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@SahinKevin @ScrapingBee @PierreDeWulf @Oxylabs_io Congrats @SahinKevin! Best of luck for your new chapter. Eager to see what companies you’ll scale next 😊

I recently stepped down as CEO of @ScrapingBee . @PierreDeWulf and I started ScrapingBee in 2019. We were two engineers with no network, no funding, and honestly no idea what we were doing on the business side. Fast forward to 2025: @Oxylabs_io acquires us. I stay on to help with the transition, and what was supposed to be "just a transition year" turned into one of the best learning experience in my career. Working inside a 500+ person organization taught me things I couldn't have learned running a 6 person team: ✅How to navigate complex decision-making across departments ✅ How to implement the right metrics to have a better view of the business (hello KPI meetings) and act on it. ✅ How to let go of control (still working on this one) and hire/delegate I'm grateful for every bit of it. To the Oxylabs team who welcomed us, to @PierreDeWulf who's been the best co-founder anyone could ask for, and to every ScrapingBee customer and team member who made the ride unforgettable. ScrapingBee is now in great hands with @staskarolis 🔥 Moving forward I will still be involved as an advisor. So here's what's next: I'm acquiring SaaS companies. After 7+ years of building, scaling, and exiting a B2B SaaS, I want to find great products built by founders who are ready to move on — and give those products the next chapter they deserve. If you're a SaaS founder thinking about selling or even just starting to think about it: send me a DM. I'm looking for products in the $500K–$2m ARR range, profitable with a solid customer base. Ideally in the dev-tool / API / data space. If you know someone who fits that description, I'd owe you one. Tag them or send them my way. Let's go 💪

@decodeVeronika Sure! Send me a DM (I can’t seem to be able to send you one)

@SlyBridges That’s really helpful to know, thank you! I might explore that option, especially if they only charge on success. Would love those contacts if you’re open to sharing 🙏

Is anyone here experienced with acquiring DOMAIN names? 👀 I’ve tried multiple ways to find the owner of a domain I want, but no luck so far... Would really appreciate any guidance or connections 🙏

@nikitakarachoi @Historionome “Heureux les simples d’esprit”

@Historionome D'ailleurs, ya une vraie question à se poser : est-ce qu'on déplore pas davantage les trucs qu'on connaît bien ? Comme si on voulait toujours être surpris par la réalité, alors qu'on sait parfaitement qu'elle n'a aucune raison de nous faire ce cadeau ?

En 4 mots : mépris de classe académique Un jour, peut-être, l'université françoise se demandera pourquoi les esprits les plus brillants de leur temps germent en dehors de ses murs

@512banque @fabienr34 T’as deja les 100 RT Mai’s je repost pour faire monter la pression 😁

Je vais faire ma pickme. Si j'ai 100 RT sur ce tweet je crée une chaîne youtube claude code & AI pour détailler concrètement et en vidéo ce dont je parle sur ce compte X, dédiée aux noobs et aux + avancés. Du même acabit que ça, mais avec tous les détails: x.com/512banque/stat…

@coreyhainesco We’ve been using Airwallex for the past 3 years after Wise Business suspended our account for a few weeks pending “verifications” and putting us in a tough spot for paying our suppliers. We would not go back, Airwallex is amazing!

I keep seeing Airwallex's logo everywhere lately. McLaren F1 cars. Arsenal kits. Now the SF Giants jerseys. Had to look them up. Turns out they're a payments company worth $12B that most people have never heard of. And instead of running ads telling you what they do, they just... put their name on sports teams. For a B2B fintech company that's a wild move. But I get it — when you need CFOs to trust you with their money, "I've seen that name before" does more than any whitepaper ever could.

@StuJLans I’m with you mate 🤘

All these monthly cost of living posts, not one I have seen which has investments as part of it. Does everyone just YOLO life or do I just suffer from thinking way too much?

@elithrar @maticrobots I meant Saros 10 😅

@elithrar @maticrobots Roborock R10 here. Very happy! So much has changed since our last Neato 10 years ago.

what’s the current consensus on robot vacuum cleaners? Roborock (who have way too many models) vs. Ecovacs vs. @maticrobots - ? first hand experience most useful. hardwood and rugs, no carpet. as hands-off as possible.

@awxjack @airwallex Any update on UAE @awxjack? Any private beta we can register insterest to? 😊

@SlyBridges @airwallex Q3 this year!

Just crossed $200B+ in annual global payment volume. No ads. No hype. Just relentless execution. @airwallex is quietly becoming the financial infrastructure powering the next generation of global businesses. IYKYK Let’s keep building. 🌍🚀

@nico_jeannen Congraaaaaats Nico! Hit me up if you need anything.

After over a year of everything I've tried failing SOMETHING IS FINALLY STARTING TO WORK AGAIN!! 😀

I named it 🧠 Brain Adams. Everything he does, he does it for me.

Spent the weekend playing with @openclaw and this thing is nuts! Having an ai have full access of a computer opens up so many use cases. We vibecoded side projects, often in parallel, vibe-fixed networks, deployed stuff live, scraped data, automated data entry, setup tech watch on AI. All the while I was AFK outside of the house, watching a movie or in the bath. Even my wife is a convert now and ditched her Wix subscription after she realized she could have someone build her little static website in minutes just by saying what she wanted. Yes it rough on the edges, crashes, forget stuff sometimes. It’s early days. But it’s going to change everything.

Globalement aligné! Si tu fais du web, le mcp chrome devtools est très bon. Avec ça il peut tester et inspecter son code tout buggé lui même (et c’est fun de le voir cliquer partout). L’obliger à écrire des tests et passer des linter formaters aide aussi je trouve (prettier, eslint, ts). Et après chaque grosse feature, lui faire faire du refacto dans une nouvelle session (“ton prédécesseur a fait de la marde, mais toi t’es tellement un senior expert de classe internationale de ouf que tu vas tout nous refacto et rendre ça super maintenable, right?”).

Bilan de deux semaines intensives de Claude Code Max: - énorme FOMO en permanence, - j’ai testé des trucs ultra yolo («  connecte toi en root sur le serveur distant et désactive l’ipv6 ») - je suis persuadé que par moment il nous sert du Sonnet (et non du Opus) - parfois il est juste con et très têtu. «  tel site te bloque parce qu’il fait du tls fingerprinting » = faux, mais il voulait rien savoir. - vu que créer du code c’est facile, il en fout partout, ça demande une organisation draconienne. - l’itération par rapport au code est réglée mais le bottleneck devient les décisions en termes d’architecture: le coût cognitif de «  pisser du code » est résolu mais il se déplace vers «  est-ce que mon design est pérenne et fiable ? ». - je termine ce sprint sur les rotules, non pas fatigué de coder mais fatigué de DÉCIDER. Chose que je ne ressentais pas à l’époque où les décisions n’étaient pas aussi rapprochées dans le temps, - ça m’a tellement cramé en termes de décisions que même choisir quoi manger ou «  eau plate ou eau gazeuse » devenait coûteux mentalement, - le dev va devenir accessible à tout le monde pour une poignée d’euros mais seuls les vétérans qui ont été marqués au fer rouge par «  j’ai planté la prod », « où sont les backups », « pas d’index sur les foreign keys » ou « j’ai mis en prod public_html/.env » vont vraiment pouvoir en extraire un maximum de valeur : « lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten » - builder, shipper c’est cool. maintenant « est-ce que ça règle vraiment les problèmes des gens ? » c’est une toute autre question. - l’IA va révéler la rareté et l’aspect crucial de: conception + maintenance du système. - Je pensais pouvoir produire 10x plus vite en permanence. Pour des mini projets torchables rapidement ok mais pour des gros trucs ça sera «  seulement » 2-5x plus vite, seulement si je réussis à garder les idées claires. - Quand on avait tous des pelles on avait tout le loisir de réfléchir au plan et l’adapter au fur et a mesure qu’on creusait. Avec un tractopelle on n’a plus ce luxe. - Les dev ont encore de beaux jours devant eux s’ils savent gérer tout ce qui entoure le fait d’écrire du code. C’est la golden era des product managers techniques?

@MarieMartens @TallyForms Impressive results. Congratulations!

In 2025, our goal at @TallyForms was simple: reach 10,000 subscribers. We ended the year at over 12,000, and along the way our revenue more than doubled, closing 2025 at $4.3M ARR. It was a big year by any measure. So when thinking about our goal for 2026, we asked ourselves the question: What kind of company do we want Tally to be? And just as importantly, what don’t we want to spend our time on? Tally has always been a bit different. @filipminev and I started as digital nomads, building a sustainable lifestyle business, and a tool we wanted to use ourselves. A few years later, the context looks very different: a team of 10, and a product used by over 1 million people around the world. That growth gives us something we value deeply: optionality. ✅ We’re independent: we don’t have investors and only report to our customers ✅ We built a profitable business with healthy margins ✅ We have a small team that can move fast Because of this, we can make unconventional choices, like: - Building excellent software and giving it away for free - Building an opinionated product - Letting go of aggressive revenue targets and optimizing for the long term So in 2026, we won’t have a revenue target. Instead, we’re choosing to optimize for quality by: - Obsessively listening to users - Acting on feedback in short loops - Removing friction and delivering value faster - Sweating the details—quality needs to show up everywhere - Staying focused and saying no to 1,000 good ideas Keeping the team small makes this possible. It forces clarity and focus, and it keeps us close to the people we’re building for. The trade-off is that we can’t do everything. The upside is that we can do the important things well. We can’t outspend, out-market, or out-ship VC-backed competitors. But we can obsess over quality. Delivering an exceptional experience isn’t a race. It takes time, patience, care, and product taste. By staying calm, focused, and close to our users, I believe we can build a sustainable company that lasts—and a product we’re genuinely proud of. We’re optimizing for craft, for the work itself, and for the long game. And by doing this, the numbers will follow. Here’s to another year of building a product we love🫰 blog.tally.so/in-2026-were-o…

@NoContextDutch1 No Context Duck

@Thinker_View UAE 🇦🇪

Qui est en ce moment au Moyen-Orient ou en Asie ? Pouvez vous nous faire des photos des prix pratiqués en boutique sur l'Or et l'Argent physique ? Onces, 500g et 1 Kg ? Nous indiquer : prix, jour, heure, disponibilité, primes, localisation. Poster à la suite de ce message pour l'ensemble de la communauté. Merci. youtube.com/watch?v=z0NfI2…

@_lhermann Bootstrapping @parseur since 2016. Hello 👋🏻

I would like to follow more B2B bootstrapping founders. Any recommendations?

@seatsixtyone @theepicmap Jumped all over the place jumpingtraveler.com/tags/paris-sha…

@seatsixtyone @theepicmap Went from Paris to Beijing by train back in 2010, much thanks to @seatsixtyone website. Amazing memories!

The World's LONGEST Train Ride: Portugal to Singapore! 🇵🇹➡️🇸🇬 Can you really board a train in the sunny coastal town of Lagos, Portugal, and step off over 20 days later in Singapore?