bootstrappers are in the now

Caught up with Olivier, mentor and longtime friend who’s building a new company solving [retracted].

Like most founder convos lately, everyone’s obsessed with moat, moat, moat. One pattern I’m noticing: founders who’ve raised (or are raising) seem far more focused on moats, while bootstrapped folks are heads down on the now, fixing real customer problems today, using AI as leverage…

Last week I tried shipping as much as possible without Figma. All command line, dev tools, Claude Max20, keeping certain process experimentation to specific repos. Next project I’ll attempt product polish with magic patterns, though I hear that tool works better in the 1→10 or post-MVP phase.

Onboarding a new client this week and ideally looking for one more Builder in residence (1 day/week).

Rest of today: tidying + refactoring kenny.is wesite code and running a research survey..

Oh yeah, just removed https://www.rb2b.com and looking for another solution as I ramp up the PM survey. Traffic’s too low right now to justify the $80/month.