Bootstrapped SaaS founders
Find the startup and bootstrapper scene on Bluesky! This list includes individuals who are building SaaS startups without VC funding. (Note: I'm not including AI or blockchain startups at this time—sorry!)
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@joshuawood.net
@robwalling.com
Helping SaaS bootstrappers at @tinyseed.com and MicroConf. Wrote the playbook for SaaS, saasplaybook.com.
@micahflee.com
Member of https://lockdown.systems/ collective making @cyd.social — writing at https://micahflee.com — author of HACKS, LEAKS, AND REVELATIONS https://hacksandleaks.com — signal: micah.01
@uibreakfast.com
Co-founder of Userlist 🌀 SaaS email marketing is the game. Keep them short.
@benediktdeicke.com
💻 Co-founder / Engineering at @userlist.com 🎙️ Co-host at slowandsteadypodcast.com 🛠️ Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, PostgreSQL ❤️ Loves music, food, and cooking 🥁 Plays the drums benediktdeicke.com
@adriaandotcom.bsky.social
Founder of bootstrapped Simple Analytics — privacy first analytics. simpleanalytics.com
@ruurtjan.com
Full-time indie maker. NsLookup.io WhatIsMyISP.com DNS for developers: https://www.nslookup.io/dns-course/
@lauraroeder.bsky.social
Honk If You ♥️ SaaS 🥾 I'm the bootstrapped founder of Paperbell (>1m ARR) 🚪 Exited MeetEdgar ✍️ Blogging at https://lauraroeder.com/ 🇬🇧 Based in Brighton, UK
@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
@bjornih.bsky.social
Founder & CEO of Revontulet & The Khalifa Ihler Institute - preventing terrorism and keeping people safe by rendering extremists incapable of abusing tech to recruit, organize and coordinate attacks. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
@jordanwildon.bsky.social
Founder and CEO of Prose Intelligence. Digital investigator researching extremism, hate and disinformation. OSINT specialist and Telegram expert.
@lippihom.bsky.social
Founder between Berlin and the Bay. Recovering vc - now bootstrapping tipsiti.com. Ask me for travel recs 🚞 🌆 🏝️
@founder.quest
It's like Steve Jobs and The Dude had kids and they started a software company—this is FounderQuest. By @joshuawood.honeybadger.io and @bencurtis.com. 🔗 http://founderquestpodcast.com
@pariss.blacktechpipeline.com
Founder & CEO of blacktechpipeline.com | Creator of #BlackTechTwitter | @Dayhaysoos cheeky fiancé | Very cool person | (She/Her) Finding the balance between staying informed and staying happy.
@markokrstic.net
Writing about software engineering and building a dev company 🔸 Software engineer 🔸 Founder of https://www.cyberoutput.net 🔸 Co-Founder of https://odomis.com 🔸 About: https://markokrstic.net
@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/
@kanejamison.com
Building @contentharmony.com for content marketing & SEO teams. Enjoying Rails & Tailwind. 🌎 Based in WA State 👋 kanejamison.com 📝 contentharmony.com *️⃣ fixture.media
@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 girl’s basketball coach. https://garrettdimon.com
@jonbuda.com
⚡ Software, Ruby, SaaS, Running, Bread 🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
@faraazahmad.bsky.social
Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.
@joshpigford.com
✨ dabbler 🏒 collector 💰 @maybe.co 💱 synthfinance.com *️⃣ revise.dev 🧰 toolstash.com — @shpigford everywhere else
@wilbertliu.com
Bootstrapping lavish.so 🪄 the Mailchimp alternative that just works. Sold 3 startups. Occasionally write on wilbertliu.com. Still changing diapers after pushing to production.
@jukkisahonen.bsky.social
Founder @NxtStride.com and author of Outcome Based Sponsorship™, making sponsorships scalable, automated, and valuable to all athletes and SMEs. Building a proudly European company, with hyper scale potential. #Europreneur 🇫🇮 🇬🇷
@ryanhefner.com
Having fun, building stuff. #buildinpublic 🌐 ryanhefner.com 🎙️ allplay.fm 🎒 starterpacks.net 🔊 transmits.io 🥇 opengraphs.com 🛫 skylounge.social ⛱️ commune.software
@derrickreimer.com
Full-stack developer. Recovering perfectionist. #ElixirLang enthusiast. Posting primarily about design & development. Minneapolis resident. Founder of @savvycal.com
@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
@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
@mike.contribsys.com
CEO/Engineer, creator of Sidekiq https://mikeperham.com https://contribsys.com https://sidekiq.org Portland, OR
@saasmakermac.bsky.social
Co-Founder: https://useaware.co/ 1 life-changing exit. Occasionally writing at ➡️ http://thesaasbootstrapper.co Recently back to PDX after 2 years of nomading with wife and kids. I'm here to get to know more like-minded people, don't be shy.
@leenyburger.bsky.social
Rails developer, startup founder. Accidentally started 3 businesses. https://www.helloquery.com https://www.simplefileupload.com https://saasmarketinggym.com
@iamcoreyg.com
Family guy • Software engineer / music producer • Mostly building speakflow.com • Prev. software @ Apple — Los Angeles. Posting about SaaS, coding (javascript/ruby on rails) and music
@petecodes.bsky.social
SEO and social media writer for hire 💰 I write the High Signal newsletter Follow me for bootstrapper news, interviews with founders and build in public updates highsignal.io petecodes.io
@bell.bz
Founder at: @set.studio and @piccalil.li Complete CSS Course: https://complete-css.com CSS Book: https://every-layout.dev Newsletter: https://piccalil.li/the-index/ 🔗 https://bell.bz/links/ 🌐 https://bell.bz 🌍 Cheltenham, UK
@grantmcconnaughey.com
Founder of @postpone.app. Posting about tech, startups, sports, U.S. politics, and movies mostly. Be curious, not judgmental. 🔗 www.postpone.app
@saron.bsky.social
Web evangelist at Apple , founder CodeNewbie (acquired), developer, creator, chief baker of the Try Bakery (located in my kitchen ❤️)
@johnnunemaker.com
Tweets about Ruby/Rails. Building @boxoutsports.com, @fireside.fm and @flippercloud.io. Huge fan of 🏀 and ⏱️ (southbendwatch.co).
@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.
@johnonolan.bsky.social
Founder/CEO at @Ghost.org - Geographically restless. Mostly posting about publishing, media, open source, JavaScript, Laravel, bootstrapping, SaaS, activitypub, and design.
@richardfelix.com
Failed Payments Fighter. Angel Investor. Executive Producer. Ruby. Rails. RDR. Fried Chicken. Waffles. Burgers. Oceansize. https://richardfelix.com
@ianlandsman.com
Bootstrapper and software developer. Founded 2005: HelpSpot Founded 2014: LaraJobs (@larajobs.com) CoHost: Mostly Technical Podcast (@mostlytechnical.com)
@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
@joshuawood.honeybadger.io
@honeybadger.io co-founder 🧡 @joshuawood.net worksonified🕴️ Podcast: @founder.quest 🎙️
@amy.stackingthebricks.com
only srs biz content over here 👋 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
@veni.dev
🌈 Founder of @DiversifyTech.com 👒 I wear many hats as a dev + founder 🐥 Mom to two girls 🧠 Neurodivergent 🍿 K-drama fan ✨ she/her 🔗 https://buff.ly/41WjmcB
@honeybadger.io
Application monitoring that helps developers move fast and fix things. We're everything you need to keep production happy — and nothing you don't. 👉 https://honeybadger.io
@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.
@jipiboily.com
Freelancer. Founder @ Metrics Watch (sold in 2024). Dev. Community guy. Father, husband, music aficionado, (board & video) gamer, etc. #SaaS #Ruby #Linux #Godot
@jacobherrington.dev
self-taught ruby dev turned startup founder something something building something new everything i post is satire
@thomasfuchs.at
👨💼fine time tracking software at nokotime.com 📸 I killed Flash (with script.aculo.us) 🔭 #astrophotography - https://lightfrom.space 🕹️ #retrocomputing 🐈 #cats Ally. He/him.
@geetfun.com
An account you should follow for b2b software stuff. I code in Ruby, JS, and Go. Unemployable. ✉️ http://sendbroadcast.com Email automation tool ⌨️ http://proggy.io CLI tool 💳 http://transactful.com Refund Request (free)
@bencurtis.com
Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
@anthonyeden.bsky.social
Founder of DNSimple, vendor of duct tape, purveyor of UDP packets. He/him. Mastodon: https://ruby.social/@aeden
@craigkerstiens.com
Product @crunchydata previously MSFT/Citus/Heroku. Talk a lot about Postgres and startups. Why Postgres? https://www.crunchydata.com/why-postgres
@mjwhansen.com
👩💻 CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io 📚 Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside she/her | 🇺🇸 in 🇩🇰
@justinjackson.ca
Internet stuntman 🤸♂️ justinjackson.ca ⚡ Bootstrapping, SaaS, podcasting, calm companies 🎙️ Co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting).
@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
@kaidav.is
Friendly marketer, helpful human, and entrepreneur. It’s good to see you here. Everything changes — don’t be afraid. ✨ Founder of @DoubleYourEcommerce.com. Helping Shopify merchants grow their organic (SEO) revenue. 📍 Eugene, Oregon
@briancasel.com
Building products with Ruby on Rails. Building instrumentalproducts.com Co-hosting panelpodcast.com Writing briancasel.com
@rmcastil.bsky.social
- Helping SaaS’s track their AI search ranking with knowatoa.com - Securing sites with wafris.org - Been programming for 25+ years - Believes being a dev is a marketing super power
@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:
@rosiesherry.com
Community builder. Indie founder. Unschooler. 5x Mother. AuDHD . She/her. 🇬🇧 “Don’t let the social networks have all the fun” 🌈 Rosie.land: writing about community building 🪐 Founder & CEO @ministryoftesting.com
@adamlogic.com
I spend my days building @judoscale.com to help developers optimize their web hosting. Follow me to hear about... 💎 Ruby on Rails 🚀 Heroku & PaaS 💸 Independent SaaS Also on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamlogic/
@earthlingworks.bsky.social
Founder SignWell and Bidsketch. My personal blog: http://extendslogic.com
@zackgilbert.com
Wfh dad, fractional CTO and building mycpaconnect.com Side projects include: rails.market & susanssudoku.com
@michaelkoper.com
Dad of two - Founder of https://nusii.com - Bootstrapper - Ruby on Rails
@alexhillman.com
➡️ Rebel scum. Disinvoltura. 🎯 Business + community. 📙 Author https://tiny.mba. 💰 Teacher https://stackingthebricks.com 🤝 indyhall.org fearless leader since 2006. 🏴☠️ Pirate captain http://10k.city. ❤️ he/him. Partner.
@asmartbear.com
Keyword, buzzword, half-truth, adjective, hey look at me! (founder of two unicorns: http://WPEngine.com, http://SmartBear.com). Writing for 17 years at: https://longform.asmartbear.com
@joelhooks.com
lvl 16 half-orc nerd. jazz lover. freak for synths. crafting useful education products at @badass.dev working on Course Builder https://coursebuilder.dev a boutique CMS building @egghead.io since 2013 now 👉 https://joelhooks.com/now PDX (Vancouver, WA)
@joshuawood.net
geriatric millennial joshuawood.net/bsky ⎯ software • information • systems • dystopia • hope signal: joshuawood.17