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Tony Ennis

@tonyennis

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Building software teams & mobile apps Prev: Built a bank in Asia YC S21

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May 17 @Bento @tailwindcss Hey guys! If you’re looking a lightweight tool to manage said copy and marketing pages, check us out 😁 @andrewculver can vouch for us - https://t.co/GBRVc1USZS https://t.co/euSqUusZag 2 0 0 0 204 .
May 16 @Shpigford @BankMercury @discord @AutocodeHQ 2 0 0 0 44 .
May 14 The Philippines has 100k 10-100 employee SMEs. I remember visiting some in the early days of @firstcircleph, seeing twenty-somethings starting to use @airtable at their family business, thinking about how many saas services (30+) we were using as a startup and doing the math 🤯 0 0 0 0 277 .
May 14 To add to this, what % of these SMBs currently use internet software to run their business? What % will eventually? Recurring revenue B2B saas, as a business model and industry, is still *very early*. https://t.co/T0IyYiEnnG 4 0 0 0 224 .
May 13 @thekitze Love this! Very similar to Mercury OS by @jasonyuandesign . Do you have ADHD by any chance? https://t.co/tHvg99nhsf https://t.co/5sKdBH4kwS 3 0 0 0 149 .
May 11 @excid3 @joemasilotti Great work! To clarify, is this based on a new green field rails app template or can I use my existing rails app? 1 0 0 0 135 .
May 01 Here's a quick one I drafted up for my favourite stack - https://t.co/QYPNoU9aF7 0 0 0 0 80 .
May 01 Love this from @jorenrui - super neat way to construct "learning paths" out of the huge amount of educational content that exists but is scattered across different platforms. Also super impressive product that was built as a side-project - slick design, great ux, super fast 🔥🔥 https://t.co/giJwMNPqTC 7 0 0 0 301 .
Apr 29 Love this from @cdcwatson - smart way to strike the right balance of the quantitative and the qualitative when figuring out what to build next. https://t.co/faynnsrR30 https://t.co/lOCAl5kgZ3 4 1 0 0 192 .
Apr 28 @joemasilotti 👋 Long time rails person, currently building @editmodelabs 0 0 0 0 72 .
Apr 24 @fplaza Probably my first pick so far also. VSCode up there too. 1 0 0 0 64 .
Apr 24 What is the software platform with the best approach to extensions and plugins - ie. the best balance of extensibility vs end-user experience? Eg: Wordpress - Low barriers to write plugins, known for bad end-user-experience Apple: High barriers to write apps but good end-user 2 0 0 0 277 .
Apr 23 @NoCodeLuc @loom @yac 1 0 0 0 21 .
Apr 20 @patriciamou_ @rabbitholes_ @airtable @atlas_knowledge @patriciamou_ we also have some stuff planned that seems like it would add value to @rabbitholes_ such as shared topics (allow your audience/circle to submit links to your collection w/ approval) and a bunch more. Would love to show you around if you're interested 😁 1 0 0 0 323 .
Apr 20 @patriciamou_ @rabbitholes_ @airtable I may be slightly hijacking the original point of your thread here so apologies😬 This is sweet! And I was using @airtable exactly like this, but wanted something more custom, so I built @atlas_knowledge. It works very similarly but goes a bit further 😁 https://t.co/MEz6aK07AV 1 0 0 0 315 .
Apr 19 What are some examples of horizontal/bundled products that came to be because their creator was at the intersection of multiple fields/specialties/industries and noticed similarities between them that could be condensed into a single tool/product/concept? 0 0 0 0 255 .
Apr 18 @AliAbdaal Have found @ComposeIm great for this - lets you batch WhatsApp similar to Superhuman 1 0 0 0 95 .
Apr 16 One tool to rule them all. Who's building it? https://t.co/lGCmAym4Uq 0 0 0 0 69 .
Apr 14 RT @sarahe145: Day 13 #30DayChartChallenge | Prompt - 'correlation' An informative plot today, visualising the relationship between minimu… 0 0 0 0 140 .
Apr 14 @dhh You’re diluting your point by being overly hyperbolic here - those kinds of apps, whilst not medical-grade, are also not scams - they’re not generating a random number to trick you into thinking they’re actually measuring something, which is what the tweet implies 1 0 0 0 269 .
Apr 13 I feel like there’s huge opportunity here. I’m an edge case now but post-pandemic I’d guess there’ll be a lot more people who’ll get fed up sinking time and energy to comply with infrastructure that wasn’t designed for them. Not just banking. https://t.co/0W1dLY9uXg 1 0 0 0 266 .
Apr 13 Let me qualify that “avoid” up there 👆. If you’re “inside the happy path”, - single company/employer, single fixed abode, you’re probably safe w/ @RevolutApp . If you’re self-employed/nomadic in any way, don’t risk it 0 0 0 0 217 .
Apr 13 I’ve been paying $17/month for @RevolutApp precisely to avoid customer service nightmares like this. Complete marketing fluff - if your account gets restricted the “priority support” is “please wait an indefinite amount of time, I cannot do anything” https://t.co/8VtGvtR3yb 0 1 0 0 274 .
Apr 13 This is turning into the kind of nightmare you hear happening with PayPal. “Your account is restricted, we can’t tell you why, or when it will be unrestricted” Being treated like a criminal despite being a paying customer for 2 years. Strongly recommend avoiding @RevolutApp https://t.co/3XPDg6mfI6 https://t.co/p4HIMyKR8z 4 1 0 0 322 .
Apr 11 I can see Cloudflare Workers becoming a much more common part of the average stack. I built my first one a month ago and have since deployed 5 more - there’s *so* much you can do with them once you get the basics down. https://t.co/9SKkl8MKc2 9 1 0 0 242 .
Apr 02 @fplaza @RevolutApp Example: I submitted docs in November. They didn’t action anything. This week my payments stopped arriving. No sign in the app, no notification. Only way to get a response is publicly tagging on Twitter. So bad https://t.co/5r1bauQTBx 0 0 0 0 254 .
Apr 02 @fplaza @RevolutApp https://t.co/CCFYpT3V8x 1 0 0 0 43 .
Apr 02 @fplaza @RevolutApp Depends. Sometimes you get a response. Other times it can be days. The product is excellent when you don’t need customer support. But as soon as you need to speak to someone it’s really bad. Customer support is not their focus 1 0 0 0 246 .
Apr 02 @RevolutApp Followed 0 0 0 0 20 .
Apr 02 .@RevolutApp how do I get in touch with a human? No response in app or on Twitter, and my incoming payments are not arriving. I’m a paying customer, can you please assist? 0 0 0 0 171 .
Mar 30 @yongfook Nice! Did you use something like swagger blocks to generate the openAPI spec? 0 0 0 0 87 .
Mar 24 @shawnpmurphy8 @Conaw @RoamResearch @roamhacker Hey @shawnpmurphy8 thanks for your work on this! Is there any way to set a default filter that's applied *before* clicking into one of the column filters? (similar to how queries work). 2 0 0 0 233 .
Mar 23 Are there many personal websites (as opposed to public graphs/books/digital gardens) built completely within Roam? @Conaw 2 0 0 0 121 .
Mar 22 @avdi @evernote Hey Avdi, building something in this space if you’d like to check it out 😁 https://t.co/tptkhicMUg 0 0 0 0 116 .
Mar 22 . @riveravictor is building Lambda for 🇵🇭. We’ve hired one Lambda grad and two @AvionSchool grads. Positive vibes are very much warranted. 🙌 And they’re just getting started. https://t.co/9gFyY5m8ht 13 0 0 0 201 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/9aO8gIYp4N "Will then move to drones that can operate independently in public airspace, and then, ultimately, those passenger-carrying aircraft" 👆 Usually would be skeptical of this, but they've already shipped science-fiction-level products. 2 0 0 0 257 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/zNzBsW1Lry - % of software that runs in a browser: large now, much larger in future. - Speed of browser-based software: still slow on average. - Opportunity: All knowledge workers, maybe all internet users (each spending ~8 hours/day in browser): TAM = 🤯 5 0 0 0 269 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/uAeyWmhDpA I'm not sold on the jamstackification-of-everything that's happening right now, but rails-for-javascript is a 💯 goal, and @flybayer seems (from a distance) to be nailing the most important stuff - positioning, dev rel, community. 3 0 0 0 254 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/7AjyL0LZ9r - Modern web development is bifurcating & the now-dominant frontend-first world is missing a lot of ORM/database tooling. - Go-to-market positioning = "Firebase alternative". Smart to anchor to current solution but future roadmap (& TAM) is much wider. 2 0 0 0 285 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/Fv8eGJ89UG Haven't used this yet, but: - Making data usable currently requires huge resources. Their "Activity Schema" approach = concept compression that (in theory) makes this 10x quicker & more accessible. - Applicable to ∞ businesses, not just startups. 2 0 0 0 275 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/PPB6Xhfenk ✨ - Building software, present: Write locally, beam to cloud, like MS word. Multiplayer = 😩. - Future: Write in browser, always in sync, like google docs. - Long term behaviour change challenge so goal = don't die. Starting w/ education = smart GTM. 2 1 0 0 274 .
Mar 17 Thread of companies/products/people (various stages) I'm long on, and why. Will be interesting to look back in 5 years. (✨ = past/present paying user) 👇 17 0 0 0 153 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/6iDfEmrEPE ✨ (+) Every biz (not just tech) eventually needs central source of truth for customer data. Either build a platform (salesforce) or build the routing layer. (-) Competing with Segment 1 0 0 0 209 .
Mar 17 https://t.co/L0QpM9oA6F ✨ Designing software, present: Draw elements -> export pixels -> convert to code -> connect to data/backend. Designing software, future: Draw elements -> export code -> connect to data/backend. More here: https://t.co/ZLsojDnRYN 7 2 0 0 270 .
Mar 09 @realdavidlobo @ModernAfflatus @whit4th @ojabowalola @dominiconorton @BobbyThakkar @karanbhangui @JelmerPe @marcusustwo 👋 3 0 0 0 121 .
Feb 26 Random anecdote: I've spoken to more than one founder recently who has strongly considered letting go of portion of their devs, citing 1. Creating substantial new revenue streams from low code "experiments", and 2. Devs strong opposition to working outside code editors. 3 1 0 0 270 .
Feb 24 Use case I'm exploring this eve - writing a weekly update email and sending direct from Roam - not hooked up to a mail API yet but would be trivial to do, and {tree:html} sends the raw html. https://t.co/sfqbQZqyVe 2 0 0 0 214 .
Feb 23 🤯 Just got delivery of Roam Postman (send API requests from inside Roam) from @dvargas92495 less than a week after submitting to https://t.co/vHgWsv9Quf. This thing is going to be so powerful Quick demo of setting up a Roam -> Airtable flow cc @Conaw @RoamResearch https://t.co/Nq5mliRAAI 38 3 0 0 294 .
Feb 22 Ok, the @atlas_knowledge website v1 is live. Currently seeking: 1. Beta testers to help kick the tires, and 2. Part-time PM (w/ potential to co-found) to work w/ me and eng. team, help guide roadmap/direction over time. https://t.co/dkFMG5DDBj 13 1 0 0 247 .
Feb 22 A counter intuitive thing that sold me on bitcoin's future value - the continued popularity of .com domain names What makes that particular tld still the most sought after despite the fact there are now over 1500 others? There can only be one "de facto" .com got there first 5 0 0 0 277 .
Feb 22 @patrick_oshag @github There’s a good @AcquiredFM podcast that touches on some of this 1 0 0 0 86 .
Feb 21 RT @tonyennis: Creating a "Things I want to build or help build" thread, in the spirit of "Be the energy you want to attract". Will hopeful… 0 0 0 0 140 .
Feb 21 Quick way to remove the Twitter "What's happening" section 1. Install stylus - https://t.co/pCU4D5wPqN 2. Add a style for https://t.co/d9SkYvzI6W 3. Copy-paste 👇 [data-testid="sidebarColumn"] > div > div:nth-child(2) > div > div > div > div:nth-child(3) { display:none; } 2 0 0 0 297 .
Feb 19 This is very true. Something less spoken about but also true is that schema (relational database) design is not that *fundamentally* difficult. Prev only way to learn was through building software, now Consumer relational databases (eg. @airtable) have compressed feedback loops https://t.co/wRzAdMqoHl 3 0 0 0 303 .
Feb 19 .@agazdecki going all out on @ProductHunt I see 😜 https://t.co/R73xg9taKh 6 0 0 0 73 .
Feb 19 This is an incredible offer for product teams, can't imagine it will last at this price - @cdcwatson is one of the best. https://t.co/GM8btLkjfn https://t.co/xFq6tr7ldY 3 0 0 0 169 .
Feb 17 RT @NathanLatka: Today I raised $10M to fund bootstrapped software founders But instead of throwing checks at people already in the news o… 0 0 0 0 140 .
Feb 15 Twitter! We (@editmodelabs) are exiting beta and are looking for more 5 - 50 person companies that are using something non-typical (e.g. @airtable or something else) to manage their product copy (react/rails/react-native). Know anyone? https://t.co/vOPhtLAX9l 12 6 0 0 260 .
Feb 14 @Austen No first hand experience but https://t.co/qDmzNArLqD’s approach is the most well rounded I’ve come across 1 0 0 0 113 .
Feb 12 @jasonyuandesign Whaaaaat 😱 Great work! 0 0 0 0 40 .
Feb 10 Today's progress - going over what we've done in the last couple of weeks to map out the journey of a request, with colour coding. Still missing a few pieces - goal is to be able to explain all of the concepts needed to navigate a rails codebase in two or three simple diagrams. https://t.co/ArxTCMqqxf 4 0 0 0 302 .
Feb 02 @gregisenberg Know of any off hand? Would like to check them out, particularly how people have structured giving investors confidence they'll see upside in successful products. Thanks! 0 0 0 0 184 .
Feb 02 Has anyone ever raised money for a Product Studio? Is that a thing people do? cc @gregisenberg 2 0 0 0 94 .
Jan 29 Digging a bit deeper, they’re either legitimately the exact opposite of their name, or catastrophically bad at communicating. If they halted trading because of regulatory requirements, why not just say that outright, rather than half-implying it in a tweet thread and blog post. https://t.co/JtgvaQxUz7 0 0 0 0 302 .
Jan 28 People having more options for their primary source of meaning = 👍 Work life replacing friend/family/ community life as the *default* primary source of meaning = 👎 - I don’t know that this is happening in all industries but it seems like a trend in tech for sure. https://t.co/q4df5m07sK 2 0 0 0 289 .
Jan 28 Whoever came up with the name for @RobinhoodApp must be feeling pretty smug this week. 14 2 0 0 86 .
Jan 23 The main man @Whelton making it happen... https://t.co/6kDii74qrw 6 1 0 0 66 .
Jan 23 @adamwathan Not designer <> devs but similar: https://t.co/GnukoVSEwN 0 0 0 0 75 .
Jan 22 @yac hey! Love your product. Small nitpick - this happens most times I open yac - the update dialog on top of create button - cool that there's regular updates but defeats the "send it quick" idea. 😁 https://t.co/hu9VOA5gEW 0 0 0 0 223 .
Jan 19 This was a complete pie in the sky idea when I tweeted it - the clear barrier being upskilling the non-developer, but 4 weeks later and @harshal_kokane is building and wiring tailwind views inside a @replit hosted rails app and I think we actually might be on to something here. https://t.co/NmNl8DOJwe 5 2 0 0 303 .
Jan 18 In my experience those who want to live longer are those who live, or aspire to live, rich, connected lives. Those who are happy to plug in and live on auto pilot tend not to want that so much. Coincidence? https://t.co/CC6rP4mV7l 2 0 0 0 230 .
Jan 15 Week 4 - We have fully functioning rails codebase running in replit, and the beginnings of a real product. Links https://t.co/MxQM1ggMkH 👈 the app https://t.co/cREvL5cGXX Great work from @harshal_kokane Also, @replit is awesome. https://t.co/RhH00I1lRM 8 2 0 0 259 .
Jan 10 RT @editmodelabs: Editmode in 3 steps: 1. Add a single line of code to your codebase. 2. Replace your copy with our view helpers. 3. Voi… 0 0 0 0 140 .
Jan 05 Life Extension/Anti Aging in one tweet: Dave Sinclair on Tom Bilyeu https://t.co/NMcLn9a9SU The rejuvenation roadmap https://t.co/1r8MemmRuA Less Wrong's overview of Anti Aging https://t.co/zS7AiyYwk0 Eli Dourado's Notes on technology (first section) https://t.co/m3z28tDEPV 5 0 0 0 278 .
Jan 05 @willjohnsonio Thanks for this Will, going to use it as a reference for this exercise 😁 Much appreciated. https://t.co/GnukoVSEwN 1 0 0 0 130 .
Jan 02 We just wrapped the first week: Constructing Pages with Tailwind. Input: https://t.co/6tXmppn95W Output: https://t.co/JYz9wmcxXQ Status: Success 💪 https://t.co/kPldkovjQn 12 1 0 0 172 .
Jan 02 Tagging for thread notifications: @leticiamoas @joeperrott @bentossell @ElroiNoronha @MandoraAkshay @ianmccormack10 @joshua_pielago @ro_oleary @andywingrave @daynewspaper @harshal_kokane @maxmcq @goltra @ciaranhan @nocodelife @superzac @yellowicepick @_aishwarya27 @justinhalldsgn 3 0 0 0 280 .
Jan 02 Tagging for thread notifications: @Sharkey_me @thepauloshea @cdcwatson @genemurphy @andrewjdavison @isaacme @lidladventure @donalmulligan @realdavidlobo @misterady @tjpalanca @philriordan @tonesclery @nocodejac @paulsavage @alex__mackenzie @alec_coughlin @AaronMCahill1 4 0 0 0 269 .
Jan 01 RT @yaxdotcom: Ten years on Twitter as @rails_apps. It’s time to introduce something new. Follow @yaxdotcom for my articles and tutorials o… 0 0 0 0 140 .
Dec 30 @Shpigford You’ll enjoy the “Built to sell” podcast. I spent a couple of weeks on it and there’s lots of larger scale sweaty businesses featured, found it fascinating 0 0 0 0 167 .
Dec 30 @Mqsley Yeah I’d say more likely. You’d have to invest a decent amount in integrations from day one. That said that’s a reasonably narrow and replicable technical task. Seems like something that’s inevitable in time, just needs conviction and the right timing. 0 0 0 0 260 .
Dec 30 @Mqsley From what I can tell most of the important ones have APIs, doesn’t seem to be the issue 0 0 0 0 95 .
Dec 30 @johnpeavoy @Whelton He is indeed! He's been sharing updates with me and it genuinely looks amazing, although a little more specialized than what I'm getting at here. 1 0 0 0 166 .
Dec 29 @nocodelife S3 - can be set up pretty quickly - no code needed 1 0 0 0 62 .
Dec 27 @jwahdatehagh @bentossell @thisiskp_ I’ll write about it separately, but they’ve spent a lot of time on the UI layer and made the relational database close to as intuitive as it can be for some not familiar with relational databases. Also the airrecord rails gem turns it into a drop-in ORM very close to activerecord 2 0 0 0 317 .
Dec 27 @NigelGodfrey @bentossell @thisiskp_ Agree. Developer behaviour change in is a much bigger barrier than non developer buy in. Old habits die hard. 2 0 0 0 146 .
Dec 27 Mainly interested in feedback on the term "Co-code" and whether there are similar existing frameworks. Further context here: https://t.co/GnukoVSEwN 3 0 0 0 149 .
Dec 27 Ok, hear me out on this one: code/low-code: Target: Developers no-code: Target: Non-devs co-code: Specifically built to allow *both* developers and non-developers to build in the same environment. Requires upskilling non-devs & altering stack cc @bentossell @thisiskp_ thoughts? https://t.co/vnF5CvZUvQ 40 2 0 0 308 .
Dec 24 @keithwhor @harshal_kokane @replit @airtable @rails @tailwindcss @AutocodeHQ Oooh interesting! Would love to hear a bit more about what kind of stuff others are doing. Will have a think about how we can incorporate into the project 1 0 0 0 231 .
Dec 24 We'll hit a low-code tipping point in 2021 where anyone can go from zero-coding-knowledge to creating a codebase-backed product in 8 to 12 weeks. Going to try this with @harshal_kokane & post updates here Toolkit: @replit @airtable @rails @tailwindcss Like to get updates 👇 62 4 0 0 282 .
Dec 23 My favourite part of an admittedly turbulent 2020 was the resurgence of interest in and activity around @rails (in my corner of the internet at least). I owe so much to this framework, great to know it’s not going anywhere. https://t.co/gyesFqG50Y 2 0 0 0 248 .
Dec 16 @xaviablaza @editmodelabs Haha love this. Yeah it started as a proof of concept 5 years ago, then went on hiatus to build @firstcircleph and picked it back up at the start of this year. You’re making me feel vulnerable digging around in there, god knows how bad the old stuff was 1 0 0 0 279 .
Dec 12 In the future, it won’t seem outlandish for a single person or small team to run many internet businesses in parallel, in the same way that dropshippers today run many e-commerce stores concurrently. 5 0 0 0 199 .
Dec 06 Proud of my sister. If anyone is interested in genomics and/or data science you should go follow her, apparently she’s good at that stuff. https://t.co/TtmIVr88TJ 4 0 0 0 162 .
Dec 05 @Julian Love your guides but I don't think people should optimize for (3). Long term people are wise to selfishness, which is what (3) is. You're sacrificing overall civility on the platform, making it worse for everyone, in exchange for followers. 1 0 0 0 248 .
Dec 02 @devonzuegel @audible_com If you cancel and send them a strongly worded support email they’ll refund you. Happened me in April and I sent them almost verbatim what you wrote above. Such a user hostile policy, surprised they haven’t changed it yet. https://t.co/nhcf5CSFwg 2 0 0 0 271 .
Nov 30 @samselikoff What app is this? 0 0 0 0 30 .
Nov 30 Love this. The @editmodelabs version: Copy doesn’t belong in a codebase. Dropping that assumption unlocks a universe of currently-hidden potential. “They didn’t address a particular burning need now, but if adopted they would change how we did work and thought about work.” https://t.co/kpklLCjQ64 4 1 0 0 302 .
Nov 27 Hey @Cloudflare you've built an incredible product which I'd love to build my new business on. We're bootstrapped rn - is there any other way we could work together that doesn't require such heavy up-front cost (min $3k/mo) for the single feature (custom cache keys) we need? 😁 6 0 0 0 277 .
Nov 16 @spendeeapp Roughly what date guys? I'm using it to manage/understand small biz with contractors and this has completely hamstrung me, created a huge time sink 😔 0 0 0 0 161 .
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