Kyle Platt @kyleplatt.bsky.social Serial Entrepreneur and Engineer. Trying to maximize life while building cool things. π¨π¦ Building:
π https://local-leads.ai
π https://getbluepilot.com
π§² https://tactycs.io
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
co-founder @honeybadger.io
β―
software β’ information β’ systems β’ dystopia β’ hope
signal: joshuawood.17
joel π¦οΈ @joelhooks.com lvl 16 half-orc nerd. jazz lover. freak for synths.
education @vercel.com. education products at @badass.dev. building @egghead.io since 2013.
now π https://joelhooks.com/now
PDX (Vancouver, WA)
Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com Keyword, buzzword, half-truth, adjective, hey look at me! (founder of two unicorns: http://WPEngine.com, http://SmartBear.com).
Writing for 18 years at: https://longform.asmartbear.com
Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com β‘οΈ Rebel scum. Disinvoltura.
π― Business + community.
π Author https://tiny.mba.
π° Teacher https://stackingthebricks.com
π€ indyhall.org fearless leader since 2006.
π΄ββ οΈ Pirate captain http://10k.city.
β€οΈ he/him. Partner.
Michael Koper @michaelkoper.com Dad of two - Founder of https://nusii.com - Bootstrapper - Ruby on Rails
Zack Gilbert @zackgilbert.com Building EventuallyTicketing.com with my wife.
Occasionally helping domain experts bring their dream software to life.
Ruben Gamez @earthlingworks.bsky.social Founder SignWell and Bidsketch. My personal blog: http://extendslogic.com
Adam McCrea @adamlogic.com I spend my days building @judoscale.com to help developers optimize their web hosting.
Follow me to hear about...
π Ruby on Rails
π Heroku & PaaS
πΈ Independent SaaS
Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
Rosie Sherry @rosiesherry.com Community builder. Indie founder. Unschooler. 5x Mother. AuDHD . She/her. π¬π§
βDonβt let the social networks have all the funβ
π Rosie.land: writing about community building
πͺ Founder & CEO @ministryoftesting.com
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:
Ryan Castillo @rmcastil.bsky.social - Helping SaaSβs track how AI's represent them with knowatoa.com
- Been programming for 25+ years
- Believes being a dev is a marketing/sales super power
Brian Casel @briancasel.com Building: http://buildermethods.com
Co-hosting http://panelpodcast.com
Kai π @kaidav.is Space cowboy in the PNW. Small business owner and marketer. Crafter of artisanal free-range internet.
Everything changes. Donβt be afraid.
β¨ DoubleYourEcommerce.com
β¨ TheMagicEmail.com
β¨ KeywordMagic.ai
β¨ KaiDavis.com
Tyler Tringas @tylertringas.com Purveyor of calmness
Chris Oliver @excid3.com Rails Luminary building GoRails.com, JumpstartRails.com, Hatchbox.io, RailsBytes.com, Remote Ruby Podcast and lots of open source projects.
Do things that scare you.
https://excid3.com
Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca Internet stuntman π€ΈββοΈ justinjackson.ca
β‘ Bootstrapping, SaaS, podcasting, calm companies
ποΈ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com π©βπ» CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io
π Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers
Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside
she/her | πΊπΈ in π©π°
βgenuinely enthusiastic and slightly chaoticβ - Claude
Craig @craigkerstiens.com Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
Anthony Eden @anthonyeden.bsky.social Founder of DNSimple, vendor of duct tape, purveyor of UDP packets. He/him. Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@aeden
Cody Norman @codynorman.com Ruby on Rails consultant, mentor and weird dude
Ben Curtis @bencurtis.com Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, creator of the faker gem, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
Simon Chiu @geetfun.com Build guides: http://stepsies.com
Send emails: http://sendbroadcast.net
Play games: http://bs.fyi
Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) β οΈ @jacobherrington.dev self-taught ruby dev turned startup founder
something something building something new
everything i post is satire
JP Boily @jipiboily.com Freelancer. Founder @ Metrics Watch (sold in 2024). Dev. Community guy. Father, husband, music aficionado, (board & video) gamer, etc. #SaaS #Ruby #Linux #Godot
Peter Bhat Harkins βοΈ @push.cx Programmer by day, programmer by night.
Blog: https://push.cx Bootstrapping: https://recheck.dev
I run https://lobste.rs and stream office hours Mon+Thu: https://push.cx/stream
For people migrating, I was @pushcx on Twitter. I use he/him.
Honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io Application monitoring that helps developers move fast and fix things. We're everything you need to keep production happy β and nothing you don't.
π https://honeybadger.io
endorsed by jerry july 11, 2025
Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com only srs biz content over here π web - dev - design - saas - edu biz - copywriting - sales - ethics - rants
if you're over 35, i probably taught you rails or javascript performance
personal account @amyhoy.bsky.social
Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io co-founder π§‘
@joshuawood.net worksonifiedπ΄οΈ
Blog: https://joshuawood.net βοΈ
Podcast: @founder.quest ποΈ
Developer-first monitoring and observability. π
Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social Genuinely desire success in those around you and do what you can to make it happen.
Founder of Flagrant a software design & development consultancy.
https://www.beflagrant.com
He/him
Ian Landsman @ianlandsman.com Bootstrapper, software developer, poker player.
Founded 2005: HelpSpot
Founded 2014: LaraJobs (@larajobs.com)
Founded 2025: Outro (@outro.fm)
CoHost: Mostly Technical Podcast (@mostlytechnical.com)
Artsy photos: https://www.instagram.com/ianlandsman/
Richard Felix @richardfelix.com I help online businesses to get more customers and keep the ones they have. Angel Investor. Executive Producer. Ruby. Rails. RDR. Fried Chicken. Waffles. Burgers. Oceansize.
https://richardfelix.com
Adam Wathan @adamwathan.com I donβt post here, follow me on X: x.com/adamwathan
John O'Nolan @johnonolan.bsky.social Founder/CEO at @Ghost.org - Geographically restless.
Mostly posting about publishing, media, open source, JavaScript, Laravel, bootstrapping, SaaS, activitypub, and design.
Carter Bryden π¨π¦ @carterbryden.com Dad, founder of approximated.app, developer (usually #elixirlang). Friendly and sincere.
I mostly post about dev, things I'm working on, and stray thoughts about business/work/entrepreneurship.
John Nunemaker @johnnunemaker.com Tweets about Ruby/Rails. Building @boxoutsports.com, @fireside.fm and @flippercloud.io. Huge fan of π and β±οΈ (southbendwatch.co).
Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social Web evangelist at Apple ο£Ώ, founder CodeNewbie (acquired), developer, creator, chief baker of the Try Bakery (located in my kitchen β€οΈ)
Grant @grantmcconnaughey.com Founder of @postpone.app. Posting about tech, startups, sports, U.S. politics, and movies mostly.
Be curious, not judgmental.
π www.postpone.app
Andy Bell @bell.bz Founder at: @set.studio and @piccalil.li
Complete CSS Course: https://complete-css.com
Studio: https://set.studio
CSS Book: https://every-layout.dev
Newsletter: https://piccalil.li/the-index/
π https://bell.bz/links/
π https://bell.bz
π Cheltenham, UK
Pete Codes @petecodes.bsky.social Ghostwriter and SEO writer for hire π°
I write the High Signal newsletter
Follow me for bootstrapper news, interviews with founders and build in public updates
highsignal.io/newsletter/
petecodes.io
I can't read my DMs here
corey @iamcoreyg.com Family guy β’ Software engineer / music producer β’ Mostly building speakflow.com β’ Prev. software @ Apple β Los Angeles.
Posting about SaaS, coding (javascript/ruby on rails) and music
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Mac Martine @saasmakermac.bsky.social Co-founder @ DemandBird - the content production pipeline for agencies & founders publishing across every platform. 2 SaaS exits.
Mike Perham @mike.contribsys.com CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq
https://mikeperham.com
https://contribsys.com
https://sidekiq.org
Portland, OR
Mike Buckbee @buckbee.bsky.social Dev+Founder+Dad -> Wafris, SendCheckIt, Knowatoa, ExpeditedWAF.
Mostly post about cybersecurity and AI SEO stuff.
Discover how your brand ranks in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini at knowatoa.com/bsky
Kevin Galang @kevingalang.com Building independence and playing the great online game.
Writing about:
- Life as an indie founder
- Startups and growth ideas
- Biz templates and frameworks
- Lessons from history
Current:
- ateamoverseas.com
Previous:
- mercury.com
- definite.app
Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com Founder of @savvycal.com
Ryan Hefner @ryanhefner.com Having fun, doing stuff.
π ryanhefner.com
ποΈ allplay.fm
Jamming on:
π¬ webmentions.com
π₯ opengraphs.com
β±οΈ commune.software
π starterpacks.net
#buildinpublic #webdev #indieweb
JP Ahonen πͺπΊ @jpahonen.eurosky.social Watching dominoes from Greece. Tech leader. Finnish reserves. Usually early in predictions. Occasionally wrong. Always post-mortem.
I dare to dream, and spell out my vision; to be ridiculous.
Wilbert Liu @wilbertliu.com Building rinhelp.com to help founders and engineers fix technical support fast. Previously sold 3 startups.
Josh Pigford @joshpigford.com β¨ dabbler π collector π° @maybe.co π± synthfinance.com *οΈβ£ revise.dev π§° toolstash.com β @shpigford everywhere else
Faraaz Ahmad @faraazahmad.bsky.social Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.
Jon Buda @jonbuda.com β‘ Software, Ruby, SaaS, Running, Bread
ποΈ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
Garrett Dimon @garrettdimon.com Dev at FlipperCloud.io and Fireside.fm.
#Ruby, #Rails, #HTML, #CSS, and judicious JavaScript. Basketball, sit-skiing, paddle boarding, and outdoors. Left below-knee amputee and small-town high school girlβs basketball coach.
https://garrettdimon.com
Kane Jamison @kanejamison.com Building & growing stuff on the internet. Currently working with growth teams on Rails.
π Based in Anacortes, WA
π kanejamison.com
π contentharmony.com
*οΈβ£ fixture.media
π railsgrowth.com
Julian Cheal @juliancheal.dev Quaffer of fine coffee. Aficionado of tweed.
Maker of musics https://soundcloud.com/juliancheal
Crafter of codes
Helping fix the climate with https://www.protect.earth/
Building https://hookrelay.dev
Marko Krstic @markokrstic.net Writing about software engineering and building a dev company
πΈ https://dockstats.com - docker centralized logging
πΈ https://www.cyberoutput.net - software dev company
πΈ https://odomis.com - custom crm solution
πΈ https://markokrstic.net - about me
FounderQuest @founder.quest It's like Steve Jobs and The Dude had kids and they started a software companyβthis is FounderQuest. By @joshuawood.honeybadger.io and @bencurtis.com.
π http://founderquestpodcast.com
Philip @lippihom.bsky.social Founder between Berlin and the Bay.
Recovering vc - now bootstrapping tipsiti.com. Ask me for travel recs π π ποΈ
Mike Smith @mikevsclimate.bsky.social Flew Navy jets, planted a lot of trees, now making climate accounting for everyone.
Aclymate.com / @aclymate.bsky.social
Host: Hardpoints pod
@hardpoints.bsky.social
Board: @vetsforrl.bsky.social
Lifelong @orioles.com Fan
He/Him
Laura Roeder @lauraroeder.bsky.social Honk If You β₯οΈ SaaS
π₯Ύ I'm the bootstrapped founder of Paperbell (>1m ARR)
πͺ Exited MeetEdgar
βοΈ Blogging at https://lauraroeder.com/
π¬π§ Based in Brighton, UK
Ruurtjan @ruurtjan.com Full-time indie maker.
NsLookup.io
WhatIsMyISP.com
DNS for developers: https://www.nslookup.io/dns-course/
Adriaan @adriaandotcom.bsky.social Founder of bootstrapped Simple Analytics β privacy first analytics. simpleanalytics.com
Benedikt Deicke @benediktdeicke.com π» Co-founder / Engineering at @userlist.com
ποΈ Co-host at slowandsteadypodcast.com
π οΈ Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, PostgreSQL
β€οΈ Loves music, food, and cooking
π₯ Plays the drums
benediktdeicke.com
Jane Portman @uibreakfast.com Co-founder of Userlist π SaaS email marketing is the game. Keep them short.
Micah Lee @micahflee.com Doing what I can to keep activists, journalists, and researchers safe and productive β writing at https://micahflee.com β author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com β signal: micah.01
Rob Walling @robwalling.com Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
clover @bunware.org formerly known as turtlepaw β kittens.fyi
Google for Developers @developers.google.com Your source for developer best practices, updates, and resources.
Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com The Official Chromium Developers Account.
Check out our developer portals: https://developer.chrome.com/ and https://web.dev/
Cloudflare @cloudflare.social Cloudflare is the worldβs leading connectivity cloud, and we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal β to help build a better Internet.
Next.js @nextjs.org The React Framework β created and maintained by
@vercel.com
Vercel @vercel.com Vercel provides the developer tools and cloud infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Creators of @nextjs.org, @v0.dev, and @sdk.vercel.ai.
Visual Studio Code @vscode.dev The open source AI code editor
Mozilla @mozilla.org Building a better internet.
Microsoft Developer @developer.microsoft.com Dive into the biggest news from Microsoft Build and learn how to start building with it today
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/06/02/microsoft-build-2026-be-yourself-at-work/
Android Developers @androiddevs.bsky.social Get the latest Android news, best practices, live videos, demonstrations, tutorials, and more!
Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org Kotlin is a programming language that makes coding concise, cross-platform, and fun βΒ https://kotlinlang.org/
Video tutorials http://kotl.in/video
News http://kotl.in/news
Community discussions http://kotl.in/slack
Kotlin Foundation @kotlinfoundation.org Protect, promote and advance the development of the Kotlin programming language. Learn more at kotlinfoundation.org
Alex @invoke.dev Developer Experience for iOS β’ Former tech CEO β’ Building tools that make developers happy β’ Swift β’ Platform Engineering
Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Writing The Pragmatic Engineer (@pragmaticengineer.com), the #1 technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook (engguidebook.com). Formerly at Uber, Skype, Skyscanner. More at pragmaticengineer.com
Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social Former Engineering lead working on Gemini and Google Cloud AI
I want you to win :) For more on what I'm up to, I'm at addyosmani.com
nicole forsgren @nicolefv.bsky.social valkyrie. love tacos, flowers, and Diet Coke.
Charity Majors @charity.wtf cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. ππ³οΈβππ¦
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Gregor Ojstersek @gregorojstersek.bsky.social CTO | Founder of Engineering Leadership newsletter (180k+ subscribers) - Helping you become a great engineering leader!
Join 190k+ readers -> https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com
Tanya Reilly @whereistanya.bsky.social https://noidea.dog
https://hachyderm.io/@whereistanya/
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Pat Kua @patkua.bsky.social Former CTO/Chief Scientist @N26, @ThoughtWorks
alum. Runs http://levelup.patkua.com and http://techlead.academy He/him
@getdx.bsky.social @getdx.bsky.social
InfoQ @infoq.com Helping dev teams adopt new technologies and practices through news, podcasts, QCon conferences, and InfoQ online certification.
LeadDev @leaddev.com Effective software engineering leadership content from leaddev.com
Platformer [Unofficial] @platformer.news.web.brid.gy News at the intersection of Silicon Valley and democracy. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 5PM Pacific.
π bridged from π https://platformer.news/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/platformer.news
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Leigh Rastivo (Nolan) @leighra.bsky.social Writer. Book Reviewer.
New Yorker living in Appalachia.
@mightycation.bsky.social @mightycation.bsky.social
Lucifer @lucifur666.bsky.social Professional scapegoat | Kicked out of Heaven for βcreative differencesβ | Eternally unverified (thanks, God)
shagag @handle.invalid Software Engineer, handstands, locking in and "staying upwind".
https://shagag.dev/
Willy Brauner @willybrauner.com Front-end developer, driven by design.
Former lead front-end @ cher-ami.tv.
Musician, drummer.
Based in Lyon, France.
Freelancer
β³ https://willybrauner.com
β³ https://github.com/willybrauner