Alex Drankou

wow, Locu made it to Top 10 Fastest Growing Startups of the Week (+790%) no funding, no ads. just me, @_kraci and @martinboksa building something we actually wanted to use ourselves based on TrustMRR data by @marclou 🙏

@benjitaylor @tcosta @elonmusk @nikitabier what a move! 🚀

I’m honoured to be joining 𝕏 to lead design. I believe this is the most important platform in the world, and I can’t think of a more exciting place to help shape the future. I’m looking forward to working closely with @elonmusk, @nikitabier, and the rest of the team. I’m grateful for the opportunity, humbled to be part of it, and can't wait to get started!

@theo have you tried agents.craft.do?

People keep asking me about Conductor vs T3 Code, here is my thoughts (open source ftw)

@linear love the game of life theme 👌

Issue tracking is dead. We are building what comes next. linear.app/next

I think there should be new AI benchmark for Anthropic only - UX of the Claude desktop app. Once it’s polished and smooth, we’re cooked and probably reached AGI😁 So long way to go..

@AnthonyTsivarev what happened to TON ID?

Launched a new Badges section on Identity. More than 210 badge collections are now visible on the platform. The point of badges is simple – they should reflect something real: participation, contribution, milestones, and ecosystem history. This matters because profiles become more useful when they show visible proof of what a person has actually done and been part of. Not noise, but useful context. That is the direction we want to keep pushing on Identity. More here: identityhub.app/blog/value-of-…

I think we have lost some sense of judgment and moderation when it comes to product building currently. The moment you turn something into a universally celebrated metric, whether that is token burn, prototype count, or percentage of agent-written code, you start losing sight of what actually matters. I have felt the same way for a long time about overusing data and A/B testing to build products. The moment you reduce product quality or productivity to a metric, you stop shipping value and start shipping numbers. A lot of what people are doing with AI makes directional sense. The missing piece is counterbalance: 1. AI should help engineers build better products. Leaderboards and adoption metrics can be useful as directional signals. They do not tell you what is being built, whether it is good, or whether it should exist at all. 2. Users do not care what percentage of your code was written by agents. They care about the outcome. Faster output is useful. Like usually, faster doesn't seem to add to quality, clarity, or stability of products. Power to build should not become an excuse to lower quality bars. 3. LLM-generated prototypes can feel like late-night whiteboarding sessions. They look exciting in the moment and feel productive very quickly. Then a few days later you realize the idea was shallow, distracting, or simply wrong. The same trap shows up in jumping straight to code and solutions more broadly. You may just be building the wrong thing more efficiently. Prototyping has its place. So do clear thinking, good design, and a real understanding of the user’s problem. In terms of activities or momentum, the main quest and the side quest can both feel productive but only one actually moves the mission forward. 4. Adding more to products is still dangerous as ever even if time or effort to add it has gone down. Every addition creates complexity, maintenance cost, and user confusion. New features should be pushed back unless they clearly show it should exist and how it improves the product. 5. Not everything needs to be an agent shaped. A simple scheduled task does not need a full LLM sandbox. Making something agentic because it feels current or impressive does not make it right-sized, correct, or effective. The core ideas are: - even if you can, maybe you should not. - more power we have to build should not reduce our need to think, it should increase it.

@thomaspaulmann Congrats on the launch!

Your computer, finally personal. Today we're launching Glaze, the second product in Raycast's history. It's a big moment for us, and I want to share the thinking behind it. Something is fundamentally changing about software. We see it every day inside our own team. People who never wrote a line of code are now contributing directly to our codebase. The barrier between "having an idea" and "making it real" is collapsing. And that changes everything. For six years, we've obsessed over what makes a great desktop app. The speed. The polish. The feeling of something that truly belongs on your computer. We've poured that into Raycast, and hundreds of thousands of people use it every day. But all that knowledge was locked inside our team. With Glaze, we're commoditizing it. Everything we've learned about building beautiful, capable desktop apps is now available to everyone. Tell Glaze what you want and it builds a real app that lives in your dock or taskbar. It launches instantly, works offline, and taps into the full power of your desktop. Beautiful by default and personal when you want it to be. It's fun for individuals and works just as well for teams. Our support team built a Glaze app connected to GitHub that runs their entire extension review workflow. Others have built dozens of internal tools. When you can shape software around how your team actually works, everything clicks. Here's what gets me most excited: we think Raycast becomes even more important in a world full of Glaze apps. Glaze apps will be deeply integrated with Raycast, connecting them all together in ways nobody else can do. The two products make each other better. A small team started building Glaze from scratch last summer. What they've shipped in that time still blows my mind. When we started Raycast, we set out to change how people use their computers. Glaze is the next chapter of that mission. We're opening the private beta today, March 4th. Mac only to start. Existing Raycast users will get priority access soon. We can't wait to see what you create and I’ll share some of my apps over the next couple of days. 💠

@lochieaxon @joebell_ 🔥🔥🔥

It's time to bring Haptics to the web 🫨 Create custom tactile patterns with strengths + durations for your web interactions. Make your app feel as good as it looks ✨ → haptics.lochie.me

@martinboksa Programmers but not engineers :)

Cursor AI agents now send you videos of themselves coding. Claude Code now lets you control coding sessions from your phone while you take a walk. The signals that the end of programmers is coming keep piling up.

added a little detail to my portfolio website

I really wish Apple had some sort of a deep link to "Add widget" screen..

@reactiive_ smooth transitions 👌

Shape morphing animations are so addictive. Just added a few to enzo.fyi

@HonzaTmn @base_ui @linear great UX improvement!

Experimenting with toast deduplication on @base_ui: instead of stacking them, I just make the same toast pulse slightly. Inspired by how @linear handles it.

@benjitaylor wow! 👏

Liveline: a Polymarket-inspired real-time chart library for live markets (e.g. 15-minute BTC windows) or any streaming data. Fully animated, with built-in time-window controls, orderbook components, particle bursts, and more. ~npm i liveline

Want this on your home screen? Ring Widget app is available on the App Store 👇 apps.apple.com/us/app/ring-wi…

Liquid Glass was made for widgets like this. @ouraring activity, steps, calories — all at a glance 💍

give it a try locu.app, focus is still a competitive advantage in the AI era

wow, Locu made it to Top 10 Fastest Growing Startups of the Week (+790%) no funding, no ads. just me, @_kraci and @martinboksa building something we actually wanted to use ourselves based on TrustMRR data by @marclou 🙏

@T_Zahil try Locu (locu.app)

Linear users: do you use it for solo projects? If so, why choose it over something simple like Todoist?