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Tossell: Developer relations mirrors founder roles in community and product ownership
“The developer relations feels very similar to like a founder role where you need to be on top of your community. You're the person that everyone reaches out to. You've got to build a product or understand the products in and out. You've got to grow the product…”
Tossell: AI Agents Will Worsen Founder Context Switching and Productivity Anxiety
“Like, it feels like it's actually, you can work on even more stuff now, so actually people are going to get worse off feeling like they should be really productive, but actually feeling like, I've done absolutely nothing this week except for I tried to do thes…”
Tossell: AI coding tools will not turn everyday consumers into software builders
“My mum still won't build an app even though you can use something like Lovable. It's, because I think it's still, you've got to want to do the building bit. Like, that's still the issue. It's either someone like my mother wants the app built, doesn't want to s…”
Tossell: AI-powered email search is awful across all existing tools
“AI search on email is awful. Whichever tool and like wrapper you use, I've tried a lot of them. It's just, it doesn't work.”
Tossell: Solo billion-dollar companies are unlikely because building alone is boring
“We hear this all the time. It's going to be one person, ten billion dollar company. Like, okay, well, it's boring by yourself. Like, if people want to have other people around them, I think it's natural to, oh, I just, I could just do, use some help with just …”
Tossell: No-code tool workflows are fundamentally programming in a visual format
“The thing I didn't realize until, I don't know whether it was within the MakerPad life or after it, was like, I'm still teaching programming, but in a different format. Like, there's different, the tools just look different. Like, they don't look like a code b…”
Makerpad founder Ben Tossell no longer uses Zapier, preferring to code
“Because I have a very high threshold for pain and I want to code it.”
Tossell: Generate agent instructions by asking AI to document successful executions
“So you can see all the different tool calls and things it did. So I kind of just copied all of that and then said to Droid, like, give me step by step instructions exactly on what you just performed to get to this output. I said, okay, great. Now put that into…”
Tossell: I now use CLI tools instead of ChatGPT web apps
“And actually I now use the CLI tool over using ChatWT or Claude on the web for almost anything.”
Tossell: Community leaders must ask basic questions to drive engagement
“When anyone asks, asks me for advice on community, the number one, I think, number one thing I say is, you're going to lead by example. Like, if you're not in there talking, no one else is going to be in there talking. If you're not in there asking seemingly s…”
Tossell: Raw screen recordings outperform polished corporate videos on Twitter
“I think the best videos on Twitter are the ones that are just, hey, I've just clicked record, I'm just doing this thing, I've just posted it, and that's kind of it. And like, I like that. That feels like that's a community member talking to a community member.…”