Everything about Bootstrappable builds

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Bootstrappable buildsA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Bootstrapper's success secretsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Go sideways: Bootstrapping (compilers)A closely related topic
4. Go sideways: List of software package management systemsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

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📚 Books worth reading

• Bootstrapper's success secretsKimberly Stansell · 1997
• The bootstrapper's bibleSeth Godin · 1998
• 📕43 Bootstrapper's Business IdeasJason Scotts · 2014

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