About

Two guys who got
tired of paying rent
on software.

We're not developers. We're founders who spent six years each running growth at B2B startups. We watched our software bills climb from $50/month to $800/month while the tools didn't get better - just more expensive.

01

The story

Two years ago, our SaaS stack cost $847/month. Analytics, CRM, scheduling, email, social, support, automation - seven subscriptions, seven logins, seven monthly charges.

We found the open source alternatives. They were better than the paid tools. But the setup guides assumed we were developers. We aren't.

So we figured it out the hard way. Docker, docker-compose, environment variables, reverse proxies, SSL. We made every mistake. We broke things. We learned.

Then we wrote the guides we wished we'd had. Plain English. Real code. Honest about what's easy and what's a pain. And we opened them up, because doing this alone is miserable.

That's Growth Dudes. No course. No upsell. Just the guides, the tools, and a community of founders building the same thing.

02

What we believe

We reject
  • Per-seat pricing that punishes growth
  • Vendor lock-in that holds your data hostage
  • "Enterprise pricing" walls
  • Setup guides that assume you're a developer
  • The idea that open source is "good enough"
  • LTD marketplaces that sell lifetime deals on tools that disappear
We believe
  • Open source is often better than paid SaaS now
  • Your data belongs on your server
  • Setup guides should be honest about difficulty
  • Founders shouldn't need to be developers to self-host
  • $5-15/month can replace $200-800/month in SaaS
  • Community beats documentation every time
03

Get in touch

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