Matt Pelc

Founder of Plane, the all‑in‑one people platform for global teams. @useplane •

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@artman It is so unbelievably dumb and lazy today it’s hard to believe it’s the same model.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@levelsio You just need one of these 🙃

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@Stammy It’s a great looking car just not a great looking Ferrari. Re-badge it as Apple Car and people would swoon over it.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@tibo_maker 1. Costs compute to build the product.
2. Most companies in their space subsidize compute (sell tokens for less than their cost) to grow.
3. You need to do both to stay competitive .
4. There are other ways to spend money to grow.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@p_ch It is. I think generally users don’t sign up to Okta—we create accounts for them, this is for internal employees. So usernames are required. But once you have a passkey you can sign in without a username.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

Back in 2014, before Plane, we built an internal tool called autopilot.

It was an attempt to create an autonomous company os that connected to all the tools we used and executed workflows while we were sleeping.

We’re building that again at Plane today but 100x more capable.

DMs open if you’re ai pilled and can’t stop thinking about self-driving companies.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

A lot of people are trying to figure out recursively self-improving companies right now.

I break down what we’re seeing at YC.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@josevalim Depends what the license says. But let’s say it allows for termination on change of ownership and the acquirer terminates your licence and shuts down the service with no notice. At that point running it from cache would likely be breaking your licence.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@josevalim True, but might be violating the license at that point. I think the point in making is that if the vendor doesn’t want your business they have a lot of ways to break your software lol

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@josevalim True, but if, hypothetically, Mike sold Sidekiq and the acquirer shut down the gems server I’d be stuck not being able to deploy anything that uses Sidekiq Pro/Enterprise. So you have that risk with most paid software, even if it’s local?

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@helloitsolly @carlosvirreira What a clean .com gives you is (some) built in credibility and trust. How much that matters for your business is debatable.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@evisdrenova Their cloud agents are 👌. We stopped using the editor but our Cursor spend is up by a factor of 10-20.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@haridigresses @souravbhar871 Also, strictly speaking your revenue isn’t always someone else’s COGS. If both companies book this as revenue against an operating expense, their gross margins are fine. And investors don’t expect early stage companies to be net margin profitable.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@samlambert 👋

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@pitdesi The original Crosstown Trail is one of my favorite hikes. So good.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

My bet is on it resembling salaries more than seats. Different jobs will be priced differently. Organizations set budgets and performance expectations. Agents work to those parameters.

Pure consumption doesn’t work because performance on a per-token basis is variable. Seat based doesn’t work because value and cost per “seat” depends a lot on the seat.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@Vincent_Po_Li @mattturck This only works for some use cases. Can’t expect the user to price each new feature or bug fix.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@haridigresses We consistently spend 2-5x longer testing than building now.

[Matt Pelc @matid]

@bradgessler I was all in on fantastical but back in 2020/2021 it stopped reliably syncing with Google for me. May have been an intermittent issue but it pushed me to Cron (now Notion Calendar) and I never looked back.