Ask HN: What is your favorite example of a bootstrapped online business?

Mike Perham and Sidekiq[0]. Been a long time user of his work and recently read an interview he had on Indie Hackers[1] last year that was very inspiring. Keep it up, Mike!

[0]: http://sidekiq.org [1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq

Plenty Of Fish

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/business/13digi.html

http://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture

I constantly go back to that and am just amazed at how much he did with so little.

I'm pretty sure Mailchimp is 100% bootstrapped, which is an impressive achievement for a freemium offering.