Founder Folks

What it does

Founder Folks features entrepreneurial stories: from the planning and launch phase, to the sustained growth of businesses across industries.

The ultimate platform for founders and aspiring entrepreneurs to find cofounders, secure funding, make meaningful connections, and hire top talent for their startup journey.

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  Founder Reports2024 · founderreports.com · ▲390

  In-depth interviews with founders and entrepreneurs

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  Founders at Work2015 · foundersatwork.com · ▲208

  Stories of successful founders

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  Founders Origin Stories2020 · flexiple.com · ▲129

  Learn from the life & origin stories of successful founders

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  Mixergy Startup Stories2015 · mixergy.com · ▲328

  Learn from 1000+ interviews including the Product Hunt story

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  Founder Folks2024 · founderfolks.com · ▲4

  Discover how people like you, launched their business

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  Starter Story 2.02022 · starterstory.com · ▲239

  Learn exactly how people are making money online

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  WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement▲287

  wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.

  Growth · 12d ago · wallhop.io

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  Prefer▲201

  The execution layer for AEO

  Growth · 23d ago · tryprefer.com

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  MakerMap▲197

  A living map of makers and what they’re building

  Growth · 27d ago · makermap.lol

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  I made an open-source laptop from scratch▲3,237

  Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop

  Dev tools · 2025 · byran.ee

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  Tetris in a PDF▲1,289

  I realized that the PDF engines of modern desktop browsers (PDFium and PDF.js) support JavaScript with enough I/O primitives to make a basic game like Tetris. It was a bit tricky to find a union of features that work in both engines, but in the end it turns out that showing/hiding annotation "fields" works well to make monochrome pixels, and keyboard input can be achieved by typing in a text input box. All in all it's quite janky but a nice reminder of how general purpose PDF scripting can be. The linked PDF is all ASCII so you can just open it in a text editor, or have a look at…

  Life & fun · 2025 · th0mas.nl

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  21st.dev▲1,211

  I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!

  Dev tools · 2025 · 21st.dev

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  JoggAI 2.0: AI Avatar Generator▲967

  Create lifelike, personalized AI avatars from text prompts

  AI · 2025 · jogg.ai

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  Lovable + Builder.io▲873

  Turn Figma designs into full stack apps with AI

  Dev tools · 2025 · figma.com

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  Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI▲819

  CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI.

  Life & fun · 2025 · cs16.samke.me