Tom

Sold 2 SaaS that you probably heard of. Solo building some new stuff.

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

Typefully's editor was a huge reason people loved their product and why we had a hard time having their users switch over to Tweet Hunter back then

Very happy for @linuz90 and @frankdilo that they can move on to new adventures

[Francesco @frankdilo]

After 6 years building Typefully, Fabrizio (@linuz90) and I have sold the business.

It started as a tiny side project. Today it serves 10,000+ paying customers who publish 350,000+ posts a month.

I'm incredibly proud of the scale we reached, and of how efficiently we ran it with a team of just 5 people. I believe the quality bar we set is still unmatched in this space.

Typefully is now part of Stan, the company behind Stan Store and Stanley (@stanleybystan), the Head of Personal Content you can chat with. Stanley tackles one of the biggest challenges we never fully solved with Typefully: helping creators go from zero to a posting habit and an audience.

It's a great match. Our editing and scheduling experience will make Stanley better, and Stanley will make Typefully better by guiding creators to find their voice and build a writing habit. I'm excited to watch the team at Stan take Typefully further than we did.

If you use Typefully, nothing changes for you today: same app, same account, same plan, same price, same drafts and queue. You don't need to do anything.

So why sell? Why now?

It was a hard decision. Fabrizio and I have been building our own products for 12 years, and it has become a core part of who we are.

But we're feeling those years on our shoulders, and the timing is right. We're ready to take some chips off the table, recharge, and reflect.

For the first time ever, we don't know what's next. That's both exciting and scary, but scary has never stopped us from taking on bigger challenges.

We were lucky to be joined on this journey by the most talented people. Huge thanks to @tomchris, @rajatkapoor and Gaile for sticking with us. Together we did the best work of our lives (so far). No longer working with you is the hardest part of selling Typefully.

And to everyone who's used Typefully: your feedback and kind words shaped almost every part of the product. Thank you.

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

US customers :

How can I give you more data so your product does a better job

EU customers :

Under Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), I ask you to:

- Permanently delete my user account.
- Fully erase all personal data associated with this account

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

whenever i tell claude "just figure it out and go straight to prod"

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@xavier_coiffard definitely

people who build actual companies with employees etc. often have a reason to stay where they are and a better moral compass because they work as a group

the indie mentality is (for most) just about being solo and not caring

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

most indie makers become assholes when they make it

to the point where they forget they live in a society

pretty convinced they don't have any friends aside from their shell companies and tax accountant

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@tibo_maker @FilipPanoski Impressive stuff

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@wickedguro It’s fine, don’t worry about it

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

felt the same a few years back

I think remote workers should (if they can afford it) go to a coworking space

gets you out of the house and talking with people

it's just better

[Julie Chabin @syswarren]

i've been advocating for remote work for years, and i'll keep defending people's right to choose where they live for reasons that have nothing to do with their job.

but i'm currently completely burnt out, and having my office at home has made resting and recovering much harder than i expected.

a friend (who will recognize himself) suggested moving my desk somewhere else in my apartment. we did, and it helped a little. but it hasn't solved the real issue.

i need to acknowledge something: when home becomes your workplace, boundaries can get dangerously blurred.

mine have blurred so much over the past few months that, even though i'm currently on leave, i feel anxious about leaving my apartment even tho i was advised to try and get fresh air.

i'm sharing this because i've spent years talking about the positive sides of remote work. it's only fair to be also transparent about the negative sides.

i still believe in remote work. i just now realize how difficult it can be to reclaim your home as a place of rest when work has taken over so much of it.

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

vibe coded a chrome extension to skip ads on streaming sites like netflix, hbo max, disney plus, etc.

works like a charm

took 5 minutes

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

I had a nightmare I reached my Claude Code quota and forgot how to work without AI

Wait no, that’s actually real life

[Julie Chabin @syswarren]

i had a nightmare about slack.

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@nathanclark Precisely

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

made my own : investing in water

https://t.co/vB6Sc3ek6y

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark]

this is clearly slop-coded but…

it is absolutely wild we live in a world where I can send off one paragraph of dictated text before going to a meeting, and come out of that meeting thirty minutes later to this.

https://t.co/2wd56gg1Qt

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

I refuse to fly business because I'm scared I can never go back

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

Every new model release it's the same script

and I'm sick of it

Release day: "This is AGI", "Claude/GPT can what???"

Day 1: "burned my quota in just 5 minutes wtf"

Day 2: "They nerfed it"

just stop posting this shit, it's boring and useless

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

i feel the exact same thing

"damn there's a bug"
-> actually if I fix it I'll probably get more conversions, LTV, better churn, etc.

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

every time I find broken stuff in my products, I think it's AMAZING news

it means I have reached the current level with those issues, so it can only be better if I fix them

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

this is why looking at whatever model is "trending" on X has no value whatsoever

try models out for yourself

see if they're a good fit

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@StevenBellery @BFMTV Nous arrivons à la même conclusion chez Lucide AI (détecteur IA spécialisé dans les textes francophones)

https://t.co/hMzaURVmdD

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@FreeLeeValuers @SamuelFitouss10 Entre autres.

Nous avons des utilisateurs qui vérifient leurs propres textes.

Et comme vous le dites nous avons aussi des clients qui vérifient les textes d'autres personnes.

[Tom @tomjacquesson]

@Pangramed Je suis le propriétaire de Lucide AI (détecteur IA spécialisé français) et nos résultats sont similaires @Pangramed

Je les partage ici

https://t.co/hMzaURVmdD

Full disclosure : notre article a été écrit avec l'aide de l'IA mais avec notre propre data ;)