
Benjamin Td
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Benjamin Td
@_benjamintd
Software Engineer. Making https://t.co/VfSqJ29fDI, https://t.co/Hqd0Vl5vIQ, https://t.co/wVsCVMH3UO, https://t.co/7fa1oZMD60, https://t.co/XbhaGprhi2. Maps, data, products.



~100% of my dev is done in sandboxes in the cloud Highly recommend it: - Unlimited parallel agent sessions - My local machine stays safe - Can work from anywhere - Can close laptop - Lap stays cool Interesting idea to visualize with Kanban


What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.




Today over 700 creators, actors, musicians, songwriters and authors launched a campaign to protest A.I. companies' theft of their intellectual property to train and build their products. This is an issue that impacts all creators. nytco.com/press/the-time…





I made a simple puzzle game! Try to enclose the horse in the largest possible area with limited walls.




People have been asking what happens to ONCE now that Fizzy is both SaaS and Open Source? Are we going to make any more ONCE products? First some quick background. In September of 2023 we announced ONCE. ONCE was the reintroduction of an old idea. Rather than subscribe to software in perpetuity, you could just pay for it once and own it rather than rent it. It came with all the code too, so you could run it yourself and modify it for your own use. We launched two products under the ONCE umbrella. Campfire, a group chat tool. And Writebook, an online book publishing tool. Campfire was $399 (once), and Writebook was completely free (forever). Just recently we made Campfire free, too. Today both are available as open source under the MIT license. (Repo links) So now that both products are free and open source, what does that mean for ONCE itself? While we didn’t know it at the time, we’ve since discovered that ONCE was more a direction than a destination. And now that we know where we’re headed, we’ve decided to wind down the ONCE model, and wind up something better: A new model combining the best of SaaS and Open Source. You can pay us to host and support the software for you, or you can run and modify it yourself for free. Companies like Wordpress, Ghost, Plausible, and Gitlab offer software under this model already. We’re proud to join these pioneers. We think this is the right way forward. Fizzy is the first product we’ll be releasing under this model at 37signals. Practically, this means Fizzy will be available two ways right from the get go: 1. Traditional SaaS. Sold by us, hosted by us, supported by us. Free option + paid plan. 2. Open Source. Entirely free, hosted by you. Change it to fit you better, fork it, or, even better, collaborate with us, submit PRs, and improve it for everyone. A 1-2 punch, the best of both worlds. As a company, we’ve been building SaaS software for more than two decades. Basecamp, Backpack, Highrise, Campfire, HEY, and others. We were among the early pioneers in SaaS, so we know it intimately. We’ve also been making open source software for more than two decades. From Rails to Hotwire to Kamal to Trix to Omarchy to a couple hundred other repos, we’re soaked in open source. We’re built on it. But we’ve never married the two. We’ve never offered a commercial SaaS product as open source as well. Fizzy, a fresh take on kanban, is our first. We’ve put an enormous about of effort getting Fizzy 1.0 right while purposefully leaving it wide open to all sorts of potential features, futures, and integrations. So we’re inviting the community to help us build Fizzy into an absolute powerhouse of a platform. And with that, we invite you to check out Fizzy at Fizzy.do. It’s a new era. Let’s go!






