NDFounders

Quick Reads

• Why your plans stop working at week six (it's not you)April 17, 2026

  Let me guess: the last time you built a quarterly plan, it stopped working right around week six. Not dramatically, and not all at once. Just... quietly. Around week six or eight, the energy behind it changed. You were still doing the work, but the plan had started to feel

• "Slow growth" is the new minimalism.February 6, 2026

  How "soft life" creators use ableism and shame to force founders to slow down, lose their spark, and abandon themselves. A soft life is not morally superior to one filled with spontaneity, joy, creativity, and flow. Over the past several years, I've noticed a trend in content creation that prioritiz

• Most people think calm comes after things work. Here's what I found instead . . .January 16, 2026

  Editor's Note: This post is part of our "Build in Public" series, where some of our technical (and non-technical!) founders in The Commons share what the day-to-day reality of building a business is like. Today's post is from Breanne Dyck, co-founder of VisionaryOS - an app that helps CEOs think

• The 15-minute habit that replaces 5 meetingsJanuary 15, 2026

  I am a tab horder. It’s not unusual for me to have 5 different browser windows with 15-20 tabs each. ChatGPT. Slack. Google Sheets. Facebook. My calendar. And a Notion doc someone promised was “up to date.” I mean, it’s just how my brain works. And while it’

• Cursor, GitHub Codespace, and nano-SaaSJanuary 8, 2026

  Founders log, day three. Day two was filled with meetings, but I still found myself on the couch late at night working on both the nano-SaaS and micro-SaaS projects. While I had drafted much of what was needed for the nano-SaaS cohort in Solo School, I wanted to start building

• What If Your Business Had to Answer to Your Great-Great-Grandchildren?September 30, 2025

  The Commons and Solo School operate from the traditional unceded territory of the Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) peoples, who continue to live on and love this land today. On this day and always, we stand with the Indigenous peoples of Canada and call on

Deep Dives

• Neurodivergent founders struggle more. Research tells us whyJune 25, 2026

  I've talked to over 100 ND founders since 2021, and here's what I've learned about the pattern of struggle and the solutions right in front of us.

• You want to build AI tools for your business. Here's what you build first.April 13, 2026

  Know you want to use AI tools in your business but don't know where to start? An Anthropic Certified expert has some answers.

• Building in Public - My Journey into Micro- and Nano-SaaSJanuary 6, 2026

  Founders log, day one. Am I committing to daily? Absolutely not - my ADHD could never. But today marks day one of my build-in-public journey with micro- and nano-SaaS as a vibe coder with just enough knowledge to be dangerous (to myself, mostly.) These blogs will be my honest, and

• Everything should be indie.April 14, 2025

  I’m such a dinosaur, I remember the early days of the internet. Not like the ARPANET early days, I was a toddler. But back when digital commerce was just starting to be a thing. People used to fight for something called “net neutrality” - the idea that ISPs shouldn’

• How the tech bros stole your business.March 5, 2025

  When I was 17, I went to the computer store to buy a new PC. I had already been making some money freelancing as a copywriter, and I needed a better computer. So I walked into this store, and before we got to the PCs, I saw something that was

• Hunt and Gather Joy: A theory of neurodivergence, modern work, and what is possible.February 24, 2025

  There's a theory that many types of neurodivergence, particularly but not exclusively ADHD, are actually just adaptations that helped early humans function better in hunter + gatherer societies. The rationale goes, who would be better suited to hunt for game and forage for fruits and vegetables than

Punch Cards

• Every time my client roster is full, my marketing falls off a cliff.May 15, 2026

  Or, in other words, how my systems and capacity have failed to plan for the exact same scenario every month for 22 years. Back when I was freelancing and consulting, before I ever turned it into an agency, before I was ever diagnosed with ADHD, the only consistent thing about

• How we built a weekly planning tool for ADHD and autistic service providers — and what six weeks of testing taught us along the wayApril 20, 2026

  Every project management tool, every to-do list app, every productivity system starts the same way. Brain dump your tasks. Then, the assumption goes, you’ll sort through them and figure out what to work on. But here’s what fifteen years of working with ND founders taught us: the tasks

• Most people think calm comes after things work. Here's what I found instead . . .January 16, 2026

  Editor's Note: This post is part of our "Build in Public" series, where some of our technical (and non-technical!) founders in The Commons share what the day-to-day reality of building a business is like. Today's post is from Breanne Dyck, co-founder of VisionaryOS - an app that helps CEOs think

• Cursor, GitHub Codespace, and nano-SaaSJanuary 8, 2026

  Founders log, day three. Day two was filled with meetings, but I still found myself on the couch late at night working on both the nano-SaaS and micro-SaaS projects. While I had drafted much of what was needed for the nano-SaaS cohort in Solo School, I wanted to start building

• Building in Public - My Journey into Micro- and Nano-SaaSJanuary 6, 2026

  Founders log, day one. Am I committing to daily? Absolutely not - my ADHD could never. But today marks day one of my build-in-public journey with micro- and nano-SaaS as a vibe coder with just enough knowledge to be dangerous (to myself, mostly.) These blogs will be my honest, and