Bootstrapped & Indie SaaS
Bootstrapper and indie SaaS founders building profitable software companies without venture capital.
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- 18
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Who publishes here — active in the last 90 days
346 posts
Serial entrepreneur who has founded six companies over two decades, five of them bootstrapped, including Drip,...
Benedikt Deicke
252 posts
Co-founder and engineer at Userlist, a marketing automation platform for SaaS companies, working mainly in Rub...
Benedicte Raae
251 posts
Fractional CTO at Whee, a long-term bike rental company based in Oslo, and an independent software engineer wh...
Rick Lindquist
213 posts
Founder of LegUp Ventures and LegUp Health, a health insurance agency helping people find and manage their own...
213 posts
Co-founder and CEO of Less Annoying CRM, a bootstrapped CRM for small businesses he started with his brother B...
166 posts
Software developer and database educator, co-founder of Try Hard Studios with Steve Tenuto, making video cours...
163 posts
Founder of HelpSpot, a bootstrapped help desk software company he has run since 2005 with no outside funding....
Nathan Barry
153 posts
Founder and CEO of Kit (formerly ConvertKit), an email marketing platform built for creators. Writes and talks...
Christian Genco
131 posts
Software engineer and entrepreneur who founded FileInbox, a tool for pulling attachments out of email, and co-...
Chris Achard
131 posts
AI developer relations engineer at Google working on AI frameworks (JAX and Keras), and a former instructor at...
Brian Rhea
122 posts
Software and product builder who has worked at GitLab and makes JobLens, a job search product, alongside consu...
John Drexler
101 posts
Product manager and partner at Thunk, a software development agency based in New York City, focused on identif...
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More things people say here
- “I would much rather intuitively have a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of one trillion IQ join society.” Sam Altman, Cheeky Pint
- “They're used to worrying about it. They're used to being upcharged when you're this much cheaper than everyone else. It's suspicious.” Mariya Delano, Smart Bear Live
- “No, no, it needs to hurt. … You need a consequence that is obvious, not just to the marketer, but to their boss.” Mariya Delano, Smart Bear Live
- “Even like the notion of almost gospel around relationships that you should ask people, like, how can I help you? And to me, I think that's incredibly problemati...” Jayson Gaignard, The Nathan Barry Show
- “Since AI has come out, the number of words translated and transcribed in this world has gone up what, 10X, 50X… So the activity itself, the volume of transcript...” Rob Walling, Startups For the Rest of Us
- “It's the first time in at least 10 or 15 years that leadership really matters in companies large and small. For the longest time, once you got to a certain size...” Einar Vollset, Startups For the Rest of Us
- “A lot of B2B SaaS is: I have a tool, I'm selling that to a business owner, and that business hires somebody to click on my tool in order to have some outcome ha...” Einar Vollset, Startups For the Rest of Us
- “Nothing better than scrapping work. The AIs love scrapping. … How many times did that prevent me from scrapping stuff? It's like, well, I spent a month on this...” Ian Landsman, Mostly Technical
- “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 t...” Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical
- “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...” Ian Landsman, Mostly Technical
- “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 yo...” Ian Landsman, Mostly Technical
- “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 li...” Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical
- “I do think the value of unit tests has always been less than the value of feature tests. We just didn't want to write end-to-end tests because they were kind of...” Aaron Francis, Mostly Technical
- “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
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- People and advertisers are everyone credited or heard on these sources in the last 90 days, ranked by every post they have appeared on here. Topics come from the 10 newest posts of each source, so every source counts equally.
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