I run Idin Studio, a small software studio, and Inviboo, a digital invitation product. Neither has outside funding. In October 2026 I applied to a handful of startup programs to find out which ones a bootstrapped team can actually get into. Five said yes.

Each one has a full guide in my Playbook , with the receipts and the steps I took. This is the short version.

The five

AWS Activate , Founders tier. I applied for Inviboo on 22 Oct and AWS approved it the next day: USD 1,000 in credits until October 2028.

Claude for Startups . Anthropic accepted Idin Studio on 9 Oct: USD 1,000 in API credits and a year of Claude Team. Applications are closed for now.

Cloudflare for Startups . I applied on 10 Oct and the credits went live on 17 Oct: USD 10,000 for a year.

PostHog for Startups . Accepted on 10 Oct, the day I applied: USD 50,000 in credits for twelve months.

Sentry for Startups .…