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No, OpenAI isn't killing startups
OpenAI DevDay was exciting for most. Apparently scary for some.
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OpenAI DevDay was exciting for most. Apparently scary for some.
The "original" Pareto Principle observed that 20% of Italy's population owned 80% of its land. For fun, let's apply it to a different type of "land" - valuable platform ecosystem real estate.
All SaaS companies - whether they like it or not - will need to build "strategic" integrations at some point. Sure, you can build APIs for your customers to build with, but most of the time that isn't enough to win them over.
Maybe a rising tide lifts all boats, or maybe the IDE-anywhere opportunity is the next big Platform play in Developer-land, but Google have decided now is the time to add throw their chips to the centre of the table with Project IDX.
When Stripe was founded in 2010, connecting banking systems with businesses and consumers was a slow, cumbersome task. Climate tech is now where fintech was 15 years ago.
It's been fun to watch the growth of Threads. Earning 20% of the weekly active user base of Twitter within two weeks is impressive, even for Zuck.
It's official. Twitter's new API pricing is here - and universally despised by developers. Many are already jumping from the Twitter ship.
ChatGPT is the fastest growing SaaS product, ever. Yet, it's a generalist tool. Indie Hackers now have a more suitable alternative - TypingMind.
React.dev - the library for web and native user interfaces - has a new look and a whole lot of new content.
The topic of metrics and insights for developer contributions and performance is, let's say, awkward. Especially at performance review time. That's where Swarmia comes in.
Despite declines in year-over-year growth, AWS and Google Cloud together generated almost $30 billion in Q2 2022 revenue. Not everyone is happy about that.
Admit it - you're bored of all the Lorem Ipsum stuff. There's something fundamentally wrong with using improper Latin to light up that new front-end you're building. The founder of barz.lol believes rap is the antidote.
Defer, the background jobs as-a-service startup founded by French duo Charly Poly and Bryan Frimin, is now available as a public access product.
Frames have been a feature of web browsers since Netscape Navigator introduced them in 1996. Almost 30 years on, Hyperbeam have reimagined how they should work.
Most successful B2B SaaS businesses encounter the "buy it or build it" dilemma as they amass enough integrations to warrant an app marketplace. Heedjy hope to make "buy" the default option.
Consumers are a bit cost-conscious at the moment, and developers are no different. "Leaving the cloud" has become a hot topic, thanks to Basecamp.
2021 was the year of NFTs, and 2022 was the year we realised we didn't really understand the value of them. 2023 is the year of generative AI. AudioStack hope to prove it isn't a fad.
On the morning of February 27th 2023 Google Cloud started to suffer one of their worst outages in recent memory. Cloud Developer Tools, Apigee, Google Cloud Networking, Container Registry - and many more - were affected.
Railway, the Platform as a service provider that's taking on the likes of Heroku and Render, is upgrading their CLI to make it "buzzword compliant."
The rise and fall of HQ, the social media game show, is well documented. Once home to 2.3 million players tuning in at any one time, it's now in the dot com deadpool.
Popular open source git-based content management system, Netlify CMS, is getting a new name and a new owner.
Former Facebooker, Googler, Redditor and Alsop Louie Partners associate Jared Zoneraich has created the "first platform for prompt engineers" - a developer tool called PromptLayer.
Cron, that utility that schedules all all-the-things in web servers across the internet, is 47 years old this year. Originally invented by Bell Labs, it's been reinvented by Vercel.
There's a new kid on the Netlify block. Ably, the real-time platform that offers APIs and tools for messaging, IoT, and gaming, have launched a new integration with Netlify.
Fauna, the a cloud-based serverless database service, today announced general availability of Fauna Logs - a solution to help developers monitor and analyze query logs.
Aiming to "Automate repetitive work", SaaS entrepreneur Jon Yongfook has launched a new browser automation API - Browserbear.
We've all heard the story a gazillion times. In 2007 Steve Jobs didn't want app developers ruining the iPhone experience. So Apple shipped a mobile web browser instead, and the rest is history.
Shopify's latest investor overview "Leading the future of commerce" just dropped, and features some eyewateringly good numbers for their developer ecosystem.
News just in from GitHub: your new pair programming compadre is a friendly bot that likes to wear aviation goggles and sizeable headphones.
Gatsby Inc. has been acquired by Netflify. Terms were not disclosed, and the announcement was posted on Gatsby's website.
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