The Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid Kahl
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361: Pierre de Wulf — Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to Millions
Pierre de Wulf (@PierreDeWulf), the founder of Scraping Bee, transformed himself from a frustrated developer into a SaaS success story. Here's what yo...
360: Product-Market Fit & Time-to-First-Value
Imagine standing at a crossroads, juggling countless possibilities yet needing to choose just one path.That's what most early-stage founders struggle...
359: Connor Turland: Pioneering the Future of Bookkeeping with Ceedar.ai
Connor Turland (@Entrecurious) is the prototypical software entrepreneur. He found a niche from a "prior life" and is now building an AI bookkeeping S...
358: Love Is For Those Who Love the Work
AI was supposed to do our chores while we write prose and compose symphonies. Why is it composing our music and writing our books now, while WE do the...
357: (Free) Trial & Error
Today, I’ll dive into the difference between a trial user and a trial abuser and what you can do to invite the former and prevent the latter.This epis...
356: James Phoenix — Mastering Code & AI for the Modern Developer
Coding with AI changes everything. It changes how we design, test, and improve our software projects. Today, I’m talking to generative AI expert James...
355: The Age of the Gatekeeper Is Over
YouTube is both the best and the worst source of information — because we can watch it all, but no one will tell us what's REALLY worth watching.Here'...
354: The Art of Productive Procrastination
The problem with having no boss is that there's no one to stop you from procrastinating.I'm challenged by this daily, and I have found a few ways to s...
353: Podscan’s Dream Customer (Acquisition) Strategy
I want new prospects to receive the maximum possible value the moment they register for Podscan, so I treat them as customers before they even come to...
352: Running Lean at Scale
Yesterday, I shrunk the size of my production database from four terabytes to just under one terabyte.Something interesting happened last weekend that...
351: From Overload to Opportunity
When a Podscan user got a bit "too general" with their keywords, all of a sudden, my email provider stopped sending emails.Whoops.Let's talk user erro...
350: Building Your Castle in Someone Else's Kingdom
SaaS founders are simultaneously tenants and landlords, renting the tools we need while offering our own services for subscription. It's a world where...
349: Navigating Constraints as a Bootstrapper
Bootstrapping is all about dealing with constraints: no money, the day job, lack of experience, and having no distribution. If you want to know how I...
348: Observability in Software Businesses
“I didn’t see it coming.” I had to admit that to myself a few times recently.Over the last couple of weeks, I've been experiencing several issues with...
347: The AI-Powered Solopreneur
AI is revolutionizing the way I work as a solopreneur. So why not share exactly how I use it?You'll hear how I use AI tools for everything from coding...
346: When Podcasts Attack: The Unexpected Challenges of External Data
It started with a minor refactoring. It ended with an avalanche that almost caused an infrastructure explosion. From code to collapse — and a few week...
345: Scrape or Be Scraped
Welcome to the weird world of web scraping in the AI age, where founders have to protect their data from hungry AI companies but also need to collect...
344: Andrew Davies — The Power of a Merchant of Record
Andrew Davies (@andjdavies) runs marketing for Paddle, the payment provider that powers several of my businesses. They also recently ran an AI launchp...
342: The Evolution of Coding in the AI Era
This week, instead of writing code, I delegated it — to AI. I've been doing this a lot lately.But does that mean I am losing my ability to code? And w...
344: Should Indie Hackers Go to Tech Conferences?
I gave up going to tech conferences. But that probably is an outdated opinion, particularly since as an entrepreneur, I benefit much more from hanging...
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