Friends

People I like and admire — friends, builders, and writers whose work is worth your time. An old-school blogroll, on purpose.

Friends

  • Carlos Arbona

    Builds the most delightful little apps on the internet and ships faster than anyone I know.

  • Ryan Kulp

    Self-taught hacker who's bought and sold 15+ businesses. One of the most interesting people in SaaS.

  • Amanda Natividad

    SparkToro's marketing lead and one of the sharpest voices on content strategy anywhere.

  • Zach Stevens

    My Conversion Factory co-founder and the best brand designer in SaaS. The Brand Thief.

  • Nick Loudon

    My Conversion Factory co-founder who can build anything in Webflow and keeps the whole thing running.

  • Derrick Reimer

    Built SavvyCal (the scheduling tool I actually love) and one of the most thoughtful indie founders around.

  • Hiten Shah

    A serial SaaS founder who's been quietly mentoring the whole industry for two decades.

  • Grant Ammons

    My Truelist co-founder. Builds beautiful software and even better side projects.

  • Elliot Eckholm

    My co-founder on Magister and SwipeWell. One of my favorite people to build with.

People whose work I admire

  • Dharmesh Shah

    HubSpot's co-founder and CTO who still writes and builds like an indie hacker.

  • Jason Cohen

    A Smart Bear — the most rigorous long-form thinking on startups anywhere.

  • Rob Walling

    The godfather of bootstrapped SaaS. TinySeed, MicroConf, and the book that started it for a lot of us.

  • Sam Parr

    My First Million and The Hustle — nobody makes business more fun to learn from.

  • Aaron Francis

    Builds Solo and some of the best developer education on the internet.

  • Jesse Hanley

    Builds Bento solo and proves you can run great software the calm, indie way.

  • Dan Shipper

    Every — consistently the sharpest writing on actually building with AI.

  • Arvid Kahl

    Zero to Sold and The Embedded Entrepreneur — audience-first bootstrapping, taught generously.

  • Nathan Barry

    Built Kit into a category and showed creators how to build real businesses.

  • Jason Fried

    37signals — proof you can build a great, profitable company entirely on your own terms.

  • DHH

    Created Rails and keeps the whole industry honest about complexity.

  • Dave Gerhardt

    Made B2B marketing feel human. Runs Exit Five, the best B2B marketing community around.

  • Nick Gray

    Wrote the book on making friends (literally — The 2-Hour Cocktail Party) and dreamed up slashfriends. This page is his idea.

This is a /friends page, inspired by slashfriends.org and Nick Gray.