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If youโre running a $1M+ ARR SaaS and most of your work happens alone at a desk, TinySummit is for you.
Three days in Cancun with founders working through the same hiring and scaling problems. Accommodation, meals, and sessions all included.
Dec 5-7. Tickets close next week, apply ๐
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Our biggest @MicroConf Europe ever: 174 founders, 30+ countries, 30% doing $1M+ ARR.
@robwalling and @derrickreimer break down AI SEO, the moats that survive AI, and why disruption breeds opportunity for bootstrappers.
Ep 856 ๐
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Jacob Wright sells novel-writing software mostly to hobbyists. Dabble runs at 4% churn and has grown to nearly $2M ARR over nine years.
At MicroConf Europe 2026, Jacob explained the product principles behind it ๐งต
Hereโs how Dabble applies it:
โ Writers create chapters and scenes, not files and folders
โ Focus mode kicks in as soon as you type
โ The loading screen greets writers with a writing quote
โ Confetti fires when a writer hits a goal
Jacobโs rule is to think hard up front so your customers donโt have to later. AI can copy your features, but it canโt feel your usersโ pain.
If youโre deciding what to improve in your product next, watch the full 11-minute talk โถ๏ธ youtu.be/VKCvJwOKdio
MicroConf retweeted
A LOT of people have been asking when my MicroConf talk on SaaS moats would go live.
๐ฅ Itโs here, along with Einarโs talk.
Think of them as parts one and two of the same question: What makes a SaaS business defensible when AI makes software so easy to build?
Our first two talks from MicroConf Europe in Reykjavรญk are now out!
@robwalling covers which SaaS moats still hold up in the age of AI.
@einarvollset picks up from there: if anyone can copy your features in hours, where does defensibility come from?
Links in ๐งต:
MicroConf retweeted
Not really interested in SaaS but this talk by @robwalling from @MicroConf gives good insight abou the future of software and business around it
youtu.be/KpILHX2D-AA?is=UGn7โฆ
Our first two talks from MicroConf Europe in Reykjavรญk are now out!
@robwalling covers which SaaS moats still hold up in the age of AI.
@einarvollset picks up from there: if anyone can copy your features in hours, where does defensibility come from?
Links in ๐งต:
Next, @einarvollset: stop selling the tool, sell the outcome.
Move into labor budgets, and build a product with a learning loop that a newer frontier model canโt just catch up to.
He also gives five tests for a compounding AI worker.
youtu.be/81j1sV32Wng
Slides, Q&A, talk recordings and the Field Guide are all in one place:
microconf.com/moats
More Reykjavik videos to come over the next few weeks!
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๐ I'm taking pre-orders for my new book starting today:
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Since then, my books have sold more than 100,000 copies.
๐ค A lot has changed since 2010. AI lets you build software in an afternoon that once took months.
But it doesnโt stop you from building something nobody wants.
It just lets you do it faster.
๐ธ Finding a problem people will pay to solve. Talking to customers when youโd rather be coding. Getting strangers to give you money.
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So I wrote the book Iโd hand a founder starting from zero today:
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Derek Sivers wrote the foreword. His verdict:
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MicroConf Europe 2026 in Reykjavรญk, in 81 seconds.
Talks hit YouTube next Monday!
First up: @robwalling and @einarvollset on SaaS moats, and how to protect what you've built from AI and position your company to come out ahead.
Then SEO, Claude skills for marketing, and more.
Subscribe and you'll get notified the day each talk is released: youtube.com/@microconf?sub_cโฆ
MicroConf US Austin, Apr 18-20.
Positioning, copy, onboarding and scaling from:
- @asmartbear (WP Engine)
- Nick Francis (Help Scout)
- @copyhackers
- @apierriPMM (FletchPMM)
- @RamliJohn (Delight Path)
- @robwalling (@tinyseedfund)
Prices go up Friday! microconf.com/us-flagship
Most founders treat motivation as a feeling: do I feel like doing this today?
Clinical psychologist @drsherrywalling says it runs deeper. It's the drive that keeps you doing the reps regardless of how you feel.
Here's how she breaks it down ๐งต
The catch: your business needs different motivators as it grows.
Ben Chestnut started as a craftsperson, but it would have been hard to stay one all the way to Mailchimp's $12B exit.
When your daily work stops matching what drives you, that's where burnout takes seed.
Her fixes: hire people with different archetypes, feed your core drive outside the business, do the inner work, celebrate small wins, and protect your sleep.
If motivation has felt thin lately, the full talk is worth your time.
โถ๏ธ youtu.be/lw8ZrlqmKXQ
