Andy @ Glide

Sitting in on the @NotionDevs launch watch party in Toronto. Notion’s docs UI is deceptive — there’s always been a powerful DB platform under the hood. The new dev capabilities (sync, CLI, managed agents, etc…) crack it open.

@andruyeung Group training. Need the coach to keep the team members accountable.

Stripe just created a role that didn't exist 12 months ago (and they're paying multiple six figures for it) It's called the Forward Deployed AI Accelerator. They are hiring AI-native individuals to work directly with their marketing teams to fundamentally change how they work. Each person will be assigned to a cohort of 20 marketers. Their job is to build custom AI tools and agents and coach each marketer until they are self-sufficient. Basically, work with marketers until they automate their jobs. Stripe's marketing org is betting that AI should not be an occasional tool but the default mode for all work. But they also understand that most employees won't upskill themselves. They'll need someone who is embedded within their teams to build alongside them. If you are AI-pilled, this is probably the role for you. And this also gives a clear picture of where every organization within a company is heading.

“Stripe's marketing org is betting that AI should not be an occasional tool but the default mode for all work. But they also understand that most employees won't upskill themselves. They'll need someone who is embedded within their teams to build alongside them.”

@MatthewBerman @agentmail flingit.io is like here.now with backend, cron jobs, email, frontend. Its incredible. You can just build.

@bentossell @FactoryAI Your announcement was the first email I read this morning. Love the transparency + shared journey. Congrats on the new role. Perfect fit. 🤘

📣 Some news I’m excited to join @FactoryAI as Head of Dev Rel I shared the full story in bens bites this morning. Tldr; - Started in tech working at Product Hunt (2015) - Built stuff with no-code tools - No one signed up for any ‘startup’ I launched - Started Makerpad - a company to teach ‘no-code building’ (2018/2019) - Sold it to Zapier (2021) - Started (the first) daily AI newsletter (2023) - Started an AI fund I cannot code. My whole career was banging the drum that you don’t need to learn to code to start a company and make money. I proved that with Makerpad - the amount of people to this day that said it helped them start a business, make money or get a job is truly special. AI came along and I felt like I was right on my message, wrong on the format (not drag ’n’ drop tools). AI has changed a lot for me. I’ve become more technical by just being curious. Getting ahead of myself with AI coding tools then learning backwards (whats a dependency, wtf are linters, how do i use GitHub etc). I still can’t code, but I understand a lot of the stack now. So I’m coming out of retirement - an exited founder turned investor often stays there - the comfortable life. But I’m 35, not 75. I like testing myself, I like meaty challenges. It’s time for me to get back to operating and teaching again. You’ll notice I’ve been talking about Factory a bit (I invested back in 2023). It’s a team and mission that I’ve watched grow (tremendously) in that time and my conviction along with it. The team is doing incredible things with AI, they believe in an agent-native future with coding tools across the browser, cli, slack, linear and more. We have a BIG launch soon 👀. The newsletter will stay as is. I will cover the entire industry and I’ll share stuff I’m working on, just as before. If you want to be more technically-able, I want to talk with you, help you and learn from you. I will also still be investing from Ben’s Bites Fund II - I focus on AI developer tools and infrastructure - I’ll continue to invest in this community. If you’re an LP or founder - DM/email me! I want to thank Keshav, Shanice and Adam for sticking with me and helping this newsletter run. I couldn’t do everything I do without them. Looking back at my career all the dots make a beautiful connected arc. But from the start there’s not a chance I’d think I’d ever be here, shipping code, using a terminal, working closely with developers and now teaching others. From not technical at all, to technical non-technical member of technical staff.

Walking to Here East from Stratford Station takes you through a construction zone surrounding a chill cafe. Seems apt for @CreateWithHQ 🧱

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@jamesdevonport @CreateWithHQ

Everything is firing on all cylinders at @CreateWithHQ for the conference later this week. This year's edition is an upgrade in every way from 2024 with more happening than ever!

@CreateWithHQ 🥂

Welcome to the United Kingdom @nocodeandy 🇬🇧🎉 Thrilled to welcome you!! 🙌 We’ll put the kettle on ☕️🫖

@dariusdan @frisohakkers Skeuomorphism but worse?

@frisohakkers I hope will not become a standard!

I am afraid to say it, am I the only one to not like the new Airbnb 3D icons?

@ademaussion @glideapps Stay tuned, might be out your way later this year 👀

@nocodeandy @glideapps Come on in France 🇫🇷🥖

I’m in London this week for #CreateWith and meetups w/ the @glideapps crew + my first time in 🇬🇧!

@dominiconorton @glideapps Pretty full calendar already, but we’ve got time on Tuesday. Drop me a DM 👌

@nocodeandy @glideapps Let's get lunch before the conference, I know some great spots and people to join if you're not too busy? Maybe we do a No Code/AI dinner?

@tomosman @glideapps This was the last piece of advice from my wife! “Worse than Paris?” “Worse than Paris.” Meanwhile in Toronto we’re leaving our laptops lying around on cafe tables without a second thought 😅

@nocodeandy @glideapps Enjoy. p.s. don't walk around with your phone on your hand. top tip.

Nothing quite like the pure chaos of an Air Canada gate queue. Suddenly everyone forgets how numbers work.

@saminsolitude @glideapps We’ve got a bunch of stuff coming with API 2.0, should come in handy for situations like this. apidocs.glideapps.com/api-reference/…

Sharing a small tip when you need to export data/path from a multiple files column in @glideapps . Regular export data will not give that. Simply use their GET API and write a few additional lines in python or javascript to store the file locally. Simple! As I'm migrating data from one tool to another, I hit roadblocks and this was one.

Meanwhile in Toronto @lovable 👀

@erwblo @glideapps Ha! Yeah, a defined method to the madness. 😅

@nocodeandy @glideapps And knowing what to do :-)

I spend a ton of time with Gliders, but talking to users != being a user. Gotta get in there and build things. So I swung back into builder mode with @glideapps this week. Feels good. Biggest difference from vibe coding? Starting with backend structure, not frontend UX/UI.

@mdcrowcroft @thinking_slow IMO "think like a media company" still resonates Just gotta think like a better media company than the trash content mills pumping out shlock surrounded by Taboola placements

@thinking_slow The 'think like a media company' approach to SEO is getting killed by AI Overviews. 'How to resign', 'business name ideas' are huge search volume, but also the easiest for AI Overviews to serve.