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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hey we didn't talk about WordPress this week!  But we did talk about Elon... Also:  Brian's working on a components product (instrumental.dev), Jordan's figuring out onboarding (heyrosie.com), and Brian's starting to scale consulting (onemonth.app).

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Today:

Brian's new product (Instrumental.dev).  Comparing the open-source leadership styles of Matt, DHH, and Taylor.  Building products for builders.  Components.  Tightening the team.  Scaling consulting from 1 to...?  Let's Go Mets.

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