Hey! Back in your feed for our bi-annual updates! It's December 2025 and that means it's time for our year-end recap and year-ahead outlook.

What Jordan's up to:

• Rosie
• Offiste Podcast
• Jordan on X

What Brian's up to:

• Builder Methods
• YouTube
• Agent OS & Design OS
• Panel Podcast
• Brian on X

We're back for a mid-year update!

The last time we were on the mics together it was January 2025. So what's the outlook 8 months into the year?

What we're working on:

• Jordan's in rocket ship mode on Rosie.
• Brian's building Builder Methods and YouTubing.

Don't be a stranger!

• Jordan on X: @jordangal
• Brian on X: @casjam

We're still podcasting here:

• Jordan's: Offsite
• Brian's: The Panel

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Keep your Bootstrapped Web feed! We'll pop back in here again soon(ish).

It's true. We're calling this a final episode—for now—but don't unsubscribe! We promise to pop into the feed every few months to catch up :)

But for now, we're taking a breather and staying focused on executing our businesses in 2025: Jordan's crankin on Rosie, Brian's building Instrumental Products.

Don't be a stranger!

Connect with Jordan:

• Follow Jordan on Bluesky / Twitter
  
• Rosie

Connect with Brian:

• Follow Brian on Bluesky / Twitter
• Instrumental Products
• Instrumental.dev - Components for Rails
• Clarityflow

Subscribe to Brian's new podcast with Justin Jackson: The Panel

2024 look-back and takeaways. 2025 goals. Let's go!

Connect with Brian:

• Follow Brian on Bluesky / Twitter
• Brian's products:
  • Building! Instrumental.dev
  • Instrumental Products
  • Clarityflow

Connect with Jordan:

• • Follow Jordan on Bluesky / Twitter
    
  • Jordan's company, Rosie

Bluesky takes. Activation funnels. Retention. Delegating. Demo videos. Video marketing. Sick vacations.

Connect with Jordan:

• Follow Jordan on Bluesky / Twitter
  
• Jordan's company, Rosie

Connect with Brian:

• Follow Brian on Bluesky / Twitter
• Brian's products:
  • Building! Instrumental.dev
  • "One Month MVP" service
  • Clarityflow

Putting in more hours to put in less. Building systems for delivering software. Deploying demo video(s). Listening to customers. Using a business to deepen your craft. News detox.

Connect with Brian:

• Follow Brian on Bluesky / Twitter
• Brian's products:
  • Building! Instrumental.dev
  • "One Month MVP" service
  • Clarityflow

Connect with Jordan:

• • Follow Jordan on Bluesky / Twitter
    
  • Jordan's company, Rosie

Bluesky is having a moment. Halloween. Customers telling us their problems are solved. Essential onboarding. Calm before the (hiring) storm. Projects are waiting. The podcasting election.

Bluesky starter packs to follow:

• Founders & Bootstrappers
• Podcasters
• Ruby on Rails People
• Laravel Friends
  

Connect with Jordan:

• • Follow Jordan on Twitter
    
  • Jordan's company, Rosie

Connect with Brian:

• • Follow Brian on Bluesky / Twitter
  • Brian's products:
    • Building! Instrumental.dev
    • "One Month MVP" service
    • Clarityflow

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Today:

Political noise. Removing features. Positioning. Products for developers. Idea wireframes (as a service). Hiring a video editor. Retainer-based hiring. Frequent flyer miles. Apple picking.

Brian's stuff:

• Brian's products:
  • New! Instrumental.dev
  • "One Month MVP" service
  • Clarityflow
• Brian on Twitter: @casjam
  

Jordan's stuff:

• Jordan's product, Rosie
• Jordan on Twitter: @jordangal