From open source side project to bootstrapped solo business | David Boyne @EventCatalog

About this episode

David Boyne discusses his journey from a senior AWS role to bootstrapping EventCatalog, an open-source documentation tool, achieving significant revenue and sustainability in a short time.

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/ , a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #15 of season 6, Anna Nadeina talks with David Boyne, founder of EventCatalog, an open-source documentation tool specifically designed for event-driven architectures (EDAs), allowing teams to document, visualize, and discover services, events, schemas, and producers/consumers. Dave Boyne left a senior AWS developer advocate role — the highest salary he'd ever earned — and jumped into bootstrapping with 12 months of runway, a self-hosted documentation tool, and no clear business model. Fourteen months later, Event Catalog has crossed $300K in revenue, and Dave reached personal sustainability in just 8 months. In this episode: → Why Dave chose a self-hosted license key model over SaaS — and why it made procurement 10x easier → How he reached sustainability in 8 months without raising a single dollar → His AI-powered content and coding workflows as a solo founder → The post-sale mistake he almost didn't catch: ignoring renewals while chasing new sales → Why he raised prices twice —…

People in this episode

Host: Anna Nadeina

Guest: David Boyne

Topics covered

• bootstrapping
• open source
• event-driven architectures
• sustainability
• pricing strategy
• LinkedIn marketing

Keywords

• bootstrapped business
• self-hosted license
• revenue growth
• AI workflows
• LinkedIn trust building

Sponsors

saas.group

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EventCatalog, AWS

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