Ankit Pansari
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Introducing OSlash - The Future of Links⚡️
Watch how
@getoslash
is building the fastest workplace collaboration experience to date👇🏼
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Twilio, with a market cap of $45B, is going to acquire Segment for $3.2 B.
Q: Why are these companies of such high value?
A: We need to first understand the modern software development stack and two essential concepts:
1. Abstraction
2. Undifferentiated Heavy Lifting.
🧵
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It’s hard to believe this will be my last video as the CEO of OSlash. Many of you have already heard the news.
We will come back stronger and wiser to build products that combine beauty with function.
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Gmail silently killed all the mail-merge/newsletter apps with their new multi-send mode feature.
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If you ever had to create a landing page or marketing asset for a side-hustle or an open-source project, you have struggled to find quality illustrations.
In this thread 👇
I am sharing some of the open-source illustrations we have been using in the last two years.
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@VedikaBhaia
I will recommend you start with the theory behind meditation first.
There is a good no nonsense book on this topic.
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@ivanhzhao
A brewery in Bangalore sharing their menu using Notion.
Beat this one!
@peakbengaluru
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@deepakabbot
There is so much ambiguity and confusion when it comes to ESOPs in the community.
At
@getoslash
, we made our entire ESOP Plan public to maintain complete transparency.
Link to doc 👉🏼
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Last week
@getoslash
announced a $2.5 million pre-seed round from
@Accel_India
and an amazing group of angels whose products have changed the way we work.
Our team decided to thank them by creating NFT's of avatars we created for all of them.
OSlash ❤️ y'all
🧵👇🏼
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The hardest thing in a startup is that you wake up one morning and you feel great - like you are gonna make a killing!
And then the very next morning you think you are dead!
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Product onboarding is a massive problem for B2B SaaS companies.
At
@getoslash
, we solved this by making an in-product demo video that now has 7000+ views.
In this thread, I will break down the process and equipment we used to make our product demo.
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At
@getoslash
, we have 45+ angels from companies such as Notion, Figma, Google, and Twitter.
How did we do it?
We share all our learnings on how to put together a complete angel round in this comprehensive guide.
(Link in thread)
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A thread on What is Product-led Growth and why is it such a rage today.
There are two large costs for any software company.
1⃣Go-to-Market: Cost to reach its target customers.
2⃣Engineering: Cost to build the product.
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Notion recently announced they are introducing backlinks, one of the most loved features of Roam Research.
There is a cycle here.
A startup discovers a novel feature. The entire industry rapidly adopts the feature, making it a commodity.
Examples in Thread 👇
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PMs think at speed of thought.
Designers think at speed of paper.
Engineers think at the speed of code.
Mistakes are expensive as we go down the pyramid.
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Rahul Vohra wrote a brilliant post on
@firstround
on how to find the Product-Market Fit.
Today we spent more than 8 hours a day using modern SaaS tools.
It will interesting to learn how disappointed we will be if these 11 products disappear.
Quick Survey 👇
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- PM's think at the speed of thought.
- Designers think at the speed of paper.
- Developers think at the speed of code.
Try to limit mistakes at the top.
Hence, product management is such an important discipline.
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One of my favorite browsers hack is to use the .new domain in the address bar to jump straight into the action.
-> creates a new Google Calendar Event
No need to visit the app, find the right menu, and then start an activity.
More on this👇
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@patrick_oshag
I might be a little late to discover this but this article by
@chrisfralic
is a gem for young founders and business folks.
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One of the worst pieces of advice I have gotten as a startup founder is to trust my instincts.
This shit is so counter-intuitive that you will make many mistakes if you trust your instincts.
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It's humbling to see what it takes to succeed in the startup game.
You need to get all the following right!
- timing
- team
- market
- product
- customer acquisition
- cost structure
- revenue model
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In the future, we will see many new companies building feature layers to enhance developer productivity.
Tagging some folks who are investing in next-gen feature layers.
@skirani
,
@alokg
,
@s_brij_verma
,
@tejeshwi_sharma
,
@MohapatraHemant
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Startups interview candidates, but candidates don't interview Startups back.
Last week, we closed the first outbound hire. For the first time, I had to convince a stranger to join
@oslash_com
So I created a set of questions to ask Founder before closing on an offer.
🧵 👇
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Grammarly is valued at $ 13 billion.
But people still ask me whether extensions can be a large business 😇
There's a new dragon: Grammarly, an auto-editing tool for writing
Valued at $13 billion. Raised around $500m to date.
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Spent some time in Hyderabad and was amazed by the infrastructure and government support. However, I will still be a Bangalore fan.
If you are building a SaaS company in India
- Bangalore for Pre-PMF
- Chennai for Post-PMF
- Hyderabad for Post-IPO 😅
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@wikichen
This thing is getting out of control.
We are a six people company and we are using more than 40 SaaS tools.
We tried to get most of it for free though. Shared my learning here
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Startups are all about initial momentum.
It takes 110 % of rated power to get a Jet off the ground. But when it reaches 30,000 feet, you can manage with 70 % power and still cruise at 600 miles per hour.
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I did not even know Microsoft has a Hotjar + Google Analytics competitor - Microsoft Clarity.
And, apparently, my team says it's pretty good and FREE!
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Huge kudos to Mr Naresh, Duty in charge at
@IndiGo6E
Raipur counter. He handled a wedding crew of 100+ bookings and luggage like a cake walk.
Peeps, if you are doing a large reservation, just choose Indigo. They are the best!
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@Austen
When I was at Zoho, my largest client was a large Indian University.
25,000 students of the University were using an academic management system implemented by a 21 year old "engineer" who never went to college.
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Open innovation is a way forward. Uber goes open source.
http://t.co/sbK7dMxJGp
#opensource
#technology
#Startup
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Customers rarely buy what the companies think they are selling.
1⃣Slack is not selling collaboration, but an indexed search of all conversations.
2⃣ Figma is not selling a better design tool, but a canvas for designers and PM's to collaborate.
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We gotta give
@rahulvohra
for creating a whole new category of fast enterprise software.
We have so many Superhuman for X today.
@linear
for issue tracking.
@vimcal
for calendar
@Scratchpad
for CRM
Even
@intercom
announced a new inbox today.
Real category creation!
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@adampnathan
@beondeck
is great place for early stage CEO. There is an amazing support system built around like minded people who are starting out on the same journey.
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Big tech companies have a superpower in how they work. With OSlash, we are unveiling the little-known secrets of Google and other Silicon Valley giants.
Making workplace links easier to find, access, and share with others.
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Thank you
@upekkhaBe
team for this wonderful gesture.
Upekkha will enable 1000+ Founders to build sustainable global SaaS companies.
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Work is so much better with a good mechanical keyboard and shortcuts-powered apps.
Mail 👉🏼
@Superhuman
Projects 👉🏼
@linear
Docs 👉🏼
@NotionHQ
Links 👉🏼
@getoslash
😎
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5/n
For example, if I were to build Shopify like product in 2006.
I will have to work two layers, the infrastructure, and the feature. (image)
As a developer, 70% of my time goes into maintaining these undifferentiated layers, rather than the core value of the product.
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Employee Stock Options (ESOP) is one of the most discussed and misunderstood topics in tech circles.
To clarify how ESOP works, we wrote a complete guide on the subject.
We also made our
@getoslash
ESOP policy public
Link in thread 👇
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Three important takeaways from
@MohapatraHemant
conversations with Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake.
1. CEO's only job is to deliver outcomes - not appease stakeholders.
2. Lack of quality in execution is a mental problem, not a physical.
3. Incrementalism is kiss of death.
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You know the excitement is building up when everyone's browser at
@getoslash
is filled with the following OSlash Links. ☺️
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If I were to build Shopify today, most of the heavy lifting would be done by third-party service providers.
Features such as authentication, search, in-app chat, and maps are now available as a service.
I can focus on building the best version of Shopify.
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Investors don't just bring capital; they also bring their experience, skillsets, and in some cases, an audience.
My friend
@somani_utsav
has put together a list of all Indian angels and how to classify them.
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We try to break the ceiling with everything we do at
@getoslash
. Quite figuratively!
Merry Christmas Everyone
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At
@getoslash
we start every 1-on-1 with these questions:
- Anger (what is making you angry?)
- Fear (what are you afraid of in the future?)
- Sadness (Is there something making you sad?)
- Joy (what is making you happy?)
- Excitement (excited about future?)
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@anandraman
On the other hand, US paid 10 billion USD in bank fees to distribute the bailout loans for all their Small Business and, are still struggling for last three weeks.
The book Aadhaar by
@ShankkarAiyar
changed my entire understanding of this scheme.
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@nikitabier
However, if you are creating a company of impact, you will need venture to subsidies the early days of your company to help you achieve that scale. If you are making a new browser in 2020, it better be venture funded. But A browser plugin to manage bookmarks can be bootstrapped.
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At
@getoslash
, our goal is to enable a culture of knowledge sharing in workspace.
In that spirit, we will convert all our learnings as an early-stage company into playbooks:
Coming soon:
- ESOP Policy
- Creating a Launch Video
Starting with angel guide.(link in comment)
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1. Undraw ( ) by
@NinaLimpi
It has +100 illustrations that can be customized by changing colors. Thanks to her generosity, you can use it for personal and commercial projects without any attribution.
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My most non-obvious learning building software product is - getting everything instrumented and setup to start measuring data accurately is extremely time consuming.
There are some amazing products out there but it still takes way longer than you think.
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OSlash is hiring Product Engineers!
We are changing how a billion people will access and share links. Let's change it together
**Hiring Thread 🧵**
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Introducing
@getoslash
copilot!
Our plug-and-play solution that makes any software AI-ready in 30 mins
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5. We are also contributing to the community by making some of our illustrations open-source 🥳
These illustrations are ideal for creating assets for SaaS products.
Link 👉
Just thank
@JayantP69488428
whenever you use it.
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6/n
The same Shopify built-in 2012 will require me to mostly work on the feature layer as infrastructure was outsourced to experts.
It began with cloud providers like AWS, and then developer-first companies such as Twilio, SendGrid, Stripe abstracting SMS, Email, and Payment.
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Want to know about a secret internal tool that runs some of the fastest growing companies in the world?
- Google
- Facebook
- Coinbase
- Twitter
- Stripe
Learn the story behind the inspiration for
@getoslash
on our latest blog.
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I feel like my life was divided into two halves.
In first half, I was always the youngest in every group.
In the second, I am the oldest.
There was no in between.
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This is the best feedback we have got for
@getoslash
I will personally demo and make sure your school adopts
@SifarJirgale
And, we are gonna make it free for all the schools and students 😉
@getoslash
@vishweshji
Do you have a plan for schools/students? I would love to do o/history, o/math, o/dailyplan, o/attendance etc.
This is powerful! Joined the waiting list...
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@championswimmer
We wrote an extensive guide on understand ESOP at
@getoslash
and even made our own policy generally available 👇
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Mbappe becomes the second in the world to make a hattrick in the World Cup final. And, he is just 23. 🤯
Pele being the first.
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After rewatching the highlights, my star for the match is Argentina Goal Keeper - Martinez
That save at 120 got Argentina the World Cup
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If
@elonmusk
Twitter org needs a go slash, your company surely needs
@getoslash
Just received this email from Twitter. This is an actual, real email that was autogenerated 🤣🤣
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Segment makes it easy for developers to collect data from their apps for analytics. In 2018, Twilio also acquired Sendgrid, an email API service provider.
As every business becomes a software business, companies such as Segment and Twilio abstract undifferentiated layers.
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Hey
@QuillChat
team! I understand building a startup is extremely difficult and things are not in your control.
But, giving 4-day notice to customers migrate their data is not right.
This is in your control. Do the right thing.
Congrats on joining Twitter :)
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Commoditization of a feature!
A common trend in B2B software - a startup discovers a novel feature, the entire industry then rapidly adopts the feature into their product, making it a commodity.
Here are recent examples: 🧵👇
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@toddg777
@Superhuman
@Pitch
@airtable
@NotionHQ
@getcommande
@zoom_us
@typeform
@NotionHQ
is not Docs. I can't edit my thesis in Notion. And,
@airtable
is not Sheet. It's not suitable for calculations and lacks all the built-in functions that's core to a spreadsheet.
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Early morning jamming on OSlash!
Created a bunch of new shortcuts for:
- new
@NotionHQ
Doc
- new
@linear
ticket
- new Google Sheet
- new Calendar event
- new Meet Link
You welcome
@getoslash
team.🤗
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As my friend,
@tejeshwi_sharma
says -
"Tech markets are hyper-efficient. You have a small time-horizon to succeed"
I am sure there are many more examples of competitors commoditizing a feature. I would love to hear more examples from your industry 🤓
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@avinashraghava
from
@Accel_India
asked me to recommend my fav books in one of the Founder's Group.
These books have been my go-to ever since starting
@oslash_com
All the authors are practitioners, and the learnings are immediately applicable to your startup.
List in 🧵 👇
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Q: Why is SaaS booming?
A: Companies have realized that every piece of information should be available as an URL.
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It was wonderful hosting
@GoyalMalini
today.
Looking forward to more such conversations on Bangalore city and our ecosystem.
Saturday began with a meeting with
@ankitpansari_
, his sis -both in their 20s & single - & their mom. from orissa as they chase
#startup
dreams, we spoke abt many things incl marriage etc. As we talked abt issues like LGBT & liveins his mom squirmed but slowly eased in.
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3/n
Similarly, a whole group of software development functions - hosting, payments, storage, analytics, communication are being abstracted by modern services such as AWS, Twilio, Stripe, and Segment.
A software developer can now focus on the core value of the product.
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Super excited to invite you to the first live OSlash demo on 2nd June at 1900 IST
In just 20 mins, I will show how you can 10X your productivity at work and save 5-9 hours every week.
You can register here:
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@jjen_abel
@saasboomi
Every local market needs a
@avinashraghava
.
- to bring all founders and investors together.
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3⃣Jira is not selling a project management tool, but a system of record of who is doing what.
4⃣ Notion is not selling the knowledge base, but the simplest no-code app builder out there.
Let customers describe your product. You will be fascinated.
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Founders! Here is how you can save more than
$400K on your SaaS spending
Link in thread 👇
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2. Humaaans - () by
@pablostanley
It's an illustration library of body elements such as hairs, legs, and arms that one can be combined to make beautiful illustrations of people.
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1/3 The best podcast I listened to this week is the interview of Morgan Housel of Collaborative Fund. He was interviewed by my favorite Indian podcast host Anupam Gupta. Kudos to
@b50
for getting
@morganhousel
on the show.
#podcast
#MondayMotivaton
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For 10 Days, I meditated 12 hours a day.
No talking. No reading. No writing. No communication.
I woke up a 4 AM and went to bed by 9 PM. I was eating simple vegetarian food only twice a day.
That's Vipassana.
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I just started using
@RoamResearch
and I must say
@RoamResearch
+
@getoslash
= pure awesomeness
I can not only link Roam pages but any web page with an OSlash Shortcut.
Screenshot - Roam + Figma Shortcut 👇🏼
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3. Blush ()
Blush bought to you again by talented
@pablostanley
, is a web app and Figma plugin to find and use illustrations from the best artists.
Think of it like Unsplash, but for illustrations.
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Linear (
@linear
) users out there!
Want to test out one of the most awaited integrations of
@getoslash
Please drop the comment. I will personally do the demo for you.
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Every software I have recently come to admire started slow.
@NotionHQ
was built over 6 years
@figmadesign
was public after 5 years
@Superhuman
took 4 years
@linear_app
is in development for 2 years
get the product right > control churn > find growth-market fit > accelerate
Every business opportunity we've explored has started small. We've researched, looked into consumer insights, prototyped our products, and tested them in smaller markets before a big launch. Go big or go home sounds great to say. But whenever we've done the opposite, it's worked.
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Is it the consolidation of Indian e-commerce industry ? Two of the biggest brands coming together.
http://t.co/JX6rHymt5a
#startup
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If you are building a dev tool, I will recommend you get listed at
I see a lot of backlinks to top products out there.
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Just in case you are wondering - how did we get all these amazing folks on board at
@getoslash
, we will be sharing a playbook later this week.
Stay tuned✌🏼
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