Ben Bourdin

CTO & co-founder @Superthread_
Engineer with a passion for startups. ex. @grabyo @tray

[Lawrence Kao @lkao]

🥇 This past Thursday, I participated in my first-ever hackathon with @ben_bourdin for @dealroomco's API Hackathon at Phoenix Court, and we won!

We built a Sankey graph to show the weighted relationships your investors have with other investors that share the same portfolio companies, both up and downstream.

Dealroom's API let us go from nothing to a working map of relationships in 3.5 intense hours. Even in that short time, I could already see so many more ideas of what's possible:

🧐 Funds can analyze themselves: who they think they are (their thesis) vs who they really are (actual returns on their portcos)
💰 I can even see how you could design a system to guess how much a fund has left to deploy, so you don't waste your time pitching the wrong investors
🌍 Map out a path to IPO

I think this API access has the potential to really unlock some awesome data network effects.

Most importantly for me personally, this hackathon has kickstarted my product brain and I'll be testing and experimenting new apps in the coming weeks and sharing what I learn. Follow along if that sounds fun.

Congrats to Peter van Sabben (@sabben), Orla Browne (@smorla), Henryk Kornfeld, Boris Bavinck and the rest of the team at Dealroom for opening up the API and hosting this event. It was so wonderful to come back to Phoenix Court (@phxcrt) home of LocalGlobe (@localglobevc) my first investor back in 2015, and to Saul Klein (@cape), Ambi Mistry (@AmbiMistry), and Nuno Campos (@nfcampos) for hosting and judging.

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@asksparq I'm in east London and I can see an opportunity for a savoury snack: Romanian pretzels (covrig). there's a big community here and they have these shops everywhere back in Romania

[The Companion @TheCompanionApp]

We're at the stage with over 100 stories shortlisted for our book Embracing Mental Health as a Fandom.

It's been really challenging to visualize how we can layout the book until we started using @Superthread_ . I'm certain this isn't the way the team intended, but...

[Louis Knight-Webb @tokengobbler]

AI Engineering is dead, ironically the first job casualty of... AI.

First they came for "XML vs JSON", then they came for chain-of-thought, now they're coming for the AI Application itself...

[Merill Fernando @merill]

So the thing with running my weekly Entra Chat podcast with guests is that I need to stay on top of my game and track
✅ Reaching out to potential guests
✅ Scheduling
✅ Recording
✅ Editing
✅ Publishing

I've been using the awesome @Superthread_ to help me out with this.

[Itamar Ravid @iravid]

I'm hiring an AI engineer at @scroll_ai. UK-based, £130K-£170K+significant equity, fully remote.

* Own search, retrieval, context and prompt engineering
* Develop our evals
* High-end senior team

Building the future of AI research tools. Apply here: https://t.co/Y239ctJ0LM

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@michaelvillar @height_app Lots of respect for what you built, kudos for the awesome work you and the team poured into this 👏

Happy to help tap into my network for anyone on your team looking for opportunities in Europe.

also happy to offer discounts to transition users onto @Superthread_

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@ProfitsTaken @elonmusk Mail-in ballots

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

🚀 Wow we are #1 on Product Hunt 🥇

Thank you everyone for your support 🙇‍♀️🙏

We will work hard to live up to the expectation of being your next favourite tool! 💪

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

🎉 We are on live on Product Hunt 🎉

Check it out and leave some feedback 🙏
https://t.co/I3NhUGMkC2

[Superthread @Superthread_]

Today is the day 🎉 We're live on PH 🎉
https://t.co/Sh2N9SIGn0

Spread the word 🙏

[Anthony Hobday @hobdaydesign]

We've been preparing for a Product Hunt launch at @Superthread_. At my last company there was a marketing team that would have done this, but Superthread is smaller, so I got stuck into brand assets and updating the website. I'm going to talk through the process here.

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@santanderukhelp Yes, it worked today. Thanks for following up!

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@santanderukhelp Yes, the app seems to be working ok. Firefox has the same issue. I need the site as the mobile app doesn't seem to be able to do what I need

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@santanderukhelp Yes, the site is pretty much unusable for me. I do manage to login after a few attempts however clicking anywhere else returns to login screen. I'm on latest Chrome on MacOS and couldn't see any errors in the console or network requests

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@amethyst178 @santanderukhelp I'm also having issues with the website, keeps logging me out

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

Hey @British_Airways I have audio evidence that operators in your call centres purposefully hang up during calls. Let me know if this is of interest to you, personally this has left me never wanting to fly BA ever again

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@elonmusk The far right hates everyone, themselves included!

[Ben Bourdin @ben_bourdin]

@British_Airways keep trying to get in touch via help phone lines but I never get through. Is there any other way to get in touch? There is no other information on your website

[Dave (Superthread.com) @davidhasovic]

In this video I go through the stuff we fixed since my last Dev-Log.
Superthread is the Super-Fast Issue Tracker and Documentation Tool - https://t.co/CdsHRv0Lyd
#buildinginpublic #saas #startup #Wikipedia

https://t.co/nwm1elTEMi

[Brennan Topley @BrennanTopley]

I'm helping build the world's fastest issue tracker and documentation tool. If anybody wants to give @Superthread_ a test drive, my calendar is open 😊 👉 https://t.co/cGS9eCzbzS 👈