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.