Unlocking Agentic Coding: Tips from Expert James Phoenix
Unlock the power of agentic coding with expert James Phoenix as he shares tips on maximizing Claude code for greater effectiveness.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 9minutesI was reading Brandon Sanderson’s latest novel, Wind and Truth, when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: “A stronger current makes for stronger fish.” That’s it. That’s what entrepreneurship is. We’re constantly encountering currents that either facilitate what we want to accomplish—the businesses we want to build, the lives we want to … Continue reading The Currents of a Founder| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 9minutesI think we’re at the precipice of a pretty significant change in how we build software products. Obviously, the recent ascent of vibe coding and all the agentic coding tools that we find very useful and highly effective shows a difference in how we approach building products. But there’s another change – not just in … Continue reading Building for the Age of AI Consumers| The Bootstrapped Founder
Unlock the power of agentic coding with expert James Phoenix as he shares tips on maximizing Claude code for greater effectiveness.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 10minutesToday I’ll be talking about a successful marketing project within my software business that turned out to be so successful that it spawned a business built on top of that business. And when this episode is released, it’ll be one day since the platform has been live, so I’ll be sharing the most raw and … Continue reading The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: < 1minuteNick Groeneveld is a designer and User Experience expert who has been a valued collaborator on Podscan, my own software product. Nick works as a freelancer for a lot of companies that have no in-house design knowledge, and he’s been navigating the rapid changes that AI tools like Lovable and vZero are bringing to the … Continue reading Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI’s Impact on Modern Design| The Bootstrapped Founder
Discover how AI can enhance expertise while understanding the vital role of friction in skill development.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 8minutesWhen I started building the first prototype of Podscan, I very quickly realized this was going to be a different business than any I’d built before. That difference had everything to do with one fundamental challenge: unlike most software service businesses, the resources I would need wouldn’t scale with the number of customers I had, … Continue reading The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: < 1minuteAmar Ghose has been growing Zenmaid from idea to market leader as a non-technical founder. Zenmaid is a SaaS platform that’s been helping maid service owners grow their businesses since 2013. Amar is one of those amazing founders who truly embodies the bootstrapping spirit—when his co-founder left early on at just $15k in monthly revenue, he … Continue reading Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 6minutesOver the last 18 months, I’ve been building Podscan, a business that processes millions of podcast episodes every day—tens of thousands of new episodes daily, with 33 million episodes now in our database. We transcribe everything and do AI-based analysis, search, and mention tracking for brands and marketers. And here’s what I’ve learned: the success … Continue reading The Podcasting Infrastructure Crisis: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape| The Bootstrapped Founder
Discover Vova Feldman's journey as the founder of Freemius, exploring entrepreneurship, team building, and insights from the payment industry.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Discover the hidden costs of being first in the market and how new tools can leverage past experiences to create superior solutions.| The Bootstrapped Founder
How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business — by Arvid Kahl| The Bootstrapped Founder
Explore the ups and downs of Podscan's journey, from initial profitability to strategic pivots in the face of challenges.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Discover how Jack Friks turned his frustration into PostBridge, a thriving social media tool, and learn about navigating authenticity online.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Discover how AI-assisted coding transforms productivity and developer roles, enhancing coding efficiency while redefining the creative process.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Join Taylor Otwell as he reveals the journey of Laravel, from a popular PHP framework to a thriving business ecosystem.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Discover how SaaS founders can thrive amidst AI disruption by leveraging human insights, partnerships, and personal branding for lasting success.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Explore the concept of model collapse in AI and its implications for accuracy, integrity, and the responsibility of AI-based businesses.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Explore Podscan's growth from an experiment to profitability. Discover the tech and business choices that drove its success and lessons learned.| The Bootstrapped Founder
Earlier this week, I read a blog post by Bethany Crystal about how ChatGPT saved her life. She had developed some symptoms she couldn’t place and had blood work done, and the results were ava…| The Bootstrapped Founder
After spending a year deeply embedded in the podcasting ecosystem through building Podscan.fm, I’ve gained unique insights into this rapidly evolving medium. With an estimated 500 million lis…| The Bootstrapped Founder
The journey to product-market fit is always fascinating, and my experience with Podscan has been particularly enlightening — and challenging. While we’re not yet profitable, we’re getti…| The Bootstrapped Founder
Pierre de Wulf (@PierreDeWulf), the founder of Scraping Bee, transformed himself from a frustrated developer into a SaaS success story. Here’s what you’ll learn from this episode: 1/ 🐝 …| The Bootstrapped Founder
00:00 – Arvid (Host)Hey, I’m Arvid and welcome to the Bootstrap Founder. Today I’m talking to Conor Turland. He is building Ceedar C-E-E-D-A-R dot I-O. It’s a software busin…| The Bootstrapped Founder
I write about bootstrapping, audience-building, and building in public at The Bootstrapped Founder. Formerly FeedbackPanda (exit/2019) Wrote Zero to Sold, The Embedded Entrepreneur, and made Fi…| The Bootstrapped Founder
I recently came across a tweet by Nikita Bier about onboarding in software products that made me reflect on my own choices for the first touches that my customers have with my product. It also got …| The Bootstrapped Founder
There’s this famous saying by Paul Graham from one of his most well-known essays: a command to all founders and startup operators to “do things that don’t scale.” Graham exp…| The Bootstrapped Founder
This week was a duality of extremes for me. On one hand, I experienced an unprecedented growth spurt in my user numbers, while on the other hand, I stumbled into frustrating scarcity and infrastruc…| The Bootstrapped Founder
