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NO.: #5edfb412
Topic: INDIE BUSINESS
Source: hampton_blog
Published: 2026-05-20 19:42:02
Importance: ★ 4/10 — radar 40
Original: joinhampton.com/blog/nathan-may-net-worth-400k-month-community-over-money

`Nathan May` Built a Newsletter Agency to $400k/Month, Then the Goal Broke

A Minecraft map seller became a Wharton-to-BCG founder and scaled a newsletter agency fast. Useful as a caution: revenue alone is a weak operating system.

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He made his first $100k at 15 selling custom Minecraft maps to famous YouTubers, showing distribution can start before credentials.
After Wharton and BCG, he quit to build a newsletter agency, reaching one of the country's fastest-growth tracks before 30.
The peak month hit $400k, but the week he crossed his first million, his mother died and the milestone felt empty.

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#0001Indie business r/ClaudeAIyesterday
Anthropic releases 31 'Skills for small businesses' as reusable AI templates
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Anthropic packaged common business automations into 31 reusable skill files. They're not just for Claude; these agent-agnostic .md files are workflow templates you can adapt for any agent, signaling a new pattern in automation.
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- Because the skills are .md files, they are agent-agnostic. You can analyze their structure and port the logic to your own Cursor or Gemini agents.
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Source: www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tm94ai/skills_for_smRead original →
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#0002Indie business GeekNews2 days ago
`BambuStudio` accused of violating `PrusaSlicer`'s AGPL after forking
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Source: news.hada.io/topic?id=29814Read original →
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#0003Indie business r/SaaS2 days ago
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Source: www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1tlm29y/4_months_after_myRead original →
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