Day 77 building a $100K/month SaaS in Hong Kong

Day 77 opens with Florian landing late in Hong Kong and heading to meet Yousef, a B2B SaaS founder who built a company with co-founder Arno and around 7,000 users. The trip is not only for the podcast. It is also Florian's first time in Hong Kong, so he wants to understand the city, the SaaS community, the broader founder scene, and what life actually feels like there beyond the rainy weather and the skyline everyone imagines.

Yousef immediately breaks the stereotype. He describes Hong Kong as one of the most vertical cities in the world, but says only about 30% of the territory is built. The rest includes national parks, mountains, beaches, islands, and nature that sits surprisingly close to the city. From his life on Hong Kong Island, he can go from an office, to a podcast studio, to a local lunch, to a beach or mountain within minutes. He walks up Victoria Peak at least once a week while still living in the city.

The vlog captures that contrast through food and place. Florian learns about white sand beaches near Hong Kong and hears that one favorite beach can be reached by boat or by an easy hike, with the full trip taking about two hours from Yousef's place. They eat dim sum, including shrimp, pork and shrimp dumplings, crab roll, barbecue pork buns, and a spring roll wrapped in rice roll that Yousef calls an inception dim sum. The city becomes less of a financial postcard and more of a founder lifestyle option with density, nature, and efficiency in the same frame.

When Florian gets back to Bali, the perspective shifts. He says it is always nice to return home, and that leaving Bali makes him appreciate the countryside life more. The city gave him inspiration, but the break also helped him see something he was missing while working every day: everything is already working. His Instagram is at 12K followers, YouTube at 11K subscribers, X is going well, and Distribb has reached 11K MRR. Instead of hunting for the next thing, the obvious play is to keep doing what is already compounding.

That reflection leads into a bigger founder lesson about belief. Florian talks about switching from French to English even when people around him thought it was a bad idea. He lost audience, got no likes, had months where nothing worked, and went through a year and a half of doubt after selling his business. What kept him going was belief in the story and in the direction. After several cycles of starting, struggling, and then seeing things work, his message is clear: be stubborn enough, love the process, and do not build something that makes money but makes you unhappy.