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Nomination created on July 24, 2026

hi. i create things. prev founder @_buildspace.

Every week I interview bootstrapped SaaS Founders making between $100k-$10M a year to steal their playbook. So you and I can make it.
Farza Majeed is the founder of buildspace, the YC- and a16z-backed program that grew to hundreds of thousands of builders and gave millions of people a place to ship their first projects. He offers a rare, candid perspective on building at scale and then walking away, having voluntarily shut buildspace down in August 2024 despite two years of runway and a path to multi-million-dollar revenue. For a profitability-focused audience, his story reframes success beyond growth metricsβcovering fundraising, community building, and knowing when to stop.
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Jul 24, 2026
π Nomination created: Farza founded and scaled buildspace before closing it in 2024, giving him a hard-won builder's perspective that fits Profitable Founder's mission of unpacking how bootstrapped SaaS founders actually make it.
Jul 24, 2026
π‘ Why now: With buildspace wound down in 2024, Farza has been shipping small solo AI-assisted tools in 2025, exactly the lean, bootstrapped-builder mode Profitable Founder digs into each week.
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Why Their Voice Would Be Valuable
As the archetypal profitable solo-founder behind Nomad List and Photo AI, he embodies the $100kβ$10M bootstrapped-SaaS success story the podcast celebrates and Farza has publicly admired in the build-in-public scene.
MicroConf & TinySeed Cofounder
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Cofounder of MicroConf and TinySeed, he built the bootstrapped-SaaS founder ecosystem and regularly champions profitable, self-funded founders β the precise niche of Profitable Founder's guests.
Indie Hackers Founder
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Founder of Indie Hackers, the largest community of bootstrapped founders sharing revenue playbooks, he is a direct conduit to the maker/SaaS audience that would find a Farza-on-Profitable-Founder episode compelling.
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