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.
Discusses the critical importance of budgeting for 'trust and safety' work to combat online abuse, framing it as a necessary 'internet tax' for tech platforms.
A metaphor using commandos, soldiers, and police to describe different career roles in tech startups and projects, focusing on risk and work style.
A step-by-step guide to analyzing .NET application start-up performance using PerfView and flamegraphs.
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 guide to setting up Jupyter Lab to launch automatically on macOS startup using a LaunchAgent .plist file.
A guide for developers on generating product ideas by identifying real-world problems, emphasizing problem-first thinking over solution-first approaches.
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 technical deep dive into the new configuration system in ASP.NET Core 1.0, covering JSON files, environment variables, and hierarchical settings.
A personal reflection on the emotional and practical challenges of a tech startup acquisition, based on the author's experience with Parse and Facebook.
A developer-founder discusses the trap of focusing on comfortable technical work over essential business growth activities like marketing and sales.
A guide for tech startups on evolving from simple blog posts to coordinated product launches, covering product readiness and messaging.
A developer shares lessons learned from building a SaaS startup, covering multi-tenancy, billing, and scaling challenges.
