Justin Klemm

@karenb698 @Shpigford @JustworksHR It worked ok for a while. It puts more burden on the team members and the max payment won't always cover their monthly costs. Good as a stopgap when you're small, but as our team grew I eventually bit the bullet and got us a UnitedHealthcare plan.

@justinklemm @Shpigford @JustworksHR How did this work out? Exploring QSEHRA option right now, deciding between two companies. DM is ok. Thanks!

Founders: What/who do you use for group health insurance for your team? Our rates through @JustworksHR are increasing by 57% (which amounts to nearly $50k for the year) and I'm very much not interested in that.

It's a little ironic that for a decade we've been talking about how "AI will wipe out blue collar jobs but artists and intellectuals are safe" -- then AI (quasi) shows up and immediately starts doing art, writing papers + programming apps.

@Shpigford @roboflow @cloudinary @OpenAI @ToolstashApp This is rad. Love that it weaves together state of the art computer vision + AI and then... Home Depot!

HAHAHAHA!!!! This tool identification stuff is freaking magic. ✨🤖🧰🥳 Computer vision (@roboflow) + OCR (@cloudinary) + GTP-3 (@OpenAI)...all you have to do is upload an image of a tool and @ToolstashApp will do the rest. (Sorry about the audio clipping. I was too pumped.)

@Kevin_McArdle Both of those at the appropriate times 😄

Good friend of mine just reminded me of the idea that “Great CEOs Are Lazy.” Ironically he’s one of the hardest working MF-ers I know. Where do people stand on this issue?

@kevinrwhitley @developersgirl Wowza!

Gotta show off @developersgirl fancy cocktail from last night… she def won the night with this masterpiece! 🤯

@zeeg Have you checked out “SSR”? Truly groundbreaking.

it still amazes me when JS folks discover 30? year old web concepts and think of them as ground breaking new ideas "Middleware. Changes. Everything." - coming to a conference near you sometime in the next few years

Born too early to explore space Born too late to explore the earth Born just in time to sell B2b SaaS

@coreyhainesco Not in the short term, but eventually, yes. Maybe not great, but at least good.

question for SaaS founders and marketers: Do you believe that having a great product is a requirement for successful marketing?

My TypeScript journey so far: 🥳 `strict: true` - Let's type all the things! 😑 80% of my dev time is now just googling... 😩 This is so slow and painful... `strict: false` 🤔 Ok, makes sense to add a couples types here Next phase TBD

@simpixelated Yea, may be result of JS being the only language that browsers support. It limits the way new frameworks can differentiate... They really have to reinvent the approach. You can argue that's happening now, but "winners" of the previous approach (ex: jQuery + React) stick around.

@justinklemm I read an article about this recently (can't find it now of course). The author pointed out how the JS ecosystem is a bit unique, because popular library features end up becoming standards. jQuery is a good example. It's a victim of it's own success. React => Web Components?

You can make a case that React is past its prime, but the ecosystem is just sooo massive. At worst, I think React's fate will be like that of PHP's... it'll become seemingly clunky and uncool, but will remain widespread for decades.

@aykutkardas Really nicely done

One of my interactive content: SVG Path Commands

Wrote down a few details that make a good web interface. Mostly generic, somewhat opinionated. rauno.me/interfaces

Every piece of SaaS marketing advice I could think of after 6 years as a marketer: 1. Your "market" is not the people who *could* use your product. It's the people who are willing to *pay* for it.

@kevinrwhitley Haha oh yes, I’ve seen it. I don’t think you’re allowed to publicly admit to using traditional JavaScript anymore.

@justinklemm That meme will also apply if you ever publicly question some of the cost-benefit of ultra-type-all-the-things code. Brace yourself!

Working on my first real TypeScript project.

I'm considering tRPC instead REST for the backend API of a new web app. My concern is... will tRPC still be a thing in 5 years?

@BairdHall It’s a nightmare. Interstate payroll too. The thresholds for triggering sales tax differ by state and small SaaS product can often stay below them… Regardless, I’d consider using @PaddleHQ instead of @stripe next time to avoid it all.

Wow. Unless you pay 4k+, setting up auto-filing for sales/use tax for your #SaaS in over a dozen states is a nightmare. Every registration for each state came back with issues and most of the states don't even understand how a SaaS is supposed to be paying/filing.

People are great but managing takes you away from your craft and adds stress. It's just untenable for many technical craftspeople over the long term -- myself included.

The percentage of technical founders I talk to who are interested in building another company but "don't want to manage people this time" is nearly 100% lol