The Things Your Customers Don’t Care About
Discover essential insights for software founders on prioritizing functionality, reliability, and documentation over unnecessary perfection.
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Minimum Viable Product
Explore minimum viable product essays and podcast conversations from Arvid Kahl’s Bootstrapped Founder archive.
Avoiding the Entrepreneurial Planning Trap
Let’s talk about planning fallacies for bootstrapped founders. As a founder, especially if you’re starting a business alone, planning is important. But you have to get it right. There are a few…
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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 →The Do’s and Don’ts of the Minimum Viable Product
Leonardo da Vinci supposedly said, “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” This is definitely true for software as well. The only antidote to abandonment is to put your work in front of other…
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