Ben Tossell
@bentossell
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dad 3 under 3 // droid dealer @FactoryAI // dev tool investor + writer https://t.co/iLpIJT2Vlg // founder makerpad (acq by zapier)
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Joined July 2009
📣 Some news I’m excited to join @FactoryAI as Head of Dev Rel I shared the full story in bens bites this morning. Tldr; - Started in tech working at Product Hunt (2015) - Built stuff with no-code tools - No one signed up for any ‘startup’ I launched - Started Makerpad - a
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Wrote a blog post about Droid-Maxxing. If you're using Droid by @FactoryAI you should check it out and lmk if u have any questions of feedback!
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day 4 - nearly infite prompt 'helper'
I built a 'whack-a-merge' game for day 3 of droidmas honestly it's pretty impossible 😂 unless you unlock god mode 👀
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I built a 'whack-a-merge' game for day 3 of droidmas honestly it's pretty impossible 😂 unless you unlock god mode 👀
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@jediahkatz @leerob Oh wow! what are the chances, wrote something similar about adding more deterministic patterns in my blog post https://t.co/EMbYEoDbfs
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How I use Factory Droids to ship faster
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you can still get your scyophantic fix with droidmas day 2 https://t.co/gd0km0Q1sD (copied from @nealagarwal's infinite craft - as are many of the games i've built for this) still some funkiness (esp mobile) but its been a day
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who's non-technical now?! also... confession the screen-recording was fully run by an agent that i was 'directing'. I didnt record myself doing the steps! i've built a mini system to script, use my computer, see what its doing, adapt, and film so i just have to record my
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you can still get your scyophantic fix with droidmas day 2 https://t.co/gd0km0Q1sD (copied from @nealagarwal's infinite craft - as are many of the games i've built for this) still some funkiness (esp mobile) but its been a day
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At Factory, we hire people who are NTY (not technical, yet) all the time. But our sales team is actually just technical. Folks like @AndyTaylorSF run deals with Droids. It helps that Droid can do any task you can do on a computer...
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Haven't seen that a model realising it has work left and informing it. Is this @FactoryAI droid sauce?
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who's non-technical now?! also... confession the screen-recording was fully run by an agent that i was 'directing'. I didnt record myself doing the steps! i've built a mini system to script, use my computer, see what its doing, adapt, and film so i just have to record my
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shoutout to my brother @AdamTossell for last min fixes just before we went in for the lil one to come out 😅
on the first day of https://t.co/QtE4Pyo5Zh … we had our third child! (also shipped day 1 a minute before going in to theatre 😅) everyone doing well
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on the first day of https://t.co/QtE4Pyo5Zh … we had our third child! (also shipped day 1 a minute before going in to theatre 😅) everyone doing well
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My brother and I invented a new programming language for web development. It got trending on HackerNews and we raised $5M. Five years later, I admit it was a mistake. A new, custom language is scary + IDE support is a real PITA. Here’s the full story and what's coming next:
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"Yo, you wanna try our new CLI?" @FactoryAI 's whole unpaid influencer outreach, with @bentossell
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