I have a similar blog / newsletter on trying to bootstrap a software business called “Road to 10k MRR” :

writing.billprin.com

I’m definitely a huge fan of mtlynch and was very inspired by his transparency especially around year 2 when he was pretty far in without much working.

I’d also recommend Jon Yongfook who bootstrapped an image generation api for social media marketing to 50k as well. Tony Dinh is also a must read. I actually have a notion database with a bunch of other bootstrapped bloggers but on the go at the moment.

For communities, Indie Hackers is the best known one, though there’s many others, Microconf, smallbets , etc

Cory Zue writes about similar topics, and I draw a lot of inspiration from him:

https://www.coryzue.com/

Suket Karnawat also left Google to pursue a similar path, and he writes regular updates about his progress:

https://suketk.com/