My new course "Reverse engineering through technical scraping" is out. I built my career, and 10s of software products on a simple idea: collecting third-party data for profit. In the course, I teach you exactly that: how to collect, transform and use third-party data to get a competitive advantage. Collecting data is more crucial than ever now, as every company needs data. … [Read more...]
The problem with for loops
Everybody should know a simple programming concept called a "for loop". I think of it as a tool that enables me to do some things repeatedly. For instance, the above example prints the numbers from 0 to 99. One clear benefit of using a for loop is that you don't need to write the same code multiple times to reuse it. You can just repeat and cycle through it. I love this tool … [Read more...]
In the news
I was recently interviewed on a couple of indie media outlets discussing some of the things I like the most like bootstrapping, being a solo founder, balancing being a musician/working on products, and more. I thought to share these interviews with you. Here is a list: [90] Running Lean With Multiple SaaS w/ Mike Rubini - It was a pleasure to be on the Productize & Scale … [Read more...]
Front-loading the work
Doing a little bit of the work upfront can lead to massive upside. I first learned about this when I was in college, back in 2011. I was trying to get clients for my agency and I was doing a lot of email outreaches. Luckily, some of those secured me meetings with prospective clients. At that time I was following Ramit Sethi, a financial guru and best-selling author, and he … [Read more...]
I earned over 100,000€ as a solo-founder and bootstrapper
My name is Mike and I'm a software entrepreneur from Italy. Specifically, I like SaaS products which I build and bring to market by myself, without a team. SaaS is a business model where you typically sell access to a software solution for a monthly fee. I've been doing this for years, bootstrapping, which means that the products are self-sufficient: I don't put any money … [Read more...]