Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, 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’m talking to Share and Simon about how they accomplished this, and, maybe even more impressively, how they turned this into a profitable business at a very early stage. Enjoy! THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 399 399:...
4 days ago • 1 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Here’s a story that every founder needs to hear, because it reveals something fundamental about markets, competition, and the hidden costs of being first. THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 398 The Hidden Cost of Being First 11:54 MORE INFO In the world of Python programming, there’s been a tool called pip that has dominated package installation for years. pip has been the de facto way to install Python packages through all the many different versions of...
8 days ago • 7 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, I’ve been talking a lot about Podscan and the positive developments—the improvements, the good things that have happened to the company and to me over the last year and a half since I started this journey. But building in public is about sharing the ups and the downs, the wild joy ride and roller coaster that is entrepreneurship. And it’s time to share the not-so-happy parts of this business. Recently, I announced that Podscan was profitable. And it...
16 days ago • 10 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Jack Friks (@jackfriks) is the founder of PostBridge, a social media scheduling tool that grew from his own frustration with spending hours posting across platforms to a $18k/month business. We explore the evolution of social media toward authenticity, the challenges of building lean products as a solopreneur, and how to navigate the noise while maintaining a genuine human connection in an AI-driven world. THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 396 396: Jack...
17 days ago • 1 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, If you're into PHP, Laravel, and how Taylor Otwell turned an open-source framework into a thriving multi-million dollar empire, check out this week's interview episode of my podcast! There’s something deeply unsettling about being dramatically more productive while feeling like you’re barely working. That’s the strange dichotomy I find myself in every day now with AI-assisted coding. My output has multiplied significantly over the last few months, yet I...
22 days ago • 11 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, I had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Taylor Otwell, the creator of the popular PHP framework Laravel. THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 394 394: Taylor Otwell — The (Quite Entrepreneurial) Creator of Laravel 41:55 MORE INFO Not only did he invent this highly popular open-source framework; he also turned it into a very profitable business that helps developers build profitable businesses themselves. I know very few other open-source devs that have...
24 days ago • 1 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Just a few more days left on this deal: I recently recorded an in-depth session for Rob Walling's SaaS Launchpad. This module is called AI in SaaS, and I share over a dozen pitfalls, unobvious risks, and hard-earned insights from my own AI SaaS building journey. Use the code ARVID150 to get $150 off until June 8th. Today I want to share something that’s been on my mind ever since a conversation I had with an investor friend of mine, Tyler Tringas. THE...
29 days ago • 10 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Before we get into this week's AI-centric issue, I want to let you know that I recently recorded an in-depth session for Rob Walling's SaaS Launchpad. This module is called AI in SaaS, and I share over a dozen pitfalls, unobvious risks, and hard-earned insights from my own AI SaaS building journey. The course was already great, but... you know... ;) Use the code ARVID150 to get $150 off until June 8th. Alright, let's get to it. There’s a term I’ve been...
about 1 month ago • 10 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Last week, I read a tweet by Channing Allen, one of the co-founders of IndieHackers, about the term “second brain.” He was saying how it was kind of crazy that just a couple years ago, folks were publishing bestselling books on the brilliance of spending hours a day doing manual data entry into spreadsheet apps like Notion and calling these “brains.” And over the last couple years, we’ve developed completely new technology for this with large language...
about 1 month ago • 12 min read
