Reading Time: 8minutesAs I’m building yet another software service business after having built and sold one back in 2019, I keep wrestling with a fundamental question that might sound simple but has profound implications: What do I actually own in this business? And before we get to that, a word from our Sponsor, Paddle.com. They’re a great … Continue reading The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 8minutesLet’s talk about handling multiple ICPs as a solo founder. This is something I’ve been wrestling with at Podscan, and I know many of you face the same challenge: you’re building a product that could serve two, three, maybe even five different ideal customer profiles. And you’re trying to figure out how to keep them … Continue reading Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder| The Bootstrapped Founder
Explore the evolution from pure amateurs to performer-practitioners in a social media-driven world and its implications for entrepreneurs.| The Bootstrapped Founder
How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business — by Arvid Kahl| The Bootstrapped Founder
Reading Time: 8minutesYou know that moment when you realize the ground has shifted beneath your feet? I had one of those moments recently. I was watching an AI agent build out a complex feature for Podscan in about twenty minutes – something that would have taken me days to code properly just a year ago. And it … Continue reading We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat| The Bootstrapped Founder
This week, I want to be as pragmatic as possible. Let’s talk about not just “AI this and AI that”, but the actual applications of generative AI that I leverage within Podscan to get my custom…| 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
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
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