Julien

Nobody cares until you make it

write me that one tweet that will make me famous; make no mistake

@forgebitz @grok what did Delve?

this is not the w you think it is i don't like startups getting blamed/attacked for bs but what delve did was not just bad, but hurt a lot of customers and also competitors of those startups

@TakoTreba Currently trying to find some, I'll publish them soon on the "Made with Lovable" website.

Lovable is missing the real growth or “generation influence” outside of the ARR posts they keep sharing and that’s their users. People actually using Lovable and building companies with it. I mean I don’t even hear about them, not even from Lovable. Where are the founders who built their first product with Lovable. Where is the person who quit their job after launching something with it. Where is the team that shipped a startup in two weeks because of Lovable. Those are the stories people want to see. Lovable is a VC backed company and it seems like they are making good money but the real opportunity is much bigger than posting ARR screenshots. They could literally create their own version of YC just from people building with their product. Imagine a cohort of founders launching companies with Lovable. Imagine showing the best products built with it every month. Imagine the stories of people building their first startup using Lovable. Put those people on billboards. Put them in ads. Put them all over social media. Tell real stories about what people are building. I love MRR and ARR posts. But honestly they hit very different when they come from bootstrapped companies. When a bootstrapped company posts 30k or 100k MRR you know exactly what that means. Someone sat alone building something. Someone shipped a product. Someone convinced real customers to pay. That revenue is survival. When a VC backed company posts ARR growth it just doesn’t feel the same. You raised money to grow. You have a team, marketing budget, distribution of course the numbers will move. The more interesting story is not the revenue chart. The real story is the companies being built with your product. That’s the real influence.

why would i pay for a saas when i could build it myself cool. why buy a book when you could write one yourself

@MadeWithLovable domain DR updated from 28 to 43

@jack @blocks @grok do something, give all these people their jobs back

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

hey @Grok what's your 2026 Laravel dev prediction?

@hamptonism every 6 months someone announces software engineering is dead within 6 months.

Anthropic CEO: Software engineering will be completely obsolete in 6-12 months…

looking forward to see the bill

@SimonHoiberg The max!

Swiss trains are world class. Always impeccably clean. People are nice and quiet. The ride is super smooth. I spent +4 hours in Swiss trains yesterday, set up my laptop, got some serious work done while watching the phenomenal Swiss nature through the window. This is better than any café or coworking space 👌 Switzerland just hits differently.

@Avenoxai ha no sorry, I should have been more clear

@JulienLeg78 ah thanks, I already applied like a month ago, I thought they gave GA

X api switched to pay-as-you-go more X post scheduling tool coming soon

@Avenoxai You'll have to apply ... still in "pilot" mode - console.x.com

@JulienLeg78 Hey man, is it fully rolled yet? or do we need to apply

@robj3d3 So easy. 3 bullets points aways to be rich.

The indie hacking path is literally the only realistic way left to get rich. > ship fast > scale to $100k MRR > (optionally) exit for $3-5M > repeat

@marcelpociot Ha. For me, it's the opposite. I spend all my time in Cursor. I find it more user-friendly.

I am curious, how are you using coding agents most of the time? I notice that I am spending way less time in an IDE and most of the time in a terminal and browser. The IDE part almost feels like only applying polish to something. Of course I could just use an agent in my IDE but for some reason that doesn't click for me most of the times.

@weswinder @levelsio I don't like what they do with people after the purchase, but I think what they did with Komoot is not bad at all.

@levelsio they are really good at taking bad apps and making them worse

Bending Spoons strikes again

@Augustin_u_ @levelsio Yeah, already done. It's on their products list.

@levelsio Soon WeTrasnfer 😭

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With AI, it is essential to be able to describe what you want clearly. If you have only a vague idea of what you want, the AI will produce a generic product with no distinguishing features.

I analyzed X's open-source algorithm. The biggest insight: hand-engineered features are gone. Grok learns purely from engagement history. What this means for you: → Be consistent with your topic → Random content confuses the model and kills reach Pick a lane. Stay in it.