Josh Ben-Seth

Software engineer turned business enthusiast. $180K → $35M startups. Now following pain, not hype.

[Josh Ben-Seth @joshbenseth]

I’ve spent most of my career building things people used, paid for and/or invested in.

I just never really put my name beside any of it.

2019: Helped build a real estate product that processed $200K in its first 2 months.

2021: Led engineering on a fintech product that processed $6M+ that year.

Same year: Led another product that processed $700K+ in its first year.

2022: Helped build the early MVP of a US insurtech startup that went on to raise $35M+.

2024: Worked with a Silicon Valley health-tech startup as it grew quickly and acquired customers.

2025: Worked on blockchain products that processed well over $1B in their first year.

For years, I was the engineer, tech lead or engineering manager behind the product.

Now I want to see what happens when I build for myself.

No perfect idea. No pretending I have it all figured out.

I’m looking for painful problems, interesting markets and things that should exist but don’t.

And this time, I’m doing it publicly.

I’ll share what I’m researching, what I build, what works, what fails, the numbers and the decisions behind it.

I also want to meet interesting people.

Founders, builders, investors, operators, designers, researchers, or anyone working on something they can’t stop thinking about.

If you’re building something interesting, tell me.

If there’s a problem you desperately wish someone would solve, tell me.

If you think we should know each other, say hi.

3 followers today.

Let’s see what I can build from here.

[Dev X @xenonwellz]

MongoDB is almost ALWAYS at the base of poor performance rebuilds

Very vomit DB 🤮

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@xenonwellz 😂😂

Na small thing dey make me vex abeg

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@calebmkeller @kamilbaranek_ 😂😂😂

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@codeofarmz Did you pivot to any of the new tools? Zed/Opencode/Cursor… Etc?

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Is anyone still using VS Code?

Sublime?

Webstorm?

🤔

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@TasonJorres 😂😂😂😂

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@sammyjkassab Absolutely Sammy 🦾

Let’s connect

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@SemenovID 🦾 Absolutely Ivan

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@k_shis24 🎯

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@iAnujVarshney Absolutely 🦾

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Interesting read after the video 😅😅😅

[Reid Jackson @reidjjackson]

*taps the sign*

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@bjoernware @X Would absolutely love to see what you do with this 🦾

Let’s connect!

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@olivepalui 🦾 Absolutely. Let’s connect

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@acadictive Absolutely happy to connect 🦾

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@Anish114870 @X Absolutely 🦾 Followed you

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@clicknify Let’s connect Ashwani 🦾

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@klausbyskov Absolutely Klaus.

Let’s connect 🦾

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@bzagrodzki Absolutely Bart. Let’s connect 🦾

Followed you

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@k_shis24 Java is prod JavaScript is the stray PR preview that should never have existed 🫠