The Bootstrapped Founder Transcripts

439: The Increasing Risk of Building in Public

438: AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaS

437: Data Is the Only Moat

436: When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off

435: How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software

434: Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)

433: The 1% Improvement Myth

432: Don't Give Up... Your Assumptions

431: Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder's Identity Crisis

430: The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention

429: The Dead Internet Theory: Are We Building Machines That Only Talk to Other Machines?

426: How Your Data Model Shapes Your Product

425: AI Best Practices for Bootstrappers (That Actually Save You Money)

424: I Never Really Loved Coding (And Only AI Made Me Realize It)

423: The Marketer's Hierarchy of Needs: A Framework for Understanding Customer Intelligence

422: The Things Your Customers Don't Care About

421: Why You Should Never Start a Software Business

420: AI for the Code-Writing Purist: How to Use AI Without Surrendering Your Keyboard

419: The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy

418: Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit

417: The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI

416: The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?

415: Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder

414: The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone's a Performer Now

413: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

412: The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers

411: The Currents of a Founder

410: Building for the Age of AI Consumers

409: James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass

408: The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing

407: Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI's Impact on Modern Design

406: Making Your Business Sellable (Even If You Never Plan to Sell)

405: The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do

404: The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World

403: Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator

402: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape

401: Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector

400: The Hidden Revolution: AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship

399: NativePHP: How Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal are Building & Monetizing PHP on Mobile

398: The Hidden Cost of Being First

397: When Profitability Disappears — A Podscan Reality Check

396: Jack Friks — Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelming

395: From Code Writer to Code Editor: My AI-Assisted Development Workflow

394: Taylor Otwell — The (Quite Entrepreneurial) Creator of Laravel

393: AI is a Threat to SaaS Multiples

392: Building AI Businesses Without Breaking the Internet

391: AI is Flipping Our Relationship with Technology

390: When to Choose Local LLMs vs APIs

389: The Founder's First Hire: When to Let Go of Your Weaknesses

388: The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication

387: Your API Documentation is Not For Developers Anymore

386: One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions

385: The Balancing Act: Free Trials, Value Demonstration, and Business Sustainability

384: Podscan's Profitability Milestone: What's Next?

383: Repositioning Podscan: From Monitoring to Data Platform

382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans

381: How AI Changes Famous Laws in Software and Entrepreneurship

380: Experiment Report: Trying New Things

379: Anne-Laure Le Cunff — Tiny Experiments

378: Think with AI, Do with People