Jared Dantis

sleepy creative

[Lance CTK @lancectk]

OpenPay joined @airwallex , and I couldn’t be more excited. We started the company 2.5 years ago with the belief that founders building subscription businesses should only need to use one product to handle all things payments.

We began under unique circumstances. Unlike many startups, we couldn’t just “move fast and break things” while developing financial technology. Case in point, we didn’t go live for 10 entire months after we began building.

Our first version was a narrow subscription management and orchestration platform. It was better than competition in the few ways that we believed were critical, but it was so barebones that it was hard to sell. OpenPay’s first set of customers were dear friends and deplatformed merchants.

The next beachhead was analytics. We knew there wasn’t much love for existing players. We even thought about starting here as a wedge, but the truth was clear: to deliver a truly elite experience, we had to be the ones processing every transaction AND the context they carry. Every feature we developed toward this thread had a tangible effect on our ability to close sales.

Once we saw this feedback loop work the first time, we aggressively repeated it. We added customized dunning campaigns, smart retry schedules, intelligent payment routing, and soon, we had a complete subscription optimization suite. It was developed enough that, on a sales call, we could 1) listen to the customer's unique configuration of pain points, and 2) respond with a tailored pitch and demo of how we specifically addressed them.

This was when we really felt market pull. Conversions jumped and we started closing more deals than we lost. Volume would increase by a meaningful multiple week over week. The feeling on the team was night and day vs what it was just a few shorts months prior.

We wanted to pile in, so we started throwing around ideas around raising money for the first time. We knew we had a direct use for venture capital dollars that would be ROI+. What started out as capitalization conversations with Cap49 (Airwallex’s CVC) evolved into conversations about acquisition.

Our business was still early and we still had a lot of cards to turn, e.g. we had just started marketing for the first time. But meeting @awxjack made this an easy decision. It was obvious that he was a no BS execution machine who cared deeply about his people and his mission. That, coupled with the clear defensibility of Airwallex’s business and its truly global reach, locked it in for us.

If not already, I think it is inevitable that @airwallex becomes a generational company. We are looking forward to playing as large of a part as we possibly can to making it happen.

[Netlify @Netlify]

Introducing the Netlify Image CDN. 🎉

Works with any site and framework to easily optimize, transform, and serve images.

Available to use in your sites now. https://t.co/Gsk2gOGg3S

[JSTOR @JSTOR]

Please stay hydrated!

[OBS @OBSProject]

OBS Studio 30.0 is out!

With a new and easier to read status bar, WHIP/WebRTC output, Intel encoder support for Linux, application audio capture and a new virtualcam for macOS 13+, safe mode crash recovery, RTMP IPv6 support, and more!

Full Changelog: https://t.co/2ko6vWNv1G

[Jason Lengstorf @jlengstorf]

reading the docs front-to-back is not about memorizing or even remembering what’s in the docs. it’s about setting up a bunch of neural tripwires to make you think, “wait, I feel like I’ve seen a way to deal with this before” when you hit a problem

[Michael · Design Partner @MichaelFilipiuk]

Every time I design a landing page, I realise that good copy is infinitely more important than good design.

[GitHub Next @GitHubNext]

https://t.co/ZZcJ8VviUc

All code has been letters, on a grid, since the days of the teletype machine. How can we advance the state of the art to make code itself more expressive and powerful? How can we layer more meaning onto code?

[Bill Shillito - now at 🦋 @solidangles]

I THINK I GOT IT!

I've been trying to understand this for years, but the missing magic words that made it finally click were "inner product."

Thank you @math_vet!

I'll try to explain my understanding in a short thread in case it helps anyone. 🧵 (1/8)

[Michael · Design Partner @MichaelFilipiuk]

Design tip: if you're struggling with spacing elements properly, try this simple trick / formula:

[Jared Dantis @jareddantis]

Excellent thread 💚

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

What site, app, or devtool experience has recently sparked joy and why?

[Jared Dantis @jareddantis]

hello friends! @jurisadorna and I are looking for alpha testers for Ariadne, a browser extension we're building to help you be aware of deceptive design in cookie consent banners ✨

if you're interested, please head over to our site 👉 https://t.co/WL2s4pscwA

thanks so much ❤️

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

An underrated way to attract great engineers to your company

(drumroll)

Have a great engineering blog.

This means ENGINEERS write the blog, not content writers. And they give the "real deal" about challenges, learnings, failures.

So few companies do this. A few that do:

[Will Luton @will_luton]

In the 90s this was a whole evening's entertainment

[Jared Dantis @jareddantis]

@HostSomething 😮🤯 this is great news! thanks SomethingHost :) the support site is under maintenance, should I reach out on Discord instead? 🙏

[Jared Dantis @jareddantis]

the domain change also applies to Playman, my manager for Spotify playlists 😀

you can access it at https://t.co/pGMkrF0sS2 ✨

[Jared Dantis @jareddantis]

📢 PSA: the GWA Calculator has moved to a new home!

you may access it at https://t.co/wvF1VFqK0t 💖