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A new State of Independent SaaS report, based on surveys of nearly 700 mostly bootstrapped founders, highlights several counterintuitive trends for 2024. Companies with three co‑founders show notably higher month‑over‑month growth than solo founders or duos, while teams of four or more see a drop in growth efficiency. The share of SaaS firms requiring a credit card to start a free trial has edged down to about 71% after peaking at 78%, reflecting renewed interest in opt‑out trials and freemium models. Founders weigh the tradeoff between higher‑quality trialers (credit card required) and broader feedback and pipeline benefits (no card/freemium).
In a hands‑on tutorial, StatQuest walks through building a decoder‑only Transformer (the architecture behind ChatGPT) from scratch in PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning. The video covers creating a minimal token vocabulary and dataset for two prompt–response pairs, mapping tokens to IDs,...
