I was thinking of postimg this.
It was a good one. I love when podcasts go beyond the tech and subject matter and discuss their quirks and personality. Opens a window into another person's mind and processes.

I liked the staunch defense of jQuery haha. There's a lesson there.

Edit: also him being suspicious of frameworks being aggressively pushed and the "framework armies" getting so mad because he just uses PHP

Me after listening to it:
![](https://m.stacker.news/50325)

nichro

builders

Pieter is a bootstrap software company builder, [indie hacking](https://www.indiehackers.com/), GOAT. He's built several multimillion dollar software businesses without funding after teaching himself to code. His software stack is incredibly naive, single-file [pgp](https://www.php.net/) apps written without frameworks and backed by an embedded sqlite database, demonstrating that software value is independent of sophisticated engineering. 

Whether you aspire to raise money or not, there's a lot ~builders can learn from Pieter. Notably: [failing fast](https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/), [doing things that don't scale](https://paulgraham.com/ds.html), and charging money early to prove you're providing value.