Last Friday was my last (fulltime) day @ Lattice. I'm now moving on to my next adventure! If you're interested, feel free to read my post about why here:
But according to Twitter's TOS I now need to do a thread of 6.5 years of learnings. So here we go! 🧵
Well, this sucks. Unfortunately my current startup VStream is shutting down at the end of the month.
But don't worry about me. I've already had multiple people approach me about starting new companies. I'll be fine.
Just wish I could have done better for my community
Feels like not too long ago it was just Jack and I working out of our apartments. Now, 4 years latter,
@LatticeHQ
is 100 people strong with over a 100k employees using our product. 🎉 And none of it could have happened without
@jaltma
♥️
Here's one of my rare public hot takes: Github copilot are making developers worse overall. It seems that every young developer is now using it and I get the feeling it allowing them to write code that gets the job done without them understanding _why_ it works.
This is advice is incredibly true. Everytime we run our own performance reviews at Lattice using Lattice we fix/improve so many things. You need to use your own tools
We're hiring in basically all departments here at
@LatticeHQ
. Sales, Customer Success, Engineering (!!!), Product, Finance, etc, etc.
Please come join us!
Oh hey now that I wiped up a careers page, I should probably announce my new company 😁
It's called VStream and its a new video and live streaming platform dedicated to VTubers! If that seems interesting and you want to learn more or come join the fun🕺
Yesterday we shipped an update almost 3 years in the making at
@LatticeHQ
. We finally got off of Relay classic and fully on on Modern for version 1.14. Then we in one day we shipped an upgrade to get us to Relay 9.1 ✨
Any amazing weeb product designers out there who are looking to create an amazing product for VTubers? Well, do I have the opportunity for you! (or any friends of yours that fit that description 😃) Come work with me at my new startup VStream!
Bun (written by the amazing
@jarredsumner
) has been a game changer for us at
@LatticeHQ
. Feels like magic just how fast it is. Before Bun we were struggling with our front-end DX under the sheer weight of the amount code we've written. Now it feels like a greenfield app again!
The
#1
People Strategy Virtual Conference is back ✨ And we’re excited to announce our headline guest: comedian and host of “The Daily Show,”
@Trevornoah
🙌 Register for
#RfHVirtual
today!
For folks that were laid off at Twitch today, I'm so sorry and my heart goes out to you. My company
@vstream_en
is creating a new live streaming platform for VTubers and we're still hiring. If that sounds interesting to you please feel free to DM me for more info!
@jaltma
IMHO, they will go down. Next year, startups will raise even more money (it's easy right now) and then just pay more cash instead. It seems that employees in general no longer believe in equity leading to payouts and would rather just a high salary.
HELLO EVERYONE! 🎉
We are so excited to announce that our first wave of VStream streamers will be coming this Monday May 8, 2023!
Please be sure to support all of these VTubers once they are revealed!
Any D3 / data visualization experts out there looking for some contracting? Lattice is looking for someone to take on a short term (but high impact!) project for us.
So proud of the
@LatticeHQ
team for creating and producing such a beautiful video 😍. As our head of marketing (
@kracov
) said, "Good or bad, it will make you feel something" ✨
I was recently called a "CEBro with a tiny resume" on this app. I don't think I'm going to be able to recover from this one fam. I'm done with this place.
Thankfully the VStream open beta of our own social feed will be coming out this week or next!! Reject X, join VStream!
I've worked at a number of companies and code bases. I truly think we're building something special here at Lattice and have an amazing and enjoyable tech stack we're building with. If you want to be part of the future of work come apply!
If you’re a software engineer who wants to join a values-oriented team that uses cutting-edge tech like
@nextjs
,
@turborepo
, and
@pnpmjs
, reach out to us!
I got tired of bad sudoku interfaces online. So I built my own today ✨. Its got multi-select, different background colors, detects errors, allows writing both corner and center notes. And soon night mode! Feels much better to play now 🤓
Yet again, the Lattice marketing team blows it out of the water. This year's RfH conference is going to be out biggest/best one yet. Its amazing that
@serenawilliams
will be our headline speaker this year!!
🚨SPEAKER ALERT 🚨
We’re excited to announce that
@serenawilliams
will be our headline guest at
#RfHVirtual
! Register today to hear Serena share advice on how to maintain a culture of high performance while building a culture of high empathy:
Proud to work at
@LatticeHQ
: here's a recent update re:
#COVID19
policy. TL: DR; great consideration shown for employees, the greater community, and exceptions -- all while being transparent about the challenges. Kudos E-Team. Wanna join us?
We at
@LatticeHQ
switched to 100% pnpm earlier this year for our JS monorepo. Huge savings and we were able to put in amazing tooling that would be impossible with only npm/yarn
I’m hopeful that
@npmjs
will get its act together quickly, but in the meantime,
@pnpmjs
is the (monorepo) package manager I now recommend to all
@turborepo
customers.
- faster installs
- yarn-like resolutions
- expressive filtering
- workspace-specific/sparse installs
We’re excited to announce the release of project-based reviews. This feature will help our customers who work frequently on project teams (i.e. cross-functional teams, agencies, consulting firms, etc.) or who work at flat/matrix organizations run performance reviews.
Exciting milestone at
@latticehq
this morning…we now have 1,000 customers!
Thankful for all the feedback and support our customers have given us along the way. Lots more to build!
It took a lot of time and discussion, but super shoutouts to our COO J Zac for making these values happen! They're great and a true reflection of the people that work at Lattice
Are you a VTuber that wants to list your upcoming debut, re-debut, or outfit reveal for all to discover and share? Now you can! Here is VStream's new debut creation flow that you can use 🚨RIGHT NOW🚨 on
✨ LOOK AT THE STARS! ✨
An example of our customizable Meteor Shower (raid) feature that is live NOW ! Pick your own emoji and show off a custom Meteor Shower, or have the stars by default- the choice is yours! 🤩
Take a look! ⤵️
Seems that every day I read another story of great people being laid off right now. If that includes you, or someone you know, my company Lattice is still hiring roles in engineering, product, and design. Would love to help those that have been affected:
100% this. I've never seen so many companies hiring at the same time like they are. And to plug, if the idea of making work more meaningful resonates with you,
@LatticeHQ
is hiring a TON of positions right now. Would love to help you find more inspiring work!
If you are a mid to senior engineer and you are not inspired or excited about the work you are doing, there may have never been time / demand than what we’re seeing now.
Start interviewing. You’ll no doubt find something that but only pays better, but also makes you happier.
After traveling for 26 days, I finally made it back to SF! Excited to be able to set the VStream team in person again at the office tomorrow ❤️❤️
(Oh, and my friends of course)
Sometimes it feels like we've already missed the wave and I wish VStream was released years ago. But then I see proof like this that the VTuber revolution has just begun! Reallly excited to release what we've been working on 🔜
What category on Twitch is growing 500% YoY, and allows you to build an audience without showing your face?
VTubing. After blowing up in Asia, it's headed to the U.S. in a major way.
Here's what happening ⬇️
So excited about this launch! We've wanted to build a product for the intersection of "how are you performing?" and "how are you feeling?" for a long time.
Introducing Lattice Engagement
Lattice is hiring across all departments — customer experience, design, engineering, marketing, sales, product and operations — and were looking for people who align with our values framework.
Learn more about life at Lattice and apply to join the team:
The new Lattice home page is amazing!!
@lucchaissac
is one of the best designers I've had the pleasure to work with. Huge props to him and all the work he did ❤️❤️❤️
🙏 I'm super happy and proud to share the new and Goals product update.
🌈 This result is thanks to the inspiration that comes from the amazing CX, Sales, EPD, Marketing, Admin, People teams at
@LatticeHQ
--
✨ Amazing journey
With everything going on with Twitch this week, feeling really good about the decision to start a competitive streaming company now 😁
If that's interesting to you, we're hiring at VStream!
This weekend has really enforced something I already knew for a long time. HN commenters are the _worst_. So many bad takes. So much incorrect speculation. So many people that truly do not understand how the world works and are unashamed to write about it a public forum. 🤡
Hello gorgeous! It’s time to experience Lattice’s new Elevated Design that helps you access what matters faster through a fresh, beautiful layout 🤩
See for yourselves:
Excited the
@partywebseries
trailer just dropped !!
Really really excited about this project and I think people going to love it! I'm glad I got to support it in my small way 🥺