Amaan reached out to me on Twitter since he wanted to learn more about my Bootstrap MBA experiment and we ended up talking about a wide range of topics.

Keevin launched Brainstorm.io on November 5 and already gained 3,359 subscribers in just one month. Keevin discussed two things about the process of how he made his previous newsletter successful: 1) be conscious of where you put your stuff out. 2) Think about what you really like to write about. To increase the value proposition; 1) make readers/c…

Helen's Twitter profile Her insane side project review which contains links and comments to all projects we talked about.

Helen's Twitter profile Her insane side project review which contains links and comments to all projects we talked about.

Rob Hope is a maker from South Africa and the project he's most famous for is a site called One Page Love. But he also recently published a great book titled Landing Page Hot Tips, he has a podcast and curates beautiful emails. We talk about all the projects he worked on in the past, why every side project he launched provided lessons for the next …

I got the chance to talk one of the people I admire the most in the maker world. Mubashar Iqbal ("but you can call me Mubs") is an incredibly prolific maker with decades of experience building things. We talk about his process for coming up with product ideas, his experience collaborating with other makers, and the learnings from his past and curre…

Picasso, Jack Kerouac, and Idea Mazes.

Rob Hope is a maker from South Africa and the project he's most famous for is a site called One Page Love. But he also recently published a great book titled Landing Page Hot Tips, he has a podcast and curates beautiful emails. We talk about all the projects he worked on in the past, why every side project he launched provided lessons for the next …

I got the chance to talk one of the people I admire the most in the maker world. Mubashar Iqbal ("but you can call me Mubs") is an incredibly prolific maker with decades of experience building things. We talk about his process for coming up with product ideas, his experience collaborating with other makers, and the learnings from his past and curre…

I talk about my launch of Maker News and the things I learned by studying Nathan Latka. Resources mentioned: Hacker News Day by Mubashar Iqbal Maker News How to ask your mentors for help by Derek Sivers 6 Lessons I Learned from Nathan Latka

I talk about what I learned about product ideation and my "Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation" that summarizes the ideas of people like Paul Graham, Pieter Levels, Nathan Barry, and Amy Hoy. Further, I discuss my second project launch: a Product Idea Prompt Generator that I build to make my daily "ideation workout" more effective.…

I talk about the launch of my first project Maker Reads. Also I didn't really plan the launch, it went surprisingly well and the project was able to gather more than 200 votes on ProductHunt and made it into their Newsletter. I also discuss my struggles to stick to my plan and how I'm going to adjust it.…

A few resources mentioned in the episode: Michael Hartl's book called Ruby on Rails Tutorial. The Ruby on Rails homepage The Laravel homepage. My tweet on the outdated look of the Rails page and the comment that points out the outdated version in the promotional video. The tweet by David Heinemeier Hanson that discusses how most of the Rails develo…

This is the first episode of the Bootstrap MBA, a podcast by Jakob Greenfeld. In this introductory episode, I summarize what my plan for the next 12 month is, what the bootstrap MBA is all about, how I came up with the idea, my motivation, and how I decided what exactly I want to learn My focus will be: Ideation: Humble business ideas that have the…