Dagobert Renouf

Dagobert Renouf is a self-taught developer and designer from Lille, France, known across the indie hacker world as the startup meme guy. After roughly a decade freelancing in web development and UX for remote clients, he co-founded Logology in 2018 with his wife Lucie, a service that gave early-stage startups affordable logos and branding: she designed, he coded.

Logology launched into the pandemic and struggled, until in 2021 Dagobert started posting one startup meme and one honest build-in-public tweet every day while replying to hundreds of others. His audience grew past 100K followers and Logology's revenue rose about sevenfold year over year, but it plateaued at a few thousand dollars a month. After five years and more than $100K of their own savings, the couple shut Logology down in 2024, and he wrote openly about the decision.

He turned his Twitter playbook into a course, co-hosted the This Indie Life podcast about the emotional side of entrepreneurship, and launched LaunchDay, a launch platform for indie makers. In 2025 he went viral worldwide for funding his wedding by selling ad space on his tuxedo to 26 indie startups; one sponsor, Comp AI, hired him in sales, and he still runs LaunchDay on the side.