Ferruccio Balestreri
@0xferruccio
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ChatGPT is cool. But what if it could control the browser and find answers on Google for you?. 🤖 I wrote a small program that allows GPT-3 to browse the internet to find answers to your questions
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I made this @shadcn inspired emoji picker for @JuneDotSo as I wasn't satisfied with any of the open source emoji picker components. We've been using it for the past week in our codebase and I'm pretty happy with it
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The only reason why you should learn how to code is because once you become a programmer you’ll have a bias towards “I don’t know how, but I can figure out how to do it” for everything in your life.
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worst pivot of 2022 is the engineering manager substack guy turning into the layoff gossip threads guy.
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After a crazy last 11 months, we are excited to announce that we are raising a $1.85 Seed round investment for @junedotso. @ycombinator, @speedinvest, @kimaventures will also be joining the party as we look to accelerate our growth.
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In the last 5 years, Microsoft slowly ate the development stack. In 5 years they'll provide a better developer environment than Apple. They started with VS Code and WSL. Now they're building the best IDE in the world (with Copilot, remote desktops, and GH Workspaces).
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June is part of YC W21 and we’re live now on Hacker News.
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In B2B every time someone signs up for your product you want to run a quick Google search to qualify them. What if GPT3 could do this for you automatically?. We built this, and are launching it today for all @JuneDotSo users
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🌎 2% of the world knows how to code.🏗 1% of coders ship their own products.👀 The rest of the world is watching. 👨🎤 Be a Maker.
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Here's the prompt I used to teach it how to browse the internet
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Three months ago we quit our jobs, moved to Paris and set out build something new ✨. Today we’re launching the landing page for June - a first step towards our public launch next year.
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Today, I'm lifting the curtain on our journey to perfect our product, messaging, and market strategy. This is everything I wish I knew after raising our seed round two years ago:.
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Turning 25 today! Feeling grateful for the dreams come true this year. Better than I could’ve imagined. I hope next year will also be better than I can imagine now. I’d love to keep working hard, increase randomness in the world, experience new forms of joy and dream bigger.
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We won the Golden Kitty award for Data & Analytics this year 🐈.
Best Data & Analytics Product. 🏆 @JuneDotSo (WINNER). 🏃♂️🔼 Datapad.🏃♂️🔼 Google Trends Supercharged.🏃♂️🔼 @heyequals.
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👨🎨 As part of leveling up our brand we needed to start paying more attention to details. To do it we started by adding care into the details that most people won't notice. Here are two examples from our new landing page. 1️⃣ Hover gradients or gloss effects
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Today in making a product that is 1% better. People scan pages from top to bottom and many big colored cards are distracting. From Fullstory we learned that people got decision paralysis. So we decided to turn these cards into a list with some preview icons
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How did @junedotso get to where we are now?. I wrote a playbook on our experience growing as a B2B SaaS, covering:. 1) Customer Interviews.2) Consistently doing growth experiments.3) Launching on Product Hunt and Hacker News.
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Not sure if we’re an analytics startup or an indie band
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American guy moves to Paris and struggles remembering the genders of everything. So he starts speaking in french only using plurals
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End of this month I’ll be moving to Dublin 🇮🇪 to join @intercom as a product engineer. Currently looking to find a place to stay! Do you know anyone that is looking for apartments or for a flat mate?. Would love to find some other creative pals to live with . 👩🎨👨💻👨🍳👩🔬.
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Linear is creating software for work that is as good as the software we use in our personal lives, like Whatsapp and Instagram. This is a broader trend and as a product nerd I decided to make a list of all the ones I know.
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- Learned to code after reading Hackers and Painters.- Got hired by Intercom from a HN comment.- Got into YC after starting June. Now maybe we'll find someone great to work with?
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All @levelsio products are features for @NomadList :. 🗺 Hood Maps is integrated with it.🔎 RemoteOK is a way for his audience to find jobs.✈️ Airline List is a possible feature for the flights part.📍 Places to Work is a feature.📕 Makebook is a guide to be like him.
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Celebrating 2 years of working full time on @JuneDotSo with some sweet news from back home in Italy 🇮🇹. I've been featured in the @ForbesItalia Under 30 list!.
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Today is my last day at Intercom. I’ll really miss working with everyone there. This last year really changed the way I think about building products. The most evident change is the Irish accent, but my ambition and optimism are also greater then ever.
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we recently moved off datadog to opentelemetry & honeycomb and saved $70k/year. i think for B2B companies that have workloads that depend on customer data it makes sense to have metrics to track latencies for each customer. datadog's pricing doesn't work with high cardinality.
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After 9 months of work. We just got our SOC 2 Type II report for @JuneDotSo. If you're a B2B founder here's everything your should know about it. 👨🏫 What is SOC 2?.💰 How much does it cost?.⏰ How long did it take?.🔒 What else do you need to do to be secure?
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Most that people that run, advise or invest into software companies are unaware of the concepts in “the mythical man month”. There’s only a few things one needs to know to build software, yet everyone forgets them:.
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Need help with one of the following?. UI/UX Design.Programming.Deploying.System Design.Strategy.Technical Job Interviews. Let’s hop on a call. DM to schedule, for free no strings attached :). Starting with 1 spot a day.
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🆕 Open sourcing today .codegen - an internal library I built for the team at @JuneDotSo to automatically generate tests for any file in our codebase. 🤝 In combination with @cursor_ai it's one of our secret weapons to increase shipping speed & quality.
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@shadcn @JuneDotSo The most fun thing I added to it was a special hover color for each emoji, based on its dominant color
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I’m 24 today - wonder if I’ll get to 25 with no drivers license.
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We’ll make the internet feel so much more delightful 🍬
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a friend and I are doing this in Paris with the first delivery next Sunday - DM me if you're interested. - 7 meals a week for 140€.- no seed oils, healthy, high protein, low carbs.- in sealed re-usable glass containers.
Some of my friends in NYC started a private chef as a service to automate meal prep + split the cost + it saves me a ton of time:. Actually healthy + yummy meals delivered weekly in glass containers. They’re expanding the group and I have a few invites left, reply if interested!!
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The most successful software has a cathedral core - centrally planned core architecture - and a bazaar toolbox - hacky community developed extensions and ways of using the product.
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All the engineering team is working from Berlin in person this week
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Going back to what I was saying, here’s why you shouldn’t make products for makers! . @louisnicholls_ explained this better than I could
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🎉 After 3 PH launches, on my fourth launch I finally got a spot in the top 5 products of the day yesterday!. 🙏 Big thanks to everyone, it means a lot to me
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Oh fuck it's 4am and I spent the last 3 hours building and deploying an admin panel and app to manage applications to YeCombinator
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I just created my own Mailchimp (email tracking included) as I didn't want to pay to send my monthly newsletter. Still thinking about selling something to makers? Think again 😂.
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wtf is scrum? sounds like a word used by people that don't get any work done.
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📆 After a year of hard work we're finally ready to launch June 3.0 today. 🫶 The past two weeks have been a whirlwind we've been crunching until late hours to get this release out!. If you want to support us likes and RTs are highly appreciated.
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@VivanVatsa i don’t think it has anything to do with india. as a proof you can look at the replies section of any of his tweets. you get the same in most places in the world - the fireside chat format with questions from the audience is always hollow.
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What's the point of building if you don't have fun while doing it. For our customer page we wanted celebrate how June is primarily built on strong personal relationships. I couldn't think of anything better than making it look like the WhatsApp conversations with customers
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A super cheesy thing I do is to frame goals in terms of process and not outcomes. It takes years to get fit, but it only takes a couple of weeks to becomes someone that exercises every day.
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🧙♂️A magic ranking algorithm for news boards/upvote based communities.📈 Score = (u-1) / (t+2)^g.u = Upvotes (-1 to cancel out the point of the original submitter).t = time.g = gravity (a gravitational constant, to make the post decay).🏆Posts are ordered by Score.
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Love the work @JaimeObregon is doing collecting public data and building tools that highlight government corruption and inefficiency in Spain. Open data activism feels like a good way to make everyone aware of the incompetence and bad intentions of the bureaucrats.
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📊 Our two launches by the numbers. 😻 PH launch.993 Upvotes.165 Sign ups.54 Connected segment (within 24hr).32.7% signup conversion rate. 🍊 HN launch.125 Points.116 Sign ups.61 Connected segment (within 24hr).52.5% signup conversion rate. Funnel made with @JuneDotSo
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Every failed startup story by ~overly~ technical founders is: ”We ran out of our seed money before getting any traction, we were using Clojure though”.
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Does everything converge to a chat app?.I have 14 on my phone.- Slack.- Discord.- iMessage.- Whatsapp.- Telegram.- WeChat.- Twitter.- Basecamp.- Evernote.- Signal.- Stealthy im.- Appear in.- Zoom.- Skype.
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yc added “What tech stack are you using, or planning to use, to build this product?” as a question to their application. wonder what’s the point of knowing the answer.
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Just realized I spent the last two hours coding on my laptop’s screen and forgot I have a monitor
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Late Tuesday night is a great time to publish a blog post on our engineering principle.
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i just made a tool to receive forms as messages on Telegram.you check it out here: ** still kind of WIP, but it works fine **.
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It's crazy how my personal blog is picking up steam. In the last 5 days:.🚀 18k total sessions by 15k uniques.💯 Traffic stabilising at a little more than 1k uniques a day spread across my two latest posts.💌 150 people subscribed to get my monthly newsletter. What should I do?.
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8 months ago we had pressure to spend more money and grow the team . we did our own thing keeping a team of 7, focused on growing revenue and not headcount. now all of a sudden everyone agrees it was a good idea.
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dude you're not going to build anything cool jumping from remote work, to nfts, to ai safety to the next thing™️ every 6 months.
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The Amazon writing guidelines are the best rules for good communication
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launching on the orange site today 🔔. wish us luck with the toughest crowd on the internet 🍀
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We just got back from the @JuneDotSo team retreat in sunny Crete 🇬🇷. Was great to meet @DanielBeere IRL, celebrate some recent milestones and make some plans for the next months
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Last week the pace at @JuneDotSo was unreal. In one week our team of 4 engineers shipped 65 updates. For over 30 different customers. From the outside it might not feel as big, but let me highlight the story behind 6 of these updates and the customers behind them.
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Thanks for the love yesterday on PH!! We got almost 1k upvotes :).
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First day in SF and it already feels like living in the future 🤯
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I'm hiring a product engineer to join us as #4 on the team. They'd be joining us right before our Series A. I think it's the best time ever for someone to join. We already have a product people love and can still offer great equity (w/ 100x potential).
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three years ago today we were applying to YC with @0zne . never learned as much as I did in the past three years, but that wisdom has come with accelerated aging
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Back home from a weekend meeting the @PointNineCap founders and feeling energized and motivated to push harder after meeting so many people that are years ahead of us.
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🥁 After a month of work and hundreds of conversations. We’re excited to announce the all new feature report. The fastest way to validate, iterate and celebrate your features
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Just had a crazy a-ha moment using @ArcInternet's Easel feature. You can add live screenshots of any product you use into one page. Here's my Inbox - with unread Emails, Twitter notifications and Pull Requests
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🥰 we just launched our new website. what i love about it is that we're not trying to be linear. we're embracing who we are. it took a couple of months to put together, but it was all worth it. let me know what you think of it.
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Back from a week in Marseille with the whole @JuneDotSo team. Way too many exciting things coming up ✨💜
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Small UI improvement of the day on our upgrade modal. In some customer calls users thought our pricing was something you'd learn only by talking to us, so we fixed that with a new design
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@paularambles not sure if someone mentioned it already but there’s also thursday that does the same but only on thursdays.
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something surprising is that the most successful people in tech are genuinely very nice and humble. anyone you meet that has a big ego is generally full of shit.
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Love the internet. My grandma found a site someone made about her grandfather traveling Europe cycling in 1905. After his trip he wrote a book: “Traveling Light or Cycling Europe on Fifty Cents a Day”
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@isabella_patane Jokes aside saying you’re looking for someone to join your product advisory board yields surprisingly good results! We got our first paid customers by asking free users to join our product’s design committee. Somehow it sounds more reassuring than “beta tester”.
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@PaulYacoubian @chris__lu Incredible work! Super exciting to see you guys reinvent yourselves and the product so quickly :).
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Why do job descriptions for eng roles ask for “experience in building complex systems”?. I’d want my teammates to build the simplest system possible that still works and is reliable.
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As we’re almost done with building june what’s next for us is
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Product-market fit is all about finding the combination of a use case and a persona that consistently gets value from your product.
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Big win of the week is @0zne sharing the gospel on Forbes. This might not move the growth needle, but really made my dad proud.
"Analytics are complicated and notoriously difficult to setup correctly. @JuneDotSo's (YC W21) two-click approach with building blocks & templates makes it easy to get valuable insights across all of your data sources.".
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The no code movement for me is just some bullshit. If you want to make something and refuse to learn how to code and look for shortcuts you have no chance of making it. Making stuff people want is already hard. Why would you add the struggle of "doing it without writing code"?.
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If you want to play around with it or use it in one of your projects you can find more information here:.
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Happy to be part of @beondeck’s ODF5, starting in two weeks. Any tips from past fellows on how to get the most out of it?.
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Notion in 2015 had video calls to collaborate live on documents
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Doing a startup causes irreparable physical damage. Long hours in front of the laptop with high stress levels did this to me:. - I grind my teeth in my sleep.- I got myopia from staring too much into my screen.- My forearms are painful because of repetitive strain (bad typing.
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Best thing I’ve found this week are Max Guther’s illustrations.
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coming back home now after a week off. hiked from bologna to florence and then spent some time with family in liguria :)
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We’ve improved by a lot how we write code at June in the past year! Should I write about the patterns we’re adopting and the reasoning behind them?.
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End of a crazy week at @JuneDotSo . Next week something big is coming. You’ve never seen something like this in b2b software before.
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Next week will be the first time the full @JuneDotSo will meet in the south of France. It will also probably be the last retreat where the whole company fits inside of a car.
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