The Bootstrapped Founder

The Bootstrapped Founder

Arvid Kahl

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401: Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector

Vova Feldman is the founder of Freemius, a Merchant of Record payment provider. He's been at it for a while, and it wasn't always easy. Vova shares hi...

Jul 9, 2025 41m Summary available

400: The Hidden Revolution: AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship

One aspect of the AI hype we’re all dealing with right now is severely underreported. And it’s that part that I personally think has a much more subst...

Jul 4, 2025 14m Summary available

399: NativePHP: How Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal are Building & Monetizing PHP on Mobile

Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp from the NativePHP Project have brought PHP, and with it my favorite web framework Laravel, onto Mobile devices. I love...

Jul 2, 2025 50m Summary available

398: The Hidden Cost of Being First

When Python's dominant package manager pip was challenged by newcomer uv—which is so fast users think it's broken—it revealed a fundamental truth abou...

Jun 27, 2025 11m Summary available

397: When Profitability Disappears — A Podscan Reality Check

Today’s episode represents the reality of entrepreneurship—not just the wins, but the difficult decisions and uncertainty that come with building some...

Jun 20, 2025 17m Summary available

396: Jack Friks — Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelming

Jack Friks (@jackfriks) is the founder of PostBridge, a social media scheduling tool that grew from his own frustration with spending hours posting ac...

Jun 18, 2025 39m Summary available

395: From Code Writer to Code Editor: My AI-Assisted Development Workflow

My day-to-day coding looks very different from what it was a few years ago. Today, you'll learn about my voice-to-code workflow and how I leverage sma...

Jun 13, 2025 26m Summary available

394: Taylor Otwell — The (Quite Entrepreneurial) Creator of Laravel

Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell) didn't just create the popular open-source framework Laravel. He turned it into a highly profitable business that helps...

Jun 11, 2025 41m

393: AI is a Threat to SaaS Multiples

Software-as-a-service business acquisitions are in trouble. What is responsible for a downward trend in multiples and acquisition dollar amounts? It h...

Jun 6, 2025 23m Summary available

392: Building AI Businesses Without Breaking the Internet

Ever heard of model collapse? It occurs when AI models are trained on the outputs of previous AI models. And it's not pretty.I recently recorded an in...

May 30, 2025 22m Summary available

391: AI is Flipping Our Relationship with Technology

Second brains were all the rage a year ago. Now, it feels like we're not just externalizing our thoughts; we're training a much bigger, much less pers...

May 23, 2025 25m Summary available

390: When to Choose Local LLMs vs APIs

When I started Podscan, I wanted to go full local AI. Self-hosted, self-managed, self-serving. But that tune has changed. Here's what to think about w...

May 16, 2025 16m Summary available

389: The Founder's First Hire: When to Let Go of Your Weaknesses

It's time. Solopreneurship works for a while, but it can't last forever. Not for me, not for Podscan. We need help.The blog post: https://thebootstrap...

May 9, 2025 14m Summary available

388: The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication

PMF is MIA without JTBD. Make sense? :DThe "job to be done" sits at the core of my customer's use of my product. I need to understand it to understand...

May 2, 2025 11m Summary available

387: Your API Documentation is Not For Developers Anymore

API docs used to be by and for developers. Now, non-technical people use AI tools to build integrations into our SaaS products. We need to rethink how...

Apr 25, 2025 11m Summary available

386: One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions

This week, I'm sharing behind-the-scenes choices that allowed Podscan's growth from a small experiment to a thriving business. I'll delve into the cho...

Apr 18, 2025 24m Summary available

385: The Balancing Act: Free Trials, Value Demonstration, and Business Sustainability

Just how much of your service should a trial user be allowed to "try"? When it costs you real money to supply your product, when and how do you apply...

Apr 11, 2025 15m Summary available

384: Podscan's Profitability Milestone: What's Next?

Podscan is profitable. Wild. A great success, a year after starting the business, and a fun opportunity to look at the options that lay before me. Wha...

Apr 4, 2025 21m Summary available

383: Repositioning Podscan: From Monitoring to Data Platform

Last week, in my hotel room just after MicroConf, I got excited about repositioning. I have had some time to think about the steps forward since then,...

Mar 28, 2025 18m Summary available

382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans

And I have a few things to say.In one of my rare directly-from-the-hotel-room-to-you episodes, I'll dive right into the many wonderful experiences of...

Mar 21, 2025 16m Summary available

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