John Sherwood

Founder @ Former CTO/co-founder at Mainly here to consume news feed and @ companies for tech support.

[Bugbop @BugbopApp]

Our first vibecoded app bug bounty program! https://t.co/K2lnEEhnnt

Is this how you would secure your vibecoded app?

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

https://t.co/oz9Zr8iWCV

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

This post is a test :-)

A mate of mine created a nifty new app called Postopus for posting/scheduling to multiple platforms with them all looking awesome. It's worth it for the awesome octopus brand design (he runs a design agency so it's slick a heck).

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

@ABetterJones Tried commenting on your post and it blew up (twice):

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

@jasonfried Just playing with Fizzy atm. What did you use to make the videos throughout the onboarding example project? They're very nice! (e.g. https://t.co/Lzz2AO2sO2)

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

Shipped one of those "Yeah, that was obvious" features 😅

[Bugbop @BugbopApp]

Adding a real time-saver today: Bugbop’s AI triage now runs as a bug is submitted, not after. That means out-of-scope reports get flagged before they ever ping the program team.

Full post: https://t.co/2AOLDGyz4F

#bugbounty #applicationsecurity #infosec #saas #productupdates

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

@windsurf Still broken. ETA?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

If I look at the last 15 years of knowing people in startups, and then seeing who became successful and who didn't, I'm starting to see some general patterns

The people I know who became successful (and very rich) regularly asked for help and feedback, and then applied that feedback very quickly (think minutes) and shipped fast while maintaining their own vision

The people who didn't become successful are the ones who worked on stuff for months/years without asking for help or feedback, or when they did took weeks/months to apply it

So I think the feedback -> implement loop and speed of it is possibly very important

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

@lukebrown_5 🤔

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

I've been loving working with Yash this year ❤️

[Bugbop @BugbopApp]

Different kind of case study this time - one of the most prolific bug hunters on the platform, Yash "Maverick", a 26-year-old self-taught security researcher from Dhaka, Bangladesh who transitioned into cybersecurity.
https://t.co/1e97gOdKsb

[Bugbop @BugbopApp]

Bugbop turns 1 today. 7 minute founder post on traction, pivots, and next steps.

https://t.co/mesf9GkCp6

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.

Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.

We could've died three times during this journey.

This is the story I've never told anyone before:

[Bugbop @BugbopApp]

Different kind of case study this time - one of the most prolific bug hunters on the platform, Yash "Maverick", a 26-year-old self-taught security researcher from Dhaka, Bangladesh who transitioned into cybersecurity.
https://t.co/1e97gOdKsb

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

AI coding model update: I'm loving Gemini 3 ❤️

It's really feeling like a step up from the other models (my favourite before was Sonnet Opus 4.5).

Gets me 95% there and then actually takes me that last 5% (instead of just breaking things constantly).

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

From one of the communities I'm in

[Val Sopi @valsopi]

Today @BlogMakerApp is on @UneedLists 🚀

Uneed is made beautifully by @T_Zahil and I couldn't be more excited to launch on there

I want BlogMaker to grab the first spot for the day and I need your help ——

1. vote/comment on uneed
2. comment/like/rt this tweet

link below 👇

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

As promised, I have used the @OmarchyLinux USB stick from Rails World (at Ruby Retreat 2025)

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

@rorvswild Heya. Just got rolling and the app works great! Strangely, the deployments aren't appearing. I'm using a simple kamal deploy (kamal v2).

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

@xWayfinder Specs?

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

Going for a run tomorrow starting at the venue at 7:30am if people want to join #euruko

[John Sherwood @Ponny]

Finally met the great @yukihiro_matz. What an absolutely delightful guy! #euruko