The Bootstrapped Founder

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...

Dec 11, 2024 47m Summary available

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...

Dec 6, 2024 18m Summary available

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...

Dec 4, 2024 47m Summary available

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...

Nov 29, 2024 10m Summary available

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...

Nov 22, 2024 16m Summary available

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...

Nov 20, 2024 53m Summary available

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'...

Nov 15, 2024 13m Summary available

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...

Nov 8, 2024 11m

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...

Nov 1, 2024 15m Summary available

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...

Oct 25, 2024 15m Summary available

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...

Oct 18, 2024 26m Summary available

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...

Oct 11, 2024 13m Summary available

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...

Oct 4, 2024 24m Summary available

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...

Sep 27, 2024 27m Summary available

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...

Sep 20, 2024 50m Summary available

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...

Sep 13, 2024 25m Summary available

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...

Sep 6, 2024 20m Summary available

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...

Aug 28, 2024 42m

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...

Aug 23, 2024 21m

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...

Aug 23, 2024 13m

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