Tyler A. Young is a product-focused Elixir developer building a bootstrapped B2B SaaS in public. He writes and speaks about Elixir, web scraping, testing, and the real-world challenges of solo entrepreneurship and software reliability.
9 articles from this blog
A talk exploring adversarial web scraping, covering bot detection techniques and ethical methods to bypass them from both scraper and site operator perspectives.
Slides and code for an ElixirConf 2024 talk about improving software quality through more effective testing strategies.
The article argues that Elixir is the ideal programming language and full-stack platform for a solo founder building a bootstrapped B2B SaaS product in 2024.
A SaaS founder discusses how the channel used to acquire customers influences product pricing and target market strategy for his website monitoring tool.
A developer shares technical challenges and solutions for building reliable web scraping features for a SaaS website monitoring tool.
A developer shares lessons learned from launching a SaaS website monitoring tool, focusing on debugging signup and false alert issues.
A developer shares the discouraging results of a soft launch for his SaaS website monitoring tool, SleepEasy, and his plan to gather feedback.
A bootstrapped SaaS founder discusses the 'build vs. buy' decision for core features, analyzing cost, time, and opportunity cost at the MVP stage.
A developer shares insights on defining a true MVP for a SaaS product by cutting non-essential features and focusing on core value.
