SPUR x Bootstrapital: Bootstrapping as a Service

Howdy folks! I'm Chris, the founding partner of a venture studio called Bootstrapital. I am pleased to share our first launch here with the Product Hunt community -- a ~daily staple for me for almost a decade. I have been attempting (and occasionally succeeding at!) startups for even longer[1], and after a small exit of a bootstrapped SaaS product[2] I delved into the venture-backed world for a few years to get the rocketship experience. Today, I talk with lots of founders who face a common chicken-and-egg problem: > they fail to ever get their great ideas off the ground because they can't build a product so they try to raise money to build a team > but they can't raise money to hire engineering talent because they don't have a product/traction We also know that most startups won't receive venture funding -- but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't exist. Even with no code tools, figuring out what to build and how can be daunting, especially if you're coming from the periphery of tech or lack access to a network of people in the space. We are building Bootstrapital, and a Modern Venture Stack, to solve this problem. We believe there's a fundamental approach to building ventures that is repeatable[3] and will yield high-growth businesses for founders who have varying ideas of what success looks like (and for many, it doesn't require becoming a unicorn). That brings us to SPUR. SPUR is a pilot program of sorts. We're bootstrapping Bootstapital (very meta) before we raise our fund and would love to work with 4 or 5 founders to help us polish our tooling and playbook. For example, a foundational part of our platform is an app development framework called Slender Stack -- imagine Ruby on Rails for No Code -- that we want to put to the test. To that end, we're offering 50% off our core build+launch service to anyone from this community who'd like to be a part of fleshing this out (and getting your product to market)!