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Paddy Stobbs

@PaddyStobbs

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Co-Founder @Stackfix. Building the future of software buying.

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Joined January 2011
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Paddy Stobbs
8 months
I'm thrilled to announce that @Stackfix - the software comparison platform - has raised a $3M Seed Round led by @chalfs, joined by @seedcamp and @helloworld, alongside some brilliant angel investors such as @paulforster, @matthewclifford and @Alicebentinck. When my co-founder.
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
RT @caminmc: "Anyone can build anything, technical skill doesn't matter, taste is the moat". This is a fashionable notion that is stupidly….
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
What are the best startup hiring platforms or talent networks (for commercial or engineering/design)? . Things like:. @wttj .@hackajobHQ .Jack&Jill.
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
RT @caminmc: I watch a lot of Air Crash Investigation, which means I've seen the same pattern play out almost every time: most crashes happ….
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4 months
This 👇. Garbage in, garbage out. The great LLMs-will-remain-horrendously-unhelpful-in-fields-where-the-public-data-sucks awakening is upon us.
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4 months
Web search functionality has, in a way, made LLMs worse to use. "That's a great question. I'm a superintelligence but let me just check with some SEO articles to be sure.".
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
Dig into all 14 of our Lite Categories here 👉
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View our curated selection of the best SaaS products.
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
NEW - Lite Categories. Excited to announce that 14 new Lite Categories are now live on Stackfix 🎬. Including. - Customer Success (feat. @planhat , @vitally_io , @Totango ). - Business Intelligence (feat. @omni , @lightdash_devs , @metabase ). - Business Phone Systems (feat.
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
5 products in 1. Streamlining is a massive theme in software right now, and one product that leans into this is @EmploymentHero - an HR platform that offers a smorgasbord of people-related functionality. Core HR, Payroll, ATS, Benefits and Global Hiring all in a single tool.
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4 months
RT @caminmc: I've been thinking about how to explain the distinction between an MCP server and an API, and landed on an analogy I like: the….
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
Tested a lot of CRMs - and @Close is one of the strongest options out there for early-stage teams focused on high-volume outbound sales. It particularly nails cold calling - with some of the best phone features on the market. My cliff notes 👇. (N.B. Not an ad – just love
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Paddy Stobbs
4 months
In 1764 James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny - and fabric production went from slow & expensive to fast & cheap. = The number of producers exploded.= Differentiation got much harder.= Trusted brands rose (Hermès - 1837, Levi's - 1853, Louis Vuitton - 1854). Feels like a.
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
ChatGPT is trained on a lot of garbage. - Fake/incentivized reviews (Amazon, G2, Trustpilot). - Reddit comments. - Quora answers. - Propaganda from the far ends of the political spectrum. - Tabloid journalism. etc etc. As most people know, this means that ChatGPT outputs a lot.
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
Slop blog posts.Slop music.Slop games.Slop companies (”Hey Lovable, make me a dating app”). = Tsunami of slop incoming. Never been more alpha in building trusted brands.
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
NEW - Product Analytics 📈. One of the first decisions for any software company is - which product analytics software should we use?. Mixpanel?.Amplitude?.PostHog?.Hotjar?.Or just basic Google Analytics. The truth is that each of these are built for slightly different use-cases.
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
My colleague @tomdekan has written an epic guide on how we won Product of the Day and Product of the Week on @ProductHunt . - What to do in advance. - How to win the first 4 hours. - Why you should not record your launch video 10 minutes before launch (like I did). If you’re
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
For certain roles - particularly ones that attract a lot of applicants - we ask candidates to submit a short video (<1 minute) introducing themselves. A mobile selfie is totally fine. It gives signal on things that a CV just can't (e.g. communication skills). It also filters
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
Thought Twitter had improved a lot. Realised I had clicked the Following tab.
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Paddy Stobbs
5 months
I can't breathe without seeing a tweet from a VC telling me to only use 7 slides in my pitch deck, to 'bring energy' to my Zoom pitch, or to only fart sideways when driving down Sand Hill Road. But it's absolute tumbleweed when it comes to founders returning the favour to VCs.
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