Justin Klemm

Tech Founder & Product Engineer. Led @GhostInspector from launch in 2014 to successful acquisition in 2022. Currently a full-time dad.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@karenb698 @Shpigford @JustworksHR It worked ok for a while. It puts more burden on the team members and the max payment won't always cover their monthly costs. Good as a stopgap when you're small, but as our team grew I eventually bit the bullet and got us a UnitedHealthcare plan.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

It's a little ironic that for a decade we've been talking about how "AI will wipe out blue collar jobs but artists and intellectuals are safe" -- then AI (quasi) shows up and immediately starts doing art, writing papers + programming apps.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@Shpigford @roboflow @cloudinary @OpenAI @ToolstashApp This is rad. Love that it weaves together state of the art computer vision + AI and then... Home Depot!

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@Kevin_McArdle Both of those at the appropriate times 😄

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@kevinrwhitley @developersgirl Wowza!

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@zeeg Have you checked out “SSR”? Truly groundbreaking.

[Jake @JustJake]

Born too early to explore space
Born too late to explore the earth
Born just in time to sell B2b SaaS

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@coreyhainesco Not in the short term, but eventually, yes. Maybe not great, but at least good.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

My TypeScript journey so far:

🥳 `strict: true` - Let's type all the things!

😑 80% of my dev time is now just googling...

😩 This is so slow and painful... `strict: false`

🤔 Ok, makes sense to add a couples types here

Next phase TBD

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@simpixelated Yea, may be result of JS being the only language that browsers support. It limits the way new frameworks can differentiate... They really have to reinvent the approach. You can argue that's happening now, but "winners" of the previous approach (ex: jQuery + React) stick around.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

You can make a case that React is past its prime, but the ecosystem is just sooo massive.

At worst, I think React's fate will be like that of PHP's... it'll become seemingly clunky and uncool, but will remain widespread for decades.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@aykutkardas Really nicely done

[rauno @raunofreiberg]

Wrote down a few details that make a good web interface. Mostly generic, somewhat opinionated.

https://t.co/ij7v7quA3F

[Corey Haines @coreyhainesco]

Every piece of SaaS marketing advice I could think of after 6 years as a marketer:

1. Your "market" is not the people who *could* use your product. It's the people who are willing to *pay* for it.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@kevinrwhitley Haha oh yes, I’ve seen it. I don’t think you’re allowed to publicly admit to using traditional JavaScript anymore.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

Working on my first real TypeScript project.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

I'm considering tRPC instead REST for the backend API of a new web app. My concern is... will tRPC still be a thing in 5 years?

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

@BairdHall It’s a nightmare. Interstate payroll too. The thresholds for triggering sales tax differ by state and small SaaS product can often stay below them… Regardless, I’d consider using @PaddleHQ instead of @stripe next time to avoid it all.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

People are great but managing takes you away from your craft and adds stress. It's just untenable for many technical craftspeople over the long term -- myself included.

[Justin Klemm @justinklemm]

The percentage of technical founders I talk to who are interested in building another company but "don't want to manage people this time" is nearly 100% lol