Other people's good writing
What other people wrote that is actually worth your time. Every link checked, every number sourced.
Worth reading
Every link checked live, September 2026- Paul Graham · 2013
Do things that don't scale
Recruit your first users by hand, one at a time. The whole method.
- Growth Unhinged · May 2026
The state of B2B monetization in 2026
The 230-company survey behind our pricing sample. Read it before you set a price.
- Circle · 2026
Why free communities are harder to grow than paid ones
Why this community isn't free, and has no free tier.
- Ramen Club
On chargebacks
What one dispute does to a small SaaS. Read before your first card payment.
- Stripe Atlas
SaaS pricing guide
Value metric, tiers, annual versus monthly. The floor to stand on.
- Kyle Poyar · weekly
Growth Unhinged
The best weekly writing on SaaS pricing. Free.
- Lenny Rachitsky · weekly
Lenny's Newsletter
Product and growth, deeply researched. What a paid newsletter can be.
- Rob Walling
Bootstrapped SaaS, for twenty years
Small product first, then the SaaS. The stair-step approach.
Communities for bootstrapped makers, compared
Read them. Join one if it fits you better.- Free
Indie Hackers
The biggest room for bootstrapped makers, and where most people start. Thousands of monthly-revenue posts and a forum. Broad and asynchronous — you get answers when someone happens to reply.
- $20 / month
WIP
A todo list with witnesses. You log what you shipped each day and a streak counts. The purest version of the accountability idea, with no pricing or first-customer content around it.
- Free · paid tiers
The Bootstrapped Founder
Arvid Kahl’s newsletter, podcast and books, on building sustainably and selling a business. The best writing on the mindset of it. A body of work to read rather than a room to sit in.
- Free
#BuildInPublic on X
Where an audience gets built before the product exists. Enormous reach and zero structure — nobody asks you on Tuesday whether you sent the ten messages.
- $49 / month
MicroConf Connect
300+ founders, a monthly session, a vault of talks. The community for later.
- $697 / year
Dynamite Circle
Since 2011. Masterminds of four to eight, for founders already past the first customers.
Ours, when there's something worth linking: the library's public sample is the first one. Want something on this shelf? Post it in the community with one line on why.