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439: The Increasing Risk of Building in Public

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438: AI Liability: The Landmines Under Your SaaS

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437: Data Is the Only Moat

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436: When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Off

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435: How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software

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434: Follow Your Passion (But Not Like That)

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433: The 1% Improvement Myth

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432: Don't Give Up... Your Assumptions

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431: Many Heads, Not Many Hats: The Founder's Identity Crisis

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430: The Case Against Vendor Lock-In: Why Easy Exit Means Better Retention

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429: The Dead Internet Theory: Are We Building Machines That Only Talk to Other Machines?

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428: Marketing for Founders Who Hate Marketing

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427: Vibe Coding Won't Kill SaaS

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426: How Your Data Model Shapes Your Product

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425: AI Best Practices for Bootstrappers (That Actually Save You Money)

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424: I Never Really Loved Coding (And Only AI Made Me Realize It)

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423: The Marketer's Hierarchy of Needs: A Framework for Understanding Customer Intelligence

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422: The Things Your Customers Don't Care About

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421: Why You Should Never Start a Software Business

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420: AI for the Code-Writing Purist: How to Use AI Without Surrendering Your Keyboard

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419: The Missing Piece in Your Validation Strategy

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418: Why AI-Generated Code Hurts Your Exit

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417: The Best Tech Stack in the Age of AI

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416: The Ownership Paradox: What Do You Really Control in Your Software Business?

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415: Handling Multiple ICPs as a Solo Founder

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414: The Pure Amateur is Vanishing: Why Everyone's a Performer Now

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413: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Moat

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412: The $0.20/Day AI System That Converts Trial Users Into Paying Customers

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411: The Currents of a Founder

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410: Building for the Age of AI Consumers

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409: James Phoenix — Claude Code Masterclass

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408: The Podscan Ideas Vault: Engineering as Marketing

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407: Nick Groeneveld — Exploring AI's Impact on Modern Design

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406: Making Your Business Sellable (Even If You Never Plan to Sell)

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405: The Friction Paradox: Why AI Might Be Making Us Worse at What We Do

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404: The Transcription Challenge: Building Infrastructure That Scales With The World

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403: Amar Ghose — From Non-Technical Founder to SaaS Innovator

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402: A $2 Billion Industry Built on Digital Duct Tape

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401: Vova Feldman — Mastering Entrepreneurship in the Payments Sector

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400: The Hidden Revolution: AI Is Democratizing Coding Mentorship

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399: NativePHP: How Simon Hamp & Shane Rosenthal are Building & Monetizing PHP on Mobile

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398: The Hidden Cost of Being First

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397: When Profitability Disappears — A Podscan Reality Check

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396: Jack Friks — Building Tools That Empower Without Overwhelming

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395: From Code Writer to Code Editor: My AI-Assisted Development Workflow

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394: Taylor Otwell — The (Quite Entrepreneurial) Creator of Laravel

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393: AI is a Threat to SaaS Multiples

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392: Building AI Businesses Without Breaking the Internet

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391: AI is Flipping Our Relationship with Technology

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390: When to Choose Local LLMs vs APIs

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389: The Founder's First Hire: When to Let Go of Your Weaknesses

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388: The Job To Be Done: Understanding Customer Value Communication

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387: Your API Documentation is Not For Developers Anymore

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386: One Year of Podscan: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions

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385: The Balancing Act: Free Trials, Value Demonstration, and Business Sustainability

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384: Podscan's Profitability Milestone: What's Next?

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383: Repositioning Podscan: From Monitoring to Data Platform

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382: I went to MicroConf in New Orleans

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381: How AI Changes Famous Laws in Software and Entrepreneurship

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380: Experiment Report: Trying New Things

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379: Anne-Laure Le Cunff — Tiny Experiments

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378: Think with AI, Do with People

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377: Virality is Poisonous

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376: Justin Moore — Becoming a Sponsor Magnet

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375: Mute those “Dings”

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374: Indie Hacking Databases at Scale

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373: Delete Your Backlog

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372: Indie Hacking & the Singularity

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371: Brian Sierakowski — Mastering Product Communication

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370: Building Systems That Work While You Don't

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369: Expect-AI-tions

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368: Johannes Jäschke — From Hypnosis Innovation to Business Exit

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367: The Biggest Opportunity of 2025

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366: Omar Zenhom — Crafting Success Without a Tech Background

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365: Arvid's Year in Review: 2024

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364: Breaking my Own Rules

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363: Ben Rometsch — From Side Projects to Industry Giants

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362: Startup Opportunities in Podcasting

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361: Pierre de Wulf — Bootstrapping ScrapingBee to Millions

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360: Product-Market Fit & Time-to-First-Value

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359: Connor Turland: Pioneering the Future of Bookkeeping with Ceedar.ai

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358: Love Is For Those Who Love the Work

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357: (Free) Trial & Error

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356: James Phoenix — Mastering Code & AI for the Modern Developer

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355: The Age of the Gatekeeper Is Over

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354: The Art of Productive Procrastination

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353: Podscan’s Dream Customer (Acquisition) Strategy

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352: Running Lean at Scale

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351: From Overload to Opportunity

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350: Building Your Castle in Someone Else's Kingdom

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349: Navigating Constraints as a Bootstrapper

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348: Observability in Software Businesses

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347: The AI-Powered Solopreneur

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346: When Podcasts Attack: The Unexpected Challenges of External Data

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345: Scrape or Be Scraped

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344: Andrew Davies — The Power of a Merchant of Record

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344: Should Indie Hackers Go to Tech Conferences?

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342: The Evolution of Coding in the AI Era

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341: Striking a Balance

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340: kerollmops — From Hackathon to Success: The Meilisearch Story