Bootstrapped founders on Twitter to follow
Here are some of the best bootstrapped founders on Twitter to follow. If you want more followers on Twitter, find the best people to follow. One of the first things I do as a Twitter /X ghost writer is to make sure my clients are following and engaging with the top founders on Twitter.
Tony Dinh
Tony created a lot of Twitter tools under the BlackMagic brand until he sold it to HypeFury for $186,000 in 2023. He is now working on an AI writing tool, Typing Mind.
Nathan Barry
Nathan is the founder of ConvertKit, an email marketing software tool popular with lots of bloggers and content creators. Even Arnie uses ConvertKit! Nathan made enough from selling e-books on writing content to fund ConvertKit in the early days. It now makes tens of millions of dollars in revenue per year.
Jason Cohen
Jason has made millions from his WP Engine SaaS. His 2013 talk 'How to make the ideal bootstrapper business' is one of my favourite business presentations of all time!
Marie Martens
Marie is the co-founder of Tally Forms, a bootstrapped Typeform alternative. I actually use this myself and it has a lot more features at a cheaper price point. They reached $4m ARR in 2025.
Olly Meakings
Olly is the co-founder of Senja, a testimonial SaaS which is making $70k MRR as of June 2025. He is an expert marketer, having previously worked on Roast My Landing Page, a 1:1 video service to help people make better marketing websites.
Charlie Ward
Charlie runs the Ramen Space online community and co-working space in London. He posts a lot about the UK and London founder scenes, as well as building communities.
Alex West
Alex runs CyberLeads, a cold leads business. He’s been growing fast to $40k MRR in 2 years and saw a big jump in revenue since adding a service of writing cold emails instead of only supplying founders with leads. Alex is a nomad and travels a lot. He is a big advocate of making a lifestyle business which first and foremost improves your own life.
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Tara Reed
Tara runs appswithoutcode, a business which teaches people not only how to build without code but also how to market and sell their business as well. Tara was making $3m a year when she was interviewed by IndieHackers in 2020 and I’d expect it to be a lot higher than that now! She also buys and grows businesses.
Courtland Allen
The founder of the highly influential Indie Hackers website, Courtland is a great authority on starting a bootstrapped business. Today Courtland runs Indie Hackers along with his brother Channing - they both also co-host the Indie Hackers podcast.
Jon Yongfook
Jon is a founder who has seen a lot of success with his Bannerbear product which helps people make social media images automatically from a template. At the time of writing he is making $50k MRR. He started it after doing a 12 startups in 12 months challenge.
Pete Codes
Yeah, I added myself to my own list. I'm the founder of No CS Degree, where I interview developers who are self-taught or went to coding bootcamp. I also run the High Signal newsletter for indie startup news. I mostly tweet about bootstrapping, newsletters, learning to code, and being a Twitter ghost writer.
Julian Canlas
Julian is the founder of Embarque, a productized SEO agency which provides founders with blog articles in order to rank quicker and better. Julian has grown Embarque to $610,000 in annual revenue in under two years! He frequently shares tips on SEO and building an agency.
Randall Kanna
Randall Kanna is a bootcamp-trained developer who has sold many successful products aimed at people entering the tech field for the first time. She specialises in selling courses and other info products. Randall is also building SimpleCopy, in order for people to write blog posts faster.
Arvid Kahl
Arvid is a German founder who c0-founded FeedbackPanda, an app for English teachers to give feedback to their students. Him and his wife grew the business to $50k MRR before selling it for a 'life changing amount of money'. Nowadays Arvid has an active Twitter, YouTube and podcast as he dispenses advice to bootstrapped founders.
Rob Walling
Rob is the host of the long-running podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us. He is also the co-creator of the TinySeed accelerator for bootstrapped founders.
Marc Köhlbrugge
Marc is a prolific founder, having created websites like the directory Beta List, the job board Startup Jobs, the WIP community and many more. He has also made the free Build in Public site which scrapes Twitter for mentions of the #BuildInPublic hashtag.
Jakob Greenfeld
Jakob runs the excellent Business Brainstorms newsletter, which is one of the few emails I open regularly.
Phil McParlane
Phil is a fellow Scottish entrepreneur and developer who makes the job board 4dayweek.io. He’s a big supporter of the shift towards a 4 day week. Phil also shares lots of great SEO tips from growing 4dayweek as a solo founder.
James Ivings
James is the co-founder of LeaveMeAlone, an email subscription service which respects your privacy by not scraping your inbox for data. Instead, you can buy credits to remove email subscriptions you no longer want. James shares interesting updates about building LeaveMeAlone, coding and travelling with his partner and co-founder Danielle.
CH Daniel
CH Daniel runs several businesses along with his brother. Together they have sold several startups for six figures. They also run the excellent r/saas/ sub-reddit.
Amar Ghose
Amar is an American founder and digital nomad. He is the co-founder of ZenMaid, a niche SaaS for maid service owners, which makes over $3m annually. Amar’s strengths lie primarily in marketing and strategy and you’ll get lots of great tips on these topics from his Twitter.
Rodrigo Rocco
Rodrigo runs JobBoardSearch, a directory of job board websites. He posts a lot about the job board industry, marketing and making a lifestyle business.
