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Founder of @polar_sh - building the future of usage-based billing

Stockholm
Joined December 2007
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Fuck around and find out. When Railway was breached on 21 Oct, Northflank dunked on them and urged people to migrate over to them because of that breach. 9 days they got hacked, the same way. Zero sympathy: instead of securing you were busy dunking
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Just spent Friday evening writing some C23 in neovim without using AI. Nice to feel like a nerd again. Artisanal programming, I guess.
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So happy to be a partner with @agentcardhq They ship fast with taste and an identity. Rare combination. They’re going places. Really enjoy feeling like we’re an extended team on Slack these days and seeing how they push boundaries and their creativity. Find your peers.
today we are announcing openrouter for commerce: opencommerce.sh a single endpoint that integrates 5k stores, including Doordash, Amazon and most shopify stores, with payments using Agentcard (Stripe Link and Shop coming soon). we built opencommerce to solve 3 problems: * coverage: one endpoint to integrate 5k stores. agentic purchasing is a core feature for most personal assistants, but not their main business. searching for products and buying on behalf of users shouldn’t be as painful as it is today (e.g. it shouldn’t involve browser automations or dealing with PSPs). opencommerce solves that: 1 tool, every online store. * reliability: 100% uptime. the challenge with browser automations is that they fail (e.g. captchas, bot-detection, etc). we run thousands of tests every couple of hours on every one of the stores to guarantee that the integration works when your user tries to buy something. * speed: responses in under 10s. consumers are used to Amazon speed, and agentic purchases have so far felt like a downgrade. most agents spend minutes finding products before they come back with results. we monitor speed and improve it constantly.
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Taking a break and opening email instead. Shit…
99% of replies in this shit hole are bot replies now.
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I've had the pleasure to try Scape in early beta and highly recommend giving it a try. @melvinhagberg and team are great and have big plans to make email better.
Introducing Scape free plan The plan includes: - Fastest email client ever - Unlimited AI categorization - Meeting recordings - Calendar & scheduling - AI drafts & replies (limited usage) - Scape Agent (limited usage) See how it works:
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Proud of @fvoron who gave a great talk about how we do API & SDK versioning at @polar_sh At the @FastAPI conference in Amsterdam Soon available online to watch, but remember: Polar is open source so you can have a look whenever if you remember how to read code.
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Birk Jernström retweeted
polar is the first PSP to support agentcard natively. anything sold on a polar checkout, your agent can now buy. you approve, it pays 😉
introducing agentic checkouts ✨ agents can now pay on any Polar checkout, with your approval, through @agentcardhq.
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Birk Jernström retweeted
agentcard ❤️ @polar_sh we integrated with Polar so your agents can pay instantly on their checkouts. Polar is the first PSP to support @agentcardhq natively and this is just the beginning!!!
introducing agentic checkouts ✨ agents can now pay on any Polar checkout, with your approval, through @agentcardhq.
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introducing agentic checkouts ✨ agents can now pay on any Polar checkout, with your approval, through @agentcardhq.
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Do you still read more than 20% of the code you ship?
38%Yes
50%No
12%Show Results
309 votes • Final results
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Do you still write more than 20% of code by hand?
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78%No
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6,630 votes • Final results
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She just received her first @Shopify order and started crying. When I worked at Shopify I saw that reaction and what the first order meant for entrepreneurs through countless - incredible - videos. But this was the first time in person and in the moment. Beautiful.
Proud of my wife who is now a founder. Shipping atoms. Launched her fashion brand today. avenue-atelier.com
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Proud of my wife who is now a founder. Shipping atoms. Launched her fashion brand today. avenue-atelier.com
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Be like Gabe: youtube.com/@gabe_sampson Junior web dev with 3y experience when AI arrives. ”Just learn to be great with AI instead”. He chooses to dive deeper instead and shares his adventures into C, Zig and systems programming 🫡
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So my kids got to cut my hair today
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These days going into Friday demos at @polar_sh feels like time traveling far into the future. I fucking love my team, company and having the privilege of doing this for a living, and at this stage in evolution.
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