439: The Increasing Risk of Building in Public
Building in public helped me sell FeedbackPanda. That same radical transparency could now destroy a business overnight. With agentic coding...
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The Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid Kahl talks about starting and bootstrapping businesses, how to build an audience, and how to build in public.
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20 of 442 episodes438: AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaS
Google is banning accounts. Anthropic is locking down their plans. Two major AI providers are drawing hard lines around agentic systems — an...
437: Data Is the Only Moat
Building software is getting dramatically easier — so what exactly are we building our businesses on? In this episode, I dig into why real-w...
436: When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off
What happens when the seeds you planted eighteen months ago finally start breaking through? In this episode, Arvid shares how Podscan's long...
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...
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...
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 mana...
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...
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 entirel...
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 sa...
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 writte...
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 f...
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...
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...
425: AI Best Practices for Bootstrappers (That Actually Save You Money)
AI systems change constantly. Models get deprecated, APIs shift, and what works today might fail tomorrow. Instead of trying to keep up with...
424: I Never Really Loved Coding (And Only AI Made Me Realize It)
After 20+ years as a software developer, AI coding assistants revealed a shocking truth: I never actually loved coding—I loved what code cou...
423: The Marketer's Hierarchy of Needs: A Framework for Understanding Customer Intelligence
What if your customers can't care about your advanced features because you haven't satisfied their basic needs first? Just like humans need...
422: The Things Your Customers Don't Care About
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...
421: Why You Should Never Start a Software Business
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...
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...