Micah Smurthwaite

Fundamentally, we think traditional application software is going away. Most of the SaaS you use today will be accessed through AI agents via API rather than directly. Any UI you need will get generated on the fly, purpose-built for the task at hand. You won't adapt to someone else's interface — you'll describe what you need and get it instantly, connected to your real data. 2025 was the year of coding agents. 2026 is the year this extends to all knowledge work. Instant Apps is our first big step toward that future.

@Cody_Fueger @CoachMarkPope Bigtime!

Excited for the new opportunity! Thanks to @CoachMarkPope ! Lets go BBN! ukathletics.com/news/2024/04/2…

🎈 We're thrilled to announce our pre-seed round of $2.5M led by @sequoia, with @eastdakota, @rauchg, @andreasklinger and more, to build the next generation platform for collaboration! Everything's better with friends. Join us! blog.partykit.io/posts/partykit…

@OlokobaYusuf I like @qdrant_engine. Easy to read docs - qdrant.tech/documentation/

My first time having to build an application that relies on embeddings. I need a sleek, fully-managed offering (preferably with a dashboard that doesn’t hurt my eyes). Suggestions please!!

@daraladje @pinecone @NucliaAI has a good vector database github.com/nuclia/nucliadb

Looking for a new vector database provider. Any recommendations? We've been loving @pinecone but they just lost all of our data, so looking for something more reliable

@Maren_Bannon @madelinelawren @SaaStock And "Control your own destiny!"

Quote of the day from @madelinelawren on our panel at @SaaStock about runway vs growth: "The difference between 2021 and 2022? You have to talk with 3x more VCs to raise 1/2 the round at 1/2 the valuation!" 🤯🤯🤯 #SaaStock2022

@JuneAngelides @imperialcollege is launching a very cool program next month. If interested, register here to attend the launch eventbrite.co.uk/e/institute-fo…

Which UK universities have the best entrepreneurship societies?

@modic123 @RevolutApp @Spotify @Deliveroo @Adyen @OxfordSciEnt 💯 There are lessons in operating expertise learned at successful scale ups that teach you what great looks like. Add Monzo to the list (eg @incident_io)

Imagine a fund that automatically invests in any company started by alumni of selected European tech scale-ups (e.g. @RevolutApp, @Spotify, @Deliveroo, @Adyen). Kind of like @OxfordSciEnt but for "spin-outs" from top techCos. Would that be a top-quartile fund?

@rakyll It could be, if using @grafbase

Your database table schema is not an API.

@stevekrouse @vercel @northflank @supabase I like @grafbase for both the backend and db

I recently built an app from scratch: - frontend: create react app + @vercel - backend: node + @northflank - database: @supabase + swr - misc: typescript, github, vscode, google domains Happy with my choices so far. I'd recommend this stack

@paulg This is why time travel debugging and @replayio will become the standard

"I think the vast majority of developers still debug using print() statements." — email from a founder

@stevekrouse @HasuraHQ @fauna @replicache @xata @supabase @liveblocks @grafbase

So many interesting databases & backends these days! @HasuraHQ, @fauna, @replicache, @xata, @supabase, @liveblocks, dozens more! I'm considering making a Whole Backend Catalog a la the Whole Code Catalog futureofcoding.org/catalog Please like, RT, comment if you want this!

Lessons from @Snowflake, @Confluent, @SentinelOne, and other great SaaS companies on how to scale sales into Europe forbes.com/sites/micahsmu…

@yuris True, but the playbook doesn't have to be fully written - it's not hardcoded. 1st sales hire will run experiments and the sales process will evolve. Biggest mistake is to hire AEs from big companies who are great at executing a process, not building it.

This is spot on. Don’t hire sales people until you have at least a semblance of your own play book. This means you *have* to do the early sales yourself.

@justingordon212 For b2b startups @AlchemistAcc is the best I’ve seen. Class size capped at 20 so you get real engagement. All mentors are from b2b backgrounds. Helps technical founders with GTM.

Besides YC and TechStars Which startup accelerators should founders consider?

@sarahcat21 As a salesperson I was always looking for internal (e.g. product usage) and external (e.g. technographics) data sources to enrich prospect lists, but I didn’t care if they were embedded in SFDC or just on a separate G doc.

Has anyone asked sales leaders, AEs, or SDRs if they actually want or even care about a CRM built upon the Modern Data Stack?

@yuris I think you mean, you don’t need sales because it’s all product-led growth

We won't need to do sales, our SaaS is fully self serve. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Thrilled to partner with @GeoffQL and the @apollographql team, and announce our investment in their $130M series D. With @ApolloGraphQL we go from making multiple API requests to a single query, and from overfetching to receiving only data we want. yhoo.it/3m723UI

@ArielRenous Operator Angel syndicates with domain expertise. @SVCIangels is a great group of CISOs. @OperatorCollect has great operators across all domains. If I were a founder, I’d want as many experienced operators helping me as possible

Firms that changed venture capital: • YC: founders come from anywhere • A16Z: operators make great investors • AngelList: individuals make great funds What’s next?

Security and monitoring are converging, and @sysdig is at the heart (or kernel) of that convergence. My team invested because of their open-source approach which is rooted in Sysdig’s founder @lorisdegio, the cocreator of Wireshark. bit.ly/32ZwbGA