Ludovic OLLAGNIER

Apple Platforms Developer and Certified Trainer. Building macOS apps @withbeside 🫶 Previously @getonbeam

[Francis Davidson @FDavidsonT]

We raised $6M led by Sequoia to build the future of travel.

Watch me plan a perfect trip to Mexico City in 3 minutes.

Flights, hotels and a full itinerary that matches my preferences. All bookable on the spot.

Available today, free to use.

[Swift Language @SwiftLang]

Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: https://t.co/OcpinM33OX

[Odessia @OdessiaTravel]

The way we plan travel has stayed the same for 10+ years.

Today, that finally changes.

[Francis Davidson @FDavidsonT]

Meet Odessia.

She plans and books entire trips in one conversation.

Apparently, she's the goddess of travel.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

gpt-image-2 is here, available today in the API and Codex.

The most capable image generation model yet, built for production-grade workflows with stronger text rendering, layout, editing, resolution, and multilingual rendering.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.

There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

[etn. @etnshow]

Coming out of stealth after 18 months and raising $32M on the announcement?

That's exactly what @maximegermain and his team at @withbeside did.

[Maxime Germain @maximegermain]

And also... wE mAdE a lAuNcH vIdEo

[Index Ventures @IndexVentures]

For 100M+ Americans—contractors, realtors, landscapers, and other business owners—work happens by phone.

We’re excited to partner with @maximegermain and Beside as they announce $32M in funding and bring AI to these workers powering the real economy.

https://t.co/k4pTwW4s4A

[Beside @withbeside]

Briar Rose Winery is powered by Beside.

“I let Beside answer every single call. I’ve got three kids, a 40-acre property, and a tasting room to run. It’s life changing.”

Our AI Receptionist has freed a family winery to serve guests better.

[Beside @withbeside]

The real economy runs on calls & texts

...invisible to AI.

Today, @withbeside announces a raised $32M to rebuild the phone,

serving 20k+ businesses across the US.

[Maxime Germain @maximegermain]

Today, we’re launching Beside out of stealth with $32M from @IndexVentures & @eqtventures (+ many great investors/angels) to build the conversation layer for AI.

20k+ individuals and 600+ businesses now run their day through Beside: we answer the phone, text messages, take notes & update your tools.

We began by rebuilding the Phone & Messages app on iOS

We’re now launching with macOS & Android.

Read our story here: https://t.co/v85qJd3g4O

[Maxime Germain @maximegermain]

still very very early to join us - multi million arr - 60%+ m/o/m and US top charts
speedrunning in stealth a legendary execution - dm me!

[Pierre Valade @pierrevalade]

I've sold Sunrise to Microsoft for $100M 🌅

Today I'm introducing my new project: WorkflowAI 🚀
The open-source platform for building AI features.

Used by companies ($141M+ raised) with 1,000,000+ AI feature uses last week alone.

Building an AI feature in 1 minute. Read ⬇️

[Maxime Germain @maximegermain]

We’re hiring iOS engineers to join our 20 people team - we’re very well funded and growing very rapidly - now is the time!
Team is from Sunrise, Beam, Apple, Jour, Twitter & product design by @_bgian
remote or in-office NY / Paris

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Fear not, I still have plenty of bizarre macOS behavioral workarounds even without macOS 12.

[bobby giangeruso @_bgian]

our internal slack emojis - used for sharing progress updates and reacting to posts

[Maxime Germain @maximegermain]

co-hosting our first https://t.co/Zc93gRMXFD iOS event with @amoamoamo / @an21m

Speakers include:
• Remi Santos (Heart Hands) @remstos
• Wiley Kestner (Slack)
• @khanlou
• @steeve

RSVP here 📷 https://t.co/lZwKivIzxf

[Stef Kors @stef_kors]

Sneak peak of app number two

[Stef Kors @stef_kors]

Working off and on to slowly get all my little apps in ship shape. The first to go live on the app store will be Affability; a little color picker app to get SwiftUI colors.