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Tony Ennis

@tonyennis

4,360 Tweets
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Building software teams & mobile apps Prev: Built a bank in Asia YC S21

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Jul 07 🌈 Beautiful out of the box Add your logo, default color and a tagline or two. We'll do the rest. https://t.co/dEU4jpDHau 2 1 0 0 121 .
Jul 07 🔋 Batteries Included You know the script - Features, Pricing, How It Works, Testimonials, Terms, Privacy Policy, About, Team. The list goes on... It's all there, ready to go. We even have a fully functional email capture form. https://t.co/OabLG6j4tm 2 1 0 0 253 .
Jul 07 Announcing 💡 Marketing Site In A Box 💡 - A free, cms-backed marketing site. In less than 2 minutes 🎁 Content included: 300+ content pieces to start you off 🌈 Beautiful out of the box, tweak to fit your brand ⚡️ Next/Tailwind powered 🖊 Inline realtime content editing 😱 👇 76 10 0 0 272 .
Jul 07 Get started straight from our github repo here. But read on in the thread for more info... https://t.co/bWV1X6dABm 7 1 0 0 115 .
Jul 07 @cogentgene @chime_social 🤦‍♂️ Same https://t.co/uRELy0vM27 2 0 0 0 59 .
Jul 07 @cogentgene What are you using for this? 1 0 0 0 40 .
Jul 06 RT @danmartell: I'm going to work with a handful of B2B SaaS founders with the goal of adding 100k MRR over the summer. Would you like to… 0 0 0 0 139 .
Jul 06 @danmartell 100k 1 0 0 0 16 .
Jul 06 @florinpop1705 What kind of content? If relational, Airtable. If content-based (text, images, rich text etc) - @editmodelabs by far easiest to get up and running with (disclaimer - I'm the founder 😁). DM me if you like, have thought a lot about this & happy to advise https://t.co/NmNl8DOJwe 2 0 0 0 296 .
Jul 06 Relevant: https://t.co/azJBuGcyVB 0 0 0 0 33 .
Jul 06 "The length of feedback loops, and the cost of fixing/switching" - this is why IMO the highest leverage way to improve software team performance isn't the PMing methodology, it's re-thinking the tooling to reduce the length of feedback loops and the cost of fixing/switching. https://t.co/kF0VwaQoj9 1 0 0 0 299 .
Jul 06 Another practical example of this in the wild: "Product methodologies consist of two parts: an explicitly followable process and a tacit component best described as ‘having good product judgment’ Following the explicit process would only do you so good" https://t.co/PclZOD3sSU 3 0 0 0 280 .
Jul 05 There are many reasons to have a designer at your startup, but a non-trivial one is to prevent non-designers debating UI, UX and interactions with no visuals. Sucks tons of time for usually inconsequential details. 14 0 0 0 214 .
Jul 05 Just realised how off the charts my post pandemic podcast consumption is - avg. 30 episodes per month 🤯. Wonder if that’s the same for others. Also 1/3 of that is @myfirstmilpod - so over 100 hours of listening to @ShaanVP and @theSamParr in the last year 😱 3 0 0 0 257 .
Jul 05 @florinpop1705 https://t.co/SSNxktuZFs 0 0 0 0 38 .
Jul 05 I’m super bullish on remote, and our whole team is remote, but I dislike the “We want the best people, regardless of location” framing, because it implies that individual talent exists in a vacuum, and team co-ordination doesn’t matter, which couldn’t be further from the truth 8 0 0 0 277 .
Jul 04 @thelifeofrishi @tailwindcss Looks very nice! Looking forward to using the product when it opens up 1 0 0 0 99 .
Jul 04 Related https://t.co/AX7LSEOFWJ 0 0 0 0 32 .
Jul 04 "Mommy let you use her iPad You were barely two It did all the things we designed it to do Now look at you Unstoppable, watchable Your time is now, your inside's out If we stick together, who knows what we'll do It was always the plan To put the world in your hand" Haunting https://t.co/F23Wrb0bTv 2 0 0 0 299 .
Jul 03 @therajatkapoor @dannypostmaa https://t.co/4LzhIjP0X1 is closest I've seen - they have components for each section type and a number of themes, but not a marketplace. 6 0 0 0 166 .
Jul 01 @guanghui_zeng @cn_roam Hey @guanghui_zeng I would pay $500 to get access to this 😅, I mean it! (Ask @dvargas92495). Do you plan on releasing soon? Tony 1 0 0 0 153 .
Jul 01 @cogentgene Oh @upcarta may be what you're looking for so. 2 0 0 0 58 .
Jul 01 @akshaydn5 For example, Pinterest has 240b user-generated pins, instagram spawned a billion photographers. My guess is the market for "information" or "knowledge" curators is probably more narrow, but still doable with the right loops and incentives. https://t.co/t5pWQFU7eE 0 0 0 0 275 .
Jul 01 @akshaydn5 Maybe not. But like any new product behaviour, it's about fuel vs friction. If you create a product that makes curation passive, easy and socially rewarding (fuel) vs the existing friction (time consuming) such that you can create an army of part time curators, then maybe. 1 0 0 0 284 .
Jun 29 @cogentgene This what you're thinking of ? https://t.co/3M4gOn316e 0 0 0 0 66 .
Jun 29 Really want to try this out for video recruiting - such a smart idea - https://t.co/uTGqRfffAS 1 0 0 0 94 .
Jun 28 @zackkanter Not sure exactly what static complex content means but this sounds similar to what we’re doing at editmode - https://t.co/HafcfFny8I 0 0 0 0 144 .
Jun 28 @Post_Market @matt_slotnick 90% *gross* margins 1 0 0 0 47 .
Jun 28 One reason Pagerank is sub-optimal for the internet of today: The content on twitter, podcasts, youtube videos is incredibly knowledge-dense, but doesn't contain SEO metadata. For example, which of these two is likely a better result for "Writing Online" https://t.co/IKNszpYMaX https://t.co/Bfb7PzXLyc 4 0 0 0 304 .
Jun 28 Some examples... https://t.co/BvGd0g79Hh 1 0 0 0 40 .
Jun 28 It's a testament to how dominant they've become, that when a search returns bad results, our immediate thought is "This information must just not exist on the internet" 1 0 0 0 168 .
Jun 28 Another example of "This product is great, but could be infinitely better." is Google. Pagerank was the best search algorithm when the internet was in its infancy. Nowadays there are so many search categories which come up blank, or return mediocre, SEO-optimized marketing posts. 5 0 0 0 280 .
Jun 23 https://t.co/Ks6JtYtcRK 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 22 @nateliason When you need to empower teams to do analytics off the back of the data. With Postgres or another relational db you can hook it in to metabase or other. Firebase is a black box 8 0 0 0 188 .
Jun 22 @krlvi @zegl See also https://t.co/dUCQhGLZW6 0 0 0 0 47 .
Jun 22 Why I invested in @krlvi and @zegl (https://t.co/nY5Hs19UNM) in a nutshell. Git's been great, and it's "much better than the alternatives", but it's so far from being optimal for modern software development. https://t.co/CR3wvU7T3Q https://t.co/NRktXzKhg4 5 0 0 0 256 .
Jun 22 For me, "Loving what you do" energy comes from: - Building web products as a creative pursuit, as much as an economic one. - Working with great people, on small teams with vertical skillsets. - Short times from idea to execution - Seeing friends do well. - Shipping and launching 4 1 0 0 279 .
Jun 22 My experience as a founder is that there are renewable and non-renewable energy sources: Non-renewable - Proving the haters wrong - Returning for your investors - Getting rich So far I've only found one in the renewable category: - "Loving what you do" 14 3 1 0 254 .
Jun 22 The @editmodelabs vision & roadmap in a single graphic: https://t.co/vRyB0rH9df 6 0 0 0 83 .
Jun 21 Related: React 18 still doesn't support custom elements (To be clear I'm not anti-react, or anti-frameworks. I'm pro-simplicity, pro-beginner-friendliness, pro-interoperability.) "React is still the mobile iOS of front-end frameworks." https://t.co/b1fEOGQWsP 0 0 1 0 263 .
Jun 20 😂 https://t.co/hjxoTskuk2 0 0 0 0 25 .
Jun 19 @AlexMasmej @garrytan @ZeusLiving Think https://t.co/P6oSRCC84e does this 0 0 0 0 73 .
Jun 19 ... https://t.co/77fgUXkxVC 1 0 0 0 27 .
Jun 19 https://t.co/7ehBiQGgg3 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 19 The good news: We don't need jQuery any more because modern js supports that stuff now! Vanilla js ftw! 🎉 The bad news: Everything's framework-first now, so much so that new js libraries don't even have vanilla js examples & need npm & typescript to fire up a demo 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/UZk5gjjH3z 5 0 1 0 302 .
Jun 19 https://t.co/PwNHQikH1z 0 0 0 0 23 .
Jun 18 🙋‍♂️ https://t.co/XcRyx43hPg 1 0 0 0 28 .
Jun 17 Bingo https://t.co/HdCgb23Y48 0 0 0 0 29 .
Jun 16 @PierreDeWulf DM’ed 😁 1 0 0 0 21 .
Jun 16 @PierreDeWulf What do you mean by “custom js”? You mean injecting js into the page? Or doing interactive components within the page? If it’s the former I have a novel solution which is working well for us 😁 1 0 0 0 206 .
Jun 16 @cdcwatson ❤️ 0 0 0 0 13 .
Jun 16 Wow https://t.co/Zwb1ewPG7f 6 0 0 0 28 .
Jun 16 Thinking more about this. As someone whose first encounter with the legal & finance industry is post-pandemic w/ globally-distributed work, the combination of "our hourly rate is $1400, and "we can't handle that for you, you'll have to do that yourself locally" feels.. off? https://t.co/4leN2EU4S6 0 0 0 0 303 .
Jun 14 Yup. “Stop caring about what others think of you” people, who either *clearly care* about what others think, or have accumulated a sufficiently sized loyal in-group without which they would also *very much* care. Very few people are islands, those that are probably don’t tweet. https://t.co/iYR62PxhXF 0 0 0 0 302 .
Jun 13 The @atlas_knowledge plan in 3 graphics: https://t.co/MEz6aK07AV https://t.co/Z9bAmC6QI5 10 6 0 0 88 .
Jun 13 @davidbattersby Hey! I sent you a dm, just nudging in case you haven't seen it :) 0 0 0 0 81 .
Jun 13 “Entertainment is bad and something you should be ashamed of” is my least favourite Twitter take. Might it be possible that not everyone who likes to be entertained is “escaping from languishing”, or that humans have the capacity to both find meaning and enjoy being entertained https://t.co/RlDN0Jm085 2 0 0 0 302 .
Jun 12 I'm not a fan of many people, but I'm a fan of Bo. 🎶 "Can I interest you in everything, all of the time" 🎶 So good. https://t.co/dLqzJ66PHr 2 0 0 0 143 .
Jun 12 "Tables, attributes, and relationships are eating the world" doesn't really have the same ring to it... https://t.co/NvUc8ieuxI 1 0 0 0 127 .
Jun 12 Instagram's "Golden Concept" was Filters. It condensed all of photography into a single idea, paired it with a UI that anyone could understand, and created a billion photographers. Software is more complex, but there are still fortunes to be made by pulling on this thread. https://t.co/NvUc8ieuxI https://t.co/jL806R0e1M 0 0 0 0 321 .
Jun 12 The best way to unleash the power of a field is to find the smallest number of concepts that carry the most leverage. The reason consumer-relational-databases are a big deal is because, in web software, it's all just tables, attributes and relationships allll the way down. https://t.co/ABzwZPg968 1 0 0 0 297 .
Jun 11 @guanghui_zeng @cn_roam Hey Guanghui! Do you have a version of this I could install into my Roam? I'd be willing to pay for it :) 1 0 0 0 129 .
Jun 10 *web software development 🤦‍♂️ 0 0 0 0 30 .
Jun 10 This tweet was brought to you by: Feeling disillusioned with an exorbitant legal bill, at the same time as thinking about the current state of the web software development. 4 0 0 0 172 .
Jun 10 Thinking about over-complexification (yes this is a made up word). https://t.co/U3zqX7qbhU 8 0 0 0 90 .
Jun 09 ... https://t.co/aR7azoC6We 1 0 0 0 27 .
Jun 07 @houshuang hey! Curious if there's been any activity on roam/inter of late? Could really do with it on a project I'm starting soon 😁 0 0 0 0 132 .
Jun 07 @cn_roam @guanghui_zeng This looks amazing! I've tweeted about this before: https://t.co/OqcNaUWWvo And also have built a cloudflare worker hack so that I can embed an actual airtable in Roam via iFrame. So this looks like something I'd use daily 😁 How can I get access? 1 0 0 0 275 .
Jun 04 RT @peteromallet: The process of making something new: https://t.co/r2gqbUJvQh 0 0 0 0 78 .
Jun 03 @thogge @Altimor https://t.co/1kKXPUCEtr Insanity > madness > Magnus 1 0 0 0 75 .
Jun 03 @alexlmiller Big congrats! huge win!! 2 0 0 0 37 .
Jun 01 A thing that annoys me about prevailing product thinking - the over-simplification of the psychology around why a user decides to use a product, which can now only seem to be explained as a rigid causal chain from a single, discrete problem to a single, specific solution. 3 0 0 0 272 .
Jun 01 I don't have time at the minute, but if anyone wanted to take this and run with it, I'd love to see what'd happen if we poured some fuel on the fire, given how viral the core mechanic is. Could see it growing like a weed with a little bit of product/growth work. rails codebase https://t.co/5yJcnQ6NtO 6 0 0 0 301 .
Jun 01 It doesn't even have an ssl cert 😂 0 0 0 0 34 .
Jun 01 I built a game in June 2019. Since then it's had: - 200,000 minutes total gameplay - 17,000 players who've collectively played 70,000 games - 700,000 words played The only "marketing" was a single @ProductHunt launch Internet distribution is wild 🤯 https://t.co/OH43xqmlXQ https://t.co/x5nHUvqvXa 9 0 0 0 301 .
May 31 There seems to have been a big increase in independent creators making educational programming content the last few years. @hashnode, @ThePracticalDev, @Replit and others. You love to see it. Meanwhile, @Medium is still doing this... https://t.co/srZxTJU374 1 0 0 0 260 .
May 28 https://t.co/3a1spScI5l 0 0 0 0 23 .
May 28 @rivatez Read this in Logan Roy’s voice 0 0 0 0 39 .
May 27 @dayvough @ShipmatesHQ @Suhail You on rails? 0 0 0 0 44 .
May 26 https://t.co/s5GLxpIvEi 1 0 0 0 23 .
May 26 Seeing a bunch of anecdotes of this "Barbell Approach" becoming a real work trend: Pairing an expert (on a part time/fractional basis) with one or more high-energy, high aptitude on-the-ground executors. Could see it becoming much more common as work continues to go more remote https://t.co/0ccNhZvIKH 10 1 0 0 302 .
May 25 I used to think this was just legacy banks, but it's not - the whole system is broken. Services I've tried/used in the past 9 months: - Revolut - BOI - Transferwise - Payoneer - Neat - Statrys *All* of them riddled with time-sink landmines. https://t.co/7tV03E5cjY 0 0 0 0 267 .
May 25 The banks/regulators attitude is basically: these people should be grateful we've provided them with a system. How dare they complain when we demand days of their time and all sorts of paperwork to use it, and provide zero guarantee it will continue to work reliably. 😤 0 0 0 0 269 .
May 25 @xaviablaza I'm going to be hitting you up again soon to help me get as off-boarded as I possibly can 😬 Problem is that everything's still so deeply connected to the old system 0 0 0 0 176 .
May 25 Another hour on the phone attempting to get my Irish Bank to allow me to add a "reference" field in a payment being sent to the US, which has to go through *two* intermediary banks before reaching the company I'm sending it to. Fuck. The. Fucking. Banking System 4 0 0 0 263 .
May 25 I set up a *tiny* fund recently to invest in friends, with friends, and I don't know if it was worth, solely by virtue of the time/energy cost to transfer funds from one place to another. 4 0 0 0 187 .
May 24 https://t.co/IHLwoxBZn6 Another browser-based IDE. They 1. Are building on top of VScode(a lá Codespaces & Gitpod, unlike @Replit) and 2. Just managed to get node running natively in the browser, which is 🤯 and makes them my new favourite in the browser-based IDE space. 🚀 3 0 0 0 277 .
May 20 Oh wow, not sure how I didn’t see this before. 179 ratings, avg. 1.19 stars. Ouch https://t.co/z3RRPtMcte https://t.co/CR8x6dloWK 0 0 0 0 130 .
May 20 Revolut keeps your funds *so* safe that not even *you* can access them 😏 https://t.co/60ktm5cBK6 0 0 0 0 96 .
May 20 Hey @DoNotPayLaw when are you guys coming to Europe? 😁 Also what’s the process/recourse for banks that lock customer accounts without warning and without customer support? 😁 0 0 0 0 173 .
May 20 @bentossell Interesting! Assumed it was just their consumer offering, good to know to steer clear of their business one too. The “no customer support for blocked accounts” approach is insane. I had just assumed that couldn’t happen with banks, but it’s the exact same as with PayPal. Bananas 1 0 0 0 291 .
May 20 Getting close to trawling the internet for phone numbers of actual Revolut employees at this point. No phone number to call. Now all cards blocked, can’t move funds in or out, no response from support beyond “we can’t do anything”. Surely this is illegal? 0 0 0 0 255 .
May 20 @Hogan90 I was the same for a long time - was their biggest fan until this stuff started happening 😔 0 0 0 0 100 .
May 20 #BCSWF 0 0 0 0 6 .
May 19 Good to know it's not just me https://t.co/Om0FDx1U6S 0 0 0 0 53 .
May 18 @Mqsley Can’t find any way to escalate. Doesn’t seem like anyone senior is on Twitter. 😩 saddest thing is there doesn’t seem to be a better alternative, and even if there was, they have all my savings so can’t just bounce 0 0 0 0 221 .
May 18 @Mqsley Feels like something out of Black Mirror. They just swap the chat operator and say the send the same templated message. The Twitter dm support is the exact same. This time I literally can’t get in to the app, can’t move money out. Come to think of it, this can’t be legal 0 0 0 0 279 .
May 18 I’m being trolled https://t.co/GlHaasnSiK 1 0 0 0 41 .
May 18 https://t.co/sAO3bZAfPQ 0 0 0 0 23 .
May 18 ... https://t.co/7tV03E5cjY 0 0 0 0 27 .
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