Bilal Karim

designing products from 0→1 & beyond. currently @temporalio. previously @shopify, @pagerduty, startups. building & 💎🦁⚔️

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@amasad Had this idea in my head for 3 years. Finally built and launched it end-to-end on @Replit → https://t.co/X82nMl0qcS

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

The Apple design team once again proved why they’re in a league of their own.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

Next year’s iPhone is going to be glasstastic.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

🎉⚽️

[Temporal @temporalio]

Today’s a big one for us: we’re becoming the front-of-shirt sponsor for @CPFC, starting with the 2026/27 Premier League season 🦅

All the details: https://t.co/PAExRrYj4j

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@byJWXN I dig it.

[Temporal @temporalio]

Agents fail in production for boring reasons. Transient API errors. Human approval steps that time out. Non-deterministic branching that nobody accounted for at 2am on a Saturday.

Our CTO @mfateev is at #GoogleCloudNext April 23 with @GitLab + @vellum_ai getting into the infrastructure decisions that determine whether your agent system survives contact with real users.

Register:
https://t.co/eYSw60GzEV

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

Upgraded my work headphones after 6 years. Switched from Sony WH-1000MX4 to Nothing Headphones (1). Super happy with their sound and build quality. https://t.co/fCLRi7e16F

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@SpatiallyMe Wow, so cool.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@chalaska Really cool.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@emilkowalski Seriously cool.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

Anthropic’s SRE teams must be swamped. https://t.co/zDDMQHp5dr

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

The teams building the future of AI — OpenAI, Scale AI, Replit, Abridge, Lovable, Hebbia, Gorgias — have all chosen @temporalio as the durable foundation their production systems run on. https://t.co/WQXdh0fQfP

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

I really like the design of @claudeai :)

[Andy Allen @asallen]

Designers get this wrong all the time.

New tech doesn't need opinionated design. We talk about Design as if it's one thing, but really it supports different purposes depending on a category's maturity.

Early tech = "Undesigned" (open & flexible)
Growth tech = Design to scale (universal & generic)
Mature tech = Design to differentiate (opinionated)

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

This feels validating for LyricWear 🙂
https://t.co/R9eQqIK7ID

[Replit ⠕ @Replit]

What happens when designers, PMs, and ops teams start shipping software themselves?

@Musixmatch — the company powering lyrics on Spotify, Apple Music, and Google — found out firsthand. Faced with six-month product cycles and a growing backlog of ideas that never shipped, they turned to Replit.

In roughly two months, they went from concept to a live artist merch tool — with 1,000+ T-shirts already shipped and a brand-new revenue stream to show for it.

Watch the full Musixmatch story to see what's possible when everyone in your org can build.

[Tony Fadell @tfadell]

PMs don’t just ship features. They kill them. Shipping isn’t the job. Shipping the right product is. A great PM doesn’t fall in love with the roadmap. They fall in love with the problem and have the guts to say: This isn’t solving it. This adds complexity. This doesn’t matter. Every feature, setting, UI, element should fight to exist.

At Nest, we had one rule:
If you can’t explain why it matters, it doesn’t ship.

You had to tell us the why.
The reason a real person would care.
That one rule killed dozens of features.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

Personally, I haven’t used Figma for design work in the past 2-3 months. But I’ve been exploring Figma MCP with Claude for designers who still prefer designing in Figma. Choice matters.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

Figma MCP × Claude Code has been a game changer for me. It’s the fastest way I’ve found to go from design to coded prototypes, while also keeping design and UI components perfectly in sync.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@claudeai Game changer.

[Bilal Karim @beekay__]

@forsan87 This looks incredible. I was just searching last night for an ad-free Ramadan app. Looking forward to trying this out.

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

Today marks an incredible milestone for @temporalio Technologies. I am proud to share that the company has raised $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, led by @a16z.

This news is a testament to the community and trust we’ve built in our Durable Execution, further solidifying our mission to continue investing in open source, expand cloud platforms, and continue helping companies move agentic AI out of the lab and into the real world.

Read more here: https://t.co/sZw2UPyDMw