The Hidden Cost of Being First
Discover the hidden costs of being first in the market and how new tools can leverage past experiences to create superior solutions.
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Infrastructure
Explore infrastructure essays and podcast conversations from Arvid Kahl’s Bootstrapped Founder archive.
What Founders Can Learn From the Facebook Outage
If Facebook can survive a 6-hour outage, so can you. Let’s talk about unexpected downtime, which is often a direct consequence of dependency risk. Even Facebook experiences platform dependency risk.…
Read the essay →Early Tech Choices and Analysis Paralysis
I was working on a side project this week, and I ran into an all-too-familiar pattern: the more I thought about the technical requirements for this project, the bigger it grew in my mind. I only want…
Read the essay →Making Tech Choices: Don’t Add Risk to an Already Risky Business
As technical founders, we’re supposed to choose the technology that works best for us and our business. But we often let the cargo-culting around the newest, hottest tech stack get to us. Many…
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