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obsessed with making ideas real. @tembo · https://nitter.cf/t.co/9san9rfrR7

Oslo, Norway
Joined November 2015
ambition makes you lonely at first, then magnetic later.
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benja retweeted
nothing scarier than giving an agent a blank prompt and hoping it figures out what you meant so we made lots of templates that already work - you still tweak them, but you're editing something good instead of guessing
No tricks, just treats. 🎃 Writing an agent from scratch is the scary part. So start from a Tembo template instead: - Turn Linear issues into PRs - Fix new Sentry errors before they haunt you - Keep docs up to date Tweak it for your repos and go. tembo.io/agent-templates
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dressing up as the tax office and going door to door in the wealthiest neighborhoods tonight
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benja retweeted
Don't get spooked by your VM bill this Halloween. 🎃 We built our own sandbox infrastructure, so Tembo VMs cost 20% less than E2B and Daytona. - From $0.11/hour - Up to 32 vCPUs and 128 GiB of RAM - Billed by the second, nothing while stopped tembo.io/pricing
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i hadn't even heard of ollie until today, and that's the sad reality so many great products will die simply because not enough people know they exist founders spend so much time thinking about what to build and nowhere near enough time thinking about how to get it in front of people and by the time people finally hear about you, they're already comparing you to the bigger names everyone knows the longer you wait to figure out distribution, the harder it gets
This is a painful post to share. Today we’re announcing that we’re shutting down @heyollieai on November 6. I’m really proud of what we accomplished. We built an incredible personal assistant with a small team, and learned a ton. I’m grateful to our amazing team, our users, our investors, and everyone who supported us on this journey. We got close, but ultimately couldn't keep up. With Muse, Instinct, and others entering the space, it became harder to stand out, grow, and raise the capital we needed to succeed. I’ll share more lessons and thoughts in the coming weeks as the emotions become less raw.
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benja retweeted
most meetings could've been a slack message most slack threads could've been a 3 line doc
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i hadn't even heard of ollie until today, and that's the sad reality so many great products will die simply because not enough people know they exist founders spend so much time thinking about what to build and nowhere near enough time thinking about how to get it in front of people and by the time people finally hear about you, they're already comparing you to the bigger names everyone knows the longer you wait to figure out distribution, the harder it gets
This is a painful post to share. Today we’re announcing that we’re shutting down @heyollieai on November 6. I’m really proud of what we accomplished. We built an incredible personal assistant with a small team, and learned a ton. I’m grateful to our amazing team, our users, our investors, and everyone who supported us on this journey. We got close, but ultimately couldn't keep up. With Muse, Instinct, and others entering the space, it became harder to stand out, grow, and raise the capital we needed to succeed. I’ll share more lessons and thoughts in the coming weeks as the emotions become less raw.
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most meetings could've been a slack message most slack threads could've been a 3 line doc
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nothing scarier than giving an agent a blank prompt and hoping it figures out what you meant so we made lots of templates that already work - you still tweak them, but you're editing something good instead of guessing
No tricks, just treats. 🎃 Writing an agent from scratch is the scary part. So start from a Tembo template instead: - Turn Linear issues into PRs - Fix new Sentry errors before they haunt you - Keep docs up to date Tweak it for your repos and go. tembo.io/agent-templates
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at this point you need to exit a venture backed startup just to afford a decent standard of living
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Running out of money is scary Running out of belief is worse
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try cloud coding agents with tembo.io and get 2 weeks of Max for free not sure what we have to do with granola or wispr flow but anyway… FREE TRIAL
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the housing market in oslo is cooked right now if you want anything remotely modern and central, you're looking at $3k–3.5k+ a month in rent for a tiny apartment are we in nyc or what
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people will call a $10 apple polishing cloth a waste of money, then spend $8 on coffee every day
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son, your mother and i are unfollowing each other on github
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some people never got to experience cursor tab tab tab
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benja retweeted
i have an idea for a touch device, but we’re gonna have to remove the keyboard component and make the screen a little more portable
go on, touch it!
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gotta dress for the occasion (touch)
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i have an idea for a touch device, but we’re gonna have to remove the keyboard component and make the screen a little more portable
go on, touch it!
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there is no moat
There is no moat
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underrated benefits of the new mac: sturdier display and the return of the glowing apple logo touchscreen is getting disabled on day one also went with the 14-inch this time. tired of carrying a whole gym around with me
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