A founder shares practical lessons learned from selling his bootstrapped hardware company, TinyPilot, for $598k.
How a small team organized a 250-person tech conference in just two months, focusing on community and embracing serendipity.
A retrospective look at the 2005 Fog Creek documentary 'Aardvark'd', featuring early interviews with tech luminaries like Paul Graham and the reddit founders.
Summary of Jason Cohen's talk on building profitable, bootstrapped software businesses with recurring revenue models.
A developer shares lessons from his fourth year running a bootstrapped software company, focusing on his successful TinyPilot KVM device.
TinyPilot's 15th-month update: record revenue, competitor's $800k Kickstarter, and product development progress for the Raspberry Pi KVM device.
A solo developer shares financial results and lessons from his second year building software businesses after leaving Google.
An analysis of why the SaaS 'College Conductor' failed after three years, detailing the technical and business lessons learned.
A developer's monthly progress report on side projects, including user growth for What Got Done and renewed interest in Zestful.
A developer reflects on launching a task journaling app, conducting user interviews, and earning passive income from side projects.
A software engineer reflects on his first year running a solo software company, covering finances, outsourcing lessons, and project breakdowns.
A developer's cautionary tale about building an MVP too late, using a recipe ingredient parsing service as a case study.
A developer shares how he unintentionally created a bootstrapped startup, Karani, while working a non-tech job and later realized he was an entrepreneur.
