Mike Ross

0-to-1 builder. Designing products & solutions that move the needle on business problems. You're probably moving too slow.

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

> Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.

What's the problem with this quote?

[The Athletic @TheAthletic]

After three San Francisco Giants pitchers appeared in Friday’s game with Bible verses written on their Pride Night caps, MLB issued a warning that similar behavior will not be tolerated.

More details: https://t.co/7HLiCoQMC6

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

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[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

Your recruiting software costs $1,000+/mo, and it's basically Google Forms attached to a Jira board.

I've been hiring a lot this year and tried the best-in-class tools. Every one of them is broken in its own special way:

→ Too many dials. You drown in config and dashboards, and lose what matters: What's next for this candidate? What do I need to do today?

→ Cross-team coordination is non-existent. Discussions and scheduling devolve into Slack because doing it in-app is too painful. The ATS becomes a filing cabinet, with real work done elsewhere.

→ Pricing is absurd. $500–$1,000/month to post one job, and most require annual commitments to boot. Don't even get me started on company headcount-based pricing...

→ Initial screening is still manual. Recruiters and founders are drowning in AI-slop applications from candidates who don't come close to the profile. Existing ATS tools don't help; their filters and scoring are effectively useless, so you still wade through it yourself.

I've run into all these problems myself, and I know from speaking with founders and HR teams that others face them too.

To fix the pain, I am building Alyst. Canadian data sovereignty, AI-native tooling. Designed on one premise: hiring should be simple, fast, and painless.

Whatever ATS you're paying for today, the goal is to deliver 4× the value at 1/4 the cost.

Odds are, if you're a Canadian business, you're being overcharged for tools that underdeliver.

I'm taking 10 additional design partners. Canadian hiring teams of any size. Free access to all the features, direct line to me, real influence on the roadmap.

DM me 🍁

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

@headcaffeinator Killer launch video 🗼💪

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

Real-time swap of a carrot for a stick

1. Form habit through incentives (2x usage bonus in off-peak hours)
2. Replace with punishment (restricted on-peak at 0.5x limit, off-peak goes back to original 1x)

[Thariq @trq212]

To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged.

During weekdays between 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before.

[Fahd Ananta @fahdananta]

Every dying company, community, and civilization eventually criminalizes the act of seeing clearly

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

How are HRIS subscriptions so expensive?

Excluding payroll, I'd think you could one-shot a basic one in a weekend

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

3 of the top 4 "featured" apps on ChatGPT Apps are some guy named Abu's test accounts

Did they use Codex & vibe code an app store? 😳

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

@RobinhoodApp I want some merch to rep for when you launch in 🇨🇦

[Lan @ad0rnai]

“founding engineer” has to be the biggest psyops

you get a founder-adjacent title, founder-level responsibilities, below market rate salary, and no founder equity or founder-adjacent career opportunities afterwards

[Fahd Ananta @fahdananta]

Everyone knows you can get smarter and more ambitious by surrounding yourself with great people

What’s more important is that you can also get dumber by osmosis. This must be avoided at all costs

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

@fahdananta Sounds good until it turns into Europe. I despise the drifters constantly bothering you to peddle their goods every 10 min. Don’t open the floodgates!

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Society separates those who are good at math and those who are not

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

A NYE party of only consultants, doctors, and bankers is either your pinnacle of success or your worst nightmare

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

True long-term thinkers never use DateTime.MaxValue

If you don't think your code is going to be used past Dec 31, 9999, you should re-assess whether you are aiming high enough

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

My bet: it's like real estate agents -- a small # of drivers complete 90+% of the trips, so adding 10,000 drivers that do 0 rides/mo doesn't help

A better solution might be to give Uber, Lyft, etc a set # of licenses & they allocate them to their best drivers. If you don't drive, they swap it to a higher performer

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

@swaritdholakia Uber has all the data to support their point publicly if they wanted to, but they "commissioned and paid for" a push poll with the classic "Some people say..." leading questions, which should say something in itself

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

@swaritdholakia My bet is that there is a small % of drivers who complete most of the rides. As long the "whales" keep driving, the impact would be minimal. Similar to real estate with most agents completing 0 home sales in a year

[Mike Ross @MikeRossXYZ]

@torontolibrary @torontolibrary Where are the minutes from this meeting? Can you provide a public link?