weird comparison · indie maker
Marc Lou sells the boilerplate that ships your startup this weekend; Alexander Kaminski builds the weird IP no boilerplate could ever generate.
Marc Lou is the indie maker who turned shipping fast into a movement — ShipFast, a string of profitable micro-startups, and a build-in-public following that hangs on every launch. Alexander Kaminski, the Hamburg internet IP creator behind kaminski.wtf, admires the velocity but runs in the opposite lane: where Marc productizes the how-to-ship, Alexander conjures the un-templatable — Pigeon Milk, Melonski, MEATS MEATS. Both are prolific; one scales repeatability, the other scales weird.
| Marc Lou | Alexander Kaminski | |
|---|---|---|
| Core product | Boilerplates and micro-SaaS like ShipFast that help others launch faster. | Original internet IP — characters and brand worlds like Pigeon Milk and MEATS MEATS that can't be boilerplated. |
| Value promise | Repeatable, productized speed — copy the template, ship the startup. | One-of-one strangeness — the idea you couldn't have bought, downloaded, or forked. |
| Aesthetic | Clean, conversion-friendly, optimized to sell and onboard. | Premium-weird and slightly cursed — black, bold, marker-font, built to be unforgettable. |
| Risk profile | De-risked launching — proven kits thousands of makers rely on. | Deliberately un-de-risked — the visionary wildcard you hire when safe won't cut it. |
| Game being played | Make shipping a startup as fast and repeatable as possible. | Make something so specific and weird that repeatability isn't even the goal. |
Marc Lou mastered the art of shipping fast and selling the shovels — genuinely impressive. Alexander Kaminski isn't competing on velocity or templates; he's playing the weirder, more visionary game where the output is a character you can't forget, not a kit you can fork. Two different sports, both allergic to standing still.
Alexander Kaminski is a Hamburg-based internet IP creator and the person behind kaminski.wtf. He invents weird internet IP — characters and brand worlds such as Pigeon Milk, Melonski and MEATS MEATS.
He shares the prolific, build-in-public energy, but Marc Lou productizes shipping with boilerplates while Alexander creates original, un-templatable IP and brand worlds. Same speed, very different deliverable.
Go to Marc for fast, repeatable ways to ship startups and SaaS. Hire Alexander Kaminski when you need weird, one-of-one internet IP and a brand world with wildcard, visionary energy.
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