Today I'm talking to James Phoenix, an expert in agentic coding, particularly Claude code, a tool that I have been using to great effect over the last couple months. I chatted with James just a couple days ago and have implemented several of the tips that he gave me during a conversation, and I'm already … Continue reading James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass
Author: Arvid Kahl
I write about bootstrapping, audience-building, and building in public at The Bootstrapped Founder.
Formerly FeedbackPanda (exit/2019)
Wrote Zero to Sold, The Embedded Entrepreneur, and made Find your Following.
The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing
Today I'll be talking about a successful marketing project within my software business that turned out to be so successful that it spawned a business built on top of that business. And when this episode is released, it'll be one day since the platform has been live, so I'll be sharing the most raw and … Continue reading The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing
Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI’s Impact on Modern Design
Nick Groeneveld is a designer and User Experience expert who has been a valued collaborator on Podscan, my own software product. Nick works as a freelancer for a lot of companies that have no in-house design knowledge, and he's been navigating the rapid changes that AI tools like Lovable and vZero are bringing to the … Continue reading Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI’s Impact on Modern Design
The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do
Picture this: An engineer gets called to fix a massive industrial machine that's been down for hours, costing the company thousands. She walks in, looks around for maybe two minutes, picks up a hammer, and gives one precise tap to a specific component. The machine roars back to life. The bill? $10,000. The company is … Continue reading The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do
The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World
When I started building the first prototype of Podscan, I very quickly realized this was going to be a different business than any I'd built before. That difference had everything to do with one fundamental challenge: unlike most software service businesses, the resources I would need wouldn't scale with the number of customers I had, … Continue reading The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World
Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator
Amar Ghose has been growing Zenmaid from idea to market leader as a non-technical founder. Zenmaid is a SaaS platform that's been helping maid service owners grow their businesses since 2013. Amar is one of those amazing founders who truly embodies the bootstrapping spirit—when his co-founder left early on at just $15k in monthly revenue, he … Continue reading Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator
The Podcasting Infrastructure Crisis: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape
Over the last 18 months, I've been building Podscan, a business that processes millions of podcast episodes every day—tens of thousands of new episodes daily, with 33 million episodes now in our database. We transcribe everything and do AI-based analysis, search, and mention tracking for brands and marketers. And here's what I've learned: the success … Continue reading The Podcasting Infrastructure Crisis: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape
Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector
Vova Feldman is the founder of Freemius, a Merchant of Record payment provider. He's been at it for a while, and it wasn't always easy. Vova shares his approach to weathering the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, how to build a team (and mishires), and what operating in the payment industry means for a crafty founder. … Continue reading Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector
The Hidden Revolution:AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship
I just had one of those realizations that makes you stop and think differently about everything we've been discussing around AI tools. You know, we talk a lot about AI helping us build things faster, about automation, about whether it's going to replace developers. But there's a side effect happening right now that I think … Continue reading The Hidden Revolution:AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship
Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal — Building & Monetizing NativePHP
Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp from the NativePHP Project have brought PHP, and with it my favorite web framework, Laravel, onto Mobile devices. I love this: taking established tech and porting it into places where you wouldn’t expect. I’ll be talking to Share and Simon about how they accomplished this, and, maybe even more impressively, how they turned this into … Continue reading Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal — Building & Monetizing NativePHP