Brandon Waselnuk
@BrandonWaselnuk
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builder of things, YC founder 🇨🇦 🏃🏻 🏊🏻♂️ 🚴🏻♂️ 🏔️ shipping @mintlify investing early af
Joined July 2009
"I'm so lucky I joined that startup early. Lifelong friends, a life changing outcome, and so many stories to share.". ^ This could be future you, after building with me @mintlify . We're hiring (DM if you wanna chat about anything):
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@blader Only if they hit performance targets like.- speaking by age 1.5.- calc proofs by 5.- running $1bn solo startup by 10. right?.
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Are you a 🇨🇦 building in San Francisco?. I'm putting together various soriées for the maple syrup gang. I'll be running them, typically small form, for founders, engineers, product, design - basically if you ship you'll be in great company. Send me a DM / reply so I can add you.
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Got a fresh O1 this week. Looks like I'm staying San Francisco. Let's party.
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Grateful to @ycombinator for believing in us early, @NFX for the conviction they built so quickly, and @karlclement & @saumilp_ for building with me day in and out. Our support has grown with this seed including @LudlowVentures, @emergencecap & operator angels.
YC S21's Codex has secured $4.4 million to make programming multiplayer, enabling engineers to collaborate directly within an IDE. Congrats @BrandonWaselnuk, @karlclement, @saumilp_, and the entire team at @codexbuild on the round!.
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I've joined @mintlify as the Head of Customer Success. I will be creating and leading customer success initiatives that help our customers win the hearts and minds of their end-customers through elegant documentation & communication:.
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This guy @julianweisser is the hype man for founders. Never seen someone just fucking care about people, help, and promote them the way he does. In my 20 years in tech I've met maybe 3 people with this energy. You have his full attention when you speak with him, fully present.
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I'm moving on from @squiredev . After over a decade of building with @saumilp_ & @karlclement the company is in great hands as they continue to grow the business.
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I'll be cohosting an event for 🇨🇦 builders in SF with @mintlify x @gumloop_ai & @MaxBrodeurUrbas . Live demos, consumables, good vibes, and ketchup chips if I can find them. Feb 18th, 6pm. Spots are limited!.
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🇨🇦 in San Francisco?. Come find the best croissants with me and a lot of other Canucks May 24th. New Maple Syrup Gang city hike is live - sign up on next tweet. we'll make you say "croissant" out loud to check your french language skills 😂.
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These cracked 🇨🇦 demoed crazy things tonight. Huge turnout for the first night. Sub the Maple Syrup Gang calendar for the next one:
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Today @codexbuild is live on @ProductHunt come make programming more multiplayer with us. . We'd love your support via an upvote 😁✌🏻.
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Pumped to present Codex at @ycombinator #demoday today. S21 batch is 🔥 and we're proud to be a part of it!. and check the loom if you want to see some of the magic from the homepage 😁🙏.
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As much as the 🇨🇦 budget proposal racks my brain, I’m long Canada. Ain’t no bagel like a Montreal one. Ain’t no shawarma like an Ottawa one. Ain’t no omakase like a Vancouver one. And then there’s toronto. It’s got all the food. All of it.
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We’re hiring engineering talent at Codex and I really want to talk to you if you like devtools and remote work in Canada. You can have fun times with these knuckleheads if you join
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Drove the pacific coast highway and now I’m really, truly getting the west coast vibes. 😁✌🏼
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🇨🇦 Demo night tomorrow in San Francisco (link 👇🏻). We will literally have poutine. Last chance to register before we close out. You wouldn't believe how many non-🇨🇦 are trying to sneak in 👀.
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@VicVijayakumar But Vic, I can just write it in JS then get an LLM to convert it to Go. Easy.
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@jamesacowling @shadcn you're a legend. and I was right. Time to go say "I told you so" to a lot of people. thank you for this gift.
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Nothing beats seeing founder friends in person. Thanks to @ycombinator and @dessaigne for putting up with our group 😁. cc @paulnakata @akajla09 @haacked @saumilp_ et al
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Canada writes checks the size of tier 1 funds pizza budget for hackathons.
alright fresh fed budget, let’s see what we’re cookin up to stimulate the tech indus— . oh
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Surreal to say @codexbuild turns 1 year old today. We’re 11 people now, all working to make engineering better. I’m inspired by the team daily, work with my best friends @karlclement & @saumilp_ as cofounders, and have delightful customers we serve. Grateful 😁✌🏼.
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Proud to say @karlclement , @RealSaumilP , and I are part of @ycombinator S21 batch building Codex - make programming multiplayer 😁. Would love to hear feedback from you all as we build! DM / request access and I’ll be in touch 🏃🏻💪🏼.
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@danhockenmaier Not only is this just impressive you also picked the best picture to go along with the post 🥇.
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We're live on Product Hunt with our new product Codeowners - automatically mapping who knows the most about any code in your repo. We'd love your support and comments, always love a lively discussion: More details in 🧵.
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I can not stress enough how great it is to meet people in tech who have hobbies outside of tech. My biggest mistake when building for my first decade was only focusing on tech. I game, read a bunch, and I’m pretty boring otherwise. Remember to live a full life!.
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Founders: Always pick great investors who will also send amazing swag for your dog. It rains in Vancouver. 😁. 🙏🏼 @NFX @beller @JamesCurrier
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We know how to party 🇨🇦. Demo night is gonna be insane when the poutine hits
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After spending the month of February living with my co-founder @saumilp_ and working daily with our other cofounder @karlclement one thing stands out the most. Building a company with your best friends is a massive advantage with very few drawbacks. ❤️ Ya lads 😁.
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You don't understand what this means to me 🇨🇦. The syrup must flow. The maple leaves must fall. 🍁. Your docs must be beautiful.
New themes coming your way!. Say hello to Maple. Condensed, clean & elegant. More to come.
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Omw to a hackathon with @mintlify & friends, in a @Waymo , chatting with @AnthropicAI ‘s Claude about my devtool idea. This is so San Francisco even I’m surprised.
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@Jobvo Don’t @ me like that, Job! Clearly if you’re shipping and no one is around to witness it you’re not shipping, right? /s.
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It's 1am, u up?. Squire is and it finished your code review. Quick, merge to main before that Staff Eng wakes up. Squire is live on Product Hunt today and we'd ❤️ your support:
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My birthday dinner this week was made extra special as my grandmother and mom @cynthiabland were able to come visit me in Vancouver 😁
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Grateful to have spent 3 days here learning from @NFX ‘s guild of founders. We all levelled up together, supported each other, and built deeper conviction on our companies. It’s time to build.
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I'm moving to San Francisco 😁. I truly can't wait to see friends, customers, investors, and meet new founders & makers in the bay area. If you're building devtools come hang with me at our Hayes Valley office - we'll talk AI (it's part of the lease agreement 😂) and tech.
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Feeling inspired by watching so many friends choosing to start companies despite the global markets. Makers gonna make.
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After weeks of setbacks I'm finally 7/7 days for drinking my 1st coffee at least 100 minutes after waking. @hubermanlab talks about this often and I've gotta say - life is actually better. From: Founder who drinks coffee like water.To: Founder who drinks 1 coffee (2 when needed).
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@patrickc As a back country camper you may have solved my single biggest downside of that hobby. Thank you 🫡❤️.
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Thrilled to say I'm a part of @beondeck Canada's Founding Fellows as they expand to Canada to accelerate the flywheel that's been building up for the past decade. Makers: you can join pre-idea, pre-team, or pre-funding. On Deck takes no equity & helps with network and fundraising.
We're thrilled to announce that On Deck is officially expanding to Canada! 🇨🇦 . We're excited to bring On Deck fellowships to Canada to match ambitious founders, operators, and investors to programs that accelerate their growth. Here's why 👇 .
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SF run crew checking in. Proof of work:
Builders who run (Vancouver) ✅. @julianweisser first one done in 🇨🇦. @tokifyi the goat for co hosting
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Ran my first Triathlon ever in Napa valley this weekend. If you ever thought about doing one, hit me up, I'm grateful to many people who encouraged me and helped me on this adventure. This community is excellent. And if you love em, send me recs for future events 👀
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So the @codexbuild team is going to more than double in January. 😲. I can't wait to introduce you all to these incredible individuals. Gratitude doesn't begin to explain how excited I am for the opportunity to serve this team and our customers.
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I’m slowly starting to understand this West Coast vibes thing. Ps. Where’s the best breakfast in LA?
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We just released our beta of - a devtool that works with you by writing pull request descriptions, reviewing PRs, and writing code to implement code review feedback. All inside your GitHub PR workflow:
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Walked out of morning meetings to breakfast my partner made for me. Gratitude isn’t a big enough word for this type of support 🤤🥪🙏🏼
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I can not stress enough how critical this new role @mintlify is;. Technical Recruiter. In SF. You'll have hella budget to uniquely source the best talent, building for a great mission, already serving the fastest scaling customers of all time. Join us.
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@camrrowe Bro, future ride hell yes. I’m doing a charity Ruck tomorrow across SF city already though 😭.
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Founders, I can't say enough good things about @NFX As a misfit I finally feel at home with The Guild here. Good news, they raised a new $450M fund for pre-seed and seed investments. Working with @JamesCurrier and @beller is like having cheat codes. 1/2.
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Tomorrow 5pm | Hayes Valley | DevTool Demos. We've got 4 legends showing off including:.@thedanigrant of Jam .dev.@tnm of Cased .com (prev CTO @github).@qfav95 of @heytavus .@Andydy42 of @keywordsai . Witness it live:
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Still trying to get @TimHortons to sponsor double double's.
🇨🇦🤝🌉. we're hosting an event for canadians building in sf. it'll be a venue full of nice people with even nicer demos. feb 18th. space is limited. @gumloop_ai co-hosting with @BrandonWaselnuk / @mintlify.
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Heading to 🇨🇦 to see my family. Need polymarket on if I can’t handle the cold anymore. Odds are not in my favour 😬.
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If you want to get good at Design Thinking @stanforddschool has had your back for a long time with these sweet mixtapes: I might just schedule this tweet once a quarter - it can change the game for you makers out there. Keep building 💪🏻.
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I love this picture, especially the obvious rookie mistake I made while trying to get my dogs attention for it. Mistakes are great and I recommend making at least a few a day.
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Spent 45 mins with @TammyFabulous and got the best 80/20 convo I've ever had on hiring. Easily saved me a week of reading I had planned - thank you Tammy 🙏.
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The first maple syrup gang 🇨🇦 🍁 event is going down Tuesday in San Francisco. We got the good stuff. You coming?
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The team at Codex is growing! Proud to welcome @domcoballe and Meichen to our team. We're seeking a few more design partners to work closely with and give early access to Codex - if you're interested my DMs are open 😁.
We are super stoked to announce we have 2 new rockstars joining the team at Codex today!. Welcome Meichen Dong as Software Engineer!. Welcome Dom Coballe as Head of Experience! cc/ @domcoballe . Let's get the fire started!.
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Tech in Vancouver is pretty great with nights like these with good friends . ❤️ @notionport @bijanv @amirksharif
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We out here 🇨🇦. Strong title part of my quote ". Canadians don’t want these problems. We just want to get along.” ❤️.
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I didn't know the dopamine hit of seeing new colleagues deliver work on day 1 would bring me. I'm hooked. Proud of @karlclement and @saumilp_ for pushing to get our onboarding tight.
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@notionport I have a gift for you & @jimmermatthews to add to your slack. a perfect emoji to react to things
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San Francisco; it's time to build. I'm hosting a hackathon, Null to Agent, in Hayes Valley the weekend of Sept. 14-15th. Come out and we'll help you get into production, show leading techniques we use in and have fun 😁.
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Canadian Banking Games. I’m currently at 6 employees, 1 bank manager at a different branch, all ID I own, and 50 mins into getting one wire transfer started. Who wants odds on this being completed correctly?.
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Became a paying subscriber to today. Attribution is really hard out here fam so I wanted to make it clear, I bought because @steventey is a musician. It helps that the tool rocks I guess.
Naturally, had to take a break in the middle of our bike ride to take it for a spin 🤓
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My dog got a minor cut on his paw and the only ‘cone’ we could get quickly was a burger. You’re welcome for this Burger Shibe.
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Pitch complete - knees weak, arms are heavy 😅. Big thanks to our group partners @harjtaggar @dessaigne and @gustaf for all the support. Such a fun day today! 🙏.
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SF doesn’t market how good like every burrito you get here for $10 is enough. Considering moving for it.
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i'm so deeply in love with @meetgranola as a product I needed to tell the world. Change your note taking life for product & gtm.
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Came home from SF to charcuterie waiting, is this the real life?. Or is it fantasy?
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I’m going to be in San Francisco for the month of February and hosting a few small dinners with engineers to talk workflow, challenges in collaboration (especially in remote), and of course @codexbuild . Who should I be sure to invite?.
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Building tools 🛠 for software tool makers 👩💻 . Send deep links to a code block, 10x your comments with markdown and more, help onboard devs to your code base, and all in your IDE. We can’t wait to serve your team 😁🤘🏼.
We've officially launched Codex on YC Launch! Would love your support! Available now on VS Code Marketplace.
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Went to Canada for a little jaunt. Had to swing by the OG. US donuts suck compared to a timmies honey cruller - no contest.
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We made all our tree decorations with felt, glue guns, and paint. Handmaking pom poms is actually pretty fun.
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codex is a great name.
today we are introducing codex. it is a software engineering agent that runs in the cloud and does tasks for you, like writing a new feature of fixing a bug. you can run many tasks in parallel.
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Can't believe @posthog unleashed this thing on SF today. you forget to feed it @zlwaterfield @IanVanagas !?
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Pumped to be speaking in Vancouver at Founders Day on Thursday Aug 22nd. Would love to catch up with the Raincity fam too. btw @VancityReynolds if you come to founder day I'll wear a deadpool onesie for my talk, entrepreneurs could learn a ton from you.
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In order to get into the Cracked Canadian Demo Night in SF city we asked a very important question. "Should you put Ketchup in mac & cheese?". These are their stories:.
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Came to Ottawa to pet my dog’s sister, Gina. I’m also working but, ya know, priorities.
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It’s been 2 years since I stopped drinking alcohol. My life has improved greatly. I do have a rule of “you can have a drink if it’s part of an experience” which has led to 8 drinks over the 2 years one was at the summit of Whistler with a close friend.
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I'd like to think I served up an ace demo yesterday of how you can pair program with @squiredev + @cursor_ai . It's a virtuous cycle:.- Squire checks all that composer code.- finds issues.- you drop a screenshot of the issue back into composer.- cursor resolves.
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Looking for some brave souls who want to test our upcoming product drop. If you use github, have at one point asked yourself “I wish I knew who to ask about this code” / are an Eng Manager - we made this for you 😁.
We’re building a new thing…anyone using GitHub that wants to try it out?.
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get off your phone and go outside (SF edition)
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Nothing is more exciting to me than talking to people who are building something - a company, a side project, an open source tool, even just an email list for the best latte spot in their city. Make things and tell people - it will serve you well.
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Tech twitter - thank your early adopter friends today. They do a service to startups that is incalculable in value.
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If you’re in Vancouver and like tech and retrogaming - come join me next week @codexbuild and I are hosting I’m ready to be destroyed in Super Smash.
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We came. We ran. We saw. We took over flywheel coffee.
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