The 60+ “Old Man” Who Started on Reddit and Wants to Make €100,000 in 58 Days
This is not a post-mortem. It’s being written while the story is still unfolding.
On November 4, 2025, a Romanian guy in his 60s posted this on r/programming:
“I launched a challenge here and already built a product in less than 10 days… I’m willing to give equity in my German-learning app to improve it.”
That was it. No long sales page. No viral thread. No “I quit my job to build a startup” drama.
Just: an old man, a 92,000-member Facebook group built over years with German memes, a great teacher named Oana, and a crazy idea.
No ad budget. No paid team. No tech background.
What he achieved in the first 23 days
- Built the 4DD app in 3 days with help from the community.
- Started daily live German lessons on Zoom.
- Sold the first €150 lifetime premium package.
- Reached 38 paying customers in just 3 weeks.
- Generated €6,000+ cash from those sales.
- Hit over 4,000,000 people with organic reach on Facebook.
He’s not a programmer. He’s not a “growth hacker”. He’s not a guru selling courses on how to make money.
He has something most startups don’t:
a real community built over years and a German teacher who actually knows her craft.
The official challenge
From 4 November 2025 to 1 January 2026 — that’s
58 days total.
The goal: €100,000 collected in cash.
He wants to beat American billionaire Glenn Stearns, who in the TV show
Undercover Billionaire had 90 days and $100 to build a
$1M evaluation.
The old man has a different starting point:
- Decades of experience.
- About 140,000 people already following him across Facebook and Instagram.
- Zero fear of looking ridiculous in public.
Why this story matters
Because it’s real.
No “how to make €10k/month in 30 days” course. No rented cars. No AI-generated hustle XXX.
Just a man who spent years running a meme group about learning German and is now turning that into a real business
— with daily work, transparent numbers, and respect for his people.
Every day, the old man:
- runs live lessons,
- posts results,
- shows wins and losses,
- keeps showing up.
The community supports him not because he promises miracles, but because they see someone who actually works and
treats them with respect. Oana, the teacher, delivers real value. The 4DD app, while simple,
works.
The math of the challenge
So far:
- €6,000 in the first 23 days → about €260/day.
To hit €100,000 in 58 days, from Day 24 to Day 58 he needs:
- about €1,700/day on average,
- which means 11–12 new customers per day for the €150 package.
Is it possible? Technically, yes.
4 million organic reach shows the message travels. But reach ≠ revenue.
Revenue happens only when people see real value and are willing to pay for it.
⚙️What he needs to do next
To have any chance of hitting the €100,000 mark, the old man has to move fast and smart:
- Improve the 4DD app (that’s why he asked Reddit for help).
- Automate the sales process instead of manually chasing every lead.
- Create better pricing tiers so not everything depends on one €150 offer.
- Keep lesson quality high while scaling delivery.
- Build systems for when there are 500+ customers, not just 38.
The hardest part is not selling.
The hardest part is delivering consistently.
At 38 clients, you can talk to everyone personally. At 500+, you need
infrastructure. And he’s learning how to build that at 60+.
Who roots for the old man
This story is for:
- Everyone who has ever been underestimated because of age.
- Everyone tired of fake entrepreneurship and screenshots with no context.
- Everyone who believes you can build something real without manipulation.
- Everyone who prefers a raw story over an edited Instagram highlight reel.
This is the anti-guru, anti-TikTok-hustle, anti-BS entrepreneurship arc.
Follow the journey
Daily updates happen here (in Romanian):
Facebook group “Învață germană”
Maybe he makes it. Maybe he doesn’t.
But he’s trying — publicly, honestly, relentlessly. And that already puts him ahead of 99% of people who only
talk about “one day”.