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Jamie Turner reposted thisJamie Turner reposted this🪄Life changing Opportunity in Portland Oregon: I’ve been lucky… I founded a venture backed AI startup. I’ve invented things at Google. Fooled Penn & Teller on national TV. Built AR hardware, VR software, magic tricks, startups, and an AI browser for kids. And now… I’ve got a new opportunity I want to share. It’s not listed on AngelList. There’s no job title. No salary band. But the benefits? Off the charts. You’d work directly with me—on ideas that matter, things that don’t exist yet, and moments that do. You’ll need to be emotionally intelligent, curious, and okay with things getting a little weird. Magic weird. Machine-learning-on-a-tarot-chip weird. We’ll riff on tech and art, jam on wild inventions, raise each other’s serotonin, and maybe co-create something astonishing. If it’s you or someone you know tag them here. 👇 Apply here 👇 Friend@magicseth.com (Yeah. That’s the gig. I’m not hiring an employee. I’m looking for friends. Real ones. In Portland. The kind of person who wants to discover life—not just a product. Tacos. Talks. Trust. Time. That’s the work.) If you or someone you know might be the right fit, tag them. Or message me directly. Let’s make magic. #portland #friendship #deeptech #magic #ai #notajobposting #startup #emotionalintelligence #weirdisgood
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Jamie Turner reposted thisJamie Turner reposted thisWrapping up Vibe Week with a huge release... 🔥 🧑🍳 Meet Chef https://chef.convex.dev/ - our new AI coding agent! Unlike other AI tools you've tried, Chef can take on sophisticated full-stack projects - multiplayer games, real-time messaging apps, and even full-blown AI agents. What makes Chef special is backend superpowers. Your Chef projects automatically come with everything you love about Convex: the database, server functions, auth, file storage, background jobs, and real-time UIs that work. And Chef knows how to use it all. Plus, Chef embeds the Convex dashboard right into its interface, supports split previews for testing multiplayer features, offers instant hosting, and lets you share projects with a simple link. Head to https://chef.convex.dev/ to start cooking! And join our "Top Chef" hackathon: https://lnkd.in/g33xSb6g (Full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gpMSEjyU #AI #devtools #buildinpublic #hackathon #fullstack #convex #database
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Jamie Turner reposted thisJamie Turner reposted thisLet me share my direct experience in this modern form of B2B marketing: champions, and being a champion myself. It's a form of word of mouth marketing, but it's fundamentally different from a company adding a sponsorship to an influencer's content. There's an up and coming, a16z-backed database company Convex, which I use as a vendor in my startup, ClarityText's, tech stack. Last year, I guess they caught sight of my clever chats in Discord and posts on X. Luckily for me, Convex decided to add me to their ~20 person roster of champions. They get my presence for talking about them, and I feel like I got a supportive ally on this really difficult endeavor of building my startup. Convex gives me some perks like attentive product support. Here's my first solo-authored article I contributed to their company blog: Beyond SQL: How Convex Reimagines the Modern Database — A ClarityText Startup Story https://lnkd.in/euXeNbHj ClarityText is a professional social media platform designed for digital marketing through a group chat. For example, a business can run a community in an AI-enhanced group chat, and use parts of the message history to generate a knowledge base that’s optimized for SEO. We're looking for (unpaid for now) interns for digital marketing and TypeScript coding. I completely wrote this post myself. Follow if you want to hear my thoughts on digital marketing and building a new professional social media platform. I'll view the profiles of any new followers.Beyond SQL: How Convex Reimagines the Modern Database — A ClarityText Startup StoryBeyond SQL: How Convex Reimagines the Modern Database — A ClarityText Startup Story
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Jamie Turner shared thisI love Tom Redman's take on Convex's mission, and it's been so energizing to have him on the team!Jamie Turner shared thisI fell in love with Convex because it enabled me to focus on building the interesting part of my applications. I *joined* Convex because I want to help other developers achieve that same joy.
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Jamie Turner reposted thisJamie Turner reposted thisFollowing up on our Open Source post, we've created a video walkthrough of both getting Convex running locally and building it! We'd love to know what you think! https://lnkd.in/gkGw6E2yConvex is the Open Source Backend You Can Run on Your MachineConvex is the Open Source Backend You Can Run on Your Machine
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Jamie Turner shared thisI'm so excited to have Cassidy in our corner! I've been a huge fan of hers since the Netlify days. There's so much we can learn from her about excellent developer experience and dev ex teams!Jamie Turner shared thisI've started advising Convex around developer experience and advocacy!! I'm so hyped. I love that they are opinionated about how to build full stack applications (and quickly). Poke me if you have questions or feedback! There's a lot cooking and a lot coming soon! Check it out for free at https://convex.devConvex | The backend platform that keeps your app in syncConvex | The backend platform that keeps your app in sync
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Jamie Turner shared thisI don't have a CS degree. I learned to program by reading and writing open-source code—hundreds of thousands of lines of it over dozens of projects. (Most of them were abject failures but proud embarrassments.) Every company I've ever worked for in my career was built on open-source code. I owe a lot of my livelihood to open-source projects and open-source culture. So, it feels apt to start opening up Convex's engine today. I hope developers will find it useful and interesting regardless of whether they're Convex customers.Jamie Turner shared this🚀 Convex goes open-source! 🌟 After a busy seven months post-Convex 1.0 release, we're excited to announce the initial release of our open-source Convex backend. The convex-backend offers developers a local-first development experience and a self-hosting alternative. Read the announcement from Convex CEO and Co-founder Jamie Turner to learn more. https://lnkd.in/gUDj2Jzz #OpenSource #Convex #Development #backend #developers
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Jamie Turner shared thisIt's been a busy few months! Since our 1.0 release late last summer, 20x as many teams are developing on Convex, and their projects generate 50x the traffic. As I've been talking to more and more developers using our platform, the same question keeps coming up: "Building apps with Convex is different. What made you all decide to build it? Why is it designed the way it is?" The motivation for building it is simple: we don't think the tech stack "abstraction floor" is done rising. Teams don't build their own servers anymore. That work isn't product-specific and differentiated. Teams don't manage their own data centers, systems, and kernels anymore—same reason. The next layer to be abstracted away is backend engineering and DevOps. It's a pain and has nothing to do with your product or customers. We're all just gluing the same stuff to the same other stuff and then writing postmortems about it. So why are we all wasting time on it? But we'll need the right successor. Why is Convex's design the right abstraction to replace traditional backend engineering? After building some of the biggest distributed systems in the industry, and spending a ton of time with application developers, it became clear to the Convex founders: the problem is the database. Today's databases just aren't good enough anymore. Consider how excited developers are every time a new modeling method (key/value, document, ORMs, CRDTs, JSON) comes out. We just can't wait to replace traditional databases with something more in the language of application software... we have been trying over and over again for 20+ years! We want our types, our data structures, and our ways of managing data flow without all the fragile, finicky coupling code current databases require. So the necessary ingredient to fully abstract away backend engineering is a database natively designed for the ways applications work. Then everything else becomes easy. And that's what we built at Convex: a software-defined database. You can read more about this vision here: https://lnkd.in/gm4gVTtY It's 2024. "Don't worry, it's Postgres!" may be reassuring but it's no longer inspiring. It's time to evolve beyond 50-year-old ideas that couldn't possibly anticipate how modern applications would be built. Convex is part of a new generation of services that will replace backend engineering and empower full-stack developers to independently build sophisticated systems. And it's not just theoretical: teams today are using Convex to build high-performance, low-defect projects with teams half the size previously needed. If you're starting a new full-stack software project, give Convex a try. It's free to start and it's engineered to go the distance with you and your team.
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Jamie Turner shared thisThe Convex team has been spending more time over the last two months with AI companies building on our platform. They've been teaching us quite a lot about how they get things done by intermeshing their application state with generative data. Subsequently, Ian created a few apps of his own and wrote a series of articles on the process. If you're curious about AI software, check them out! In my opinion, these form an excellent primer for strong architectural thinking for modern AI apps.Jamie Turner shared thisI've been playing around with AI so I can better understand our customers, many of whom are building very impressive things (with AI). Along the way, I've learned a lot. Here are some recent articles I've written on Stack (our developer-oriented site with patterns and guides): 1. Vector embeddings are a really powerful primitive for a lot of AI applications, and they're not that hard to understand (from a product eng POV 😅): https://lnkd.in/ge2jMC66 2. Using a specialized database (in my case Pinecone) alongside an application DB (OLTP) can be a great way to balance powerful tools with development velocity: https://lnkd.in/ggvnwZtB 3. You can decouple user requests from API (in my case OpenAI) requests, without losing the user experience of a streaming chat: https://lnkd.in/gjkXif8N The first post was even on the front page of HackerNews! That might be a first for me 🥹 #ai #database #streaming #react
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Jamie Turner liked thisJamie Turner liked thisProduct updates from Convex: Free preview deployments: Every PR gets its own isolated environment Stricter validators: Schema validation that actually catches edge cases Zod 4 support: Works out of the box ESLint plugin: Flags Convex-specific bugs in your editor Full details: https://lnkd.in/gEi2JZru
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Jamie Turner liked thisExcited to partner with Convex on their latest round, alongside Andreessen Horowitz. Convex is one of few database companies building something both novel and foundational that developers (and LLMs!) love. 8 years ago, I was working on Cloud Firestore at Google where I saw how transformative a real-time backend for app developers was. Convex takes this further, building a full OS for app development, for modern workloads. This is not another Postgres platform. They’ve chosen their abstractions carefully to hide complexity from users, the complexity they know themselves too well. In an AI/agent-first development world, this paradigm is even more important. Jamie Turner and James Cowling are two of the best infrastructure builders out there, having done seminal work in storage systems, deterministic simulation testing, and consensus protocols. Don’t just meet your heroes; invest in them 🙂 Congrats team! So excited to work with you all.Jamie Turner liked thisWe just raised a bunch of money to reinvent backend engineering for developers. We have huge plans for Convex, and we need your help to realize them. https://lnkd.in/eYGcU6f6 We're hiring! Jamie Turner James Cowling
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Jamie Turner liked thisJamie Turner liked thisDoes your database solution have email... - queuing and batching - durable execution - duplicate send protection - rate limits built-in The Convex Resend component makes email easy. As Jamie Turner puts it, "Fire and forget!" https://resend.com/convex Use the official way to integrate the Resend email service with your Convex project. Full docs 👉 https://lnkd.in/dGq9NS8q Send Magic Links Convex Auth implements configuration via Auth.js provider configs. Trigger a magic link email using the official Resend provider. See a real example 👇 https://lnkd.in/dHjFzFPU For a quick walkthrough see our own guide by Chris Pennington: https://lnkd.in/dNAyYg2V Or check out this full walkthrough from Michael Cann on the Convex team: https://lnkd.in/dzYQq5c6 For more help getting started with Resend and Convex, start here 👇 https://resend.com/convex
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Jamie Turner liked thisJamie Turner liked thisIn 2022 I predicted Vibe coding, I just didn't know it would be called that. For this months post, im predicting something else.. "Well in the age of AI, speed of development is no longer really an issue, now the issue is one of correctness and confidence." So my prediction is that a more rigorous test driven development-like process will need to emerge. It has multiple benefits that I outline in my post, link in the comments because of the algorithm..
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Jamie Turner liked thisJamie Turner liked thisNew project alert! This one is super simple, it lets you make a nice looking thumbnail for a YouTube video for embedding in a markdown doc like GitHub readme. It uses the excellent Convex R2 component for free file egres thanks to Cloudflare :)
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Jamie Turner liked thisJamie Turner liked thisPulling in my gaming background for this one! A Convex community member showed how you might get Convex running in Unity, so I decided to take it a little further :)
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Jamie Turner liked thisGo work with Andy. He built: - a semiconductor startup - Bump, the most popular app of the early App Store - much of the Pixel camera - the first prototype of Project StarlineJamie Turner liked this(Closed!) Senior Lab Engineer job opening in my R&D group at Google. Mix of software, Linux, Python, electronics, mechanical systems, cameras and displays. Great position for someone who likes to be in the lab and work with a talented technology team spanning many disciplines.
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💲 Emergent announced $23 million in Series A funding to empower more people to build and run businesses simply The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from YC, Together, Prosus Ventures and angels including Jeff Dean, Devendra Chaplot, Balaji Srinivasan and brings Emergent’s total funding to $30 million, including a $7 million seed round. “My brother and I built Emergent to equip anyone with an idea and a phone with the tools to create software affordably,” said Mukund Jha, Co-Founder and CEO. 📖 Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e-fPZh-w #StartupsMagazine #Startups #Entrepreneur #Funding
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Neil Tewari
PSA to seed and early-stage founders: stop worrying about competition. I’ve spoken to hundreds of late-stage founders, and they all say the same thing. The biggest mistake they see at the early stage is founders obsessing over who else is in their space. When you are pre-PMF, comparing yourself to other buzzy AI startups is a distraction. They already have a defined GTM motion, some level of product-market fit, and a playbook to execute. Their “big new feature” might just be about expanding revenue or building parity. You’re still trying to land your first 10 paying customers. Here’s the truth: 1. Worry about competitors only when you actively lose a deal to them. THESE ARE THE COMPETITORS TO WORRY ABOUT. 2. When a customer chooses someone else, they will usually tell you why. Nine times out of ten it’s not the reason you think. It’s rarely a missing feature. More often it’s pricing, brand trust, or timing. 3. Competitors often move in completely different directions. OpenAI went after consumers, while Anthropic leaned into enterprise and APIs. Playbooks diverge fast. 4. The only real roadmap at the early stage is customer pain. Every conversation, every demo, every user insight. Talk to as many customers as possible. If you spend your time trying to copy what competitors are doing, you will always be a step behind. If you spend your time talking to users, you’ll know exactly what to build next. The path to PMF isn’t found on Twitter threads about “AI competitors.” It’s found in the feedback from the 5 people actually using your product every single day.
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Matt Rappaport
Don't Build a Better Wheat Farm" - Why Defensibility Stakes Are Higher in Deep Tech Just published a new piece on my "Ignore the Confusion" blog, building on thoughtful insights from Eric Ver Ploeg at Tunitas Ventures about startup defensibility. Eric's core thesis: Too many startups pitch like wheat farmers - "huge TAM, slow incumbents, growing market, domain expertise" - but fail to think through long-term defensibility until it's too late. From a deep tech perspective, the stakes are even higher: ** Unlike software, deep tech founders must commit to defensibility strategies from day one - their funding depends on it ** Patent vs. trade secret decisions are often difficult to reverse and shape your entire competitive strategy ** Even "picks and shovels" providers (the tools that make industries more efficient) become commodities without proper moats The key insight that resonates: Defensibility can't be retrofitted. Whether you're building software or deep tech, your moat must be architected into the business model from the start. Thanks to Eric Ver Ploeg for sharing these insights on startup strategy and letting me build on his framework from a deep tech lens. Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/dEj_iF-Q #DeepTech #StartupStrategy #Defensibility #VentureCapital #Innovation
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