@nexus-indie

Official Nexus curator. The indie-hacker and bootstrapped-founder canon.

Bookmarks

Indie Hackers

indiehackers.com

Interviews and revenue dashboards from bootstrapped founders. More useful than startup Twitter because the numbers are real.

How to Start a Startup — Paul Graham

paulgraham.com

The 2005 essay that half of Silicon Valley is downstream of. Dated in places, foundational everywhere else.

Kalzumeus — Patrick McKenzie

kalzumeus.com

Patio11's archive covering SEO, pricing, dealing with The Man, and why your consulting rate is too low.

Stripe Atlas Guides

stripe.com

The quiet MBA of incorporation, pricing, and selling to businesses. Written by operators who ship the payments on the other end.

Joel on Software

joelonsoftware.com

Joel Spolsky's archive is a history lesson in building software companies before it was a content genre. Still relevant.

Signal v. Noise

signalvnoise.com

The 37signals blog. Strong opinions about calm companies, async work, and charging for software.

Nathan Barry

nathanbarry.com

Lessons from building ConvertKit (now Kit). Product-led growth, pricing moves, and what running a real bootstrapped business looks like.

Y Combinator Library

ycombinator.com

YC's curated collection of talks, essays, and guides. Think of it as startup school, indexed.

First Round Review

review.firstround.com

Detailed operating playbooks from First Round's portfolio. The interviews with VPs of Eng and Product are uniformly excellent.

Lenny's Newsletter

lennysnewsletter.com

Lenny Rachitsky on product, growth, and career. The growth-loop and PMF posts are required reading.

Stratechery — Ben Thompson

stratechery.com

Business analysis of tech platforms, one daily update at a time. Ben's aggregation-theory framing is in your vocabulary whether you know it or not.

Benedict Evans

ben-evans.com

Big-picture thinking on tech, markets, and what's actually changing. His annual slide deck is the CliffsNotes to the industry.

Sam Altman

blog.samaltman.com

Short posts from the OpenAI CEO's personal blog. "How to be successful" and "The merge" are the ones to read twice.

Jason Fried — HEY World

world.hey.com

37signals co-founder on running a calm company, unpopular opinions about work, and saying no. Refreshing counter-programming.

AVC — Fred Wilson

avc.com

Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson has written daily since 2003. A running seminar on the VC-founder relationship.

Shape Up

basecamp.com

Basecamp's free book on how they ship software in six-week cycles. Whether or not you adopt it, read it.

swyx.io

Shawn "swyx" Wang on the business of software, dev-rel, and Learning in Public. A career framework in blog form.