Jacob Wolf 🐝

leading podcasts & integrations engineering at @beehiiv • husband, pet dad, & amateur pitmaster • award-winning investigative reporter • fmr @espn, @dotesports

[Jacob Wolf 🐝 @JacobWolf]

New on @beehiiv for podcasts: Episode-level deep links 🎧

Listeners can now jump straight to any episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube—no hunting required.

Apple and Spotify connect automatically; just add your YouTube link before or after you publish.

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Insanely lucky rolls. Not sure how this isn’t 82-0.

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@karrisaarinen @linear Would love access to this! Workspace is /beehiiv

[Jacob Wolf 🐝 @JacobWolf]

Has anyone built an AI chat app that is model agnostic that has good connectors and tools for third-party applications like Linear, Google Drive, etc.?

Feels like this is the one huge advantage of the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps. Curious if someone has solved this.

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@jpschroeder This might finally be the silver bullet to get me over to @zeddotdev full time.

I love the Zed as an IDE, but not a huge fan of their harness. I love the OpenCode and Cursor harnesses and Composer but the Cursor agent is missing some of the ACP implementation.

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@skeptrune Same pool has people there after 2 p.m. basically every day. Austin: The City that Doesn’t Work.

[Tyler Denk 🐝 @denk_tweets]

this is probably the project I'm most proud of in my entire career

on July 16th we're hosting the @beehiiv Summer Release Event 2026 — announcing the updates that will reshape this entire industry

virtual, free, 30 minutes. RSVP 👇

https://t.co/s6pLWIljnQ

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

I support Chairman Wemby and the Socialist Republic of San Antonio against SGAdolph and the Oklahoman Fourth Reich.

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@DavidKPiano That’s rad, man! Great job.

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@DavidKPiano Ooo. Does this eval the expression inside the target state? Or just validate that the target state is a valid one to be transitioned to from the current state?

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@MediaKing 🤝

[Matt Paulson @MediaKing]

18 months ago, MarketBeat was 100% on SendGrid. Zero presence on any newsletter platform.

Tested Substack and Beehiiv as separate lists. Substack went nowhere. Beehiiv worked. Ran it again. And again.

Now we have 4 Beehiiv lists and a couple million subscribers there.

[Tyler Denk 🐝 @denk_tweets]

email has been dying since the 1990s, and it just died again

according to substack, gmail pixel updates have killed open rates and you should therefore download their app instead

some other notable deaths include:

> spam overload
> instant messaging
> newsletter fatigue
> myspace and facebook
> RSS and google reader
> x and instagram
> AI replacing everything
> slack and workplace chat
> mobile push notifications

here’s the reality (from someone not pushing propaganda to make you download an app):

> 4.7 billion users globally
> 376B+ emails sent daily
> email is an open protocol (no one owns it)
> there are no gatekeepers and no algorithm deciding your reach
> every major creator has an email list
> email isn't a platform, it's infrastructure
> delivers ~$36 in revenue for every $1 spent

email is the most powerful distribution channel on the internet - one of the only channels where you actually own the relationship with your audience

email isn't dying.. but your reach on someone else's app can disappear overnight

[Jacob Wolf 🐝 @JacobWolf]

@ryanvogel Hold up, let me get a hit of that TeslaNav Storage.

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@nateberkopec I have this shirt, as well as a mug and a sticker of it on my laptop. One of my favorites.

[Jacob Wolf 🐝 @JacobWolf]

@rauchg LLMs still have no understanding of true scale.

Often find every model making MVP-type architecture decisions that are rudimentary and easily identifiable by any experienced systems designer. My theory on this is that training data is a bunch of small scale open source repos.

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@edzitron Moving to @beehiiv when? 👀

[Jacob Wolf 🐝 @JacobWolf]

Think we’ve leveled up so much this first half of the year in both our product focus and growth motion.

Only up from here 📈

[Tyler Denk 🐝 @denk_tweets]

we just crossed $30M ARR @beehiiv

here’s the “overnight success” that took 4 years:

14 months: $0 → $1m
12 months: $1m → $5m
9 months: $5m → $10m
6 months: $10m → $15m
5 months: $15m → $20m
5 months: $20m → $25m
4 months: $25m → $30m

and the $30M doesn't include the ~$15M of annualized revenue from Ads/Boosts 😏

[Jacob Wolf 🐝 @JacobWolf]

@poe_collector The Bin Laden death announcement during the Extreme Rules PPV will never not make me laugh. Just so fucking random for him to do that

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@huntertcarver @benln Would love to come say hi!!

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@stolinski, if you have thoughts — know you’ve talked about getting your kids into on the pod.

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My 9-year-old nephew is wanting to get into game/app development. He’s already doing robotics programming through school programs.

Been 18 years since I started so short on recommendations. What’s the best way for a kid to both get early ROI but build useful foundations?