Hassy Veldstra

Artillery Cloud is now generally available. Biased, but if you need production-grade load testing it would be silly to use anything else.

@benln @Boldstartvc / @etdurbin

Who are the pre-seed / seed investors every founder should want on their cap table these days?

I open sourced an AMQP @artilleryio engine... Feel free to contribute... Github : github.com/NoxFr/artiller… NPM : npmjs.com/package/artill… #loadtesting

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.

@FinnMurphy12 All downstream of atheism and childlessness imo. Ego and vanity don't scale as fuel for cross-generational projects.

I had some time to think recently about plans for the future and found myself working on woefully short term horizons. We've reprogrammed the world to think barely 5 feet in front of our face and i think there is increasingly a huge edge in taking the long term view.

@LoadForgeApp your cost estimation for Artillery on your pricing page is wildly inaccurate and off by at least an order of magnitude. Can you share the assumptions behind that $3000/month figure please?

Not ready to drop Node.js in production yet, but @bunjavascript has completely replaced Node.js for me for scripting and smaller apps. Those built-in Bun APIs for I/O, shell scripting and SQL are just so nice to use.

I wrote about my load testing journey and why I chose Artillery @artilleryio over JMeter and K6. Load testing shouldn't be a chore. medium.com/javarevisited/…

@GreggLuskin Every db query is significantly faster. p99 on some heavier queries went down by 5-8x for us.

@hveldstra @PlanetScale What performance boost specifically?

Artillery Cloud is now running on @PlanetScale Metal for Postgres. Instant performance boost vs AWS Aurora, and the built-in query analyzer already helped us fix a few issues. Such a great product.

Anecdote but showed Lovable to my wife recently who's a power user of Wix when she was looking for a new platform for her website. She thought it was cool but went with Squarespace because prompting is just too open ended and doesn't seem like it gives you as much control. It's a tough marketing & product battle ahead for Lovable imo

Also in the wars to watch: what Canva, Wiz, Squarespace, etc. really do here They are all >well< behind the prosumer leaders. Hundreds of millions of ARR behind. But … will the average prosumer that really just wants to build basically a website … care? What if Canva or Squarespace do the job just fine in a few months? For that use case? Will be super fun to watch

The developer vibe code wars (Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, GitHub, etc.) seem to be primarily technology wars The prosumer vibe code wars (Lovable, Replit, Bolt, etc) seem to be primarily marketing wars

@zeeg 100%. They're Wix and Squarespace competitors, not a way to build real apps. Maybe they will be in future but it's going to be a long road. Or they're spreadsheets 2.0 - non-developers can use those to build "apps", but not anything you'd want to rely on in production.

everyone all "of course you dont understand, you're a developer its for non devs!" except these tools dont generate working software, so maybe I understand better than you why its puzzling wanting something to be true != its true

@dscape @v0 @lisbonai_ @lovable Agree! DB is probably the stickiest part as well, much more so than where you host the frontend

@hveldstra Imo it’s the main issue with @v0 they make using a database a chore that often fails — at @lisbonai_ we recently moved a project to @lovable because of that Problems is that it doesn’t seem to be a bug, it seems like vercel wants the database to be a third party

Supabase has to be working on a Lovable competitor. Fits their "build in a weekend" tagline perfectly. They'd become a viable Replit alternative immediately. Replit right now is unique in how they have a full stack solution (there are others but no one has heard of them).

@dscape Vercel don't have a database (yet?). But I just looked at Replit again and turns out they rely on Neon. I think Supabase is unique in that they already have lots of components for building fullstack apps (that just happen to run on top of Postgres). Love v0 btw, using it a lot.

@hveldstra What about @v0 ?

Very happy with this setup: Claude Code in the background doing grunt work - refactoring & fixing small bugs. Anything tightly scoped, boilerplatey, and where an existing test suite helps make sure it doesn't go off rails. Cline to do interesting new work, mostly in plan mode.

@staysaasy One is unbridled optimism (charitable take) / wishful thinking (uncharitable take). The other one is breach of contract / fraud. Would it be funny if your employer decided not to honor your employment contract and not process your payroll this month?

It’s funny to me how angry founders are at Soham for lying. Meanwhile founders tell every candidate they’re gonna be a $100B company in the subscription dogfood market for sure.

We've had a couple of really sunny weeks here in Ireland so @edmundojr_ went ahead and added light mode to Artillery Cloud

@tonydenyer Oh yeah same!

@hveldstra I have similar feelings about types

Know the codebase well + codebase is well-structured => get so much more out of AI. Use AI too freely => knowledge of the codebase drops + architecture suffers. Tough one to balance and another trade-off to now keep in mind when building.

This also means it's easier to justify time on refactoring something that's more of a "would be nice to" vs "has to be done to build new thing X" if it'll help AI. Especially if the refactor is also easier with AI.