Founder Playbook
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“proof of work the concept is kind of taken from the crypto world and here in our context it means consistently and reliably creating things that other people find useful and then offering those things to these people for free sharing your work is the distribution of your thoughts and ideas”
Use "proof of work" as your distribution: ship useful free things on repeat
Reframe "build in public" as proof of work: a public, verifiable, repeated record of you producing things the target audience finds useful — for free. Templates, teardowns, replies, threads, mini-tools. Each artifact is a small block in a chain that proves you can do the thing, before anyone has to pay to find out.
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Arvid Kahl
The Bootstrapped FounderSolo essay arguing that for indie founders the only durable moat is founder-led distribution — "proof of work" through consistently helping the target community in public.
The Bootstrapped Founder
Proof of Work: How Indie Founders Build Defensible Businesses· 4:23