Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS
Bootstrapper and indie SaaS founders building profitable software companies without venture capital.
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“What I want is I don't want you to build AI into your app, I want you to make AI usable from outside your app. I want you to give me the best CLI, API, MCP in the world, and give me access to my data, and I'll take care of the rest. That's what I want as a very stupid developer.”
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“You person listening should not be trying to sell developers. And they're only getting worse. They used to be terrible. … Because they would always, even in the day, be like, well, I could build this help desk. I only need like four months. … Now they're like, I could do this in an afternoon. And they really can. So you don't want them.”
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“So many bootstrapper-type companies are scared to raise their prices on their existing customers, but you have to do that. It's just free money. And okay, if you raise your price 20% and 3% of your customers go out and vibe code their own replacement, you are still up a shit ton of money.”
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“Out of the hubris of my heart, I said, but I'm a software developer and you're a property tax company. I don't know if you can afford to hire me. And they're like, brother, we can afford to hire you. So, first learning, real businesses do have money. It's not just Silicon Valley.”
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Who publishes here — active in the last 90 days
344 posts
Serial entrepreneur who has founded six companies over two decades, five of them bootstrapped, including Drip,...
Benedicte Raae
250 posts
Fractional CTO at Whee, a long-term bike rental company based in Oslo, and an independent software engineer wh...
Benedikt Deicke
250 posts
Co-founder and engineer at Userlist, a marketing automation platform for SaaS companies, working mainly in Rub...
Tyler King
212 posts
Co-founder and CEO of Less Annoying CRM, a bootstrapped CRM for small businesses he started with his brother B...
Rick Lindquist
212 posts
Founder of LegUp Ventures and LegUp Health, a health insurance agency helping people find and manage their own...
164 posts
Software developer and database educator, co-founder of Try Hard Studios with Steve Tenuto, making video cours...
161 posts
Founder of HelpSpot, a bootstrapped help desk software company he has run since 2005 with no outside funding....
Nathan Barry
151 posts
Founder and CEO of Kit (formerly ConvertKit), an email marketing platform built for creators. Writes and talks...
Chris Achard
131 posts
AI developer relations engineer at Google working on AI frameworks (JAX and Keras), and a former instructor at...
Christian Genco
131 posts
Software engineer and entrepreneur who founded FileInbox, a tool for pulling attachments out of email, and co-...
Brian Rhea
122 posts
Software and product builder who has worked at GitLab and makes JobLens, a job search product, alongside consu...
Daniel Coulbourne
101 posts
Developer, speaker and podcaster in the Laravel community, based in Philadelphia. Partner at Thunk, a software...
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- “Big model smell and feeling of benchmaxing are kind of like inverses of one another.” Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
- “Is that Instacart account really for me, or is it for the Muse? Because I think, like, over time, I think that the question is, is the total addressable market...” Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
- “It's not like anyone planned for distillation to work super duper well, but it just turns out that you can get a lot of capabilities naturally through some form...” Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
- “This lane is open because everyone else seems to just be obsessed so much with just automating knowledge work, which, I mean, isn't even that charismatic versio...” Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
- “The naming of some of the models is like so egregious... Some of the times the numbers go backwards and sometimes it's just like a totally different word and yo...” Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
- “You don't want a moralizing lecture for why you're wrong for asking it to do the thing. Obviously, if you're trying to do something that's catastrophic, it need...” Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
- “It's like entrepreneurship on hard mode. It's like the opposite of Lean Startup. Like, Lean Startup is like, yeah, you like see if you get something working and...” Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
- “One is if AI works overall, plenty of other people want all our compute... So I think that you, in order for it not to work out, it's not just that we have to f...” Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
- “If you really dig into the supply chain a little bit, it's some PhD student who made a benchmark as part of their... As the course of them doing their PhD. And...” Alexandr Wang, Cheeky Pint
- “It's, I think, a good example of how stuff is going to go in the future where basically everyone is actually going to be writing tons of code. They're just not...” Mark Zuckerberg, Cheeky Pint
- “I don't believe in NPS. I have data from WP Engine showing that NPS is horseshit. … We found that there's zero correlation between NPS and retention. It's just...” Jason Cohen, Smart Bear Live
- “What they aren't saying is that they want to pay for accountability. So they're choosing us because they want someone to yell at when things go wrong. When thin...” Jon Sturgeon, Smart Bear Live
- “Is this product going to be necessary in 2027, 2028? I mean, probably not, because literally the last three videos on my YouTube channel were edited by Claude o...” Brian Casel, The Panel
- “Nobody wakes up and says, hey, ChatGPT, show me the most average podcast hosting platform. They don't search for that. They search, what is the best podcast hos...” Justin Jackson, The Panel
- “Dell sells a machine, a very good machine at a great price point. And I'm appreciative of that, but they don't really have a brand. So people who are out there...” Chris Do, The Nathan Barry Show
- “we're so in this bubble where we think, oh, the latest, greatest model, we're going to brand it Astro, we're going to brand it Fable and everyone's going to car...” Brian Casel, The Panel
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