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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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Sep 27 @tylertringas @airtable @heroku Meant to add a few more things to this on Friday. On the web app/ORM side, I've done this with rails for a few internal apps - not sure if rails is your thing but worth checking out if so. @Sirupsen made a great gem which I forked here: https://t.co/pR7TywOYNO 0 0 0 0 294 .
Sep 27 Solve/alleviate software's "diseconomies of scaleโ€ problem, starting with crudware (obsolesce the need for no-code -> code migration). Long term https://t.co/yV2AbXGxH8 2 0 0 0 172 .
Sep 27 Create the internetโ€™s missing content API to remove the engineering dependency for making content changes to web sites and web apps (https://t.co/HafcfFny8I). https://t.co/ZxzlO48QHy 0 0 0 0 183 .
Sep 27 Help to remove the insider/outsider divide among technical/non-technical people who build software, by helping outsiders understand the real complexities, and insiders understand the manufactured ones. More thoughts https://t.co/S3qr4oBcwx 0 0 0 0 240 .
Sep 27 Creating a "Things I want to build or help build" thread, in the spirit of "Be the energy you want to attract". Will hopefully add to it over time. ๐Ÿ‘‡ 7 1 0 0 151 .
Sep 26 We really do take for granted how easy it is comparatively to start an internet business today (and how early internet businesses still are). This was only 25 years ago. From @paulg's first business plan: https://t.co/RHzatbyAXs https://t.co/4qhlCtmkyi 4 0 0 0 254 .
Sep 26 Biggest mindset-shift I've had this year: It's 100% possible to work on several projects at the same time and make progress without becoming completely stressed out. Was always in awe of people who could do this, now realize it's just about being smart about how you set it up. 11 0 0 0 277 .
Sep 26 More thoughts on this from @vgr https://t.co/c8cra9a1KX 0 0 0 0 55 .
Sep 25 @tylertringas โ€œAirtable (UI) for Postgresโ€ is the biggest missed opportunity in SaaS right now, because horizontal products need an evangelist, visionary CEO and to date Howie Lu is the only person to realise that airtable (relational db for the masses) is a category not a product. 5 0 0 0 284 .
Sep 25 https://t.co/i8deDEAQDC 0 0 0 0 23 .
Sep 24 "Imagine a society that is fluent in thinking and debating in the dimensions opened up by the computational medium" Difficult to read that and not get goosebumps https://t.co/tD6wkmU1oe 0 0 0 0 187 .
Sep 23 @mattwensing @CasJam @digitaltrouble Just going to leave this here for anyone following this thread https://t.co/WSlXW05xHA - Up and running in 3 minutes ("gem install editmode") - Full content management backend including rich text. - Works with react & rails (so far) Only caveat is it's invite only for now. 0 0 0 0 317 .
Sep 23 @flaviocopes Don't forget https://t.co/HafcfF5Xha ๐Ÿ˜ https://t.co/gBf2usdFLO 1 0 0 0 75 .
Sep 23 Progress, cities & biotech with @ani_pai Generated with @atlas_knowledge https://t.co/cEg10guWe5 https://t.co/lqscgwsSDT 1 0 0 0 127 .
Sep 23 @gabe_ragland Love it. Keep up the great work ๐Ÿ’ช 1 0 0 0 47 .
Sep 23 What young, healthy people have to fear from Covid. Generated with @atlas_knowledge https://t.co/gJroEQiLi7 https://t.co/mZMoMu11aM 7 0 0 0 134 .
Sep 23 Testing out the @shiftlens https://t.co/mW3pkYRdlO 1 0 0 0 50 .
Sep 22 Fun solution https://t.co/C6Vf7DpHrZ 0 0 0 0 36 .
Sep 22 @mckaywrigley @Whelton also wrote about this recently, mentioning @sivers and a few others https://t.co/a07NJ8Thn3 1 0 0 0 114 .
Sep 22 @patphelan Not what you asked, but one of the best things I did for sleep tracking was switch from Apple Watch to Withings. Found it too hard to charge every 2 days. Withings is every 30 days & feels much nicer than the apple watch to wear https://t.co/Bkf0bax7ad 0 0 0 0 267 .
Sep 21 Reading https://t.co/V8dTOWXdKP First thought: If you have a 2 hour slot per day labelled "Free", are you really free? I've had periods of "If it doesnโ€™t go on the calendar, it's not getting done" and now that I don't do that I can see it for what it was: Deeply dissatisfying 2 0 0 0 278 .
Sep 21 That said I still have a lot of respect for people who do this for the good of their cause, even at their own personal expense. Flicking through https://t.co/Y1ncdt8tbX, the difference between those who invest opportunistically vs those who treat it as a profession is striking. https://t.co/HcH2qOViG8 1 0 0 0 302 .
Sep 18 @tylertringas @cdcwatson ๐Ÿ˜ 1 0 0 0 26 .
Sep 18 @gokulnk Hey Gokul, what's the best way to reach you? We're building similar things, would love to connect 0 0 0 0 106 .
Sep 18 One example https://t.co/Rw9Oc4rueJ 0 0 0 0 37 .
Sep 17 @joemasilotti In my experience the progression has been - Heroku - Cloud 66/Digital Ocean - Aws C66 gives you the good parts (scheduled jobs, backups, Load balancing, firewall rules) of aws without the setup overhead. 0 0 0 0 219 .
Sep 17 @nathanbarry @robwalling @NathanLatka This is more helpful than you know @nathanbarry, thanks for jumping in 3 0 0 0 108 .
Sep 17 Oh wait, @nathanbarry brings back a glimmer of hope https://t.co/KrzhTYDZsh 2 0 0 0 76 .
Sep 17 Just spent the last 3 days convincing myself I should build an audience ๐Ÿ˜” This is the last thing I need right now. https://t.co/TscPOoNfXl 1 0 0 0 138 .
Sep 17 Just remembered @RealDoctorMike who's nailing it on Youtube. Any others? https://t.co/K7g0j2T5u0 1 0 0 0 97 .
Sep 17 @robwalling Also @nathanbarry with convertkit? And @NathanLatka with founderpath? Maybe it's just a Nathan thing 1 0 0 0 112 .
Sep 17 Are there any good examples of podcasts or learning resources "By insiders, for outsiders"? For example, "Lawyer explains how the justice system works"? 1 1 0 0 152 .
Sep 17 Same. https://t.co/akarktoFBT 0 0 0 0 29 .
Sep 17 Who's writing about the phenomenon of "having fans" expanding beyond entertainers, artists and creatives? 2 0 0 0 105 .
Sep 17 @eriktorenberg Was OnDeck born from that realization? Do you consider it a curation business? 1 0 0 0 93 .
Sep 16 @andy_matuschak @ArtirKel Hey Andy! What is orbit? And what are you using embedly for in this context? 0 0 0 0 102 .
Sep 16 โ“ผ There are 3 places to encode the information needed to understand and extend a piece of software. 1. In people's heads 2. In documentation 3. In the tools we build with (2) is obviously much better than (1), but as an industry we need to spend much more time thinking about (3) 5 0 0 0 279 .
Sep 15 @jasoncbenn @TylerAlterman Thanks! 1 0 0 0 34 .
Sep 15 @jasoncbenn @TylerAlterman @jasoncbenn do you have that diagram in digital format? Would be super interested to see it 0 0 0 0 118 .
Sep 14 @genemurphy Happy birthday big man! 1 0 0 0 35 .
Sep 14 @Goltra Turns out one of my college lecturers made an hilarious parody of this which just autoplayed on youtube. The universe is weird. https://t.co/Vi7lQ7Knme CC @donalmulligan ๐Ÿ‘ "Heroin" 1 0 0 0 191 .
Sep 14 @Goltra ๐Ÿ˜‚ hadn't seen that before. Sounds like it was written by GPT-3 1 0 0 0 70 .
Sep 14 To elaborate: In many industries, the more you produce of something, the cheaper it gets. In software the opposite is true. If we consider the efficiencies that come with digitisation to be a force for good (which I do), solving this problem is extremely important. 6 1 0 0 265 .
Sep 14 I think I found the most compressed version of my professional mission statement this morning ๐Ÿ‘‡ "Solve software engineering's "Diseconomies of scale" problem." 7 0 0 0 160 .
Sep 11 @adrian_cooney Super impressive dude, great work ๐Ÿ‘ 1 0 0 0 50 .
Sep 10 Still a daily @RoamResearch user, surprised not to have seen any conversation about how it handles tabular data. Given that the spreadsheet is one of the most successful and proven tool for thought interface formats, feels like it should be a first class citizen. @Conaw thoughts? 16 0 0 0 280 .
Sep 09 @Whelton ๐Ÿ’ช 1 0 0 0 10 .
Sep 09 @tjpalanca ๐Ÿ˜ 0 0 0 0 12 .
Sep 09 Ok the @editmodelabs twitter account is a go. Follows much appreciated ๐Ÿ™Œ Promise not not to spam you with gifs, except maybe this one... https://t.co/NersYpTDaZ 0 0 0 0 163 .
Sep 09 @IanConnolly Yeeeikes. Hope you're ok 1 0 0 0 37 .
Sep 06 @arvidkahl @tailwindcss @tailwindui https://t.co/8tQiLs4pMS 2 0 0 0 59 .
Sep 03 Holly crap. Imagine how fun this would be with pets in the house ๐Ÿ˜ฑ https://t.co/FRh3cIkioW 2 0 0 0 90 .
Sep 03 @yongfook @dinkydani21 @JamesIvings Out of interest, what CMS underpins the marketing site? 1 0 0 0 91 .
Sep 01 @donalmulligan @YesEquality2015 @vote_with_us @hometovote Congrats!!! 0 0 0 0 69 .
Sep 01 Havenโ€™t checked this out yet, sharing because I know if @Modulz released it itโ€™ll be good. Check it out and give an upvote if youโ€™re so inclined. https://t.co/KVl1tC1UJW 18 3 0 0 170 .
Aug 30 @metabase Hey guys, where do I find out more about doing this across multiple tables? Thanks! 0 0 0 0 93 .
Aug 28 @patjfin @ConnorPM @RomyLynch @DavidNewell95 @JoParisot React native almost done ๐Ÿ™‚ 1 0 0 0 82 .
Aug 27 Sometimes I forget that there are people in the world, looking for something to relieve their existential distress, who have not yet discovered Alan Watts. Having been there myself, going deep down the rabbit hole almost felt like a rite of passage. https://t.co/wVXSOPhUbh 2 0 0 0 273 .
Aug 26 @TylerAlterman Anecdotally I've also heard it misrepresented the few times it's come up in CH, by people who've only come across it in soundbites & w/ very limited understanding of what it's about. 1 0 0 0 201 .
Aug 25 Can confirm this has escaped just US crazy circles. My anecdata: - Friend of friend is fully convinced of global elite conspiracy to control us with nanobots. - Parents seeing facebook friends posting openly about same theory, including a very close relative. ๐Ÿคฏ https://t.co/vh3B4jZN0e 3 0 0 0 285 .
Aug 22 โ‘ฆ Obvious to insiders, maybe less so for outsiders: Most modern web software is some remix of a very small number of concepts. Software engineering is, and increasingly will be, about *configuring* much more so than *building* https://t.co/ptdZScN0Fu 11 2 0 0 250 .
Aug 19 @rstacruz Check yo DMs ๐Ÿ˜‰ 0 0 0 0 24 .
Aug 17 @andreasklinger You might be interested in this thread https://t.co/ouGs7RI6GM 2 0 0 0 78 .
Aug 17 @benzguo @RoamResearch @shreyas @tylerangert @shreyans___ Hey Ben, this looks very neat. Do you have an API? Also does the v2 API do this directly for you in a single call (Eg get thread) or do you need to do some transformations? Have applied for new API access but waiting to be let in. Thanks! 0 0 0 0 296 .
Aug 16 ๐Ÿ˜ฎ https://t.co/oR7o3VoLrd 0 0 0 0 26 .
Aug 13 @mattwensing Love this. Such a good feeling when it happens. Really enjoying watching your updates ๐Ÿ˜ keep em coming 1 0 0 0 115 .
Aug 12 โ‘ฅ As a general rule, standards and tooling that increase robustness, decrease beginner-friendliness. Because this fact almost never enters the discussion around industry-wide tooling adoption, the barriers to entry to getting started building web software get *higher* every year 5 0 0 0 279 .
Aug 08 New rich text editor is ๐Ÿ”ฅ This can all be turned on in ~5 lines of code Cannot wait to get this rolled out. https://t.co/H1x6d0rkeq 6 1 0 0 133 .
Aug 06 @fortelabs I like the switches/dials metaphor Switches(binary) - two mutually exclusive options. Single Dial(spectrum) - measures one thing on an incremental scale (e.g thermometer) Multiple Dials - measures >1 thing incrementally (e.g big 5 personality test) https://t.co/XbqANJKAza 2 0 0 0 288 .
Aug 05 @FiberJW @expo Whaat ๐Ÿคฏ that was it, thank you! 0 0 0 0 46 .
Aug 05 Tweets like this make me sad. They have an issue with something, and then lots of people seem to agree, but the issue is not mentioned, and I think the idea is that if you canโ€™t figure it out, you must be just as bad as the person being lamented. Just say what the issue is? ๐Ÿ˜” https://t.co/pEurAgcmsD 6 0 0 0 300 .
Aug 05 @notbrent @expo tonye 0 0 0 0 21 .
Aug 05 @expo hey! Haven't been able to log in to my account since yesterday. Known issue? https://t.co/tQKZLZVyEg 0 0 0 0 106 .
Aug 05 Twitter is great, reason #9384765616334 https://t.co/0yfsPBsF4V 3 0 0 0 63 .
Aug 04 @DrSepah Any thoughts on this? https://t.co/tAydp0X9rs Reading it at the minute, wondering how widely accepted this theory on the origin of ADHD is. 1 0 0 0 148 .
Aug 03 Strikes me that the people who prefer 100% remote generally speaking have their interpersonal relationship needs met outside the workplace. I've always seen work as an extension of my tribe but I'm not sure I agree this is healthy long term. https://t.co/YUHK8MTfMr 6 0 0 0 265 .
Aug 01 @natfriedman @DenysVuika Hey Nat, how does one get on the beta for this? Would really love to try it out ๐Ÿ˜€ https://t.co/STTJU9FHmK https://t.co/dUCQhGLZW6 0 0 0 0 154 .
Jul 31 @darmcgrath Thanks man! Gearing up for a new version soon, would love to give you a look. Hope all's well back home! 0 0 0 0 116 .
Jul 31 @editmode ์•ˆ๋…•! ์ด ๊ณ„์ •์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™”๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? 0 0 0 0 35 .
Jul 30 @xaviablaza Sorry to hijack your thread but very related - for Lambda grads looking for more work experience, I'm looking to hire one more for ~2 months of contract work (full stack rails w/ a little bit of react). Already working with one and it's going great. 2 0 0 0 261 .
Jul 28 @sarah_edo @philhawksworth Hey @sarah_edo, you might be interested in what we're building at Editmode ๐Ÿ˜€ https://t.co/DAo4pGJhOt 1 0 0 0 128 .
Jul 28 @NoelRock Thanks Noel, appreciate it! 1 0 0 0 37 .
Jul 28 https://t.co/UtibN4jMB1 Side project: A Boggle-esque party game I launched on Product Hunt last June. 60k pageviews & 40k games so far, bolstered by C19. Actually quite proud of this one. If you're looking for a way to spice up your family zoom calls, check it out. https://t.co/m296Inozcx 3 0 0 0 296 .
Jul 28 https://t.co/SEvWWRQOQA Tech: Graduate crowdfunding platform & volunteer management system. A genius idea by a friend that we worked on in our spare time. It grew legs (said friend knocked it out of the park) and has since raised >โ‚ฌ1m. Now run by @Temple_Street https://t.co/lraxmL8h2P 1 0 0 0 294 .
Jul 28 https://t.co/ScCwAyb0e5 - the first real high growth startup I *co-founded*. Tech: Customer product, websites, loan management, internal tools & wiring to connect & enable 100+ people on internal support teams. Team: 40+ folks across Engineering, Data & Product. https://t.co/5fzHEEdn8B 2 0 0 0 301 .
Jul 28 https://t.co/6Loq2WyMuY - the first *real* high growth startup, & my first time joining vs founding. Tech: Websites, mobile apps, ticketing, internal & growth tools. Team: Hired first design & eng. roles & built out our first tech team. https://t.co/rEbxtk82eW https://t.co/lwbz9yElW5 0 0 0 0 303 .
Jul 28 https://t.co/i6WnihRWYy - my first "Startup". 2011 Learned rails and built my first real web software product. Roped in friends & joined an accelerator. Quickly learned the difference between a cool product & a real business. https://t.co/QJhYxig1JX 1 0 0 0 258 .
Jul 28 https://t.co/1csFU02Jfm - my first "Web Design Agency", circa 2010 Built maybe 20 small business sites/apps during this time. ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://t.co/hD61Gi4pLU https://t.co/iFifqkj4md 0 0 0 0 177 .
Jul 28 In the spirit of including the good and the, um, not so good... I'll start with the very first site I published, 10 years ago. Complete with Museo, mirror & shadow effects, and literally every single colour I could find Designers please look away now. ๐Ÿ‘‰https://t.co/d70DLWyU34 https://t.co/M6HnXSTaQC 0 0 0 0 306 .
Jul 28 I think this is directionally correct. Here's a shamelessly self-promoting thread of companies and products I've made or helped make. 20 1 1 0 133 .
Jul 27 @david_perell Did... Did Tiago Forte write this? 1 0 0 0 48 .
Jul 26 GPT-3 shares many similarities with blockchain โœ… Technically impressive frontier technology. โœ… Most real-world use cases donโ€™t solve human-in-the-loop issue. โœ… Zealot army forming who think it will "change everything" in the short term. (Spoiler alert: it won't) 4 0 0 0 262 .
Jul 24 OnDeck batch 5 is now open. If you follow me and are interested you can use my referral link to apply here: https://t.co/H1g4Gz7dN4 2 0 0 0 131 .
Jul 23 @ConnorPM @peteromallet @jaynesara20 @Whelton ๐Ÿคฃ Does that make you the great granda? 2 0 0 0 84 .
Jul 22 Iโ€™m *loving* the increase in concentration of young Irish entrepreneurs with global aspirations. Quorum have the rare quality of being as humble as they are ambitious, which is impressive because they are very ambitious. ๐Ÿš€ https://t.co/5a6GcXe3zR 13 1 0 0 246 .
Jul 20 @datarade Which one? 2 0 0 0 20 .
Jul 19 โ‘ค Having a software production process that resembles an assembly line is not something to be proud of. The beauty of software businesses is that theyโ€™re dynamic. Atoms canโ€™t be instantly rearranged at zero cost. Bits can. Don't build an assembly line. 5 0 0 0 252 .
Jul 17 @Mazzeo @RoamResearch Oops sorry misread as spaced reporting generally rather than anki specifically. Might still be worth checking out. 0 0 0 0 136 .
Jul 17 @Mazzeo @RoamResearch Thereโ€™s an app called NeuraCache that does this. Caveat: havenโ€™t used it 1 0 0 0 94 .
Jul 15 @yellowicepick Still very rough around the edges! But will add you to the list for when I finally get around to finishing it out! 1 0 0 0 129 .
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