The Bootstrapped Founder
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439: The Increasing Risk of Building in Public
16 mins; April 03, 2026
438: AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaS
25 mins; March 20, 2026
437: Data Is the Only Moat
15 mins; March 13, 2026
436: When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off
16 mins; February 13, 2026
435: How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software
17 mins; February 06, 2026
434: Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)
13 mins; January 30, 2026
433: The 1% Improvement Myth
7 mins; January 23, 2026
432: Don't Give Up... Your Assumptions
10 mins; January 16, 2026
431: Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder's Identity Crisis
15 mins; January 09, 2026
430: The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention
14 mins; January 02, 2026
429: The Dead Internet Theory: Are We Building Machines That Only Talk to Other Machines?
12 mins; December 26, 2025
428: Marketing for Founders Who Hate Marketing
18 mins; December 19, 2025
427: Vibe Coding Won't Kill SaaS
18 mins; December 12, 2025
426: How Your Data Model Shapes Your Product
22 mins; December 05, 2025
425: AI Best Practices for Bootstrappers (That Actually Save You Money)
22 mins; November 28, 2025
424: I Never Really Loved Coding (And Only AI Made Me Realize It)
18 mins; November 21, 2025
423: The Marketer's Hierarchy of Needs: A Framework for Understanding Customer Intelligence
17 mins; November 14, 2025
422: The Things Your Customers Don't Care About
19 mins; November 07, 2025
421: Why You Should Never Start a Software Business
21 mins; October 31, 2025
420: AI for the Code-Writing Purist: How to Use AI Without Surrendering Your Keyboard
23 mins; October 24, 2025
419: The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy
20 mins; October 17, 2025
418: Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit
16 mins; October 10, 2025
417: The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
15 mins; October 03, 2025
416: The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?
19 mins; September 26, 2025
415: Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
20 mins; September 19, 2025
414: The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone's a Performer Now
23 mins; September 12, 2025
413: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
25 mins; September 05, 2025
412: The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
25 mins; August 29, 2025
411: The Currents of a Founder
19 mins; August 22, 2025
410: Building for the Age of AI Consumers
23 mins; August 15, 2025
409: James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass
59 mins; August 13, 2025
408: The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing
21 mins; August 08, 2025
407: Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI's Impact on Modern Design
49 mins; August 06, 2025
406: Making Your Business Sellable (Even If You Never Plan to Sell)
22 mins; August 01, 2025
405: The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do
13 mins; July 25, 2025
404: The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World
27 mins; July 18, 2025
403: Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator
44 mins; July 16, 2025
402: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape
22 mins; July 11, 2025
401: Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector
41 mins; July 09, 2025
400: The Hidden Revolution: AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship
14 mins; July 04, 2025
399: NativePHP: How Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal are Building & Monetizing PHP on Mobile
50 mins; July 02, 2025
398: The Hidden Cost of Being First
11 mins; June 27, 2025
397: When Profitability Disappears — A Podscan Reality Check
17 mins; June 20, 2025
396: Jack Friks — Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelming
39 mins; June 18, 2025
395: From Code Writer to Code Editor: My AI-Assisted Development Workflow
26 mins; June 13, 2025
394: Taylor Otwell — The (Quite Entrepreneurial) Creator of Laravel
41 mins; June 11, 2025
393: AI is a Threat to SaaS Multiples
23 mins; June 06, 2025
392: Building AI Businesses Without Breaking the Internet
22 mins; May 30, 2025
391: AI is Flipping Our Relationship with Technology
25 mins; May 23, 2025
390: When to Choose Local LLMs vs APIs
16 mins; May 16, 2025
389: The Founder's First Hire: When to Let Go of Your Weaknesses
14 mins; May 09, 2025
388: The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication
11 mins; May 02, 2025
387: Your API Documentation is Not For Developers Anymore
11 mins; April 25, 2025
386: One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions
24 mins; April 18, 2025
385: The Balancing Act: Free Trials, Value Demonstration, and Business Sustainability
15 mins; April 11, 2025
384: Podscan's Profitability Milestone: What's Next?
21 mins; April 04, 2025
383: Repositioning Podscan: From Monitoring to Data Platform
18 mins; March 28, 2025
382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans
16 mins; March 21, 2025
381: How AI Changes Famous Laws in Software and Entrepreneurship
24 mins; March 14, 2025
380: Experiment Report: Trying New Things
23 mins; March 07, 2025
379: Anne-Laure Le Cunff — Tiny Experiments
32 mins; March 05, 2025
378: Think with AI, Do with People
19 mins; February 28, 2025
377: Virality is Poisonous
11 mins; February 21, 2025
376: Justin Moore — Becoming a Sponsor Magnet
37 mins; February 19, 2025
375: Mute those “Dings”
11 mins; February 14, 2025
374: Indie Hacking Databases at Scale
24 mins; February 07, 2025
373: Delete Your Backlog
17 mins; January 31, 2025
372: Indie Hacking & the Singularity
12 mins; January 24, 2025
371: Brian Sierakowski — Mastering Product Communication
65 hours 11 mins; January 22, 2025
370: Building Systems That Work While You Don't
8 mins; January 17, 2025
369: Expect-AI-tions
12 mins; January 10, 2025
368: Johannes Jäschke — From Hypnosis Innovation to Business Exit
36 mins; January 08, 2025
367: The Biggest Opportunity of 2025
14 mins; January 03, 2025
366: Omar Zenhom — Crafting Success Without a Tech Background
56 mins; January 01, 2025
365: Arvid's Year in Review: 2024
18 mins; December 27, 2024
364: Breaking my Own Rules
13 mins; December 20, 2024
363: Ben Rometsch — From Side Projects to Industry Giants
53 mins; December 18, 2024
362: Startup Opportunities in Podcasting
24 mins; December 13, 2024
361: Pierre de Wulf — Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to Millions
47 mins; December 11, 2024
360: Product-Market Fit & Time-to-First-Value
18 mins; December 06, 2024
359: Connor Turland: Pioneering the Future of Bookkeeping with Ceedar.ai
47 mins; December 04, 2024
358: Love Is For Those Who Love the Work
10 mins; November 29, 2024
357: (Free) Trial & Error
16 mins; November 22, 2024
356: James Phoenix — Mastering Code & AI for the Modern Developer
53 mins; November 20, 2024
355: The Age of the Gatekeeper Is Over
13 mins; November 15, 2024
354: The Art of Productive Procrastination
11 mins; November 08, 2024
353: Podscan’s Dream Customer (Acquisition) Strategy
15 mins; November 01, 2024
352: Running Lean at Scale
15 mins; October 25, 2024
351: From Overload to Opportunity
26 mins; October 18, 2024
350: Building Your Castle in Someone Else's Kingdom
13 mins; October 11, 2024
349: Navigating Constraints as a Bootstrapper
24 mins; October 04, 2024
348: Observability in Software Businesses
27 mins; September 27, 2024
347: The AI-Powered Solopreneur
50 mins; September 20, 2024
346: When Podcasts Attack: The Unexpected Challenges of External Data
25 mins; September 13, 2024
345: Scrape or Be Scraped
20 mins; September 06, 2024
344: Andrew Davies — The Power of a Merchant of Record
42 mins; August 28, 2024
342: The Evolution of Coding in the AI Era
21 mins; August 23, 2024
344: Should Indie Hackers Go to Tech Conferences?
13 mins; August 23, 2024
341: Striking a Balance
15 mins; August 16, 2024
340: kerollmops — From Hackathon to Success: The Meilisearch Story
40 mins; August 14, 2024