WPenner's Blog

Today's post is unusual.
It developed out of several recent conversations about centralization and misuses of power.
Following the Feynman technique, this aims to be simple enough for a child to understand without talking down.

It starts, as many glorious adventures, with a family on safari.

T...

Stagetimer¹ is a bootstrap product from Lukas (@_lhermann) and Liz Hermann (@lizmhermann). The product is a terrific showcase for the distributed ubiquity of web and using a light protocol to solve problems.

The value proposition is simple, there are a lot of times and places where someone i...

As I launch my micro media business, I am awash in the confusion of a million voices and opinions about what to do and how to do it. What I want is clarity. Clarity is important to me because it leads to leadership.

My working definition of a leader is the person who sees the furthest and communic...

Matt Morris is an indie developer working on a SaaS tool called Blotter which brands itself as a Twitter-powered comment system.

The value proposition is obvious: comments on blogs are powerful when they're work. Unfortunately, there are lots of ways they can be a drag on a site, especially whe...

It’s been 15 years since Chris Anderson’s article, “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business”¹ took the world by storm, causing the likes of Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin not to see eye-to-eye. Today, despite the obvious widespread benefits of capitalism and the fact that many things consum...

The LazyStartup is an exciting project still being built by @ZakRoyDev. Zak set a goal to build in public and get to $500 MRR. Because the project is still being built, the website is short on details, but there's lots to learn, anyway.

Value Proposition

Situation: Market research is an one...

Everyone thinks they understand the problem that they’re solving. Unfortunately, our intuitive understanding, when applied beyond our personal experience, is almost always wrong. Proper thinking about the problem seems like a huge investment of time, so often gets skipped. It can save hundreds of ho...

Bootstrap projects are fascinating and fontvisual is in a unique market. Rossveth Lopez has created a web app for crafters and designers to preview chosen fonts. Let's briefly see how its business works.

The site's main navigation comprises the front page, Help Center, Pricing and Support. The...

Justyna (@attilczuk) is a software engineer building a new project called Watch Limits, a Chrome extension for video consumption. I love the bootstrap attitude, so did a quick review.

One side of the challenge is discovering how large a market it might be and what price it can bear. There ar...

An important theme on Twitter and other social media platforms is that many people are trying to make money online. What they miss is that in a digital world, “income” doesn’t only mean money. In fact, money is the last income worth considering. Aim instead for three other kinds of income that ultim...