The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast
1) 420: AI for the Code-Writing Purist: How to Use AI Without Surrendering Your Keyboard
I know you're out there. The developer who watches their colleagues enthusiastically embrace Claude Code and Cursor, having AI write entire feature sets while you proudly type every semicolon by hand....Show More
2) 419: The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy
A lot of early-stage founders have understood—mostly because more and more people are talking about their early-stage strategies—that you need to validate your ideas. You need to make an effort to fig...Show More
3) 418: Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit
We're living through a fascinating moment in software development. AI coding tools can build features faster than ever before. They can scan entire codebases, spot things we might miss, and implement ...Show More
4) 417: The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
A couple of years ago, I tweeted that “the best tech stack is the one you already know.” To this day, this is one of my most resonating tweets. People keep bringing it back, and founders who've been a...Show More
5) 416: The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?
As I'm building yet another software service business after having built and sold one back in 2019, I keep wrestling with a fundamental question that might sound simple but has profound implications: ...Show More
6) Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
This is something I've been wrestling with at Podscan, and I know many of you face the same challenge: you're building a product that could serve two, three, maybe even five different ideal customer p...Show More
7) 414: The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone's a Performer Now
I was recently reading an article about The Great British Baking Show - or Bake Off, as we fans of this fun TV competition call it. It was written by someone who had been on the show, one of the compe...Show More
8) 413: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
You know that moment when you realize the ground has shifted beneath your feet? I had one of those moments recently. I was watching an AI agent build out a complex feature for Podscan in about twenty ...Show More
9) The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
It took me a long while to realize this: AI isn't just something like a chatbot for my customers. AI can work behind the scenes to facilitate getting the right stuff in front of the right people for m...Show More
10) 411: The Currents of a Founder
I was reading Brandon Sanderson's latest novel, Wind and Truth, when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: "A stronger current makes for stronger fish."That's it. That's what entrepreneurship...Show More