Startup founders & indie makers.
Updated October 2026
Makers
Pieter Levels
Nomads, Remote OK, Photo AI. Projects, revenue, experiments and public debates.
Alexander Isora
Unicorn Platform, the cash-and-stock exit, and lessons from selling software.
John Rush
Unicorn Platform, DevHunt, co-makers and building distribution.
Marc Lou
ShipFast, DataFast and TrustMRR. Public revenue, rapid launches and the security dispute.
Danny Postma
Headlime’s seven-figure exit, HeadshotPro, AI pivots and the business behind the portraits.
Dagobert Renouf
Logology, startup memes and LaunchDay. Five years of bootstrapping—and a sponsored wedding.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Rails, Basecamp and HEY. Cloud costs, company conflicts and a Le Mans class win.
Arvid Kahl
FeedbackPanda’s $55k MRR, Podscan’s $4k monthly gap, and the 2026 acquisition.
Rob Walling
HitTail’s 10× turnaround, Drip’s sale, and the difficult first version of TinySeed.
Nathan Barry
Kit’s $50m ARR, the Seva reversal, a $0.68 payout and a ghost-town investment.
Pat Walls
Starter Story’s $74k month, the HubSpot acquisition, and the business he neglected while building another.
Tony Dinh
TypingMind’s first million, a $128k forced sale, and $2k of ads that sold nothing.
Marketing & distribution
Find your first customers. Then find a repeatable way.Launch websites
A launch directory is a way to reach a particular community.
launch↗Launching on Product Hunt
A clear demo, an honest conversation, and a plan for the day after.
launch↗Press & launch stories
Give a journalist a story that matters to their readers.
seo↗Earning useful backlinks
Create a reason for someone to cite your work.
seo↗Programmatic SEO
Many useful pages, built from one reliable dataset.
launch↗Beta launch
Find the broken step before inviting everyone.
Money & business models
Pricing, cash flow, and the trade-offs behind the headline.B2B: business to business
B2B means selling to businesses.
funding↗Lifetime deals
A lifetime deal exchanges one payment today for the access specified in the offer.
monetization↗One-time pricing
One-time pricing works best when the purchased deliverable and future obligations are clear.
funding↗AppSumo
AppSumo is a marketplace for software offers, including lifetime deals.
Building & learning
Better questions, clearer decisions, useful things to read.The Mom Test
The Mom Test is Rob Fitzpatrick’s short guide to learning from customer conversations without collecting polite approval.
blogs↗Founder blogs worth reading
Longer accounts behind the short social posts.
types of startups↗Social network extensions
Useful software built on platforms you do not control.
We keep the context, dates and original sources.