Ask HN: successful, transparent bootstrappers?

Hey HN,

I'm currently digging into case studies on how to do startups in the bootstrapping way; and so I turn to the nice HN community: what other blogs fits into the criteria?

Definitions:

successful: $1k/month at minimum

transparent: blog describing the internal business process of creating the startup

bootstrapper: no external investment

The ones I know of:

http://www.balsamiq.com/blog -balsamiq mockups

http://www.kalzumeus.com/ -patrick -bingo card creator (and others)

http://pluggio.com/blog/ -Pluggio (was: tweetminer)

Who else would fit into this criteria?

There are quite a few successful bootstrappers on The Business of Software forum:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz

Would you mind linking a few examples, by pointing to their revenue confession posts?

I believe that fleaflicker.com was done by a single, bootstrapped founder. It was acquired by AOL. The founder, Ori Schwartz, did write some on Reddit (where I heard about this) and likely elsewhere.

An older story was Bob Parson's development of his tax software company, which was acquired by Intuit for 64 million. He's quite transparent about it, to say the least.

I'm a single-founder, bootstrapped, successful (by your definition - my monthly revenue has ranged from $2.5k to $13k since launch) startup founder. I don't, however, have a public blog about how I run or started the business. It's not that I'm trying to hide it, I just don't have a blog. My site is http://www.dkpsystem.com (Hosting for MMO guilds). Woo self-promo.

A while back (over a year), I had a reasonably open discussion about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423249

I'm not afraid to discuss just about any internal operation I do with my business, I just don't have a blog yet. I started one a while back, but never really updated it.