What happens to your business if you get hit by a bus tomorrow?
Not trying to sound morbid, but if I were a solo founder this is something I’d genuinely be thinking about lately.
The “bus factor” concept is interesting. Basically: how many people need to disappear for a project or company to completely stop functioning?
For most indie hackers, the answer is probably one.
That one is you.
If something suddenly happened:
customers still get charged
servers keep running
subscriptions renew
nobody knows passwords
nobody knows where anything is hosted
your family probably has no clue where to even start
I recently read an article relating this on foundersbar.com and it honestly made me think harder about business continuity for solo founders:
https://foundersbar.com/articles-and-research/bus-factor-explained-silent-startup-killer
Feels like every founder should probably have:
password/document access instructions
billing shutdown steps
important contacts
basic business financials
simple “if this happens, do this” documentation
Apparently this only takes a few hours to set up, yet most of us completely ignore it.
Curious how many people here actually have a plan for this?
The naming risk shows up there too.
“foundersbar” is clear enough for content.
It works for the article layer.
But the second this becomes a real continuity product, the name starts anchoring it too casually for what is basically operational risk infrastructure.
The problem is not founder content.
It is business survivability.
That wants a name with more weight behind it.
Davoq.com would carry that much better if this moves from founder media into actual continuity infrastructure.