to an SEO traffic tool, launched in November 2024 and on Product Hunt in January 2025.^{Source [11]}^{Source [12]} Reported growth from about $300 MRR to $274,000 MRR by April 2026 (self-reported).^{Source [11]}^{Source [13]} Responded publicly in October 2026 to criticism of Outrank's backlink exchange, saying signups had fallen 26% after the posts.^{Source [14]} Suggest a correction to Outrank	2024 to now	Co-maker (growth partner)^{Source [11]}^{Source [3]}	Active
Revid Acquired the video tool Typeframes in 2023 and forked it into Revid, an AI short-form video generator.^{Source [15]}^{Source [16]} Merged Typeframes and Revid onto one codebase and subscription in 2024.^{Source [15]}^{Source [17]} Reported $680,000 MRR with a team of four in February 2026 (self-reported).^{Source [18]} Suggest a correction to Revid	2023 to now	Founder^{Source [15]}^{Source [16]}^{Source [1]}	Active
Tweet Hunter Co-founded Tweet Hunter with Thomas Jacquesson in 2021, sold it with Taplio to lempire in 2022 and stayed through the earnout.^{Source [4]}^{Source [7]}^{Source [9]} Built the first version as a search bar for viral tweets after shipping about ten other products in weekly experiments.^{Source [5]}^{Source [4]} Gave creator JK Molina a share of profits and exit proceeds for promotion; MRR rose from about $3,000 to about $20,000 within weeks.^{Source [3]}^{Source [6]} Negotiated the sale to lempire, led by his middle school acquaintance Guillaume Moubeche, for $2 million in cash plus an earnout.^{Source [4]}^{Source [7]} Reported that combined ARR reached about $8 million during the earnout, unlocking a total payout of about $8 million, a deal he later called a financial mistake.^{Source [9]}^{Source [3]} Suggest a correction to Tweet Hunter	2021 to 2024	Co-founder^{Source [4]}^{Source [10]}	Acquired
Taplio Launched Taplio as the LinkedIn counterpart to Tweet Hunter about six months after Tweet Hunter; it was sold to lempire in the same 2022 deal.^{Source [4]}^{Source [7]} Suggest a correction to Taplio	2021 to 2024	Co-founder^{Source [4]}^{Source [10]}	Acquired
Dreamz Founded Dreamz, an educational coding game that raised money and grew a larger team but did not generate enough revenue and went bankrupt.^{Source [4]}^{Source [5]}^{Source [6]} Suggest a correction to Dreamz	2017	Founder^{Source [4]}^{Source [5]}	Bankrupt
Pistache Co-founded Pistache, an app for parents, with Thomas Jacquesson; they sold it after about two years.^{Source [4]}^{Source [5]} Suggest a correction to Pistache	2015	Co-founder^{Source [4]}	Acquired

Milestones

2026-10Publicly addressed criticism of Outrank's backlink exchange.^{Source [14]}
2026-04Reported Outrank at $274,000 MRR (self-reported).^{Source [13]}
2026-02Reported Revid at $680,000 MRR with a team of four (self-reported).^{Source [18]}
2025-01Launched Outrank on Product Hunt, where it ranked #1 of the day.^{Source [11]}
2024-11Announced Outrank with partner Eugene Zolotarenko.^{Source [12]}^{Source [11]}
2024Left Tweet Hunter after the earnout period.^{Source [10]}^{Source [9]}
2023-09Acquired the video tool Typeframes, later forked into Revid.^{Source [16]}^{Source [15]}
2022Named Product Hunt Maker of the Year (self-reported).^{Source [1]}^{Source [5]}
2022Sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio to lempire for $2 million in cash plus an earnout.^{Source [4]}^{Source [7]}
2021-05Tweet Hunter got its first paying user.^{Source [6]}^{Source [4]}
2021Co-founded the product studio Pony Express with Thomas Jacquesson.^{Source [4]}
2017Founded Dreamz, which later went bankrupt.^{Source [4]}^{Source [5]}
2015Co-founded Pistache with Thomas Jacquesson.^{Source [4]}

Boards, investments and other roles

Organization	Role	Years
TMAKER Founder RoomMedia	Host^{Source [1]}
Tibo Maker newsletterMedia	Author^{Source [1]}

Education

MBA program (school not publicly named), MBA program (attended; completion not stated)^{Source [4]}

Honors

Product Hunt Maker of the Year (self-reported) 2022^{Source [1]}^{Source [5]}

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Tibo Maker: SaaS Founder, SEO & AI Growth Playbooks, tmaker.io (personal site). Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
@tibo_maker profile (via fxtwitter API), X. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
The SaaS Distribution Channel Bet Behind a $12M Portfolio, SaaS Club podcast (Omer Khan), 2026-05-07. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
How Pony Express' Tweet Hunter and Taplio sold to lempire, They Got Acquired, 2023-03-22. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
How We Built A $3.5M ARR LinkedIn Tool That Will Be Acquired For $10M-$15M, Starter Story, 2023-05-18. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
From Bankruptcy to Millionaire in 2 Years: How Tibo Louis-Lucas Built and Sold TweetHunter & Taplio, First Class Founders podcast, 2023-11-08. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
How I turned my middle-school mate into a multi-millionaire (archived), lempire blog (Guillaume Moubeche), 2023-01-16. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Tweet Hunter acquired for $2m + earn out, Indie Hackers, 2023-01-19. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Tibo's Tweet Hunter Exit: The Earnout That Priced His Own Growth at 1x, No Code Exits (Substack), 2026-09-18. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Indie Bites episode 115 with Tibo Louis-Lucas, Indie Bites podcast, 2024-05-16. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
how Outrank went from $300 MRR to $300k MRR in 15 months, X article (@tibo_maker), 2026-04-27. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
OUTRANK is LIVE, X (@tibo_maker), 2024-11-19. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Outrank now at $274k mrr with 2,500+ websites using it, X (@tibo_maker), 2026-04-07. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
3 weeks ago, SEO twitter decided Outrank burns domains, X (@tibo_maker), 2026-10-01. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Should I kill Typeframes?, X (@tibo_maker), 2024-08-22. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
revid.ai (acquired as Typeframes) in September 2023, X (@ulricmusset), 2024-09-27. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
If you're a Typeframes subscriber, you get revid .ai for free, X (@tibo_maker), 2024-06-24. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
$680k MRR with a team of 4, X (@tibo_maker), 2026-02-18. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.

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