382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans

Hey. I'm Arvid, and welcome to the Bootstrap founder on the road. I'm recording this podcast episode from my hotel room at MicroConf in New Orleans with so many amazing software founders and people from the industry. I have so much to say and I guess so much to think about. It was a wonderful conference. You know, I have been trying to go to MicroConf for the last, like, three, four years, and every single year, it gets better and better. I meet more people that are interesting and have interesting challenges to solve and have contributions to make. The talks are just spectacular. And the hallway track, as usual, in microcom, where people just meet and chat and exchange information and exchange, you know, solutions to their problems or just commiserate with each other when there are issues is just so valuable. I never regret coming here. And I have yet to go to any activity throughout and surrounding MicroConf that didn't leave me with some new thoughts or new connections or new ways to tackle the issues and challenges that I have in my own business. So, it has been an amazing experience. Today, I wanna just go through my own experience of the conference a little bit and give shout outs where shout outs are due. There's lots of shout outs surrounding this conference. And maybe dive into one or two talks that I found really, really interesting and helpful for the stage that I'm at. This episode is sponsored by Paddle, paddle.com, which is also one of the sponsors for MicroConf. They've been responsible for providing breakfasts, dinners, and the receptions, and all that kind of stuff. So, they've been not only helpful to me and this podcast and me and my businesses because I run a lot of my software businesses on top of Pedal's payment solution, where they handle all my tech stuff and my different currencies that I charge and all these things they're really good at, which makes them quite the sponsor for this conference. Right? Like, every founder here needs to charge money in some way, and Paddle has been very reliable as part of my tech stack. So I'm glad they're here, and I'm glad they're sponsoring the show. So thank you, Paddle, not only for sponsoring the Bootstrap founder, which is great, but also for sponsoring a conference that has hundreds of Bootstrap founders in it. Generally, the conference is always so well organized. A big shout out to Rob Walling and his team, everybody around the TinySeed and MicroConf Universe. You've done another amazing job this year. You facilitated exchange and you facilitated conversation between people to a degree that I've never ever seen anywhere else, really. Like, no other conference has been doing this. And I'm just I'm just so happy at this point. I'm just sitting here reminiscing every about something that happened, like, thirty minutes ago, a chat that I had with a couple …