Indie Hacker Playbook
The operators, writers, and archives that shaped how small software companies get built.
17 bookmarks
indiehackers.com
Interviews and revenue dashboards from bootstrapped founders. More useful than startup Twitter because the numbers are real.
paulgraham.com
The 2005 essay that half of Silicon Valley is downstream of. Dated in places, foundational everywhere else.
kalzumeus.com
Patio11's archive covering SEO, pricing, dealing with The Man, and why your consulting rate is too low.
stripe.com
The quiet MBA of incorporation, pricing, and selling to businesses. Written by operators who ship the payments on the other end.
joelonsoftware.com
Joel Spolsky's archive is a history lesson in building software companies before it was a content genre. Still relevant.
signalvnoise.com
The 37signals blog. Strong opinions about calm companies, async work, and charging for software.
nathanbarry.com
Lessons from building ConvertKit (now Kit). Product-led growth, pricing moves, and what running a real bootstrapped business looks like.
ycombinator.com
YC's curated collection of talks, essays, and guides. Think of it as startup school, indexed.
review.firstround.com
Detailed operating playbooks from First Round's portfolio. The interviews with VPs of Eng and Product are uniformly excellent.
lennysnewsletter.com
Lenny Rachitsky on product, growth, and career. The growth-loop and PMF posts are required reading.
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.
ben-evans.com
Big-picture thinking on tech, markets, and what's actually changing. His annual slide deck is the CliffsNotes to the industry.
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.
world.hey.com
37signals co-founder on running a calm company, unpopular opinions about work, and saying no. Refreshing counter-programming.
avc.com
Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson has written daily since 2003. A running seminar on the VC-founder relationship.
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.