The Bootstrapped Founder
Notes on building businesses from Arvid Kahl, founder of FeedbackPanda and Podscan.fm. Essays and podcast conversations about bootstrapping, technology, and founder life.
- Posts
- 30 from 15 Aug 2025 to 3 Apr 2026
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- monthly (19 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 10
- The Increasing Risk of Building in Public
- AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaS
- Data Is the Only Moat
- When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off
- How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software
- Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)
- The 1% Improvement Myth: Why Customer Conversations Beat Micro-Improvements Every Time
- Don’t Give Up… Your Assumptions
- Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder’s Identity Crisis
- The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention
2025 20
- The Dead Internet Theory: Are We Building Machines That Only Talk to Other Machines?
- Marketing for Founders Who Hate Marketing
- Vibe Coding Won’t Kill SaaS
- How Your Data Model Shapes Your Product
- AI Best Practices for Bootstrappers (That Actually Save You Money)
- I Never Really Loved Coding (And Only AI Made Me Realize It)
- The Marketer’s Hierarchy of Needs: A Framework for Understanding Customer Intelligence
- The Things Your Customers Don’t Care About
- Why You Should Never Start a Software Business
- AI for the Code-Writing Purist: How to Use AI Without Surrendering Your Keyboard
- The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy
- Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit
- The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI
- The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?
- Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder
- The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone’s a Performer Now
- We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat
- The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers
- The Currents of a Founder
- Building for the Age of AI Consumers