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In my conversation with Daniel Vassallo this week, I learned that Daniel uses social media —Twitter in particular— to find inspiration for his own work as a teacher and content creator. Intentionally doomscrolling Twitter to come up with wr
Read the essay →Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday, I am talking to Daniel Vassallo, writer, founder, and person with very strong opinions. He is building a portfolio of small bets in public, on Twitter. I will talk to him about the importance of making money i
Read the essay →I was talking to Damon Chen, who built Testimonial.to to $400.000 in ARR this week, and at one point, he mentioned that he isn’t looking into selling his business just yet. Maybe even never. That got me thinking. While we all want to build
Read the essay →Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday, I am talking to Damon Chen, the founder behind Testimonial.to, a social proof tool that has recently reached $400.000 in annual recurring revenue. Now that’s extremely impressive, particularly considering that
Read the essay →Earlier this week, I talked to Michele Hansen of Geocodio on The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast. Michele co-founded the business with her husband and ran it as a side project for several years. Now, that’s a long time to wait before you commi
Read the essay →Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am talking to Michele Hansen, the co-founder of Geocodio, an indie SaaS business in the world of mapping and geolocation. I’ve been a fan of her work, both as a founder and as an active member of the Indie Hacker c
Read the essay →In a world where everyone talks about disruption and hustling, the concept of a calm business can seem out of place or even naive. How can you compete with people who spend 80 hours a week working in their businesses —publicly boasting abou
Read the essay →For most founders, running a business is juggling hot coals while riding on a unicycle. It’s a stressful occupation, requiring constant vigilance, and offers barely any downtime to recover or relax. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Calm
Read the essay →One of the biggest points of confusion for any software business is pricing. It often takes months, if not years, to find a working way to charge your customers, and even then, you’ll need to adjust it over time. Pricing is never done, and
Read the essay →Building a software product is both incredibly simple and excruciatingly complicated. You can build a new mind-blowingly helpful feature within hours, sometimes even minutes. But if you make the wrong technology choices, you might be reward
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