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...
5 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...
10 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...
12 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...
17 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...
24 days 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
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, Today I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind lately – and probably yours too if you’re building anything with AI. It’s the age-old question: should you run language models locally or just use APIs? Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Arvid, Local AI vs APIs been debated to death.” But here’s the thing – most of these conversations happen in a vacuum, full of theoretical scenarios and benchmark comparisons. What I want to share today is what...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, After about a year of building Podscan.fm, my podcast platform and social monitoring tool, I’ve finally reached that general area of profitability. It’s that break-even moment that every founder aims for, and now I’m at a point where I really need to focus on things besides building the product. Why? Because the product is clear. The value proposition is fairly clear. I know who my customers are, and I know how to talk to them. Now, what I should be...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Podcast, YouTube, Blog Dear founder, One thing that I really struggle with is communicating clearly to my prospective customers what the value of the product is for them. There are several reasons why this is the case. THE BOOTSTRAPPED FOUNDER • EPISODE 388 388: The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication 11:44 MORE INFO I'm building a product that is both a podcast database and a podcast alerting system and a podcast forecasting or trend analysis system and an API product,...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
