Jacob Bank

Our marketing team is just me and ~40 AI agents. I finally got around to putting them into an "org chart", and it's actually really cool to see! Plus, laying them out this way by sub-function (social media, blog, email, community, partners, etc) has given me a bunch of ideas of other agents I want to build. If you're interested in the full version (and the templates/screenshots for each agent), let me know and I'll send it over to you.

@agarwal by the way what's the best way to report dangerous driving in SF? Almost every day I see people blowing through stop signs right in front of our neighborhood elementary school

This person is blowing through stop signs and tailgating a Waymo. Sorry, man, the Waymo won’t go any faster no matter how obnoxiously you drive.

This is the era of the one-person marketing team. Launch dozens of high-performing landing pages from Claude and Clay. Using @tryflint’s MCP and API.

Nice post!! For the area I spend the most time in (workflows), this is a great description of the evolution over the last year. But even in the agentic world, I think you'll find that having your agent "compile" these natural language intents into an intermediate workflow language will be important for them to run in a predictable, reliable, auditable, debuggable, cost effective way etc :)

Spending lots of time with Claude Code in the last months (+ OpenClaw more recently) has made it abundantly clear to me that every piece of SaaS hugely benefits from being infused with AI. All not new, this has become clear soon after the ChatGPT moment... but it's become a lot more tangible to me recently. Pretty much everything needs to be reimagined from the ground up. Here's a quick (Claude generated) summary. Only looking at the past, recent past, and near-term future here. Not even mentioning the mid/long-term, in which AI agents will do the majority of the actual work.

Should I leave my stable job to start a company? When Block lays off nearly half its workforce and the FAANGs are all doing rolling layoffs you might start wondering: is it possible that a 10-person, profitable startup could turn out to be *more* secure? On today’s Startup Dad I talked with @jebank about leaving Google when his daughter was 6 months old to start @relay. I thought that sounded risky; Jacob didn’t. After talking to him I’m inclined to agree. Ask yourself these three questions: -> Can you afford 2x the runway you think you need? -> Will this role actually grow your skills, or just your salary? -> Do you control your time, or does your calendar control you? For him the conclusion was: start a company. Then he learned through the process that small teams are actually *better* for parents than big companies. His 10-person team has zero standing meetings. Everyone's senior. Everyone's a parent. Work happens async (mostly). Our conversation was filled with other amazing nuggets: his concept of “double dipping” for turning chores into quality time with your kids, how to bring your kids into your work problems to show them your world, and his “imagine if I did that” framework for handling tantrums. Listen or watch our full conversation on Startup Dad; you’ll find it on Youtube and everywhere you get your podcasts.

Workflows are still better than agents for 99% of use cases

@rohindhar We need a Costco one on here!

San Francisco Chronicle analysis of the cost of a bundle of groceries at various grocery stores in the city Trader Joe’s is by far the least expensive and they didn’t raise their prices this year

@webmaster @relay is best of both worlds! Pleasure to use vs zapier

@distributionat @Noahpinion Also could be a great La Paz style gondola route

SF needs underground Muni running from Dogpatch to Potrero to the Mission to the Castro.

Partial list of companies that have been declared "toast": NVIDIA Google Microsoft OpenAI Anthropic Perplexity Cursor Salesforce ServiceNow Adobe Zapier Cognition this is silly, can we stop. we're still at the very beginning of the game and there's a lot of work to do

@yhan819 @travisberry @tzhongg @CristinCulver Wow thats amazing! 11 years later

@travisberry @tzhongg @CristinCulver Haha amazing! Look at that @jebank

big calendar guy

@relay We’re also live on Product Hunt today and would really appreciate your support here: producthunt.com/products/relay…

🚀 Today we’re launching a brand new @relay! If you want an AI team that works for you, now’s the time to start. Here’s what makes our AI agents different: Anyone can create agents. You work with AI agents just like you work with people. You ask your agent to do things for you and give it feedback to get better. No code, JSON, terminal, or MCP needed. Agents are predictable and reliable. You teach your agent skills with simple prompts, and it turns those into easily understandable, consistent workflows. Plus, your agent can keep a human-in-the-loop for anything high stakes. No random actions you can’t explain. To try it out, head over to @relay and get started for free. I can’t wait to hear your feedback. p.s. like and RT to get a bonus code for 500 extra AI credits per month for a year. 🙏

@tzhongg The one and only @yhan819. But it goes even deeper. Before joining Timeful, his research project at Stanford was AI scheduling in digital calendars

Working with AI (prompting, vibe coding, building AI agents) is now the most important skill for every job seeker. And @linkedin just rolled out a really cool way to show off your expertise. Here's how it works: 1) You use a product like @descript for video editing, @Lovable / @Replit for vibe coding, or @relay for AI agent building. 2) Once you hit a certain level of proficiency, you'll get a notification that you've reach a new skill level with a button to share on LinkedIn. 3) As your skills improve, your certification will automatically update, so future employers can be confident in your skills! Read more about it in Techcrunch and on Engadget (and check out the cool hero image of Relay.app too 😁 )

Surprised not many people know about @relay yet It's basically a non-technical Zapier, with much better AI to build the workflows, and it allows a human-in-the-loop approval process I just one shotted flow where someone says "pr-review [link] in Slack and it uses my Github account to automatically comment "cursor review" so Bugbot can be triggered without anyone asking me Many many more examples like this

The Meta AI integration into WhatsApp is such a perfect example of how NOT to incorporate AI into products. They jammed in a huge button, but it has no clear use case AND blocks a critical button for scrolling to the bottom of conversations.

@relay is now a heavy hitter :)

@evielync Try a custom tool in @relay to do the Airtable lookup and email draft, hooked up to an mcp server. Gets you a bit more determinism and speed

I want to love MCP's. But I just asked Claude to look up a member to find their next payment date (in Airtable) and then draft them an email. It took 10 minutes and it still couldn't find the right details (and I even have a skill with how to access the correct bases as well) I looked it up in 1 minute. Like I said, I want to love all these new tools, but they don't feel ready for real work yet.

Agents are going to be 100x more valuable than vibe coded apps. People don’t want more apps. They want work to be done.