The Panel Podcast @thepanel.bsky.social When it comes to bootstrapping and building software, there's rarely one right answer.
The Panel is a new podcast with a purpose: explore the nuance. We want to move past the easy answers, "drive-by advice," and Twitter gurus.
https://panelpodcast.com/
Excellent Khumalo ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง @excellent-k.bsky.social B2B SaaS founder @lepsta.com โข 12 years in Software Development โข 11 years in entrepreneurship โข 6 years working remotely โข Father & Husband.
Faraaz Ahmad @faraazahmad.bsky.social Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.
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
Chris Fidao @handle.invalid Slinging bytes through servers @laravel
Kai ๐ @kaidav.is Space cowboy. Crafter of artisanal free-range websites and small businesses.
Everything changes. Donโt be afraid.
โจ DoubleYourEcommerce.com
โจ KeywordMagic.ai
โจ TheMagicEmail.com
Travis Northcutt @travisnorthcutt.com Software, gifs, caring, silliness, curiosity.
Essays etc.: https://travisnorthcutt.com
Podcast: https://everythingisinterestingpod.com/
Keep showing up.
Iโm in northern Colorado. If you are too or are passing through, drop me a line!
John Athayde @johnathayde.com Multidisciplinary Designer, Musician, Permaculturist | building @developerux.com | running @meticulous.com | chief stall mucker @sfumato.farm | MSTDN: @johnathayde@ruby.social https://www.johnathayde.com
Matt Nunogawa @amattn.com Founder & CTO at Haven Headache & Migraine. Making stuff and helping people is my jam.
startups, humor, software, empathy, food, elixir, learning, whatever.
Alan Bradburne @alanb.dev Building apps in #Ruby + #Rails, #ElixirLang + Phoenix LiveView. Loves building useful software.
From ๐ฌ๐ง, based in ๐ฏ๐ต.
Veni Kunche @veni.dev ๐ Founder of @DiversifyTech.com
๐ I wear many hats as a dev + founder
๐ฅ Mom to two girls
๐ง Neurodivergent
๐
โโ๏ธ Gen AI deinfluencer
โจ she/her
๐ https://buff.ly/41WjmcB
Jon Friesen @jonfriesen.ca Platform engineer, Qpoint.io cofounding team, prev. DigitalOcean, SAP. I write about MicroVMs, hosted runners, local LLM infra, and automation.
Be kind and make cool things!
Dave Ceddia @daveceddia.com Building an automated video editor (getrecut.com)
Developer founder, Pilot โ๏ธ
Wrote @ daveceddia.com
Vic ๐ฎ @vicvijayakumar.com 3x dad, 6.2x runner, 10x plant killer, principal engineer, violinist.
I build everyoak.com, mailtimer.com, onetimefax.com
John Barratt @johnbarratt.bsky.social Weather data wrangler, Melbourne.
https://theweatherchaser.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/weatherchaser.com
Phil Freo @philfreo.com product, engineering, SaaS, remote work
Zack Gilbert @zackgilbert.com I help people with deep industry knowledge build the tools they've always wanted.
Recent projects include:
EventuallyTicketing.com
AugustaPlanner.com
justsendit.email
rails.market
susanssudoku.com
Mateus Guimarรฃes @mateusguimaraes.com 
Marie Ng @threehourcoffee.bsky.social ๐ Founder of Llama Life: ADHD Organizer for tasks & routines www.llamalife.co
๐ง Late-diagnosed ADHD
๐ Co-host www.ADHDfounderspod.com
Michael Koper @michaelkoper.com Dad of two - Founder of https://nusii.com - Bootstrapper - Ruby on Rails
Matthias Bohlen @bohlenlabs.com SW-engineer who made https://customerping.ai, an AI that finds customers for your business while you do something else.
Now working on eliza.money, a social network designed for private stock investors.
I love "Matrix".
Alfred @alfred.so Designer & founder in Copenhagen
Building for European digital sovereignty
@vionio.com (federated social platform)
risved.com (open-source PaaS)
Helping other founders at @fractional.design
Ex ustwo, Bang & Olufsen, Hyper Island
alfrednerstu.com
Sebastian Schlein @idontcare.lol Co-founder of Beyond Code. We're building essential tools for Laravel and PHP developers: Herd, Tinkerwell and Expose.
herd.laravel.com
tinkerwell.app
expose.dev
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:
Rosie Sherry @rosiesherry.com Community builder. Indie founder. Unschooler. 5x Mother. AuDHD . She/her. ๐ฌ๐ง
โDonโt let the social networks have all the funโ
๐ Rosie.land: writing about community building
๐ช Founder & CEO @ministryoftesting.com
Kevin Griffin @consultwithgriff.com โค๏ธ Family. Microsoft MVP. He/Him.
I love #dotnet & #azure. President of RevolutionVA โ Hampton Roads .NET + Azure user groups, RevConf.
#shedquarters in Chesapeake, VA. Random fact: roller coaster nut.
โ consultwithgriff.com
Mubashar โMubsโ Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com Sign up for my newsletter ๐ http://sideprojectmvp.com for tips & tricks from someone who has built 120 side projects (https://iworkedon.com/@mubashariqbal).
๐ก - https://mubs.me
ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com Creator, Writer
Creating:
๐ฒ Flux โข Bluesky client app @fluxapp.blue
๐ Wavepal โข friend CRM @wavepal.app
๐ SkyLink โข Bluesky ext. skylink.blue
Writing:
๐ Extra Focus โข ADHD book extrafocusbook.com
๐ฎ ADHD newsletter extrafocus.com
Val Sopi ๐ @valsopi.com ๐ป AMSDeck.com founder
๐ป BlogMaker.app founder
๐ podcasting https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm
๐ค thinking at valsopi.com
๐พ bullish on AI
Merott @mero.tt ๐ฃ๏ธ /mer-AHT/
๐จ๐ปโ๐ป Web Developer
๐ปโโ๏ธ Indie Maker @polarhabits.com
๐ชท Indie Maker @therapyspace.co
๐ ๏ธ Ex-Stripe Tinkerer
Erick Tamayo @ericktamayo.com Staff Engineer. Ex-Shopify. Bootstrapper wannabe. Father of two.
Carter Bryden ๐จ๐ฆ @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.
Peter Bhat Harkins โ๏ธ @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.
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/
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. 
Joshua Wood @joshuawood.net geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky
โฏ
software โข information โข systems โข dystopia โข hope
signal: joshuawood.17
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.
Benjamin Borowski ๐ @typeoneerror.com ๐ฎ Notion wizard at notionmastery.com
๐งฑ Product maker at weareokidoki.com
๐ค Latest at typeoneerror.com
๐จโ๐ Volunteer firefighter (Lt.)
๐จโ๐ป Hacker (rb/js/ios/php)
๐น Producer (soundcloud.com/hacynth)
๐ง DJ (mixcloud.com/hacynth)
Avatar by Vic Nguyen
Amy Hoy: Pro Edition @amy.stackingthebricks.com only srs biz content over here ๐ 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 
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
Josh from Honeybadger @joshuawood.honeybadger.io @honeybadger.io co-founder ๐งก
@joshuawood.net worksonified๐ด๏ธ
Blog: https://joshuawood.net โ๏ธ
Podcast: @founder.quest ๐๏ธ
Developer-first monitoring and observability. ๐
Adam Wathan @adamwathan.com I donโt post here, follow me on X: x.com/adamwathan
Adam McCrea @adamlogic.com I spend my days building @judoscale.com to help developers optimize their web hosting.
Follow me to hear about...
๐ Ruby on Rails
๐ Heroku & PaaS
๐ธ Independent SaaS
Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
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 
Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell.bsky.social Creator of Laravel.
Onur Ozer @onurozer.me Marketer turned bootstrapper. Learning Ruby and building internet businesses.
cogrid.com - competitor tracking for SaaS
meetlars.com - your AI marketing strategist
apacagencies.com - discover top agencies in asia
I also play drums and bake pizza.
Daniel Coulbourne @coulb.com I run a small software dev shop called Thunk.dev with some of my closest friends.
I live in Philly, grew up in Japan, and was raised by hiphop and the internet.
โค๏ธ Laravel
corey @iamcoreyg.com Family guy โข Software engineer / music producer โข Mostly building speakflow.com โข Prev. software @ Apple โ Los Angeles.
Posting about SaaS, coding (javascript/ruby on rails) and music
@calebporzio.bsky.social @calebporzio.bsky.social 
Joel Gascoigne @joel.is Founder CEO of @buffer.com. Building a long term, independent, profitable business with big ambitions, focused on value for customers and team.
https://joel.is
joel ๐ฆ๏ธ @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 ๐ https://joelhooks.com/now
PDX (Vancouver, WA)
Ryan Castillo @rmcastil.bsky.social - Helping SaaSโs track how AI's represent them with knowatoa.com
- Been programming for 25+ years
- Believes being a dev is a marketing/sales super power
Wes Bos @wesbos.com Fullstack Dev โฏ JSโ CSS Node โฏ JavaScript30.com โฏ wesbos.com/courses โฏ ๐ฅ Tips โฏ Podcast @syntax.fm
Geoff Roberts @geoffroberts.bsky.social Co-founder of Outseta.
www.outseta.com
@jordangal.bsky.social @jordangal.bsky.social 
Nick Swan @nickswan.bsky.social Bootstrapping seotesting.com
Lucky enough to live in Bude, Cornwall
Thomas Frank @thomasjfrank.com Notion educator
Productivity YouTuber (and on @nebula.tv)
JS developer (with many skill issues)
Improv guitarist
Rhythm game nerd
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Currently building flylighter.com, an advanced web clipper for Notion. 
Dan Rowden @danrowden.com Building Codelet.co, a usage-based billing layer for Stripe and Paddle.
Developer Experience Engineer at loops.so
Dan Shipper @danshipper.bsky.social Co-founder at Every
Eric Turner โฉ๏ธ @etdev.bsky.social US-born indie maker in Japan
๐ฏ๐ต http://japan-dev.com
In Tokyo? Hit me up โ ๐
Josh Pigford @joshpigford.com โจ dabbler ๐ collector ๐ฐ @maybe.co ๐ฑ synthfinance.com *๏ธโฃ revise.dev ๐งฐ toolstash.com โ @shpigford everywhere else
Chris Patton @cgpat.bsky.social Founder and head honcho at punchpass.com Exploring all the mtb and ski lines in northern VT. Get outside. You'll feel better.
Steve McLeod @steveofmcleod.com Buy my book! "Kill the HiPPO: How bootstrapped software companies decide what feature to build next."
Find it at killthehippo.com or on Amazon.
My personal site: steveofmcleod.com
Mac Martine @saasmakermac.bsky.social Co-founder @ DemandBird - the content production pipeline for agencies & founders publishing across every platform. 2 SaaS exits.
Michele Hansen @mjwhansen.com ๐ฉโ๐ป CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io
๐ Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers
Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside
she/her | ๐บ๐ธ in ๐ฉ๐ฐ
โgenuinely enthusiastic and slightly chaoticโ - Claude
Lianna Patch @punchlinecopy.com saas website and email copy that doesnโt suck. ranked #1 for "funny copywriter" (i killed all the others)
www.punchlinecopy.com
Colleen Schnettler @leenyburger.bsky.social Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses.
https://www.bitmappeddesigns.com
https://www.simplefileupload.com
Brian Clark @brianclark.social Writer, traveler, entrepreneur. Currently in Copenhagen.
Former projects acquired: Copyblogger, Rainmaker, StudioPress.
further.net
Francesco Di Lorenzo @frankdilo.com Building ambitious indie products. Co-founder typefully.com
Benedicte Raae @raae.dev ๐ฉโ๐ป CTO at Whee.no
๐บ http://youtube.com/QueenRaae/live
๐ https://airbnb.no/rooms/17871018
Pete Codes @petecodes.bsky.social Ghostwriter and SEO writer for hire ๐ฐ
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
Grant @grantmcconnaughey.com Founder of @postpone.app. Posting about tech, startups, sports, U.S. politics, and movies mostly.
Be curious, not judgmental.
๐ www.postpone.app
Andrew Askins @andrewaskins.com Working on @metamonster.ai and Shipletter
Work -> SEO, marketing, product
Free time -> Hiking, learning Spanish, travel, food
๐ http://andrewaskins.com
๐๏ธ https://smalleffortspod.com
๐ฆ https://discoshrimp.lol
๐ https://shipletter.ai/
Fabrizio Rinaldi @fabrizio.so Overthinker. Designer & co-founder:
๐ชถ @typefully.com 1.5M ARR
๐ mailbrew.com (sold)
๐ง lofi.cafe
Having fun sim-racing ๐
I directed a sci-fi short film once, maybe Iโll tell more stories in the future.
Ryan Hefner @ryanhefner.com Having fun, doing stuff.
๐ ryanhefner.com
๐๏ธ allplay.fm
Jamming on:
๐ฌ webmentions.com
๐ฅ opengraphs.com
โฑ๏ธ commune.software
๐ starterpacks.net
#buildinpublic #webdev #indieweb
Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com Building https://openfreemap.org and http://maphub.net
Writing on http://blog.hyperknot.com
Loves paragliding
Nate Bosscher @natebosscher.com Father, outdoors, snowboarding, full stack dev ๐จ๐ฆ
Active: Status List (statuslist.app), Consulting (http://blue-giraffe.ca)
Podcast: https://searchingforsaas.com
About Me: https://natebosscher.com
Daniel Nguyen @danielnguyen.me Founder BoltAI.com. Sharing my solopreneurship journey.
Benedikt Deicke @benediktdeicke.com ๐ป Co-founder / Engineering at @userlist.com
๐๏ธ Co-host at slowandsteadypodcast.com
๐ ๏ธ Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, PostgreSQL
โค๏ธ Loves music, food, and cooking
๐ฅ Plays the drums
benediktdeicke.com
Joe Walnes @waln.es Building new stuff at Stripe.
Previously: Apple, Google, Thoughtworks, trading, founder.
Open source: websocketd, xstream, hamcrest, and othersโฆ
github.com/joewalnes
linkedin.com/in/joewalnes
x.com/joewalnes
Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social Web evangelist at Apple ๏ฃฟ, founder CodeNewbie (acquired), developer, creator, chief baker of the Try Bakery (located in my kitchen โค๏ธ)
Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com I work at https://panic.com
Find me at https://cabel.com
๐Portland, OR
Ruben Gamez @earthlingworks.bsky.social Founder SignWell and Bidsketch. My personal blog: http://extendslogic.com
Wilbert Liu @wilbertliu.com Building rinhelp.com to help founders and engineers fix technical support fast. Previously sold 3 startups.
Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com Founder of @savvycal.com
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
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
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
Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) โ ๏ธ @jacobherrington.dev self-taught ruby dev turned startup founder
something something building something new
everything i post is satire
Anthony Eden @anthonyeden.bsky.social Founder of DNSimple, vendor of duct tape, purveyor of UDP packets. He/him. Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@aeden
Tyler Tringas @tylertringas.com Purveyor of calmness
Iheanyi Ekechukwu @iheanyi.com ๐ณ๐ฌ, computer dude, hip-hop lover. software eng at Stripe. previously at PlanetScale, GitHub, DigitalOcean, and IBM Watson.
Nathan Gathright @nathang.co Building pod.link โฆ Sr. Product Designer at linktr.ee โฆ Full of information. Some of itโs actually useful. โฆ he/him
Austin @handle.invalid Maker / Traveler
Prev Founded. Financial Toolbelt. (acquired) and Export Abroad
https://www.austingrandt.com/
Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io Vibe bootstrapping a software holding co & a service holding co. Previously CTO for an 8-figure exit. Husband, dad, & โ๏ธ
CraftedWeb.to
Brian Cheung @justbcheung.bsky.social i like to build things that help ppl. ex-citadel. ex-google.
Mike Strives @mikestrives.bsky.social Scaling SaaS for a living. Busy building Upvoty ($60k/mrr) & helping others scale to $10k/mrr. Want to learn how? Start for free: https://mikestrives.com/free
Cory Zue @coryzue.com Went from CTO to solopreneur, and now building an empire one business at a time. Currently growing https://saaspegasus.com
Carlton Gibson @carltongibson.bsky.social You know, Django ๐ฆ Former Fellow, 6.x Steering Council and Security Team member. Maintainer of a package or two. Django Chat co-host ๐๏ธ
Not really here. Thereโs a bridged account from the fedi at https://bsky.app/profile/carlton.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy