Public revenue case library
Revenue signals from founders building in public on X
Browse curated posts with revenue numbers, cost clues, channel notes, credibility labels, and original-source records. Use it to compare what revenue screenshots do and do not prove.
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High-trust originals
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Updated
2026-09-08
Revenue signal table
110 signals, 105 high-trust original records, source updated 2026-09-08
| Entry | Revenue / cost / profit | Product / channel | Credibility | Summary | Actions |
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DataFast reached $30K MRR @marclou / 2026-09-04 12:16 UTC；互动 834 likes、13 retweets、190 replies、21 quotes、82,221 views、149 bookmarks Added 2026-09-05 (last 24-48 hours) | DataFast reached $30K MRR after 2 years with 1,387 paying customers. The first $300 MRR came from the author's existing audience; most of the rest came through word of mouth. The author said there was no SEO, advertising, or sponsorship; costs and profit were undisclosed. | DataFast, a website analytics SaaS. A launch to the existing audience, followed by product features that encouraged sharing and word of mouth. In a reply, the author said free-tool marketing did not count as "real marketing." | High: first-party disclosure with a revenue screenshot, a two-year timeline, paying-customer count, and stated channel boundaries. "No marketing" is the author's framing and does not mean there was no distribution activity; costs and profit were undisclosed. | Marc Lou brought DataFast to $30K MRR through two years of iteration and user sharing rather than a single launch spike. The first $300 MRR depended on an existing audience, after which 1,387 paying customers were mainly acquired through word of mouth. This is a mature SaaS path centered on product quality and shareable features instead of paid acquisition. | |
Squad launch brought $3,300 new MRR in 24 hours @tibo_maker / Tibo / 2026-09-04 09:30 UTC；互动 262 likes、10 retweets、60 replies、9 quotes、58,600 views、103 bookmarks Added 2026-09-05 (last 24-48 hours) | The launch added $3,300 MRR in 24 hours, with 1M+ announcement impressions and 10K+ product-site visitors. Advertising and infrastructure costs and net profit were undisclosed. | Squad, a SaaS that connects users' tools and lets AI teammates execute tasks automatically. Product-launch distribution on X, with many new partner-program members; the team described itself as bootstrapped. | High: a member of the product's founding team disclosed the figures, timing, and an accompanying image. "New MRR" is a new subscription run rate, not settled cash revenue; costs and retention were undisclosed. | During a launch window competing with products in the xAI category, Squad gained $3,300 in new MRR in 24 hours alongside 1M+ impressions and 10K visitors. The researchable signal is the loop connecting an X launch, a partner program, and the product's agent-collaboration positioning; it remains an early conversion signal rather than stable monthly revenue. | |
First month of SaaS affiliate: $100 MRR + $1,250 one-time @2whazzuup / Grant O / 2026-09-04 23:26 UTC；互动 5 likes、0 retweets、0 replies、0 quotes、175 views、1 bookmark Added 2026-09-05 (last 24-48 hours) | In its first month, the SaaS affiliate project produced $100 MRR plus a separate $1,250 one-time payment, with a screenshot. Costs, commission rates, and the specific SaaS product were undisclosed. | A SaaS affiliate site/project. SaaS affiliate marketing. The author also said software sites can find audiences on X and Reddit, but this post did not split platform contributions. | High: first-party disclosure with a clear first-month timeline, two revenue definitions, and a screenshot. The amount was small and engagement low; the product name, costs, and commission details were missing, so this is an early sample rather than proof of a mature business. | This is an early but clearly defined SaaS affiliate sample: recurring commission and a one-time payment appeared in the first month, showing that affiliate cash revenue and MRR can follow different settlement mechanisms. Because the product, traffic, commission rate, and costs were not disclosed, $100 MRR and the $1,250 one-time payment should be kept separate. | |
Email win-back brought back 5 paying users and $266.51 @hezhiyan7 / droidHZ / 2026-09-04 00:05 UTC；互动 14 likes、0 retweets、3 replies、0 quotes、1,702 views、29 bookmarks Added 2026-09-04 (last 24-48 hours) | On 2026-08-25, a win-back email was sent to 105 users, bringing back 5 users and generating 9 payments totaling $266.51. The author cited another creator's email sequence recovering $899 as a comparison; absolute email costs, net profit, and the site name were undisclosed. | The author's international website/tool site; the specific product was not disclosed. AI-assisted email copy sent with Resend, segmented across new-user welcomes, users who opened the payment page, churned paying users, ordinary users, and users redirected to other sites. Users who had paid more than $20 received credits and a prompt about a new model. | High: first-party X Article with send date, sample size, recovered users, payment count, and amount; a reply added the use of Resend. No backend screenshot or complete conversion funnel was provided. | The value of this short Article is a reusable segmentation sequence rather than email marketing in the abstract: welcome emails recover forgotten sites, payment-page users receive discount or social-proof prompts, and churned payers receive a reason to return through a new model and credits. The 105-user sample produced $266.51, suggesting lifecycle work on existing registered and paying users can generate measurable cash recovery faster than buying new traffic. | |
Adsense sites first $50+ day / September $6K-$6.5K forecast @roi_hacks / Falcon P / 2026-09-01 17:18 UTC；互动 69 likes、0 retweets、13 replies、0 quotes、4,096 views、32 bookmarks Added 2026-09-03 (last 24-48 hours) | Four AdSense sites passed $50 in a single day for the first time. One site acquired from Flippa four months earlier generated 70% of revenue; three sites acquired over the past nine months generated 98%. September display-ad revenue was forecast at about $6K-$6.5K/month: YouTube $1.5K, Mediavine Journey $1.5K, AdSense $1.5K, and Ezoic $2K. The largest site cost $1,500, with a target payback of about six months; the author said it was nearly paid back. | A portfolio of four content/tool websites. Acquiring sites through Flippa, then monetizing content and advertising through YouTube, Mediavine Journey, AdSense, and Ezoic, plus affiliate content. A reply said some traffic came from Truth Social. | High: first-party follow-up disclosures added acquisition prices, payback period, traffic source, and ad networks. Video/data media was shown, but site names, traffic, net profit, and maintenance costs were missing. | Falcon P's case starts with acquiring sites that already had a revenue base, then layering ad networks and content assets on top. Three sites bought over the past nine months contributed 98% of current ad revenue; a $1,500 acquisition targeted roughly six-month payback, illustrating how low-cost site purchases can form a cash-flow portfolio rather than a single new-project bet. | |
GojiberryAI $4M ARR from selling before building @Dylan_txa_ / 2026-09-02 13:22 UTC；互动 285 likes、22 retweets、35 replies、4 quotes、18,429 views、363 bookmarks Added 2026-09-03 (last 24-48 hours) | GojiberryAI reached $4M+ ARR in a year. Before writing code, the author used a six-page slide deck to sell the first $10K; early pricing was $99/month with a free trial; the company went from $0 to $3.5M ARR in about 12 months. The post said there was no outside funding but also said the company later joined YC, so the timing requires caution. | GojiberryAI，B2B AI outbound / sales automation SaaS Sell before building; start with intent-based outbound, then deepen outbound, Reddit (10M+ organic views), and LinkedIn lead magnets, with daily customer interviews and a $99/month self-serve funnel. | High: first-person founder disclosure of revenue, presale amount, pricing, 12-month timeline, and channels, consistent with the team's existing Gojiberry ARR/GTM records. The "bootstrapped" and YC statements have timing/definition ambiguity and do not establish the current capital structure. | Dylan attributed GojiberryAI's $4M+ ARR to a specific sequence: sell $10K with a six-page deck, validate through intent-based outbound, then deepen Reddit organic distribution and LinkedIn lead magnets. The reusable signal is taking payment before writing code and sustaining the sequence for 12 months, rather than treating an ARR screenshot as the whole explanation. | |
GojiberryAI channel sequencing: €0 to $150K+ MRR @HelloPrerona / Prerona Basu / 2026-09-02 12:48 UTC；互动 46 likes、3 retweets、24 replies、0 quotes、5,469 views、78 bookmarks Added 2026-09-03 (last 24-48 hours) | A team-side retelling put GojiberryAI at $0 to $3.5M ARR: €0 to $6K MRR mainly through cold email and LinkedIn outbound; $10K to $25K MRR through Reddit's 10M+ organic views at "almost zero" cost; $25K to $75K MRR by adding LinkedIn content, YouTube, motion-design videos, and free blueprints; $75K to $150K MRR by adding X, B2B influencers, sponsored newsletters, and lifetime affiliates; and only after $150K+ MRR by adding Meta/Google ads, influencer agencies, and hiring. | GojiberryAI Channels were added in revenue stages: outbound → Reddit → content/blueprints → partnerships/X → paid/hiring. The central claim is to push an effective channel to its limit before looking for the next one. | Medium to high: a newer GojiberryAI team member published details from conversations on the second day of employment, and the account aligns with prior founder/team records. It was not written by the founder and lacks customer count, gross margin, retention, and duration for each stage. | This is an internal team perspective on channel sequencing: GojiberryAI moved from outbound to $6K MRR, then added Reddit, content, partnerships, and paid acquisition in stages rather than opening every channel at once. It fills in when each channel was added, but remains a team-side retelling rather than audited data. | |
Can I Vibecode It September sponsors reach $6.5K/month @robj3d3 / Rob Hallam / 2026-09-02 18:09 UTC；互动 33 likes、0 retweets、12 replies、0 quotes、4,064 views、2 bookmarks Added 2026-09-03 (last 24-48 hours) | CanIVibeCodeIt.com's September run rate rose to $6.5K/month. The second and third sponsors in this round each contributed $2,500, and @wickedguro renewed at $1,500/month; the site had 94K visitors in 30 days, 25K in one week, and 17K sponsor clicks in August. Another $2,500 sponsor was Ahrefs Brand Radar, with one $2,500 slot remaining. | CanIVibeCodeIt.com, with 1,093 pages evaluating whether AI can replicate apps and SaaS products. Organic traffic from a trend directory/content site, with top sponsor slots sold directly to relevant SaaS companies. Rob and Ruben Hassid continued building the content. | High: first-party serial posts disclosed sponsor amounts, renewals, site visits, and clicks. The record connects to the earlier four-day build, $499 sponsor, and $8 VPS case; current hosting and net profit were not disclosed. | Rob's site moved from an early one-time $499 ad slot to a steadier sponsor-slot model: September had a confirmed $6.5K/month run rate, including a $1.5K/month renewal. The 94K monthly visitors and 17K sponsor clicks help explain the $2.5K B2B sponsorships, but the run rate is not settled net profit. | |
August portfolio income $82,221 @marclou / 2026-08-31 12:52 UTC；互动 1,863 likes、44 retweets、235 replies、244 quotes、551,695 views、640 bookmarks Added 2026-09-02 (last 24-48 hours) | August 2026 total revenue was $82,221: TrustMRR $42K, DataFast $26K, CodeFast $4K, Twitter $4K, ShipFast $3K, Ship or Die $2K, Indie Page $595, HabitsGarden $244, SuperShrimp $153, ByeDispute $117, and YouTube $112. Overall churn was 6%; costs and net profit were undisclosed. | A portfolio including TrustMRR, DataFast, CodeFast, ShipFast, Ship or Die, Indie Page, HabitsGarden, SuperShrimp, and ByeDispute. Revenue was split across products, Twitter, and YouTube. In replies, the author said DataFast relied mainly on word of mouth and Twitter revenue came from introducing his apps. | High: first-party itemized monthly revenue disclosure with an image; replies added about $5K in TrustMRR commissions and DataFast's word-of-mouth channel. There was no backend audit and costs/profit were incomplete. | Marc Lou disclosed an itemized August 2026 portfolio total of $82,221. TrustMRR and DataFast were the largest contributors, with TrustMRR about half of the total; despite working little and traveling through five countries, the portfolio maintained 6% churn. This indicates stability in a mature product portfolio, while costs and profit remain unknown. | |
Postiz August revenue $185,324 @wickedguro / 2026-08-31 13:52 UTC；互动 184 likes、4 retweets、21 replies、3 quotes、17,572 views、95 bookmarks Added 2026-09-02 (last 24-48 hours) | August 2026 total revenue was $185,324: Postiz $182,747 and agent-media $2,577. Costs and profit were undisclosed. | Postiz, an open-source social-media scheduling platform, and agent-media. This post added no channel split; it continues the existing Postiz record of Reddit, open-source distribution, product positioning, and distribution experiments. | High: first-party full-month product revenue disclosure, cross-checked against the earlier Postiz $165K MRR and $180K MRR records. Costs, net profit, and channel attribution were missing. | Postiz contributed $182,747 of the author's August revenue, with another $2,577 from agent-media. The figure is monthly revenue and should not be treated as MRR by default; only product splits were disclosed, so it is a scale signal rather than a complete P&L. | |
SalesRobot backend rebuild cost @saguppa / 2026-09-01 13:30 UTC；互动 4 likes、0 retweets、2 replies、0 quotes、312 views、0 bookmarks Added 2026-09-02 (last 24-48 hours) | A backend failure in early 2025 caused MRR to fall 32% in three weeks. Migration to new infrastructure took three months and cost about six figures; the company now exceeds $1M ARR, and related customer losses were reported. | SalesRobot, a multichannel outreach SaaS. The post focused on infrastructure and customer-renewal trust and did not disclose the specific acquisition channels before or after the incident. | High: first-person postmortem with concrete revenue scale, decline, timeline, rebuild cost, and customer consequences. Engagement was low and ARR was not given precisely, so it remains a public claim. | SalesRobot lost 32% of MRR in three weeks after a backend failure, then spent three months and about six figures rebuilding infrastructure. The company now exceeds $1M ARR, but a three-year customer lost during the incident never returned. The case shows how concealing a failure can turn an outage into trust and renewal losses. | |
SalesRobot conference ROI @saguppa / 2026-08-31 13:30 UTC；互动 21 likes、1 retweet、12 replies、0 quotes、1,316 views、4 bookmarks Added 2026-09-02 (last 24-48 hours) | Over the past 18 months, three large SaaS conferences cost about $10K including flights, hotels, tickets, and time. Sponsoring a small event in India cost about ₹1 lakh (about $1K) and brought ₹4.24 lakh (about $4.4K) in returned revenue, or about 4.4x gross payback; net profit was undisclosed. | SalesRobot Large conferences and a small vertical event in India; the next plan was smaller events with controllable attendee lists and redistributing content through Instagram and YouTube. | High: first-party disclosure of cumulative event costs, a single-event investment, returned revenue, and decision context. Whether all returned revenue came from the sponsorship, gross margin, and later renewals were undisclosed. | SalesRobot's event-marketing comparison is stark: about $10K spent on large conferences over 18 months produced no visible pipeline, while a roughly $1K Indian event returned about $4.4K. The author therefore shifted toward controllable lists, becoming the only supplier in a local niche, and redistributing event content. | |
MediaFast from $5K/month to $7K/month @arthuryuzbashew / 2026-08-25 09:20 UTC；互动 71 likes、4 retweets、37 replies、0 quotes、1,789 views、2 bookmarks Added 2026-08-26 (last 24-48 hours) | MediaFast reached $5K/month after 150 days, then reached $7K/month 60 days later. The next target is $10K/month. Costs and profit were not disclosed. | MediaFast, a productized Reddit/GEO marketing tool or service. The next growth plan is more launches, LinkedIn articles, and SEO. This continues the author's earlier Reddit, GEO/AI search, and Google organic distribution path. | High: first-party disclosure with a revenue screenshot, clear timing, and channel notes, cross-checked against earlier MediaFast milestones. Traffic, conversion, cost, and profit details are missing. | MediaFast shows a clear acceleration from $5K to $7K in monthly revenue: the first stage took 150 days, while the next $2K took only 60 days. The author is relying on launches, LinkedIn long-form content, and SEO rather than a single viral hit, making search assets and repeatable distribution the main compounding thesis. | |
Independent app builder made more than RMB500K in two years @10xmylife / 2026-08-07 05:38 UTC；互动约 1,527 likes、154 retweets、287 replies、72 quotes、303K views、1,585 bookmarks Added 2026-08-08 (last 24-48 hours) | A full-time mobile-app portfolio generated more than RMB500K in two years, roughly $70K+ USD, mostly as passive income. The founder started with more than RMB100K in severance after a Tesla layoff and spent six months experimenting without income. | An unnamed portfolio of mobile apps. Market research, careful onboarding and paywall design, and distribution across Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, and Threads. The founder also used lower AI development costs and creator-led distribution as leverage. | High: first-party long-form retrospective with a detailed founder background, seed capital, experimentation timeline, and operating lessons. The post also received unusually strong engagement. | After being laid off from Tesla, the founder used more than RMB100K in severance to build apps full time in Shanghai. The first six months had no income, but the portfolio eventually broke even and passed RMB500K in passive income over two years. The core lesson is to focus on market demand, onboarding, paywalls, and persistent multi-platform distribution rather than flashy features. | |
Interior-design app finally passed $8K MRR @SebasEstra / 2026-08-07 20:07 UTC；互动约 44 likes、18 replies、2.1K views、17 bookmarks Added 2026-08-08 (last 24-48 hours) | MRR passed $8,000, with more than $7,000 in actual revenue over the last 28 days. The previous July milestone was $2.8K MRR, so the app nearly tripled in one month. | An unnamed B2C interior-design and home-aesthetics app. Pure TikTok organic acquisition. The account had nearly 30,000 followers, and individual short videos passed one million views. Visual carousels and short videos were also used to retain the target audience. | High: first-party serial disclosure with RevenueCat and TikTok analytics screenshots, directly cross-checked against the July $2.8K MRR update. | This is a strong organic-growth sample for a B2C mobile subscription app. High-quality TikTok carousels and short videos lifted the interior-design app from $2.8K to $8K MRR in about a month, showing how precise visual content can drive subscription growth without paid acquisition. | |
WriteStack passed $14,000/month @Orelzman / 2026-08-03 15:02 UTC；互动约 47 likes、30 replies、2 quotes、11.3K views、9 bookmarks Added 2026-08-07 (last 24-48 hours) | WriteStack passed $14,000 in monthly revenue, up from more than $11K MRR in July. The founder spent 600 days testing 12 failed projects, then another 500 days operating WriteStack. A later pricing update said MRR rose from about $3K to nearly $10K after repricing. | WriteStack, a creator-growth and writing workflow tool for Substack Notes. The Substack creator ecosystem, direct conversations with users, and Substack Notes distribution. Repricing was another important growth lever. | High: first-party disclosure with a Stripe dashboard screenshot and a consistent timeline that cross-checks against the July $11K+ MRR record. Costs, profit, and churn remain undisclosed. | WriteStack is a long-run vertical SaaS case. After 12 failed projects and 600 days of experimentation, the founder found a specific Substack Notes workflow problem and operated the product for another 500 days to reach $14K/month. The later repricing update adds evidence that packaging and price can materially change MRR. | |
6 habits that took my SaaS from $40K to $80K MRR @saguppa / 2026-07-29 13:30 UTC；互动约 12 likes、1 retweet、12 replies、624 views、6 bookmarks Added 2026-07-31 (last 24-48 hours) | SalesRobot went from $40K MRR to $80K MRR in 12 months, after 3 years of stagnation. Channel/operating numbers: trial- > campaign from 20% to 50% after LinkedIn API backend migration; one LinkedIn post 3,000 comments, AI follow-up to 652 free trials and $2K MRR; self-use products 649 connection requests, 56% accept, 35% reply, 0 bans/7 months, 5 SDR accounts contribute about $22K monthly pipeline and tool cost $0; cold mail burned 300 domains/month, after focusing on lookalike, Brazil agency a single $3K MRR; white label accounts for only 5% customers but 25% revenue, a UK agency expanded from 5 seats to 80 seats | SalesRobot，LinkedIn lead gen / automation SaaS Weekly parallel: product fixes, LinkedIn content + AI commenter follow-up, self use products to do outbound, lookalike cold email, attendee email after SaaStr/SaaSBoomi event, white-label agency relationship operation; the author emphasizes not to do only one growth action at a time | High: The author's own long post disclosure, including timeline, MRR steps, conversion rate, pipeline, single transaction, and channel mechanism; can intersect with existing SalesRobot $1M ARR/low-burn records. Limitations are missing full P&L, churn, CAC summary, screenshot audit and current absolute profit | This is more useful than a simple “to $80K MRR”: it writes the middle SaaS approach out of the platform phase as an executable system. The core is not a certain divine channel, but product repair, content transfer clues, self-use product verification, narrow audience cold mail, activities and white-label running in parallel. Particularly noteworthy are the contribution of 5% of white label customers to 25% of revenue, and the fact that “bad products cannot be covered up with marketing”. | |
3-year-old blog closed biggest agency deal / $5K MRR @saguppa / 2026-07-30 13:30 UTC；互动约 10 likes、1 retweet、4 replies、344 views、1 bookmark Added 2026-07-31 (last 24-48 hours) | A Skylead alternatives blog written in 2023, Google ranked about # 8 on average in the past month, prompting the Australian agency to migrate 80 client accounts; a single transaction of $5K MRR, and said that the order made the business past $1M ARR. There are no new costs, profits, or ad spend added to this post | SalesRobot，LinkedIn automation SaaS Evergreen SEO/alternatives content; the author emphasizes that agency switching has its own timeline, cold mail/content is difficult to proactively promote, the real leverage is to stay discoverable when customers are dissatisfied with existing tools and search alternatives | High: The author himself disclosed that the product, channel, deal size, customer structure and ARR milestones are clear and can be crossed with the previous day's $40K- > $80K custom post, existing $1M ARR record. Limitations are missing screenshots, proof of contract/payout, cost and profit | This is a high-quality sample of long-tail SEO deals: not the month the blog went live, but three years later in the customer switching window. Research is tied with SalesRobot's content/outbound system, indicating that agency orders for B2B SaaS tend to rely more on being "discovered" than on short-cycle conversion funnels. | |
Gojiberry LinkedIn post drove ~$4K new MRR @pierreeliottlal / 2026-07-28 09:27 UTC；互动约 161 likes、12 retweets、12 replies、1 quote、243 bookmarks、12.9K views Added 2026-07-29 (last 24-48 hours) | A LinkedIn post brings 350 + trials and ~ $4K new MRR in 24 hours; no new gross margin, ad cost or net profit figures added to this post. Can intersect with 2026-07-23 Gojiberry $3.9M ARR GTM record, 2026-07-28 merged launch video + $35K MRR/motion design video ~ $5K cost | Gojiberry.ai，AI GTM brain / high-intent lead generation SaaS LinkedIn lead magnet/comment-gated post; first line directly to value, comment trigger, 24-hour DM and call commenters; rewrite winning post to X thread, Meta ad script, Reddit answer; direct reply to gojiberry.ai | Medium to high: Gojiberry cofounder himself disclosed that the product name, channel action, number of trials and new MRR are clear and mutually corroborated with multiple ARR/MRR records from the same team; but the main post comes with growth formula and product CTA, lacking background screenshots, net increase in number of customers, CAC, paid conversion rate, churn, gross profit and net profit | This breaks Gojiberry's "big ARR" into a reusable single content action: instead of saying that LinkedIn is useful in general, it gives the comment-gated lead magnet to generate 350 + trials and about $4K MRR in 24 hours, and then reuses the same material to X, Meta, and Reddit. A fine-grained sample that can be used as a B2B SaaS content-to-sales lead in research. | |
Postiz at $165K MRR, later updated to $180K MRR @wickedguro / 2026-07-27 03:29 UTC；含 Stripe verified profile 链接；互动约 370 likes、10 retweets、56 replies、333 bookmarks、27.5K views Added 2026-07-27 (last 24-48 hours) | Postiz was growing by about $1K MRR per day at roughly $165K MRR; a later August 26 update reported $180K MRR. The author also said agent and marketplace listings had generated 2M downloads. No new profit, cloud-cost, team-cost, or CAC breakdown was provided. | Postiz, a social-media scheduler repositioned as a social-media agent, plus agent-media. X build in public, a Stripe verified profile, agent/connector/skill marketplaces, AEO and LLM citations, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube comments, and TikTok organic. The author argues that generic build in public, SEO, and ads are becoming less effective for broad SaaS. | High: first-party long-form disclosure with a Stripe verified profile and a continuous $138,824 June revenue, $154K MRR, $165K MRR, and $180K MRR trail. It is not a full P&L. | Postiz's useful signal is not another isolated MRR milestone, but a distribution thesis for a crowded SaaS market. The product is being repositioned from a scheduling tool to an outcome-oriented agent, while the founder explores agent marketplaces and LLM citation surfaces. The later $180K MRR update confirms continued growth but adds no cost or profit detail. |
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