Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, I went to MicroConf in New Orleans and I have a few things to say. Good things. Very good things. In one of my rare directly-from-the-hotel-room-to-you episodes, I'll dive right into the many wonderful experiences of this uniquely amazing conference, and I'll share my biggest learnings with you right here. THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 382 382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans 16:13 MORE INFO Enjoy! I certainly did! 🎧 Listen to this on my podcast....
14 days ago • 1 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, The way we build software is changing fundamentally. Through AI systems, the process of creation is transforming into something different - almost a managerial thing, even for technical people. When you build software with AI assistance, you become less of an explorer or implementer and more of a validator or verifier. You’re the person who checks and judges the quality of code instead of generating it. We’re moving from generators to validators, from...
21 days ago • 11 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Since I talked to Anne-Laure Le Cunff, the neuroscientist and author, on my Wednesday episode this week, we had a conversation about goal setting, running experiments, and trying to deal with uncertainty. It made me want to take some time to talk about experiments that I’ve recently run in my life: in Podscan, in my media business, on Twitter, off Twitter, and just report on them. I want to give some insight into how my operations work, what things I’m...
28 days ago • 11 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne) is a neuroscientist and author of the book Tiny Experiments, where she shines a scientific light on how we set goals, what experiments we should think about, and how we can deal with uncertainty in a high-stress world.We chat about goals, reprogramming your own subconscious, and how learning in public can benefit anyone on any journey. Enjoy! THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 379 379: Anne-Laure Le Cunff — Tiny Experiments...
30 days ago • 1 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Earlier this week, I read a blog post by Bethany Crystal about how ChatGPT saved her life. She had developed some symptoms she couldn’t place and had blood work done, and the results were available to her but her physician hadn’t looked into them, so she brainstormed with ChatGPT about what the outstanding and non-regular values might mean. She took photos of the bruises that had developed out of nowhere, and the AI diagnosed her to the point where it...
about 1 month ago • 11 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, I recently had a consulting call with a founder who asked me the question I've heard countless times before: "How can I write posts that go viral?" THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 377 377 — Virality is Poisonous 11:16 MORE INFO Now, here are 59 rules for how to write that viral hook! Yeah, no. Just kidding. Many founders chase virality because they believe it will increase their number of customers, prospects, or collaborators. They dream of creating...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Justin Moore (@justinmooretfam) knows a thing or two about sponsors. He's responsible for dozens of episodes of this very podcast to be sponsored! And what he taught me, he'll teach you. THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 376 376: Justin Moore — Becoming a Sponsor Magnet 37:46 MORE INFO I was VERY hesitant when I started looking at sponsors. I thought that would dilute my brand. Make me a sellout. But that's a self-limiting belief — and Justin will give...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, When I was running FeedbackPanda between 2017 and 2019, I developed what I can only describe as a Pavlovian anxiety reflex to error notifications. Every ping could mean disaster. As the only technical person in the business, I was responsible for maintaining our integration with a third-party platform. 🎧 Listen to this on my podcast. We had no formal agreement with them, so they wouldn’t warn us about changes to their system. It was a constant...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, As indie hackers, we often start our journey with simple dreams and manageable datasets. But what happens when success hits and your modest database transforms into a data behemoth? Let me share my experience scaling Podscan from a simple podcast database to a system handling millions of podcasts, dozens of millions of episodes, and over a million new tracking rows daily. 🎧 Listen to this on my podcast. The Calm Before the Storm When you’re dealing with a...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
