Arvid Kahl
@arvidkahl.bsky.social
Building https://podscan.fm so that people and brands can track their mentions on podcasts. I write, podcast & make videos in public. Calmly. Bootstrapping: https://arvid.link/sold Audience-First: https://arvid.link/embedded Audience-Building: https:
I have no affiliation with Wispr - but saw devs like @arvidkahl.bsky.social use it and love it, tried it, and stopped at their offices to learn more. A really cool team, neat idea + execution, and they somehow got the world's supposedly largest 3D printed keyboard there as well
What podcasts are people listening to? Seems like a lot of the bootstrapper ones have died recently I miss the IndieHackers pod a lot and seems like nothing ever replaced it
Talking about playing the long game @outseta.com with the one and only, @arvidkahl.bsky.social. tbf.fm/episodes/333...
The Bootstrapped Founder | 331: Geoff Roberts — Playing the Long Game
Geoff Roberts (@GeoffTRoberts) is the co-founder of Outseta, and he's halfway there, 7 years in. Outseta —the SaaS starter kit and the business behind it— is built and operated on a multi-decade ti...
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I joined today an incredible masterclass with @arvidkahl hosted by @hypefury. Here are my key takeaways on personal branding, content creation, and audience building for founders. 🧵👇
I just learned about this through @arvidkahl.bsky.social and I think this is amazing. I've been looking for and hoping this kind of thing existed for a long time to help indie founders build more sustainably. calmfund.com
Calm Company Fund | An ecosystem of founders and funders of profitable, sustainable, calm businesses | Calm Company Fund
Early stage funding, resources, and mentorship for founders building profit-driven calm businesses.
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Yah that makes a ton of sense. @arvidkahl.bsky.social is talking about a pretty big product pivot right now that's similar. A very real startup axiom is, "What got you here, won't get you there"
Sending your Black Friday marketing email on Cyber Monday is still fine, right? 🤣 Asking for a friend.
The more I use AI “at work”, the more I come to understand that an AI can not love its work. Anything it produces is unloved, unlovable, and loveless. That’s great if you want analytical insights and data crunching. It’s terrible for anything supposedly “creative.”
This is why you can't trust user-provided data. Seen here: a podcast's RSS feed, totally legitimately listing its categories. Not keyword stuffing at all.
With nascent social networks like this, how do you feel about “intentional audience building?” Part of me longs for memories of the past, where people just hung out and didn’t expect any outcomes. Yet, in reality, most people now optimize for reputation & monetary gain. So… which is it for you?
It's "on-device LLM" today. Soon, it'll be "on-chip" LLM. Or LLM cores. The system default local LLM. The coding framework's default local LLM. I find this incredibly exciting. A privacy-first, self-contained, user-owned AI—a 24/7 agent for action, insights & feedback. github.com/huggingface/...
GitHub - huggingface/smollm: Everything about the SmolLM & SmolLM2 family of models
Everything about the SmolLM & SmolLM2 family of models - GitHub - huggingface/smollm: Everything about the SmolLM & SmolLM2 family of models
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This week, I reflected on my free trial strategy. One thought that I couldn’t shake was that a trial period is free for the prospect, but can be expensive for the founder. So where do we draw the line? How much do we let them use the product? Heres my approach. tbf.fm/episodes/357...
The Bootstrapped Founder | 357: (Free) Trial & Error
Today, I’ll dive into the difference between a trial user and a trial abuser and what you can do to invite the former and prevent the latter.This episode is sponsored by Paddle.com — if you're look...
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I’m really reluctant going all-in on coding with cursor. Maybe that’s old man yelling at cloud, but I prefer having some semblance of a full mental model of my code as I improve it. Only playing “pull request merging expert” disconnects me from the resulting artifacts. Or am I doing it wrong?
This girl was watching me push a significant UI change to production earlier. They truly mirror our emotional state.
What’s that one thing about running a SaaS business that nobody warned you about? For me, it’s the inability to turn of my mental background processing. There’s always a new idea or optimization popping up in the least work-related circumstances.
So, I just found out that a sprinkle of freshly ground cardamom in my morning coffee increases the joy of that beverage by an additional 47%. This may not be mid-pandemic sourdough nerdery, but I am really getting into spiced beverages 🤣
I've been mired in building machine-learning models in... PHP for the last few days. I never thought I could pull this off, but it would appear I have a pretty accurate audience size prediction system using ridge regression on hand-collected data. Still fiddling with it, but it's working 🤯
When the studio couch is not in use, my office manager makes sure I still get my work done.
The painful part of being a founder is knowing just how impactful an hour spent on the business can be. Really gets in the way of relaxing on a Sunday afternoon 🤣
I was informed at 6am that it was time to get started writing.
I bought 4 more books that I likely won't start reading for a few months. Send help.
Was just hanging out with family. Even though I have people who work in rather modern industries, nobody knew what Stripe was. Or Hacker News. Or Paddle. Or MicroConf. Or any of the podcasts I listen to. Or what my own podcast is about. I do enjoy getting that kind of perspective.
