The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast
1) 435: How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software
After six months of building Podscan almost exclusively with Claude Code, Arvid shares the configuration and prompting strategies that make agentic coding actually work. From connecting Claude to your...Show More
2) 434: Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)
"Follow your passion" consistently ranks as the most frustrating advice entrepreneurs receive. Today I'm breaking down why this well-meaning guidance becomes dangerous when followed blindly, and more ...Show More
3) 433: The 1% Improvement Myth
The "improve 1% every day" mantra sounds inspiring until you realize it mostly gets people tweaking button colors and reorganizing task managers. Real improvements in early-stage businesses come from ...Show More
4) 432: Don't Give Up... Your Assumptions
The entrepreneurial world loves telling founders to "never give up"—but what if that advice is slowly killing your business? In this episode, I unpack why persistence without direction is just expensi...Show More
5) 431: Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder's Identity Crisis
We joke about founders wearing many hats, but that metaphor misses the point. It's not about swapping accessories—it's about growing entirely new heads, each with its own brain that thinks, speaks, an...Show More
6) 430: The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention
There's something strange about founders who built their entire business on open source software and open standards, then turn around and say you should lock customers in as hard as possible. I think ...Show More
7) 429: The Dead Internet Theory: Are We Building Machines That Only Talk to Other Machines?
I spotted a LinkedIn post the other day—obviously AI-generated—with dozens of enthusiastic comments underneath. Every single one also written by AI. Bots responding to bots, a whole conversation with ...Show More
8) 428: Marketing for Founders Who Hate Marketing
Most technical founders I know understand marketing matters—they just hate doing it. They'd rather spend their time building features than fumbling through outreach and content strategies. I get it. I...Show More
9) 427: Vibe Coding Won't Kill SaaS
The "vibe coding will kill SaaS" narrative is everywhere right now, and I think it's completely wrong. Yes, anyone can spin up a Lovable or Bolt.new project in an afternoon. But there's a fundamental ...Show More
10) 426: How Your Data Model Shapes Your Product
Jack Ellis recently shared that storing page views and custom events in separate database tables was his biggest mistake at Fathom Analytics. That got me thinking about my own data modeling decisions ...Show More