Bob Jansen

Co-founder @firmhouse & photographer.

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@karrisaarinen @linear Nice phrasing on ‘deliberate growth’. Good way to look at it and position it.

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@destraynor @stevenvanwel @Fin_ai Happening here too! Man; “where can I find the @firmhouse MCP server?”

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

LLM generated prototypes is the kind of the late night drunken white boarding session of product building.

Ideas seem super cool at the time, and people obviously get excited about new prototypes, but then after a day or week you might realize these was a bad or useless idea.

Now you wasted all this time and focus instead of working on something more meaningful, and maybe something more deeper and harder than a quick prototype.

[Michiel Sikkes @michiels]

Start of a journey! Firmhouse is going to get its own place in @Shopify very soon.

Great payment experiences for European merchants: here we come!

Fun fact: We had a Shopify API integration for years already. Helping merchants across Europe to support their customers where other apps and Shopify's native features are lacking.

It takes quite some effort to go from "we have the Shopify API integrated" to "we can submit the app to Shopify". You need to implement all kinds of extensions, implement compliance webhooks, get some marketing and product demo content up-and-going.

Our team rallied around since last Sunday. And we got it done in a week. We submitted our app yesterday evening on Friday.

We even had two @heroku outages punching us in the face while doing so. And despite of that, we still got it done.

Our app is now submitted and up for review. Happy to work with whoever at @Shopify is going to be on the other side!

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

The entire tech eco-system is going back to basics. Remembering that revenue minus cost equals profit. Something that self-funded founders live and breath.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Good day to remind people that founding new businesses (aka startups) is a personal development journey in hard mode.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

The one thing every CEO of a startup from 5-500+ employees notices:

The ones that truly, really go the extra yard. For real.

Stands so, so far out.

Even up to 500 employees or so, the CEO can see it themselves.

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@destraynor @eoghan we've been with @intercom for a while now, but more and more we are dreading having to pay for features constantly everywhere in the product. It completely breaks the user experience. Every time I'm doing something new, I have to talk to sales.

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@marciplan You had to round it down, didn’t you?

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@yschaub Honestly, it’s fairly simple. Be short, to the point and tell them you’re not there to sell something. You’re curious to learn about how they do things and just have a few short questions.

Works wonders! Just go for it.

And of course stick to the non-selling :)

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@yschaub Use that thought to try and find those online. If that’s not possible, it will tell you something about your future distribution model as well.

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@yschaub At the start one question matters: if you walk into a room of 100 of your customers and you have 15 minutes to talk to a few, who do you pick and how?

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@yschaub Good luck @yschaub - really cool you’re taking the leap.

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@krijnrijshouwer @lemni_ai Looks awesome! 🔥

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@yschaub Love the logo ❤️!

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@yschaub How ARR you doing Yann?

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

If you told me 10 years ago that a group of the smartest engineers in the land would evoke the threat, "Do what I say or I will go to work at Microsoft," I would not have believed you. Amazing shift in corporate reputation (and much credit to Satya).

[Bob Jansen @jansn]

@JoshSchoen I believe this was mentioned on the rental forms in the recent rentals I had. Quite clearly as well. It’s odd, even if you pay why can’t you leave it in the carpark there.