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Who Everyone DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson 19 JCJason Cohen 11 PLPieter Levels 9 JAJen Abel 7 JLJason Lemkin 4 AKArvid Kahl 3 DSDan Shipper 3 JEJason Evanish 3 KVKenton Varda 3 AWAdam Wiggins 2 ACAlbert Cheng 2 CBClay Bavor 2 GBGibson Biddle 2 GRGuillermo Rauch 2 JSJon Seager 2 NENat Eliason 2 NFNev Flynn 2 AAAnish Acharya 1 BVBen Vinegar 1 BDBrad DeLong 1 BTBret Taylor 1 CCChris Coyier 1 DFDylan Field 1 DPDylan Patel 1 EVElena Verna 1 ESElio Struyf 1 GCGeoff Charles 1 GOGergely Orosz 1 JFJacob Falkovich 1 JBJamie Brandon 1 JPJosh Puckett 1 KBKent Beck 1 LOLuis Ouriach 1 MSM.G. Siegler 1 MKMartin Kleppmann 1 PSPeter Steinberger 1 PHPhil Hagelberg 1 RVRahul Vohra 1 RMRay Maker 1 SSSalvatore Sanfilippo 1 SASam Altman 1 SNSatya Nadella 1 SZStefan Zweifel 1
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  1. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone

    Our readingData brokers are purchasing SaaS data sets to resell to AI companies

    Their wordsData brokers are now buying up SaaS data sets for anywhere from $100K to $2M SaaS are struggling now and some extra money to fill the gap by declining revenues is nice That data is then re-sold to AI training companies and AI frontier labs for the exact purpose of integrating whatever that SaaS did into the AI frontier lab's app

    ↗Data brokers are buying SaaS data sets for $100,000 to $2,000,000 and reselling them to AI labslevels.io

  2. 4 days earlier
  3. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingPersonal software can remove reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and allow for a malleable, user-controlled computing environment.

    Their wordsPersonal software that removes reliance on paid SaaS subscriptions and lets you create a malleable, user-controlled computing environment

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  4. 10 days earlier
  5. SA

    Sam Altman quoted

    Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI

    Our readingAI subscriptions should be usable across different platforms

    Their wordsYou should be able to use your AI subscription wherever you need:

    ↗@sama on Xx.com

  6. 4 days earlier
  7. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals

    Our readingClient-side image editing software like Photoshop and Lightroom will be obsolete by the end of the year.

    Their wordsAnd it's perfectly clear that no later than the end of this year, it'll be the end of the line for Photoshop, Lightroom, and any other client-side program like that.

    ↗@dhh on Xx.com

  9. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingSaaS sales calls are usually meant to gauge how much a customer can spend and maximize revenue through custom plans.

    Their wordsUsually SaaS sales calls are to gauge how much you can spend and get you to spend the most money you could So it's like maximizing revenue and giving everyone a custom plan

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  10. 2 days earlier
  11. GR

    Guillermo Rauch quoted

    CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO

    Our readingThe procurement bar for SaaS products will shift to agent ergonomics.

    Their wordsThe new 'procurement bar' will be how ergonomic your product is for *agents*, rather than humans.

    ↗@rauchg on Xx.com

  13. GR

    Guillermo Rauch quoted

    Our readingOnce products are built for agents, a long tail of SaaS applications may never be bought again but generated instead.

    Their wordsOnce that's in place, there's a long tail of SaaS applications that I suspect will never be bought again. They'll be generated.

    ↗@rauchg on Xx.com

  15. GO

    Gergely Orosz quoted

    Writes The Pragmatic Engineer

    Our readingGoogle integrated Gemini into its Workspace products ineffectively.

    Google

    Their wordsGoogle integrated Gemini into every single place inside Google Workspace where it doesn't work, and nowhere where it would be useful

    ↗@GergelyOrosz on Xx.com

  16. 3 days earlier
  17. JS

    Jon Seager quoted

    Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical

    Our readingSoftware teams that do not release software regularly are broken teams.

    Their wordsSoftware teams that don't release software are broken software teams.

    ↗If it hurts, do it more!jnsgr.uk 1st of 3 in this piece

  19. JS

    Jon Seager quoted

    Our readingA team that releases infrequently gets worse at releasing over time.

    Their wordsBut perhaps most obviously, when you don't release often, your team gets worse at releasing.

    ↗If it hurts, do it more!jnsgr.uk 2nd of 3 in this piece

  20. 1 day earlier
  21. CC

    Chris Coyier quoted

    Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen

    Our readingA business can use stewardship of a community publication as a top-of-funnel customer acquisition strategy without needing the publication itself to generate revenue directly.

    Their wordsThat's why I thought DigitalOcean was a good buyer originally: it doesn't need to generate money directly; it can function as top-of-funnel customer acquisition via being a good community steward.

    ↗September 21, 2026chriscoyier.net 2nd of 2 in this piece

  22. 2 days earlier
  23. BD

    Brad DeLong quoted

    Economics professor at the University of California

    Our readingAnthropic prices its Claude subscription plans as loss leaders relative to its own API rates.

    Anthropic

    Their wordsThe subscription tiers are still enormous loss leaders: $20/month for your first $200/month of tokens at API rates for the "Pro" tier, and $100 or $200/month for your first $1500 or $3000/month of tokens at the "Max 5x" or "Max 20x" tiers.

    ↗CROSSPOST: SHELLAC: Suspiciously Precise Floats, or, How I Got Claude’s Real Limitsbraddelong.substack.com

  24. 4 days earlier
  25. MS

    M.G. Siegler quoted

    Technology writer of Spyglass

    Our readingFor streaming services, a large back catalog matters more for reducing subscriber churn than for boosting sign-up numbers.

    Their wordsI'm not sure they fully understood that it wasn't really about juicing their numbers, but about churn prevention.

    ↗Apple TV Dethrones HBOspyglass.org 2nd of 3 in this piece

  27. NF

    Nev Flynn quoted

    Head of Design at ElevenLabs

    Our readingDecks are one of the biggest unsolved problems in scaling tech companies, and the software used to make them is old.

    Their wordsdeck sounds boring. I think it's one of the biggest unsolved problems in like scaling tech companies and big tech companies. They're everywhere. I think the software we use to put them together is is old.

    ↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording

  29. NF

    Nev Flynn quoted

    Our readingIt is unfair to ask a Google Slides company to move entirely to a new product, so you kind of need to support both.

    Google

    Their wordsit's really hard and it's also unfair to say hey everybody we're all going to use this new product and that's all we're going to use from now on. Um you kind of need to support both.

    ↗Nev Flynn - Bringing artful expression into enterprise designyoutube.com 13th of 20 in this recording

  30. 5 days earlier
  31. GC

    Geoff Charles quoted

    Chief Product Officer at Ramp; Ramp's first product hire

    Our readingAccess to customer data does not replace talking to customers; it identifies exactly which customers to talk to.

    Their wordsThat doesn't mean don't talk to customers, it means you actually identify exactly which customers to talk to.

    ↗What product looks like when coding is solved | Geoff Charles (Ramp CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 3rd of 13 in this recording

  32. 2 days earlier
  33. RM

    Ray Maker quoted

    Reviews sports technology at DC Rainmaker — watches

    Our readingNearly every technology company today wants recurring subscription revenue.

    Their wordsObviously, like every other company right now, they want that recurring revenue.

    ↗Wahoo Launches Apple Watch App & Features Targeting Runnersdcrainmaker.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  34. 2 days earlier
  35. AA

    Anish Acharya quoted

    General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

    Our readingNobody has a growth problem these days; they have a product problem.

    Their wordsI always say that nobody has a growth problem these days, they have a product problem.

    ↗Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)youtube.com 19th of 20 in this recording

  36. 5 days earlier
  37. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingAI companies appear to be absorbing entire industries, including many where indie hackers operate, and the 'SaaSpocalypse' is at least partly real.

    Their wordsI think you have the real economic effects of AI companies sucking up entire industries now (a lot where indie hackers operate) I do think the SaaSpocalypse is at least partly real

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  39. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingA boring but non-superficial SaaS app that would have done well five years ago might now get no signups because tens of thousands can easily vibe code it.

    Their wordsA regular boring but non-superficial SaaS app would do well 5 years ago but now it might not get anyone to sign up because it's so easy to vibe code by tens of thousands of other people

    ↗@levelsio on Xx.com

  40. 9 days earlier
  41. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Co-founder of JJELLYFISH and GM of enterprise sales at State Affairs

    Our readingSelling a $100,000 enterprise deal takes the same process as selling a million-dollar one.

    Their wordsif you sell a $100,000 solution, it is the same exact process to sell a million-doll solution.

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 1st of 24 in this recording

  43. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Our readingEnterprise buyers are more sensitive to the sales process they are taken through than to the product demo.

    Their wordsthe enterprise organizations are more sensitive to the process you take them through from a sales motion than they almost are with demoing the product.

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 2nd of 24 in this recording

  45. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Our readingA $100,000 enterprise deal needs an executive sponsor to sign off and allocate the budget.

    Their wordsa $100,000 deal needs a executive sponsor to sign off on it to allocate the budget.

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 4th of 24 in this recording

  47. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Our readingA buyer willing to pay for a longer pilot is a strong signal.

    Their wordsIf they're willing to pay, that is a huge, huge signal.

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 14th of 24 in this recording

  49. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Our readingThe standard five-stage CRM pipeline is a set of forecasting buckets, not the way to run a sale.

    Their wordsLike that's not how you run the sales. Those are buckets to understand how to understand a weighted forecast, right?

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 17th of 24 in this recording

  51. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Our readingA healthy enterprise win rate on qualified opportunities is around 30 to 35 percent, not 50.

    Their wordsIt's not 50%. Meaning of all qu sales qualified leads or opportunities a healthy win rate is usually around 30 to 35%.

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 20th of 24 in this recording

  53. JA

    Jen Abel quoted

    Our readingAn enterprise win rate above about 35 percent means the price is too low.

    Their wordsif your win rate is higher than that, your price is too low.

    ↗84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abelyoutube.com 21st of 24 in this recording

  54. 4 weeks earlier
  55. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingOld versions are kept until the end of the internet: Basecamp's 2004 version, unsold since 2010, still makes millions in profit.

    Their wordsSo, for Basecamp, we kept those old versions. The version we launched in 2004, we stopped selling in 2010. 16 years ago. We still have customers on it. As an individual business, it's still making millions of dollars.

    ↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 4th of 15 in this recording

  57. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingSoftware should be allowed to be finished, the way a knife or an album is, and the customer who bought the old version should get to keep it.

    Their wordsAnd I actually wish we had more of a capacity in software to accept finished products. This is one of my great envies of people who make physical products. By the time you ship, I don't know, a knife, it's done.

    ↗DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Controlyoutube.com 5th of 15 in this recording

  59. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingMost SaaS subscriptions can now be replaced by software you vibecode for yourself.

    Their wordsI cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs

    ↗I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myselflevels.io