I feel like there is an opportunity for an Ashby-like recruiting ops product that purely lives in your org's Slack. Any and all feedback can be collected through Slack messages. I bet the rate of interviews to feedback submitted would at least 5x.

Thank you to everyone who showed interest here! Due to the overwhelm in responses, I've had to reach out in batches. I'm actively chatting with folks this week, if you're still interested please fill out this form forms.gle/HDM68TxPQo4GvLAi7. :)

POV: you get your boss a Smiski and he learns about the 13.5 billion dollar blind box market “what is that, a broccoli???”

Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/replit

📣 PSA: Replit is hiring across engineering, product, design, and business. If you're someone like me, you might get more excited by problems than job titles... Well here are some I'm tackling right now: > What primitives (building blocks) do we give users? How do we define them? Where should they live? > How do we intuit success in agentic workflows? When should feedback loops be asynchronous or synchronous? > How do we help maintain, scale, and monitor vibe coded Apps? Come help me and so many incredible people work on these problems. If you're interested, DM me or respond with a project you're proud of! ❤️

Is there no way to go from a simple markdown table to a list of Linear tickets? 😭

On a real note, our Gmail connector works so smoothly… just log in with your Gmail and start automating emails.

This is going to sound lame, but my friend and I were waiting for people at a bar last night… And he was bored so in like 15 minutes he made a desktop pet game on Replit that sends me automated emails to annoy me. 😭 - Maybe in the future creators will be making fun apps for their audience and Vibe Coded Apps as Entertainment will be mainstream.

TouchDesigner is so cool

A friend asked me recently what I would do if Figma disappeared overnight. How devastated would I be as a designer? My answer surprised him initially, but eventually he understood. I said I would largely be fine. To begin, at least 60% of my design work already is either in writing or drawing on Excalidraw. Most of the work is trying to figure out the mechanics and related systems. To be honest, one of the biggest things I would miss about Figma is writing ideas on a spatial canvas beside higher fidelity mock-ups. Then, especially if I’m working with a design system, most of my explorations are around layout and interaction design. Both of which are things that are now much easier to prototype in code… This isn’t to say I don’t actually use Figma anymore, I definitely still do! But it’s become less of a necessity. And frankly, I think it’s exciting for designers to have more optionality in the tools we use.

this is so well written and i completely agree. if it’s my first time meeting someone, a simple “hi, what is your name” and “how are you” is totally fine before diving into “what are you building?” or “i saw your linkedin!”. i think it’s so weird when people skip basic human warmth and go straight to transactional curiosity. as i’ve matured a bit more, i’ve realized it’s pretty silly to expect vulnerability from a literal stranger in a 5–10 minute interaction (especially if i'm literally at an event for builders LOL) and lowkey kinda weird in trying to escape this “networking” culture, a lot of people will host “anti-networking” events / walks and will end up asking deeply personal questions they haven’t earned the right to know. like you said, that level of vulnerability involving my story, struggles, upbringing, and plans is reserved for people who’ve earned it through consistency, actions, and time. i noticed this while talking to VC's as well. they are in this huge pursuit of "finding outliers" so they want to know all of my traumas & personal decisions in the first 15 minute coffee chat LOL....

I wonder what pressures gen z to feel like they need to speed run vulnerability? The intentions are always pure, I think it comes from a place like “I want to be close to you, I don’t want to exchange surface level small talk.” But, there’s a level of vulnerability that can only be built with time, repetition, consistency… The type of vulnerability that comes from passing the tea and salt shaker across the dinner table a hundred times over. Or maybe it comes from a pressure of not wanting to be perceived as boring or corporate. Not wanting to be walked away from a party whispering “they only care about my job” or “ugh only small talk,” I don’t know. Maybe it’s not a bad thing either :) but I think I need the small talk, the build up. Tell me about how sunny it is in SF and how much you love the trees, and I’ll listen. And then on our 10th time talking about the sun, maybe we can talk about when it rains, too.

true, though

i feel attacked

using replit + figma, as a designer. my favorite workflow. fine tune the design of your apps with our figma mcp + element selector. drop your components into an existing app and prototype it immediately.

People always ask me for advice when hiring designers and time and time again I will say the same thing: They just need 1. a sense of humor 2. be able to think in systems

Am I the only one that really doesn't like the flashing "thinking" animation that seems to exist in ALL llm chatbots? Especially when I want to read its contents and it just keeps flashing on me... just give me a soft loading animation.

Unsure if anything makes me happier than drinking coffee from a seasonal mug.

If the alternative to not being great at something is to not do it at all, I will always choose to do it and not be great at it :) and who knows maybe I’ll have some fun along the way

liking a man who quotes attention is all you need is a canon event when you first move to SF