Ben Gilbert @ben-gilbert.bsky.social Acquired.fm
Acquired Podcast @acquiredfm.bsky.social Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the worldโs greatest companies โ and how you can apply them.
Hosted by @ben-gilbert and David Rosenthal.
Joel Clermont @jclermont.com ๐ Author of Mastering Laravel Validation Rules
โ๏ธ I post useful Laravel tips https://masteringlaravel.com
๐๏ธ Co-host of https://show.nocompromises.io podcast
๐ Organizer of Milwaukee PHP
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Colin Hall @colinhall.dev Full Stack Software Developer, creating things with Laravel, Livewire and Inertia/React/Vue. Big fan of Filament too.
Working on a side project that might just launch! 
Laravel News @laravelnews.com Your news source for the Laravel PHP Framework. Email us at hello@laravel-news.com
Freek Van der Herten @freek.bsky.social PHP developer at Spatie, built Mailcoach, โชmyray.appโฌ, ohdear.app and flareapp.io, blogging at โชfreek.devโฌ, organising fullstackeurope.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
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
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
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
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.
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 
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
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
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
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. 
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 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 
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
@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
ย
Currently building flylighter.com, an advanced web clipper for Notion. 
Dan Shipper @danshipper.bsky.social Co-founder at Every
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
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
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
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
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.
Jay Clouse @jay.blog Founder of Creator Science โ Growth as a creator, down to a science. Helping thousands of creators build resilient businesses through observation, experimentation, and iteration
Website: creatorscience.com
YouTube: youtube.com/@jay
andy @brudtkuhl.com ๐ป webmaster building laravel php apps
๐ product @laravelphp
๐ตโโ๏ธ i like to ride bikes in Iowa
๐งฐ building https://surveysnaps.com, https://pmprompt.com
๐ค running https://faxonline.app, https://jsonltools.com, https://freeurlindexer.com
๐ https://brudtkuhl.com
Kiru ๐จ๐ญ @kiruio.bsky.social Indie Dev / Recursive Problem Solver / Learn & Share here
http://Kiru.io
http://FlashDictation.com
http://MathleGame.com
http://Reversle.net
http://Learnle.net
http://GeotagSEO.com
http://OGTester.com
http://WhatDinner.com
Asia Orangio @asiaorangio.bsky.social I help SaaS founders troubleshoot growth & marketing. Occasional posts about art, poetry, and other hobbies. Learning how to work with my ADHD at the same time. I run demandmaven.io
Ron Northrip @ronnorthrip.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood white beard!
Organizer of the @kyphpug.bsky.social meetup
Building @draftsmaninc.bsky.social - a visual dev tool
Blog: https://friendlyneighborhoodwhitebeard.dev
dev, father, husband, friend, wine-drinker, foodie, musician
Reuven M. Lerner @lernerpython.com Helping you become more confident with Python and Pandas since 1995.
โขย Courses: LernerPython.com
โขย Newsletters: BetterDevelopersWeekly.com โข BambooWeekly.com
โขย Books: PythonWorkout.com โข PandasWorkout.com
โขย Videos: YouTube.com/reuvenlerner
Dr. Elvim Ransom ๐ฝ @jesseleite.com Developer @savvycal.com. Previously @statamic.com. #Metroid larva. #Zelda cucco. #Saints fan. 1 John 4:19.
https://jesseleite.com ๐
https://1337keyboards.com โจ๏ธ
https://vimfornormalpeople.com ๐บ
https://campfirecoders.com ๐๏ธ
Laura Roeder @lauraroeder.bsky.social Honk If You โฅ๏ธ SaaS
๐ฅพ I'm the bootstrapped founder of Paperbell (>1m ARR)
๐ช Exited MeetEdgar
โ๏ธ Blogging at https://lauraroeder.com/
๐ฌ๐ง Based in Brighton, UK
Juraj Kostolanskรฝ @kostolansky.sk Ruby on Rails developer with 10+ years of experience. Freelancer by day, indie hacker by night.
Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social Cofounder of SparkToro, Alertmouse, & Snackbar Studio. Geraldine's husband.
Pat Walls @patwalls.com Founder starterstory.com/b. On a mission to help 1 billion people make money online!
Tony Dinh @tonydinh.com Building the best LLM frontend on earth: typingmind.com
Simon Hรธiberg @handle.invalid Building a portfolio of bootstrapped SaaS products.
Get my SaaS Stack (LTD):
https://simonl.ink/founderstack
Mac Martine @saasmakermac.bsky.social Co-founder @ DemandBird - the content production pipeline for agencies & founders publishing across every platform. 2 SaaS exits.
Raf @theindiepreneur.bsky.social ๐ Surf, sail & make apps
๐ฑ 7 Apps on the App Store
๐ธ Bootstrapped (& freelancing on the side)
๐จ UX/UI Designer
Tom @tomjacquesson.com Sold Tweet Hunter & Taplio for 7 figures. Working on 2 new SaaS: https://letterpal.io + one in stealth ๐ป
Davis from Youform and OneUp @davisbaer.com Youform: www.youform.com
OneUp: www.oneupapp.io
Jay ๐ฆ @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
๐ฑ ๐ชด ๐ณ
James McKinven @handle.invalid Podcasting @ indiebites.com and making leather wallets in my spare time @ whitstablecraftco.com ๐ชก
๐ฅ๏ธ Doug @douglewis.bsky.social Internet Ninja, masquerading as a researcher, hidden inside a curious person, thatโs standing on top of a guy that just loves tech.
He/Him
Robert Gelb @thisisgelb.bsky.social Game designer, startup founder, advisor. Blog and links: https://thisisgelb.com
Games:
๐ฅ HotShot Pickleball (bg): Pre-orders live
๐งฉ One Stone (bg): Launching next year
๐ซ Aster (bg): In development
๐ Daily Case (mobile): Beta on the app store
Tadas Labudis @labudis.bsky.social PM @github.com. Ex-founder. Opinions my own.
labudis.com
Venelin K. @handle.invalid Indie maker ๐ Building SaaS with Laravel alongside a 9โ5 โฐ | 1 exit ๐
Bootstrapping
๐ DeployIt.com
๐ Converthub.com
Leo @leonagano.com https://goodbusinessbetterworld.substack.com/
๐ https://leonagano.com
@levelsio @levels.io ๐พ Pieter.com est. 1994
๐ธ PhotoAI.com $120K/m
๐ก InteriorAI.com $38K/m
๐ฐ RemoteOK.com $37K/m
๐ Nomads.com $35K/m
๐ levelsio.com $23K/m
Daniel G Laursen ๐ฆ @danielglaursen.bsky.social ๐ช CMO at Players1st.com
๐ค AI Agents and Automation
โฝ๏ธ U12 Football - UEFA C Licence coach
๐ Love Italian Cuisine and French Bistro
๐ฎ๐น Currently learning Italian @duolingo