Adam Renklint
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Co-founder and CEO @Pitch , the fastest way to create, share, and get insights from beautiful presentations that grow your business. Prev @Wunderlist @Microsoft .
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Want to ship decks that make heads turn, jaws drop, turn prospects to customers or secure that next investment round?
@Pitch
has got you covered. Check it out for free at
@christianreber
@Pitch
We keep getting compliments on our deck - not a single prospective investor hasn’t mentioned it
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Don't be confused.
@Pitch
is nowhere near being dead.
We generate >4.4m € in ARR, and we have more than 6m € in cash. We're changing course towards becoming profitable asap, with the remaining all-star team of ~40 people.
Yesterday's announcement was painful, but we still
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Today, we’ve finally shipped a new text editor for
@Pitch
. ✍️ It enabled us to squash 50 long-standing text editing bugs and remove 4 years of accumulated tech debt. Here’s what it’s built with and how it works. 🧵 (1/9)
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@EncestralZ
It would be if we were building our software as a layer on top of PowerPoint, as Arc is a front end for Google’s Chromium browser. But we built it from scratch instead. You could argue that our desktop app is an Electron skin, I’ll give you that ;)
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Today is the start of a new era at Pitch. We are rebooting to become a much leaner company, and I will lead the way as the new CEO.
I want to thank
@ChristianReber
for all his hard work getting us this far, and express my deep appreciation to all the amazing Pitchers departing
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I'm reminded today that it's already been five years since we decided against corporate politics and legacy software lacking soul and character. Together with my friends, I founded
@Pitch
to find a more creative work environment, a home for software nerds with passion for...
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When we founded
@Pitch
in 2018, it was a fresh start for us all, and I had one clear priority: to build a product team that constantly shipped exciting new features and improvements.
Every 👏 single 👏 week.
Here's how and why I set this pace (thread) 👇
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We finally launched
@Pitch
publicly yesterday and I'm so excited to see the responses from new and existing users. Keep the positive vibes and constructive feedback coming 🙌
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This year is feeling different for
@Pitch
and we're off to a great start. We managed to make a deal with our investors to avoid being crushed by bull market hyper growth expectations, rebooted the company in a leaner setup, spent a lot of time talking to customers and partners,
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I'm looking to hire experienced
#ClojureScript
devs in Berlin, to join a new company working on a Reagent/Re-frame based app. DMs are open.
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This feature request was sitting at the top of our Canny board for ages, but had to take a backseat as we searched for a "unicorn feature" to try to grow into our last valuation and hyper-growth expectations.
With the reboot of
@Pitch
in its nimbler form, we completely switched
Did a colleague accidentally delete your pitch deck just before the call? 😱
No need to panic! Recovering recently deleted presentations and templates just got a whole lot easier. 🗑️
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One of the more exciting results of
@Pitch
's reboot into a smaller and simpler form is that the role as CEO is a lot less complicated than before. Fewer meetings, fewer documents, less process and much more time to dream, build and try. Haven't coded this much in years.
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Our team
@Pitch
has been hard at work re-imagining the experience when presenting your ideas, and this is the first step towards a bigger vision. Really proud of what we've done here, give it a spin!
We want to help you present your ideas with confidence.
Our new player will help your ideas ✨shine✨ and gives your team space for focused review and feedback. (Plus, it’s just really, really, really, ridiculously good looking.)
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Taking advantage of paid and open-source solutions allows us to build Pitch faster.
@magicbell_io
powers our notifications,
@pusher
our real-time collaboration, and live video runs on
@trydaily
. Now, we’re releasing a new text editor built on
@ProseMirror
. (2/9)
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Big day for the
@Pitch
team, as our hard work of building a presentation tool that makes it easy to create beautiful decks that actually deliver results has paid off by reaching a huge milestone.
And to our users, the teams that thrive by using Pitch, thank you ❤️
Over 1 million teams now use Pitch. 🤯
We set out to make it fast, easy, and fun for anyone to express ideas through presentations. We love seeing so many people doing just that. 💜
Explore how some of the world’s best teams are using Pitch →
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We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to come join us at
@Pitch
. If you love working with browsers, would like to learn and work with ClojureScript, and believe we can achieve more when we team up and collaborate, please apply via
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To celebrate this update, we want to give a shout-out to
@MarijnJH
for creating and maintaining the
@ProseMirror
open-source library. We loved working with it so much that we decided to support Marijn financially. Thank you! (8/9)
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This is a new version of Pitch many intense weeks in the making. So proud of the entire
@Pitch
team for shipping this today.
Check it out, and try our new AI draft generator!
Introducing Pitch 2.0 ✨ Start faster with AI. Bring your ideas to life. Know what works.
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The year started in a rough way for
@Pitch
, but in the last month we've seen some very exciting signs of increased revenue momentum. We've gotten back into the habit of shipping constantly, back to our roots with a small world-class team, and our users love it.
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We're looking for a (remote) Frontend Performance Engineer
@Pitch
. If you are passionate about making software that runs at the speed of light, we'd love to hear from you. Come join an ambitious product team and build the future of presentation software:
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@MiraTechno
@_mavilein
We’re looking for Frontend and React Native engineers
@Pitch
, in Berlin or remote. Previous Clojure/Script experience not required. Check out if you’re interested in building the future of collaboration and presentation software.
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So happy to finally share
@Pitch
with the world. Come check it out :)
I’m proud to share that
@Pitch
is open to everyone.
We started Pitch to redefine the way teams work with presentations. Today’s launch marks the biggest milestone in that journey, with many more yet to come. 🚀
Read more 👉
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We're looking for a Frontend Performance Engineer to help build the future of presentation software. Do you love making things fast and have an internal clock running at 16.67ms? Join us at
@Pitch
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Big news from us today, and an exciting path to build the world first complete platform for presentations. Do you enjoy building useful things with amazing people? We're hiring, so come join our quest!
A new chapter of Pitch begins today: We've raised $85m to build the first complete platform for presentations. 🚀
Our founder
@christianreber
on our new funding, our expanded product vision, and a few initiatives you can expect to see very soon ➡️
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This is just the beginning. Next, we’ll bring the new editor to tables and speaker notes. Also, we’re forming a new team to focus on text editing and our custom canvas engine. Sounds interesting? We’re actively hiring at . ✌️
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@naterez94
We returned most of the money we raised in the last round in exchange for removing liq pref and getting 80% ownership back to founders and employees.
But yes, 2021 was insane.
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A great practice that I've observed among
@Pitch
engineers is pervasive use of FIXMEs to declutter your mind and keep work moving forward. A bit like the "parking lot" concept observed in workshops.
@pesterhazy
wrote about its effectiveness a while back:
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Paragraph spacing. Select a text block, open the design panel and change the paragraph spacing under “More text options”. You’d be surprised how long it took us to come to an agreement that relative values are better suited for spacing than absolute. (5/9)
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Automatic text styling. Paste text on a slide, and it will automatically take on the color and font style of the slide. Paste it inside an existing text block, like a title, and it will inherit its style. Basic styling like hyperlinks will be maintained in both cases. (6/9)
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Today I'm really excited to announce that Ulrik Bo Larsen (
@silentcrooner
) is joining Pitch as Executive Chairman and President. He has an impressive track record of building very successful, customer-focused businesses, and shares our values and vision for what Pitch can now
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No more awkward typos. To everyone who needed to check spelling and grammar, we heard you! Pitch now supports system spell check on the web and our macOS and Windows desktop apps. Just right-click on underlined words. (4/9)
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I'm so excited to finally launch this publicly. We've been using this internally for our weekly Team Bulletin the past month, and it's been amazing to see the views appear moments after sharing the custom link.
Check it out and tell us what you think!
Introducing slide views! 📊
Use custom links + engagement analytics to discover which slides catch your visitors' attention — and which ones they've missed.
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Looking for a ClojureScript developer who uses Windows. Seems hard to find. Want to work on the next generation of presentation software? DM me for info.
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Yesterday we released
@Pitch
2.0, which introduced our amazing AI draft generator, a way to overcome the anxiety of staring at a blank slide and instead jumpstart the deck creation process with a customised template specifically for your use case or story.
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Dream in years, plan in months, prioritize in weeks, execute in days.
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Me and my friends at
@Pitch
are looking for a backend developer (Clojure, Go or Node.js) to work on our new exciting project. Do you want to build something cool from scratch, for fun and profit?
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Very proud of
@pesterhazy
holding the
@Pitch
flag high in this in-depth conversation about flow of work, smaller step sizes and how we use Clojure to win and have fun while enabling every team's best thinking.
This walk I talked to
@pesterhazy
about how
@Pitch
builds their presentation software, trunk-based development, path focused design, feature flagging, and lots more.
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Shipping is the pulse of a product team. And we are alive. 🚀
We’ve shipped 40 updates in 13 months — we’re moving as fast as we can to get Pitch in your hands! We’re inviting more users every day, so make sure you’re on our waitlist:
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@Superlist
, the spiritual successor to the much-loved and often-imitated Wunderlist, is launching today. I've been using it since the first beta and it has become a fundamental part of my personal productivity. Congrats
@jansenniklas
,
@christianreber
,
@marcelkaeding
and team 👏
We've got wunderful news: Today, we're releasing Superlist 1.0 – the new home to all your lists. 💥
To-do lists, shopping lists, reading lists, playlists…we all work with lists every day.
Superlist brings a modern approach to organizing your work, seamlessly blending personal
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Come for the technical challenges, stay for
@juliusgehrig
's infectious positivity and ambitious vision.
My team is hiring! We're looking for a Frontend Engineer with a background in web development and data visualization to help us build the chart, table, and data integrations tools of
@Pitch
🎢
If this sounds interesting to you or someone you know →
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So excited to finally launch our iOS app! Big up to our mobile team who has been hard at work on this for a long time. Want to work and thrive in such an awesome team? We're hiring:
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Since founding
@Pitch
six years ago, our mission has always been to enable anyone to create great presentations, that look beautiful and most importantly helps achieve your goals, without design skills or needing to configure complex layout systems.
Thank you all for sharing your love for
@Pitch
❤️ Our design team has spent countless hours (or should I say years?!) to build the state of the art UI that's easy to use for everyone (not only design tool power users — love them!) And now major players are copying it — what a
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This clip makes me so happy. When we founded
@Pitch
, we were determined to help people stop wasting time on aligning boxes and doing tedious formatting tasks. It melts my heart to hear we've delivered on that promise.
One year later, collaboration within Frontify has flourished, too. 🌻
For brand manager Janine Bosshart, it's all about how Pitch helps her flow.
“When I’m looking for something, it’s usually there — whereas in other tools, I’m lost, and I Google it.”
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Sam Aaron enables and inspires creative and curious music programmers of all ages and skill levels through his free and open source code composition tool SonicPi (). Support the development:
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Finally all your Notion docs can have beautiful previews of Pitch presentations ❤️
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Some really exciting stuff in this week’s release. 👏, 🙌 and 🌮 to my
@Pitch
crew for consistently shipping useful and delightful tools to our happy users.
This week we’re shipping 4 new features, 4 improvements, and 4 bug fixes.
🕵️ Not ready to share a slide with the world? Don’t worry, we get that! Now you can individually hide slides in your presentations.
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I’m always proud and impressed to see what our team at
@Pitch
ships every week, and for the last release of the year, I even got to push some production code myself. Go get your slide numbers on!
This week we're shipping 4 new features, 3 improvements, 6 bug fixes, and 5 new templates.
🔢 Add slide numbers: Pitchmas came early to everyone who requested this feature! Now you can insert slide numbers into your deck with just one click.
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Our team
@pitch
has been working with educators to build public resources for more inclusive workplaces. We have decks on setting boundaries, finding diverse support networks, inclusive company practices, and more!
Look out for the
#InclusionAtWork
collection launching May 31🏳️🌈
According to a
@UCLA
study in 2021, 50% of LGBT workers in the US were not out to their current supervisors.
We’re working with educators to build public resources for more inclusive workplaces. Look out for the
#InclusionAtWork
collection launching during
#PrideMonth
. 🏳️🌈
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Exciting new
@ChartMogul
integration now available for free in Pitch, presented here by our very own
@juliusgehrig
. 💰📈
Pitch 🤝
@ChartMogul
We're excited to bring you our newest data integration where you can import, visualize, and report on SaaS revenues in your presentations. 📊
Read more about how it works ➡️
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Accidentally pushed to master, quickly reverted. Was informed by a team mate we have a pre-push hook template to avoid this. Guess who reviewed and merged the pre-push hook template just a few months ago? Mondays... 🤣
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We're looking for a Senior ClojureScript Mobile Engineer (Berlin or remote) to work with us at
@Pitch
on redefining how presentations are created. Check out
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So happy to see new players innovating in the web browser space, with more than just additional developer apis. Excited to try out
@browsercompany
and
@SigmaOS_HQ
and welcome a new age of web-native workflows.
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My friend and co-founder
@christianreber
joined
@HarryStebbings
for a great new episode of
@twentyminutevc
. Some great insights into the past and lots of excitement for the future of
@Pitch
. Check it out at .
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Excited to see us launch the first iteration of our bigger vision for Pitch as a platform and community, with a set of great decks to start. Give it a spin and let us know what you think!
Mad props to
@WorldHistorical
@philjackson
and their team for shipping this today!
Introducing the Pitch presentation gallery! Say hello to the dedicated home for our community members to share their best thinking with the world.
Explore world-class presentations on fundraising, hiring, marketing, and more right here ➡️
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A few weeks back I had the pleasure of chatting with Ben
@benorn7
from
@NoRampLabs
in their podcast about the story of Pitch, where we’ve been, where we’re going next and my thoughts on the presentation tool space and the craft of creating delightful software.
We featured
@adamrenklint
, CEO and Co-Founder of
@Pitch
on the Proof of Work podcast. We talked about how he started Pitch with 7 co-founders, how to inspire confidence in a team after layoffs, and so much more. Check out our conversation:
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Re-designed the ▲ teaser page. Only 6 more days until I start working full time to release the public beta.
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That moment when months of theoretical work and prototyping finally makes pixels dance on your screen and speakers vibrate. Long way still.
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This was a lot of fun to build, thanks to all the foundational work we've been doing to text editing in the last few years.
We're already using it everywhere internally: headers/footers in internal decks, names/numbers in sales decks...
Excited to see what you do with it.
New: Personalize decks faster and keep content synced with variables!
🔄 Add placeholders so teammates save time whenever they reuse a template for another client.
ℹ Build headers and footers that stay consistent across slides.
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So proud of our team for launching this today 🚀
A long time in the making, finally everyone can get inspired by our beautiful templates!
Say hello to the Pitch template gallery!
🖼️ Choose from over 50+ custom-built templates to tell your story
👩🚀 Explore and easily copy beautiful designs
💥 Save your precious time and focus on the story
The best part? These templates are free to use ⤵️
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Adding, changing, and styling text on a slide is now completely effortless and reliable. Plus, with the new text editor, we were able to ship several highly requested features. Starting with... (3/9)
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...delight and magic over processes and frameworks. In hindsight, it was one the best decisions of my life, and I'm grateful to spend my days learning from and leading the best software team.
❤️ to our investors, users, die hard fans, past and present collaborators
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😻
@Pitch
is nominated for
#GoldenKittyAwards2020
. If you have a second, please consider voting:
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We've got news 😎 and we're hiring!
Good things come to those who wait. We’ve officially launched our beta & raised $30m in additional funding, led by Thrive Capital.
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@CompuIves
@Google
We had the same issue
@Pitch
with MSFT at some point, and found no help through official channels. Through backchanneling we learned that there were suspected phishing attacks hosted on our platform, and built tools to find and disable them, and eventually got off the block list.
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Exit animations just landed in
@Pitch
, allowing you to create engaging dynamic narratives with a few simple clicks. Try it out and and amaze your audience with visual storytelling.
Slide elements used to linger after you’d moved on to your next point. Now you can show them the exit. 🏃💨
Say hello to (and goodbye with 😉) exit animations.
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Check out my first public list in Wunderlist 3: "Getting started with the Web Audio Api" via
@Wunderlist
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Clojure people like to brag about their expressive development environments, but often fail to mention that half our lives goes into maintaining and debugging these, rather than working on actual problems. Spent a week trying to get a great test exp for CLJS. Was not successful.
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2022 continues to throw curve balls and the future remains unpredictable for tech startups. Here my co-founder
@christianreber
explains how we proactively navigate this to stay in control of our future at
@Pitch
.
Tech stocks had a very tough quarter, and investors and founders are feeling ripple effects. Companies like $ZM, $TEAM, $HUBS or $PATH are down >50% vs. 6mo ago.
Every startup is thinking about it, so here’s my view on what’s going on, and how we’re navigating this at
@Pitch
. 🧵
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@jorilallo
@joshm
That’s great, building tools and technology for developers is a noble cause. About browsers from scratch,
@ladybirdbrowser
is doing exactly that, but will probably be a while until they’re on par with the functionality of current browsers. But it’s great with a bit of diversity.
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Our team is on fire 🔥 You can now connect Google Analytics and keep your charts up to date. Say good bye to copy paste and manually updating sheets.
This week we're shipping 6 templates, 1 new feature, 6 improvements, and 3 bug fixes.
📊 Add charts from
@googleanalytics
: The days of screenshotting charts and adding them to a presentation are over. Now, you and easily keep your team updated with your most important KPIs.
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Spot on commentary by
@unamashana
Two tweets from
@Pitch
got two very different types of reactions this week.
- Bravo! for Foring a tough decision in the face of change.
- How did you burn $85M in two years to make an unprofitable product?
Let's dissect the second as it won't ,be the last time we hear it.
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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with
@5harath
to talk about the challenges of going from lead engineer to CTO to CEO, how
@Pitch
rebooted into a leaner and faster form, and value of putting people first. Check it out!
.
@Pitch
is one of my favorite startups that deeply cares about building great products that people love to use ♥️
And today I'm pumped to release my convo with
@adamrenklint
, one of the co-founders and CEO of Pitch👇🏼
We covered many topics:
🤜🏻 Shifting from a CTO mindset to a
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Trying out putting every single task I need to do on my calendar. Makes it really obvious when expectations and reality drifts apart. Is there a great tool that combines tasks and calendar, preferably driven by keyboard shortcuts?
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The “only paranoid survives” mindset leads to unhealthy stress, outward fixation and ultimately burnout. Look inward, focus on the craft, obsess about your customer, not competitor.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asked which competitors keep him up at night:
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boombap coded in ▲ trn.gl
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Oh snap, I really love my work right now. Big difference from a year ago. Great things in the horizon!
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@AntoineMinoux
@Pitch
Our team is a lot smaller now, so we've removed a lot of specialisation and process that were obstacles for everyone making the product better every day. We also have a really sharp view on who our target user is, which helps keeps the focus on impactful work.
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Features are “dime a dozen”. There is no feature moat in the new world. Develop taste for what is good and conviction of how the world should work, then build the software that supports that worldview. Sell opinionated solutions to problems, not a set of features. Create super
An increasing amount of consumer founders are falling into a trap of optimizing their products for getting praise from Design Twitter, rather than building useful features or focusing on growth.
Beautiful animations won’t get you PMF. Useful features and growth are how you win.
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@awilkinson
@mohitmamoria
I wish there was just a smidge of information on the landing page before asking me to give away my email.
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I have fallen out of love with meat, but am still very lazy. What are your favorite plant based recipes?
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Jump in the metaphorical Delorean and explore the version history of your Pitch presentation - live today!
🎶 If you could tuuuurn back time
If you could fiiiiiind a way
To restore all those blocks you deleted
The other dayyyy 🎶
Now you can travel back in time with version history! Find out what else we're shipping this week here ➡️
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Every week, the entire
@Pitch
team collaborates on a presentation to show what we've been up to, what we're thinking about now and what comes next.
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@Akai_Pro
That’s nice, but what would be really cool is if you stop ignoring support emails and help owners of your products to get them to work. All your support channels seem to lead into a black void, and you’re turning vocal champions to vocal enemies. Be better, do better.
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At the end of last year,
@sebselassie
drove a project to capture the principles that we've been leaning on since the earliest days of Pitch, and I'm stoked about the result. Check out the deck in our Presentation Gallery, and if you like what you hear, come join the fun.
@Pitch
is my first gig out of college, but I can tell our team culture is truly unique in the industry.
With the help of
@pesterhazy
,
@codebeige
,
@adamrenklint
& many others, we crafted our Engineering Principles:
🧵 Here’s what they mean to me:
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Great discussions after today's first
#webaudioberlin
meetup, thanks everyone. My slides and demo are up at
http://t.co/qDzCWFtaFj
#webaudio
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@multikev
My mental model is that this is not just a button that triggers an action, but a toggle condensed into a button. Other forms of the same would be a group of radio buttons, or a drop down where you pick one of the possible states. Following that train of thought, it becomes
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Come work with us, help shape the future of collaboration and presentation tools.
📣 We're hiring our first product manager
@Pitch
(Berlin). It's a unique opportunity to build a new product from scratch with a senior team.
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Getting ready for
@clojuredconf
tomorrow, rewatching a few of my favorite talks from last year, from fellow
@Pitch
engineers and our friends:
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