Tobyn Sowden

@tobi @fnthawar Oh damn. This will be Trump’s excuse to tariff all digital services.

Our regulators have lost the plot. Literally, figuratively, and metaphorically.

@CridgeJason Ooooo valid point. You’re more exposed than me!

@tobyns Can’t miss that tsunami warning when it comes though! 😆

12:58am Let’s wake up the entire province of 5.5m people some of who are an 18hr + drive from the place this happened Who’s making these calls? Why wasn’t this limited to a geographic area?

@BetaKit Why build this downtown?!?

Telus and the federal government have unveiled plans for three AI data centre projects in BC. The proposed “sovereign AI factory cluster” could generate $9 billion in economic activity and includes a downtown Vancouver facility. betakit.com/steel-concrete…

@nejatian I’m actually really happy about this. Canadian Tire rescued this brand by buying the IP out of the bankruptcy process. They’ve rolled out these products rather quickly and kept it alive.

This makes me so sad. Corporate bureaucrats have ruined so many companies while becoming so personally rich.

Yeah okay, Lego bros, brodettes and brotheys are cooked with this one. GPT 2 Image can create full Lego sets! With actual Bricklink IDs so you can order the parts and build it. Whole new business opportunity here for the taking.

ChatGPT has entered the "one more thing" era - every reply concludes with something along the lines of: If you'd like, I can ... 🙄

@thepatwalls @HubSpot Congrats Pat!

8 years ago, I started a side project inside of a tiny Starbucks. Today, Starter Story is being acquired by @HubSpot. Here’s how it happened.

@jasonlk @lennysan @Replit Right there with you Jason … never been a better time to build 💪👏

"This is the most exciting time in our lives to build software" with @lennysan "I can't even code and I've built 12 apps on @Replit that have been used almost 1,000,000 times. And we run an eight figure business with 2 humans and 20 AI Agents. This wasn't even possible at the start of 2025. These are magical times. But it's also even more work. It's hard. Pick your path."

All I want for Christmas is for the DocuSign signing sound to be permanently silenced.

@jasonlk If it’s your ESP let’s chat. I could probably expose our internal API that powers our UI and you could bring your own UI (could always login and use ours). Based on your Repliting, I think you’d at least have a good time.

I almost switched to over to an $80,000 a year vendor today — after many, many years on the competiton. What stopped me? The $7,500 migration fee It’s not that I can’t afford it. It’s just that, combined with the fact the new vendor was slightly more expensive, just adding too much friction to the deal. I might still buy. But not today. Not this year, not anymore. Now, it’s pushed into 2026. Was it worth asking for the $7,500 'migration' fee? Would you want to pay it yourself?

@tomosman @Replit @stripe Have you tried Mixpanel? No native integration with @Replit - no problem! It was a one shot prompt for me, took 9 mins, cost $1.76 and tagged every interaction event with the right set of properties and super properties. An extra bonus prompt had the People/Profiles embedded.

Just tested the full @Replit x @stripe Sandbox integration for the first time end-to-end. I must say, vibe coders rejoice. Setting up payments are no longer painful! Full video walkthrough coming shortly...

I feel like I know a secret that no one knows, and that secret is: @Replit Once you've spent an hour with Agent 3, you'll realize that software development won't ever be the same.

@CridgeJason Yeah dumb decision

Bad news for neocloud providers who are using power in BC

@thisiskp_ nope. replit agent just went down

any new vibe coding apps/ launches lately?

@Docusign Please turn off signing sound by default. It is the most annoying thing about Docusign and I would re-consider the software for our businesses if this doesn't change. No, you can't turn this off in the case I'm logged out and sign a document - still makes the sound!

Canadian government is missing opportunities to double down on previously announced initiatives like flow through shares (FTS) for r&d in AI startups and IP box for commercialization. Both incentivize building & staying in Canada. theglobeandmail.com/business/econo…

@nickgraynews We stayed for my 40th birthday in late January. Make sure restaurant renovation is complete ahead of your booking dates. Views are epic. Bring your bathing suits.

Post Ranch Inn in Big Sur, California — if you have any thoughts or tips about this hotel please LMK! I’m considering a stay there soon

@nicmulroney @PortofinoBakery Our family runs on @PortofinoBakery - rye, multigrain, and garlic … the best! 👏🇨🇦

Great time to highlight @PortofinoBakery Some of the best bread in 🇨🇦 made by a great team out west! Proud of what we are building.

Who made this 😅