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Building in public helped me sell FeedbackPanda. That same radical transparency could now destroy a business overnight. With agentic coding...
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Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.

Building in public helped me sell FeedbackPanda. That same radical transparency could now destroy a business overnight. With agentic coding...

Google is banning accounts. Anthropic is locking down their plans. Two major AI providers are drawing hard lines around agentic systems — an...

Building software is getting dramatically easier — so what exactly are we building our businesses on? In this episode, I dig into why real-w...

What happens when the seeds you planted eighteen months ago finally start breaking through? In this episode, Arvid shares how Podscan's long...

After six months of building Podscan almost exclusively with Claude Code, Arvid shares the configuration and prompting strategies that make...

"Follow your passion" consistently ranks as the most frustrating advice entrepreneurs receive. Today I'm breaking down why this well-meaning...

The "improve 1% every day" mantra sounds inspiring until you realize it mostly gets people tweaking button colors and reorganizing task mana...

The entrepreneurial world loves telling founders to "never give up"—but what if that advice is slowly killing your business? In this episode...

We joke about founders wearing many hats, but that metaphor misses the point. It's not about swapping accessories—it's about growing entirel...

There's something strange about founders who built their entire business on open source software and open standards, then turn around and sa...

I spotted a LinkedIn post the other day—obviously AI-generated—with dozens of enthusiastic comments underneath. Every single one also writte...

Most technical founders I know understand marketing matters—they just hate doing it. They'd rather spend their time building features than f...

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...

Jack Ellis recently shared that storing page views and custom events in separate database tables was his biggest mistake at Fathom Analytics...

AI systems change constantly. Models get deprecated, APIs shift, and what works today might fail tomorrow. Instead of trying to keep up with...

After 20+ years as a software developer, AI coding assistants revealed a shocking truth: I never actually loved coding—I loved what code cou...

What if your customers can't care about your advanced features because you haven't satisfied their basic needs first? Just like humans need...

When you build a software business as a founder, you have a dream. Building. Features. APIs. UIs. But how much of that is JUST a dream, and...

The brutal truth about SaaS nobody tells you. Here’s the thing: I’m about to share all the reasons why you should never, ever start a softwa...

I know you're out there. The developer who watches their colleagues enthusiastically embrace Claude Code and Cursor, having AI write entire...

A lot of early-stage founders have understood—mostly because more and more people are talking about their early-stage strategies—that you ne...

We're living through a fascinating moment in software development. AI coding tools can build features faster than ever before. They can scan...

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 twee...

As I'm building yet another software service business after having built and sold one back in 2019, I keep wrestling with a fundamental ques...

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...

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 w...

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 ag...

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 facilitat...

I was reading Brandon Sanderson's latest novel, Wind and Truth , when I came across a sentence that stopped me cold: "A stronger current mak...

I think we're at the precipice of a pretty significant change in how we build software products. Obviously, the recent ascent of vibe coding...

James Phoenix is an expert in agentic coding, particularly Claude code, a tool that I have been using to great effect over the last couple m...

Today I'll be talking about a successful marketing project within my software business that turned out to be so successful that it spawned a...

Nick Groeneveld is a designer and User Experience expert who has been a valued collaborator on Podscan, my own software product. Nick works...

Today, I’ll share how I’ve been preparing Podscan (and long before that, another SaaS business) to be ready to be acquired at a moment’s not...

Today we’ll talk about how AI systems, particularly the ones that do all the work for us, can both massively amplify and hinder our effectiv...

Today we’ll talk about keeping up with an avalanche of audio data and how I built Podscan’s transcription infrastructure. This episode of Th...

Amar Ghose has been growing Zenmaid from idea to market leader as a non-technical founder. Zenmaid is a SaaS platform that's been helping ma...

Today I’ll share my insights into the podcasting universe, from a software founder perspective. There are so many untapped opportunities in...

Vova Feldman is the founder of Freemius, a Merchant of Record payment provider. He's been at it for a while, and it wasn't always easy. Vova...

One aspect of the AI hype we’re all dealing with right now is severely underreported. And it’s that part that I personally think has a much...

Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp from the NativePHP Project have brought PHP, and with it my favorite web framework Laravel, onto Mobile devic...

When Python's dominant package manager pip was challenged by newcomer uv—which is so fast users think it's broken—it revealed a fundamental...

Today’s episode represents the reality of entrepreneurship—not just the wins, but the difficult decisions and uncertainty that come with bui...

Jack Friks (@jackfriks) is the founder of PostBridge, a social media scheduling tool that grew from his own frustration with spending hours...

My day-to-day coding looks very different from what it was a few years ago. Today, you'll learn about my voice-to-code workflow and how I le...

Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell ) didn't just create the popular open-source framework Laravel. He turned it into a highly profitable business...

Software-as-a-service business acquisitions are in trouble. What is responsible for a downward trend in multiples and acquisition dollar amo...

Ever heard of model collapse? It occurs when AI models are trained on the outputs of previous AI models. And it's not pretty. I recently rec...

Second brains were all the rage a year ago. Now, it feels like we're not just externalizing our thoughts; we're training a much bigger, much...

When I started Podscan, I wanted to go full local AI. Self-hosted, self-managed, self-serving. But that tune has changed. Here's what to thi...