Full-time bootstrapped tech founders
Follow these bootstapped indie hackers to follow their journey to profitability and beyond. ✅ No investors ✅ Public about their successes and failures ✅ Building cool tech products full-time ❌ Freelancers ❌ Agencies
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@ruurtjan.com
@kapitar.bsky.social
Founder / Web developer (F#) / Filmmaker Currently working on loosethought.com Film/Art: https://kapitar.com
@marianomartene.com
ɢʀᴏᴡᴛʜ » building saas in public + helping founders scale with growth engines. ++ co-founder at https://iterate.so 🗞️ bite-sized case studies + resources to grow your SaaS: https://saas-hq.com/subscribe/ 🧉 thoughts: https://marianomartene.com
@pasqualevitiello.bsky.social
Creator of OriginUI.com. Co-founder Cruip.com. I ship new stuff every week ✨
@jrhizor.dev
jrhizor.dev - building software ($940 MRR) keywordgems.com - ai keyword research poach.vc - founder leads for early stage investors mealbymeal.com - track calories over text message otamatunes.com - sheet music for the otamatone
@mariemartens.me
Bootstrapping @tally.so, the simplest way to create forms since 2020. Sharing our journey with you every step of the way. More thoughts on → blog.tally.so
@pascalpixel.com
Independent creator of Horse, the organised browser. Endorsed by therapists to help people with ADHD. Product Hunt’s Maker of the Year. 🏠 pascalpixel.com 🐎 gethorse.com
@hugohamel.com
🔄 Making Simple Solutions that Make Business Flow 🧱 Pixel Builder since 2005 🇫🇷🇨🇦➧🇵🇹 🔨 Working on: http://vanilladevs.com 🆕 +10 other startups & tools
@risonsimon.com
Building products for fun & profit. 🧱🧱🧱 Solo founder. Bootstrapping. 1 exit. https://painpointy.com (new) https://onlypod.com
@castrio.me
Co-founder @ http://ApplyAll.com Growing vegetables @ http://garden.fractaltechhub.com
@talmahaj.bsky.social
automating the job search @ http://ApplyAll.com / bootstrapped b2c masochist / I love dogs but I can’t eat a whole one
@tomelliot.net
Bootstrapping towards freedom of finances, location and time. fluidseo.app (business) ChatCh.art (fun + useful) schedules.pro (boring + useful) findfreddy.com (fun + useless)
@omarbytes.bsky.social
@adriaandotcom.bsky.social
Founder of bootstrapped Simple Analytics — privacy first analytics. simpleanalytics.com
@joshuawood.honeybadger.io
@honeybadger.io co-founder 🧡 @joshuawood.net worksonified🕴️ Podcast: @founder.quest 🎙️
@ironbrands.bsky.social
Building stuff on the internet with the boys 📊 simpleanalytics.com: 34K MRR 🛜 unihosted.com: 6K MRR Follow the journey: https://1millionarr.substack.com/
@chrisgscott.me
Sold a SaaS. Building new stuff with AI. Here to meet other people making cool shit and to laugh at my own dad jokes. Champion of the underdog. T1D dad. 🙋♂️ chrisgscott.me 👨💻 PayKit.io
@yagci.dev
🦸🏻♂️ Independent platform and software engineer with 10+ years of XP. 👨🏻💻 Building vestiaire.io, your AI-powered personal fashion assistant 🪄 Post about #softwareengineering, #platformengineering, #dev, #devtools , #opensource and much more.
@idil.codes
👩🏻💻 Software Engineer with 5 years of experience 🎨 Building @vestiaire.io, your online fashion assistant
@lippihom.bsky.social
Founder between Berlin and the Bay. Recovering vc - now bootstrapping tipsiti.com. Ask me for travel recs 🚞 🌆 🏝️
@matthiasneumayer.com
Founder Building stuff with @dimarubanov.com 🦊📚 oscarstories.com 🤖📖 fragdaspdf.de | https://www.intellipaper.ai 🔥5️⃣ branding5.com LL.M. (law) & BA (film) | Former Film director | Trainee Lawyer | Software Developer
@dimarubanov.com
Co-Founder OscarStories.com / Branding5.com / FragDasPDF.de w/ @matthiasneumayer.com | Pilot 🛩 | MSc in Finance 👨🏻🎓 | Developer
@tomjacquesson.com
Sold Tweet Hunter & Taplio for 7 figures. Working on 2 new SaaS: https://letterpal.io + one in stealth 👻
@alexsuzuki.com
🇨🇭 Solopreneur, husband and father of two. 👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd 💻 Building https://strich.io and sharing some learnings on the way. 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Juggling family and work while trying to stay sane.
@pixelcave-john.bsky.social
Building with purpose, working with balance. 🚀 Founder of pixelcave.com 🔥 Building tailkit.com pinemix.com taildashboards.com taildrops.com bootstrap.design
@erwin.blue
Founder Tailscan.com for Tailwind CSS Co-Founder Lexboost.com (Dutch only) Launching Bluestats.app (Bluesky analytics) soon 🙌🏼
@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.
@tsanlis.bsky.social
Founder uneed.best (@uneed.best), product hunt alternative www.uneedgames.com, video games launch platform https://uneed-directories.com, directory of directories My goal: $0 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩◻️◻️ $10K /month
@daveceddia.com
Building an automated video editor (getrecut.com) Developer founder, Pilot ✈️ Wrote @ daveceddia.com
@simon.bennett.im
Founder of SnapShooter.com (2017, acquired by @digitalocean '23), now Sr. Software Engineer at DO. Follow my journey crafting another side hustle Packetly.com Which I will one day launch!
@michielberk.com
Join three other readers that get my writings first every other week at michielberk.com! cvForge.io ➡️ B2B SaaS for recruitment agencies Legends of Arcalor ➡️ Persistant world browser MMORTS, sign up for alpha testing here https://tally.so/r/3j9e8a
@rgmvisser.com
Developreneur. Tweeting about SaaS/startups/bootstrapping/software development/angel investing
@svenvdz.bsky.social
Building http://gobuildmy.app and GoBlue, analytics for Bluesky: https://apps.apple.com/app/goblue-analytics-for-bluesky/id6738623478 Acquired: Sticker Studio(24m installs) Co-Founded: Orderli(YC S21)
@rossvethlopez.bsky.social
Building Toolevate.com • WhereToFindVA.com • Founder FontVisual.com Indie maker • Mom of 4 • 🇵🇭
@thankbox.com
Profitably running https://www.thankbox.com I sometimes post interesting stuff about startups & product UX.
@michaelandreuzza.com
Author — http://lexingtonthemes.com Website templates crafted with Astro and Tailwind CSS Building — http://Oxbowui.com Tailwind CSS Components — michaelandreuzza.com
@fabrizio.so
Overthinker. Designer & co-founder: 🪶 @typefully.com 1.5M ARR 💌 mailbrew.com (sold) 🎧 lofi.cafe Having fun sim-racing 🏁 I directed a sci-fi short film once, maybe I’ll tell more stories in the future.
@heyandras.dev
Trying to make servers & self-hosting mainstream again by building a free, open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative: coolify.io 🔴 Live: heyandras.dev/live 💬 Community: discord.gg/coolify (11k+) 😱 serverlesshorrors.com
@roehl.dev
🛠 Building an independent app business in public 🟪 Making the best habit tracking app out there: habitkit.app 💡 Sharing my learnings about development, marketing and sales
@kilianvalkhof.com
I build tools for devs and designers: @Polypane.app, FixA11y, Superposition | Electron governance member | He/him
@rikschennink.com
Solopreneur • Founder PQINA • Maker of Pintura and FilePond • Web enthusiast • Loves Bouldering • https://pqina.nl
@dmytrokrasun.com
Building https://ScreenshotOne.com to help businesses with screenshot automation—400+ happy paying customers, $16K+ MRR. I write long form at https://newsletter.dmytrokrasun.com/. I support and promote other makers.
@lukashermann.dev
Building https://stagetimer.io & https://rundownstudio.app ⋆ Bootstrapping to $1M ARR → Then $100M ARR → Then Moonshot Project ⋆ Daydreamer (Previously @_lhermann on the old place)
@levels.io
💾 Pieter.com est. 1994 📸 PhotoAI.com $120K/m 🏡 InteriorAI.com $38K/m 🛰 RemoteOK.com $37K/m 🌍 Nomads.com $35K/m 🎁 levelsio.com $23K/m
@itsjustamar.bsky.social
@ruurtjan.com
Full-time indie maker. NsLookup.io WhatIsMyISP.com DNS for developers: https://www.nslookup.io/dns-course/