Devon Meadows

@danshipper @every @linear Idk dude. Linear is great but open source is creeping. I am moving from linear to plane.so. The primary primitive being git and github issues for me. Hosted on my heremes and open claw. Agents largely maintaining my stack now saving me roughly 10k per year.

SaaS isn’t dead, it just needs to become agent-native. Linear (@linear) is a great example of how: They pivoted the product to be used by both humans and agents, and that has made them one of the premier software tools in the agent-native era. I had Linear’s cofounder and CEO @karrisaarinen on @every's AI & I to talk about how a product management tool for human software developers became an agent-native tool—and how Linear’s trajectory reveals a bright future for SaaS businesses: - Speed means decisions matter more, not less. AI makes it easy to have an idea and build it without considering whether its existence is justified. When ChatGPT was released, SaaS companies were launching their own chatbots left, right, and center. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, Linear stopped to consider whether the application was useful. (It wasn’t.) - Just because the technology has changed doesn’t mean your mission should. Karri attributes Linear’s success to never losing sight of what matters: helping teams develop great software. Instead of chasing trends, Linear focused on understanding how AI was impacting its customers’ workflows—and updating its product accordingly. - Agents are now first-class users. Linear never tried to change what it was or did well; it just expanded the user base. Companies can now kick off agents inside Linear, manage them, and track what they're working on alongside the humans on the team, which explains why Codex, Coinbase, and Brex all run their agents on Linear. This is a must watch for anyone interested in how an agent-native SaaS company operates. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction and how Every first discovered Linear: 00:00:39 Why Linear waited to ship AI features instead of rushing to chatbots: 00:02:00 Linear's agent platform and becoming the system that guides AI agents: 00:05:06 Why "SaaS is dead" is a simplistic narrative: 00:07:42 How Linear adopted AI coding tools internally: 00:12:18 AI's impact on product building workflows—speed versus thoughtfulness: 00:17:45 The value of conceptual work and thinking before shipping: 00:22:18 How AI is reshaping Linear's product strategy: 00:29:30 Demo: Linear's agent skills, shared context, and code review workflow: 00:37:18 The future of product development and the enduring role of human judgment: 00:47:48

@Scobleizer @blevlabs You may want to fix your width on mobile. Instantly lost trust in this before i even started scrolling.

Launching now: a new way to follow the AI industry. Beta starts now for the next month. A joint project between Unaligned (my company) and Levangie Labs (@blevlabs company). It reads 50,000 of you, and follows 8,300 AI companies here on X. And pulls out the best and most interesting. All built with the X API. Check it out: alignednews.com/ai And please sign up for its daily newsletter. Yeah, $25 a month is a lot for many of you, but that will defray the costs and let me expand it to do a lot more than just AI. Also, the same AI agent that built the site, and did EVERYTHING you see can build custom reports for you on literally any tech community here on X. It supports OpenClaw, RSS, and Notebook LM too. And I'll add more from your requests. More:

@tom_doerr Show and tell

Open source AI research agent github.com/getcompanion-a…

@EricSimons @boltdotnew Nice work dude

@boltdotnew so sooo good 🔥🤌

Introducing Design System Agents. Turn your repos, npm packages and docs into an agent that builds prototypes engineering can actually ship. The Prototype is t̶h̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶a̶w̶a̶y̶ the Product.

@BatsouElef Atgyyyyyyyu

X is cool. But it’s 100x better when your timeline is full with people who code and build things. If you’re into tech, AI, and startups, say hi 👋

@kzitouni1 Nice work

I started posting on X 3 weeks ago - 0 likes - 0 friends - stalled account Tonight we crossed 500 follows I just wanna thank the community here I'm following a few new faces too, what are you building?

@WiFiMoneyGuy @justsisyphus Its very good in theory. Are you doing this in practice?

Use Hermes as the gateway Have OpenCode SDK with @justsisyphus with custom agents for different tasks on a server And then you use paperclip to manage the entire organization Employees are extinct.

@charlieholtz @conductor_build @ilyasu @nabeel @ycombinator Nice work guys.

Big news for @conductor_build! We've raised a $22m Series A from Spark and Matrix. We raised this round from @ilyasu at Matrix, who also led our seed round and is joining our board, @nabeel at Spark, @ycombinator, and founders of Notion and Linear. We're grateful to be working with investors we trust and admire. Here’s how we got here and where we’re going:

@TTrimoreau @every

Name a tech company that never disappointed you

@mariannehere Depends on niche

What's the most efficient cold outreach option right now? Email Linkedin X Instagram

@hthieblot They just try lots of things

What’s the #1 signal a founder will be successful?

@jainsahil I mean ya it is. Its like build the whole thing vsiterste the thing

Hot take: $0 to $1 MRR is harder than $1 to $100.

@sickdotdev Being fun to be around

Name a skill that actually makes you money

@md_kadiwal Rethink the marketing plan from the ground up

when you get no signups after a launch, what do you actually do next?

@AlexEngineerAI Pace around dumping ideas into my phone and building things

As solo founder how do you deal with burnout?

@sherifgjini Building agents that do marketing for me

Be honest, what do you love more? - Building - Marketing

@bprintco This is harder than it sounds to actually goce away well tuned things that are atill relevent month over month. Takes constant iteration.

Would you guys be interested in me making a full SMB automation you can paste into Claude? Basically every possible thing an agency charges for can be done automatically with a single Claude subscription - Fully SEO optimized site - Ad creatives - Ad management - Keyword tracking - Facebook groups - Weekly SEO reports - Weekly ad reports - Review responses - Email campaigns - Social media scheduling - Competitor monitoring - GBP Optimization - Lead follow-up Sequences - Content Calendar - Blog posts - Invoice reminders - Custom win back emails - Reputation monitoring - Local citation management - CRM Data entry - Proposal / Estimate templates - Job costing reports - Portfolio pages

@Teknium @NousResearch Congrats on being super cool now too. Very elite.

I really love shipping and am kind of addicted to it. Having a huge community of OS devs working on a project with me is super exhilerating! Thanks everyone!

@yashhq_22 Replying to your tweet. Please like and follow. Sub for sub. Need followers. Look at me look at me.

Posting 3x a day on X won't grow your account. Replying 100x a day will. Nobody wants to hear it though.

@every is monologue notes coming to desktop? Love the mobile notes. Will i be able to open desktop mac and see those?