Head of AI at Clay • prev avenue.app (YC W21) @amazon @pennmandt
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Everyone hates their competitors. But do you have the courage to hate your customers?
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Too early to tell, but I think one of the major contributions OpenAI is making is conditioning users to pay $20/mo for premium consumer software
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The idea that London is a more important financial center is laughable, especially post-Brexit
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Today, I'm happy to share that the company I've been working on for the past year (@UseAvenue) with @JustinBleuel just raised $4M to bring best-in-class observability practices and tooling to operations teams.
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I built textblast.app/ today. Just a simple app to send out an SMS to a group of people!
Tools I used:
🚀 @Netlify for hosting
📐 @reactjs for Frontend Framework
🏖 @tailwindcss for styling
📲 @twilio for SMS
🔑 @UserbaseHQ by @dvassallo for auth && user data
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hey can everyone stop using Sonnet for 30 minutes?
trying to do a demo and would love the extra bandwidth, thanks!
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Went to go buy something online. Got through the entire checkout flow and almost bailed when I saw the ~7% sales tax.
Then I saw I got almost the same amount back in bitcoin from @trylolli — so I went for it.
Is this the free market at work?.. 😳
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What if I told you the bartender was actually 2 MIT grads who built an algorithm to match you with wine.
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It’s not a perfect comparison (especially since subscribing is free so doesn’t necessarily indicate high interest / loyalty), but it is shocking how no one gives him any credit for what is essentially a one-man media empire.
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Just switched analytics over to @usefathom - this is so nice.
Didn't realize that it has unlimited website uptime monitoring included!
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👋 I'm hiring full-stack engineers! Come worth with us in building incident response for operations teams 🙂
We send tens of thousands of alerts per week and work with great customers & investors.
Come build a top-tier engineering culture from Day 0!
notion.so/useavenue/Software…
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I just tried to go watch Netflix but Chrome autocompleted me to Netlify instead. Now working on my projects deployed there.
This is the kind of energy I want going into 2020.
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Timescale quickly entering the competition for best engineering blog (though Cloudflare still reigns supreme 🙂)
1/ Announcing Function Pipelines 🚀 a new capability that introduces functional programming concepts inside PostgreSQL (and SQL) using custom operators.
A thread on why we built this and how it improves developer productivity and code legibility👇
tsdb.co/function-pipelines
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Blessed and honored to work with my childhood friend @JustinBleuel.
We are just getting started!
Today I'm excited to share that avenue.so has raised $4M to bring observability and incident response to ops teams
Here is our vision & what we'll focus on next: avenue.so/blog/seed-announce…
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Just hit a revenue milestone that’s been a long time in the works. Very proud of the work we’ve been doing at @UseAvenue.
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This is why, anecdotally, I'm afraid unemployment will be stickier than people hope.
A lot of these layoffs were just realigning cost structures to be more in line with value.
Long-term thats probably a really good thing, but bad short-term shock to the system.
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🎉 Avenue.so Wrapped 2021 🎉
👯 Team of 7 in-person in NYC
🚨 Hundreds of thousands of alerts sent
📈 Raised a $4mm seed round from Accel
Excited for 2022 - more updates otw!
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We're hiring for a frontend engineer to work on the AI team at Clay! Help us build agents, a great prompting experience, and many other delightful AI experiences.
DMs are open.
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“They feed off @ replies, so blocking reduces spread”
#StopTheSpread
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Suborbital is one of the best and coolest products we use @UseAvenue. We get to avoid feature-creep and enable highly custom use cases by letting customers write code directly in our app.
The future of SaaS is extensible.
"Suborbital gives us peace of mind in sales conversations."
Take a look at how @UseAvenue is using SE2's #WebAssembly plugins to make their business intelligence platform more flexible by giving their users the power of code.
blog.suborbital.dev/case-stu…
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I'm surprised there aren't more "Github for X" companies for things that aren't purely software. Like "Github for movie-editing" or "Github for book-writing".
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System design is mostly about figuring out what state is required and where the source of truth should be.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single…
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Bottle of 1942 at a nice club $2,500
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Great negotiation in general involves more transparency than one might expect! Feels more like collaboration than adversarial.
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Eventually we'll all be building job boards for people applying to jobs at companies that build job boards.
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So much respect for engineering teams that can consistently make every interaction 50ms or less. This shit's fucking hard.
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Excited to demo some of the things we’ve been working on!
On Monday (June 9th) we're featuring @clay_gtm, @withgraphite, @hebbia and Moment for an evening of eng demos and light bites. Join us!
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Cursor and Claude Code have really made creating addictive again. I feel like I'm playing a video game.
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I’ve been really inspired by @jsngr’s @recreatecode series in SwiftUI, so I decided to join in on the fun 🤩
I built out the recording view from Voice Memos 📝
Writeup coming soon. For now, I uploaded a recording of building it out!
Video: piped.video/SR2xxO5R6pk
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Just got a demo of the latest @SuborbitalDev beta - this is incredible stuff. Really excited for the future of WebAssembly.
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Heroku really could have continued to define and own all of the developer experience for the past decade. Instead it’s turned into this.
The good news is a whole wave of innovative companies like @render, @Railway_App, @getporterdev have an opportunity to win now.
Over a year ago we signed a @Salesforce Enterprise contract for @Heroku. Since then we're experiencing a real nightmare.
🧵 A distressing thread
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Haven't been this excited in a long time. And it's only partly because of the Kanye album on Friday.
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If anyone wants to work at a company where an M1 Max MBP is a given...
avenue.so/careers
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Excited for Clay to counter the trend of AI companies opening Soho offices and instead open an office in the heart of San Francisco.
📍 We've just dropped our pin: in San Francisco! 🌉
Our 2nd office will be in the bay area and we're hiring!
Want to hang with the team IRL and build great stuff while doing it?
Apply for our open roles (in SF) here!
clay.com/jobs
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The whole push around reinforcement learning for making great coding models presupposes that reviewing code is easier than writing code. From experience, I don't think that's a given.
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One of my favorite tools right now. Just launched v2.0.
producthunt.com/posts/porter…
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Still shocking to me that Apple allows this given their stances on pretty much everything else (not that I disapprove of it).
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I was just thinking about this today as well. Saw an image a while back, making the point that unlike hermit crabs, turtles really *are* their shell, not just in them.
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You know that feeling that no matter how hard you try to be good at Twitter, there's always someone who is significantly better than you?
That's Ken.
Absolutely not. By 2050 the current political parties will be obsolete and their successors, originating from "CommunistHypeHouse" and "FazeClanButRedPilled" will have selected current TikTokers "kawaiimarxistleninist" and "basedtradchadnamedbrad" as their presidential nominees.
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