Ron Besseling

Product design @whatsapp. Previously @instagram, @facebook, and a live video startup called Spreecast. Lover of coffee, dairy, and chocolate.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@adriaanmol Agree prompting is useful and has increased velocity, but for most it hasn’t reached 90% precision yet. Results tend to be (below) average. Personally think it will be long before we hit the Opus 4.6 moment for design, but agree it will only become better over time.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@adriaanmol If you have that high conviction and it’s just about execution, there’s an opportunity for skipping canvas. Probably works best for a smaller top-down product team. Even the most AI native design teams from OpenAI and Anthropic still often use canvas for example.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@levelsio Installeer een WTW-systeem, dat is ook toegankelijk in Europa. Dat is hetzelfde als een ERV systeem wat genoemd wordt in de thread.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@ppkorevaar It’s a ridiculous system, but the plan is to tax realized gains only starting 2029 — more like the US system. Let’s hope they stick to that plan… source: https://t.co/uHz97kTAN9

[David Alonso @itsdavidalonso]

Biggest update I’ve ever shared… @CreateWithBloom raised $3.4M to unlock the creator economy for software.

Let’s be honest: web apps are easy, but building and sharing mobile apps sucks - XCode builds, Apple Developer reviews, TestFlight invites… all make going from idea to an app on users’ hands a slow and painful process.

With Bloom you can make a full-stack mobile app by talking into your phone and then share it instantly with a single link.

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Bloom started last Christmas. After landing in Barcelona to visit family, I immediately asked my mom where I could buy a monitor. She was confused, but I was on a mission: I needed those two weeks to run experiments on an idea that had been floating around in my head for months – could I build a mobile app that builds mobile apps?

This wasn't just any idea. It was the kind that kept me up at night. I wanted to see if this pipe dream was technically feasible – could we dynamically change a mobile app's functionality on the fly?

I came back to Zurich with something promising, but nothing definite. In mid-January, I had a critical conversation with my co-founder @sirian_m. We were making steady progress with our previous product, Fireview, but I couldn't shake this feeling about Bloom. "This could be extremely big," I told him. "It could change the world. It's probably the coolest product we could ever build."

With the YC application deadline just three weeks away, we pivoted and scrambled to build an MVP. After submitting our application at midnight, Sirian stayed up until 4 AM recording our demo.

Once David Lieb saw our application, things moved fast and we got to spend three intense months in San Francisco with YC. We closed our round 5 days before demo day and didn't have a deck - our product demo did all the talking.

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This $3.4M round is led by @Moonfire_VC , with participation from @ycombinator and @pioneer_fund

We're also backed by an incredible group of founders and operators

@Thom_Wolf (Founder/CSO, HuggingFace)
@bobvanluijt (Founder/CEO, Weaviate)
@jamwt (Founder/CEO, Convex)
@theo (Founder/CEO, T3Chat)
@Baconbrix (Expo)
@cedric_dev (Expo)
@colinevans (OpenAI)
@ron_besseling (Whatsapp)
Clive Anyonye (Meta)
Robert van Gaal (Google, Vesper)
@nicklenten (Founder/CEO, Ahead Health)
@HelenaGagern (Founder Embassy)
@chrissmoak (serial founder & YC alum)
Gianmaria Sbetta (Google)
@rdominguezibar (Founder, VC Corner)

Special thanks to those who believed in us from the beginning: Founderful Campus, @design_nocodeio, @chaseumms , S2S, @jamwt , and @dflieb

We're now back in Europe, building out the founding team that is going to redefine how the next wave of apps is built.

If you’re someone that loves building product, solving complex problems and working on the future of software, we’d love to talk. There's so much to build, and we're just getting started.

If you want to fast track your application or know anyone who would be a fit, comment with “Join Bloom”

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@sarahdrinkwater Excited about this

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@FonsMans Gezellig 👋🏻

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@adriaanmol @lexfridman @levelsio How do you factor in the risk of increased product complexity in all of this Adriaan? In particular for slightly more mature startups.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@alexcornell Welcome back Alex!

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@sarahdrinkwater @_CommonMagic Truly inspiring 🔥

[Sarah Drinkwater 🔮 @sarahdrinkwater]

Coming out of stealth with @_CommonMagic, an early stage fund to back + support the best European/US founders building products with community at their core

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@migreyes @GK3 One of my favorites too, and this version is even better. Thanks for this @GK3

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@lrjvr Miss you already @lrjvr!

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

Hol’ up, why are these the two most popular searches @Etsy?

[Colin Dunn @colindunn]

One of the many things I learned from @gentry about design is the idea of *informed simplicity*

[Brooks Solveig @BrooksSolveig]

The bigger story that no one is talking about: @Airbnb is doing "releases".

They're working off a company wide roadmap, which means more alignment and better prioritization.

And the centralized release makes it easier for users to notice and understand what's changed.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@stevenschafer

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@jmdenisme Litter Robot. Though it still requires you to empty it a couple of times per week, it’s a time saver.

[Ron Besseling @ron_besseling]

@alexcornell @substack Congrats Alex!