Jon Bishop

Building @heap (acq’d), @periscopedata (acq’d), @joinhomebase

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@buildwtim @God_I_13 Ok perfect, I'll add that. Thank you Tim!

Any way I can be helpful?

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@God_I_13 Hi! I just launched a set of new SaaS marketing skills. Is my repo set up properly to get picked up by your auto-indexing? https://t.co/HMcBmt0CBI

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@buildwtim @God_I_13 Thank you for the reply (and sorry for the delay)! Are you thinking something like a Claude plugin marketplace file?

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@JohnMu Do you have a google ads equivalent? I got a fake Google Tag Manager ad that looks like malware on a search for "google tag manager". Still have the search page open from last night if that's helpful.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

I agree with you, but CMO sounds impressive to a lot of people who don't know better. It's sort of a combination of saying what their audience wants to hear and using their audience's language.

I don't like it as a marketer, but it's one of those pedantic expert things, like Apple store employees not correcting customers.

It seems to be inexperienced indie hackers who are responding positively fwiw.

[Daniel Jeffries @Dan_Jeffries1]

This is a ridiculous stat in a ridiculous story:

"The marginal cost of running an agent, had collapsed to, essentially, the cost of electricity."

The marginal cost of a coding agent is not even remotely close to "the cost of electricity."

These agents are absurdly expensive to use and run. Why do you think AI labs are banning people from having multiple $200 subscriptions? Because those subscriptions are heavily, heavily discounted to drive demand. Why did labs stop folks from using their subscription costs in OpenClaw?

The OpenClaw guy had five max subs and was losing 20k a month building and running his amazing project (because he was retired and had the money to set in fire) before AI labs banned this practice of having multiple subs.

In case you just missed it: Because these agents are expensive as hell to run.

The cost of running coding agents daily on eight hour shifts is thousands of dollars a month at API pricing and that is subsidized too.

My team regularly burns anywhere from 4K-8K a month across three people using the latest and greatest for an AI driven building workflow.

That's not even agents running 24x7 "making money while you sleep" which is utter and total nonsense.

This is one of the most spectacularly unprofitable businesses in history so far.

People talking about the end of all work because this stuff runs for "pennies" cannot do even the most basic math.

New NVIDIA chips don't even break even for data centers for like 24-36 months and they are basically obsolete by then. That doesn't count power and cooling and people to run it all.

Imagine if your car was basically worth zero after three years?

I'm so sick of these idiotic Population Bomb level stories about the end of all work and running agents for pennies.

It's a mass delusion for people who can't be bothered to bust out a calculator on their phone for five seconds.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@skeptrune It always was and it's embarrassing that the industry ever thought otherwise

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

I think there are very few people worth listening to with these predictions because very few have a good enough grasp of both AI capabilities and their trajectory and how business and consumers adopt new tech/how the average person across the world reacts to it.

I used to take these predictions from the people closest to the tech pretty seriously, but it's become clear over the years they have little understanding of why and how businesses buy tech.

While they may be right that the tech has advanced to the point necessary to kill SaaS (though I'd disagree), to your point, this ignores well established behavior when it comes to why business's adopt tools.

It's a similar thing to all the people predicting that there won't be a front end to software and we'll instead have highly customized, on demand UIs. Ok, the tech may get to that point, but that is not what users want.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@eldadfux Are you using any tools to analyze your repo traffic and user data? I’m working on a repo and Github’s native traffic analytics look really basic.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@benhaynes Are you using any tools to analyze your repo traffic and user data?

I’m working on a repo and Github’s native traffic analytics look really basic.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@alexellisuk Are you using any tools to analyze your repo traffic and user data?

I’m working on a repo and Github’s native traffic analytics look really basic.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@scaling01 Says Lisan al Gaib

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

I would consider building relationships with power-users a product thing and something that should be done alongside whatever marketing you do.

Cold outbound won't work at your price point. Have you looked at building out new, more expensive plans?

What marketing got you to $1m ARR?

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

Wondering what Product-Led Growth looks like for dev tools in 2026?

Start with this great guest post from @draftdev and find out how PLG is evolving with AI and other trends this year:
https://t.co/3dMtNkcy9v

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@anupsingh_ai @MartinGTobias A couple paying customers is validation, definitely not PMF

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@winternet Definitely not a joke, that place is full of work rich, socially poor

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@sporadica This is why Yelp did so well in SF. They threw cool parties for people who had never been and had little hope of getting into cool parties.

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@ValueIdeaLog @KateClarkTweets Normally I'd agree, but have you seen how thirsty to look cool the current batch of founders are?

[Jon Bishop @igrowsaas]

@buildwithfede @aridutilh As someone who spent over a decade there, hard agree