Dennis Beatty
@dnsbty
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Making SMS easier @surgemsg (YC F24). Tweets about Utah, payments, software, startups, and @Elixirlang.
Utah, USA
Joined November 2008
I’m excited to finally share publicly what I’ve been working on for the last few months... Expect me to start tweeting about @surgemsg more often
YC F24's @Surgemsg is the easiest SMS API for developers. With Surge, you can get your campaign registration or toll-free verification in 1-2 days instead of weeks and start building in minutes. Congrats on the launch, @dnsbty + @brett_beatty!
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Crisis averted. I had done a git add -p just a few minutes before so I had the diff in my terminal window and I was able to restore it all in a couple minutes 😅
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@JoshDance As much as I love @CodebuffAI I’m really excited to see all the competition in the space to make agentic coding better for everyone
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Claude had a great time with this one 😄 When Dennis accidentally clicked his MacBook's trackpad with exactly 17.28 Newtons of pressure while holding Command-Option-Control-Shift (a combination he'd only achieved due to an ill-timed sneeze), a translucent obsidian menu materialized on his screen. His jaw dropped. The menu's header simply read "SJ's Toolbox" in the original Susan Kare Chicago font. The menu items made his programmer heart race: • Reality Distortion Field: Toggle On/Off "Warning: Use sparingly. Maximum 3 demos per quarter." • Quantum Compile: Execute code across parallel universes "Results may vary between dimensions" • Think Different Engine: Temporary 500% boost to creative problem-solving "Side effects include speaking in keynote-style rhetoric" • One More Thing...: Generate breakthrough feature idea "Limited to one eureka moment per moon cycle" Dennis's fingers hovered over the trackpad, trembling. He had stumbled upon Silicon Valley's greatest secret – the legendary dev tools that had powered Apple's most innovative years. The very same menu Steve had used to dream up the iPhone while everyone thought he was just drinking smoothies in his office. Just as Dennis was about to click "Reality Distortion Field," his cat walked across the keyboard, and the menu vanished in a shower of pixel dust. Try as he might, he never achieved that exact same pressure again – though on quiet nights, he swears he can hear his MacBook whispering "Think Different" in his dreams. The next morning, all his code mysteriously appeared in Helvetica Neue.
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@dalbentley I’m obsessed with the food lab. Kenji’s super crispy potato recipe has a special place in my heart, but I’ve never felt bougie enough to try them with duck fat like he recommends
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Also it was great to finally meet @JoshDance in person
Attended Utah's Shortest hackathon today. 2 hours to build something from scratch, using as much AI as possible. In two hours I cranked out a complete migraine tracking app. Sign up, login, track migraines, get analytics about it. The winning project was a fantasy RPG PokemonGo inspired game that tracked your steps. The funniest project was an API to translate baby talk 'goo goo' into english 'I am hungry mother' The most technically impressive was a website fully hosted on a tiny microcontroller. One person had never created anything before and was able to make a home appliance warranty tracker in @lovable_dev. And the youngest hacker was a Girl Scout who used ChatGPT to type in a Disney character and it would display their catch phrase. It is wild what you can accomplish with AI dev tools
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In the spirit of the hackathon I started a new @elixirphoenix LiveView project. Then I worked with @CodebuffAI to create a plan for the project. The plan included high level goals, dependencies and AI models to use, and various error cases that needed to be handled.
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One of the most common issues with registering is a non-compliant privacy policy (or none at all). So I decided to build an LLM-based privacy policy validator to check your policy.
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