Stuart Bowness

Cofounder @ - Agents for Founders

[shadcn @shadcn]

Must read.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@RobSchmidt434 Me too!

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

Is anyone else confused by @Cloudflare’s insanely terrible naming of…

The Client Apps
• 1.1.1.1 — the consumer DNS app
• 1.1.1.1 w/ WARP — the consumer DNS app with VPN
• WARP — the VPN protocol/feature inside 1.1.1.1
• WARP+ — the paid tier of WARP
• WARP Client — what the docs still call the desktop app
• Cloudflare One Agent — the new mobile Zero Trust app
• Cloudflare One Client — the new name for the desktop WARP client
• BoringTun — the underlying WireGuard implementation (Rust), which powers both

The Platform Layer
• Cloudflare One — the SASE marketing umbrella for everything below
• Cloudflare Zero Trust — the security platform within Cloudflare One
• Cloudflare for Teams — what Zero Trust used to be called

The Products Inside Zero Trust
• Cloudflare Access — ZTNA / identity-based app access
• Cloudflare Gateway — Secure Web Gateway / DNS filtering
• Cloudflare Tunnel — connects your origin to CF without public IPs
• cloudflared — the CLI daemon that runs Tunnel
• Argo Tunnel — what Tunnel used to be called

The DNS Addresses
•1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 — standard resolver
•1.1.1.2 / 1.0.0.2 — malware blocking (“for Families”)
•1.1.1.3 / 1.0.0.3 — malware + adult content blocking

Bonus Confusion
•MASQUE — the newer tunnel protocol alongside WireGuard, also inside the “WARP” client

That’s roughly 25+ distinct names for what is fundamentally “we route your traffic through our network and apply policies.”

Painful. 😣

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@eastdakota Maybe Agent Lee can fix the confused naming of 1.1.1.1 and One and Zero Trust et al.
🙏

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@DerekNee I wanna take a run at this

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

We use Cloudflare for our product but Vercel for marketing. Simple reason being: Vercel is so much simpler for building/deploying AI driven marketing, and easier for our marketing team to run with zero lift from engineering.

GCP didn’t even enter our calculus as we love the edge native service stack so much more.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@benjitaylor Loving this! Thanks Benji

[Aidan Hornsby @aidanhornsby]

https://t.co/dA2zUSOATM

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I think a majority of 100+ person software companies die in the next 2 years

Every big idea that requires 100s of people to develop will just be vibe coded by smaller teams in minutes.

Even if they can only vibe code 70% of the product that’ll be enough to cancel all the contracts with big SaaS companies

I think you see the death of 100+ person SaaS companies and an absolute explosion of 1-5 person SaaS companies building extremely useful AI forward tools for very small slivers of the market.

Tools built for a niche of a niche of a niche. AI CRM tools for Korean grocery stores. AI payroll tool for lumber warehouses. Use cases big generalist companies like Salesforce or Cursor would never go after.

These companies will make maybe $15 million a year max. 0% chance of ever going public or becoming a household name. But if you’re a 5 person company with a $200 subscription to Codex, that’s an incredible amount of money.

There hasn’t been 1 software release from the last 6 months where I couldn’t rebuild it myself in minutes. Now with my OpenClaw autonomously reading the internet, looking for successful tools and just building them without my permission, I wake up to SaaS I can use and sell every morning. It’s completely abundant.

What this means for you:

• Learn vibe coding (I’d recommend OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Code)
• Think about where you areas of expertise are
• If you have no areas of expertise, have your OpenClaw teach you
• Build a niche app for that area of expertise
• Have your OpenClaw go out and find potential customers
• DM/email them
• Change your life

I’m 100% confident this is the future. Up to you if you’ll do anything about it

[Aidan Hornsby @aidanhornsby]

OpenClaw is not for teams. Straight from @steipete:

"The security model of OpenClaw is that it's your PERSONAL assistant (one user - 1...many agents)."

And that's great — focused products are the best products!

That's why we're focusing @usetoyo to bring the best parts of OpenClaw to founders AND their teams.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@claudeai Looks like they killed another fun little side project we had going. https://t.co/MJMnMmTtOQ went from #1 on product hunt a few weeks back to being implemented in Claude natively. Such is life these days.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@eastdakota @Cloudflare Gmail running on Cloudflare, but with agent-first workflows please.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

You’re underestimating the power of Microsoft. They’re rarely first, but they come in like king kong. Teams vs Slack as an example. Claude still is mostly unheard of outside the valley. Microsoft’s name, war chest and distribution alone should cause a moment of pause. I wouldn’t bet against them.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

It’s wild how much opportunity there is across so many sectors. Still such early innings.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Software engineering makes up ~50% of agentic tool calls on our API, but we see emerging use in other industries.

As the frontier of risk and autonomy expands, post-deployment monitoring becomes essential. We encourage other model developers to extend this research.

[Damian Player @damianplayer]

your timeline convinced you AI is in a bubble. talk to a boomer above the age 35 for 5 minutes.

most people don’t even know what claude is.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

kind of wild when you zoom out.

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

@awilkinson Would suggest Ironclaw at a bare minimum. OpenClaw is an absolute security nightmare (https://t.co/Qx9RvZX2mZ). Fine for personal use, less so for a whole company. This is why we are building @usetoyo

[Stuart Bowness @stuartbowness]

Looks pretty generic tbh. Default claude design over-uses emojis, and follows pretty generic tailwind css patterns. It’s definitely an improvement over many websites, but when the majority of the web looks this way, the stuff that doesn’t will stick out even more. There’s no accounting for good taste.

[Aidan Hornsby @aidanhornsby]

https://t.co/rAzyQ6CsZS

[Damien C. Tanner @dctanner]

We cancelled our entire SaaS stack and started running our business with AI agents.

Now, we’re building @useToyo to help other founders do the same.

We're pleased to announce $4.3M in funding from @FrontlineVC, @inovia, @pmoe, and angels from Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare.

For decades software was built for humans to operate.

That world is over. We're building for one where agents do the work, while humans direct.