Ned O'Leary @_____eko Twitter profile

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2 months

god this startup better take off or else I'm being a real weirdo in public for nothing lol

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I have happily spent 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars in past jobs to do work that @gumloop_ai just did for me in a few seconds. Anyone not using Gumloop is making their lives needlessly difficult.

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the version of our company thay went through YC emphatically did not rank among the 5-10 most sought-after companies in the batch definitely better off for having done YC; value of YC is non-rivalrous

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@ctjlewis Counterpoint: the value of YC is disproportionately realized by the top 5-10 companies in each batch. Don't apply unless you are going to be one of those companies.

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6 months

@kimmaicutler I feel like there'd be a stronger case if SFO were in San Francisco lol

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6 months

So excited to stop fundraising and get back to my real job tomorrow

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8 days

We are back on Hacker News talking about SAML again! Come say hi:

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3 months

what a beautiful day to build B2B saas

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11 days

@amanda_robs taking the contrary view, most investors seem to be looking for Series A risk at pre-seed prices if you're good enough at picking, shouldn't be price / ownership sensitive

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12 days

fred is crushing quota this quarter

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25 days

amazing that so many prominent people in silicon valley proudly endorsed the "they're eating the pets" guy

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2 months

Last week I caught up with the CTO at a $100M+ ARR SaaS company. What I heard shocked me. I kicked off the call as I always do: "How's business?" We wandered through a maze of priorities together, scheming out a way to get SAML/SCIM integrations on the Q4 roadmap. "We're

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4 months

We made ‘ @SSOReady publicly available! SSOReady is a free, open source service that makes enterprise single sign-on (SSO) support really easy for software developers. Come check out the docs or the Github! We’d love to hear from you :)

SSOReady

Open-source dev tools for enterprise SSO. Ship SAML + SCIM support this afternoon. - SSOReady

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6 months

@sisyphusdancing @christinaqi ALT J P I S in powerpoint Life changing :)

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2 months

turns out being a weird teenager that lived on reddit for the first half of the 2010s is really good training for marketing developer tools

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I noticed we were getting an unusual amount of traffic from Korea turns out we made the front page of what seems to be "Hacker News for Korea"

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6 months

being as obnoxiously San Francisco as possible with the cold plunge this morning

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2 months

selling to engineers is fun because a CTO will ignore all of your emails and then have an employee silently set up your product without ever responding

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5 months

stated preference: getting to equinox at 6am revealed preference: reading about the ottoman empire at 3am

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2 months

excited to share that Fred O'Leary will be joining SSOReady as a Member of the Technical Staff later thid month!

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1 year

@PRWeekUS @BatteryVentures "Would a family member, one who is not familiar with your work, understand what you’re saying? Try to level-down or cut jargon where you can" Me: yes Also me:

Silicon Valley - Making the World a Better Place

Montage of all the "Making the World a Better Place" style hype from the Silicon Valley episode at TechCrunch Disrupt

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after a year well-spent on configuring my monitors, it's now time to build

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2 months

@HunterFromNYC I take the L train daily and I don't even live in new york

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2 months

starting to see usage of @SSOReady by software engineers at some of the largest financial institutions and defense contractors in the world 🔥

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2 months

my python code learning there's a place for it in this world:

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2 months

The ugliest code you’ve ever seen brings billions of revenue

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7 days

request for startup PG&E software (e.g. website, phone tree), but it works

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2 months

realizing i can't ever run for vice president because everyone would dunk on my holdings in random angel investments, massively underwater SaaS, and random small cap industrials that i bought based on vibes

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2 months

Tim Walz's finances (per @danprimack newsletter)

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6 months

we're so back

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8 months

@AdamLeapN @JoeOrminski @Superhuman sure -- here's a quick demo I put together showing our LinkedIn integration and use of our keyboard shortcut for search using okapi with linkedin via @arcade_demo

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2 months

the day after a popular blog post

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8 months

cc all venture capitalists

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8 months

@_____eko @JoeOrminski @Superhuman @arcade_demo dude you're about to make bank. it looks great. V clean

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2 months

me bragging about my upvotes on hacker news

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6 months

request for startup: lightsabers who is working on this

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1 month

@daltonc can attest that impulsive, last-minute applications sometimes get funded

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26 days

an app for meeting up with your friends but only friends that work on b2b saas

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2 months

new blog post just dropped on front page of Hacker News

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8 months

@rinconhilldad @ycombinator @garrytan

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1 month

do you guys remember the days when apple innovated

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2 months

hello if you have a github account can you please star this repo once we get another 12 stars, we will have 1,000 stars and then i will be able to stop staring at the number thank you

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18 days

runescape turned an entire generation of awkward, indoorsy children like me into shameless capitalists

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6 months

very well deserved for @dflieb ! will always be grateful for his advice during some of the more unpleasant chapters of our company's early history

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6 months

YC changed my life in a big way. Honored to get to help carry it forward for all the founders to come.

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inject this forward guidance directly into my veins

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6 months

@AbrahamAdit Lmao got this email and literally thought it was a prank

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6 months

As a career at company, I am indeed looking for a payroll partner

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2 months

using different email addresses to sign up for Okta / Microsoft developer accounts

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3 months

I am a blogger now, part II

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5 months

underrated competitive advantage: don't give things confusing names

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5 months

you don't have true PMF until you're the object of a phishing scam mama we made it

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1 month

sales is fun when you have a good product

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2 months

ordering the grilled salmon fillet on uber eats is unhinged behavior

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4 months

am now a blogger™

Why open source works for SSOReady | Ned O'Leary posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Put some thoughts together on why we think open source works for SSOReady. I was convinced to edit out my convoluted LTV model, so hopefully it's not nearly as…

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nothing makes me feel more like a boomer-y pointy-haired boss than having to google "how to create a shared slack channel with your customer"

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2 months

my wololo-ing another customer away from the other guys:

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2 months

it's true we are obsessed

Varunram Ganesh

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2 months

If you need Enterprise SSO and you want an amazing open source tool, use SSOReady. Have never met anyone who's more obsessed about SSO than Ned and Ulysse If you don't believe me, just take a look at this shipping speed:

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6 months

competition is good, actually

Boring_Business

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6 months

Imagine finding the global monopoly of search for the next 2 decades at the brim of the internet boom and getting outperformed by pizza delivery. Show this chart to anyone who touts about predicting innovation as a way to generate returns.

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4 months

lol

In 2024, many Y Combinator startups only want tiny seed rounds — but there’s a catch | TechCrunch

YC startups are raising smaller seed rounds but with lofty valuations, and little equity stakes, many investors aren't interested.

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2 months

@emerywells @Davidjpark96 Nah, this is pretty condescending lol. I've been yelled at by private equity MDs, and none of them were quite as disrespectful or epistemically immodest as this.

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4 months

there was a time when I probably would have listed all the things I thought Zoom obviously did wrong and I still have opinions but now I mostly think "idk sometimes making money is just hard"

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4 months

It still blows my mind, everytime I see this chart that not only did Zoom plunge from its covid peaks (which, duh) but that its significantly lower than pre-Covid, even though it's become omnipresent in everyday work life.

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3 months

these ads hitting too close to home

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5 days

can someone make a code editor with exciting sound effects i want mortal combat noises when i copy paste my clueless spaghetti code into our blog repository

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3 months

I skimmed Crowdstrike's website today. I learned they do stuff with a "kernel." Here's my take on the whole situation: 🧵👇 (1/18)

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7 months

@ycombinator @SiLogyIO Holding on to the most entertaining Paul + Kay content from our batch so I can surface it once SiLogy gets huge

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17 days

private equity guys trying to keep their bloated MSO portfolios solvent long enough to reach zirp nirvana

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2 months

you know how there's the inverse cramer index we need something similar, only it's politics and the All-In Podcast squad

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7 months

Down to the bathrobe, accurate portrayal of me at 7am rallying for another day of back-to-back meetings

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7 months

Why we’ve deployed to production 5 times on a Friday already.

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26 days

just got the bill for my puppy's ear infection treatment and now understand why vest-wearing private equity dudes want to own vet clinics

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5 months

men used to roam the Eurasian steppe swigging bottles of fermented horse milk nowadays they're all swiping on hinge and neglecting to pay tribute to the Golden Horde smh

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9 months

@E_Bruxxx @paulg Promise there's some cool ones :)

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2 months

In another exciting episode of chicken parm- and caffeine- fueled blogging:

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2 months

@varunramg I very literally do this

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3 months

Supabase

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what stack did you start programming with?

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5 months

hosting a rowdy party in SF with a diverse assortment of birds of prey hmu for the partiful

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6 months

@ayushswrites @brackin @nikitabier @joinwarp We use @joinwarp and I am pleased to report that it works

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5 months

Posthog's payback period is unlike anything I've ever seen How are SaaS finance/investing people not paying more attention to this company

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12 days

slack is like 10x harder to use than outlook and i do not understand how it became an industry standard

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nothing makes me feel more like a boomer-y pointy-haired boss than having to google "how to create a shared slack channel with your customer"

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4 months

@koenbok @Microsoft @framer we really like @framer but please add a proper forms feature -- think MSFT probably needs them too :)

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2 months

overheard at the SSOReady office: "Why did you Slack me a picture of Emperor Akihito" "I'm writing a blog post about time zones"

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18 days

my dog's face when i explain XMLDSig for the first time

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4 months

@samraaj most hype burger review on yelp

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2 months

thinking about getting ~100 of these with "SAML is cool" embroidered DM me to reserve

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11 days

@dschenkelman @grinich @thinkshiv @gwenshap @auth0 Firm agree. Our product's usually free and self-service, but nonetheless in defiance of my expectations for developer tooling, people often want to have a conversation! They often need some help navigating B2B auth and find hands-on, custom terms useful.

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5 months

the only reasonable explanation

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8 months

@auren Bigger opportunity is an identity-resolution-as-a-service vendor Cross-platform deduping is really hard, especially with username + email address aliases & changes Really want some kind of unified person ID that I can buy and link across to different user IDs :\

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degrowth people don't seem to get than global GDP per capita is ... really low if you manage to redistribute all output (somehow without reducing output), you've just made everyone poor

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2 months

today in texts from growth equity:

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it's really great when a salesperson just talks to you like a normal human being i can smell sandler training through zoom, and it is unpleasant i know you're asking discovery questions. i know you're doing the equal business stature thing please tell me about the product

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4 months

will remember to shave for our next round of company portraits

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5 months

ngl tim mcgraw looks kinda like a castilian foot soldier

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2 months

@meganeoleary @varunramg me in the corner after 20 minutes of hard labor begging for github stars:

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6 months

@caitlinbolnick1 Thought about doing a marketplace for contract manufacturing years ago. Basic problem with that: no way around both demand and supply being ~heterogeneous Consumer marketplaces can usually treat at least the demand side as ~homogenous and sometimes the supply side

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7 months

@meganeoleary @emehlan I will make it your contact photo again

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6 months

In today's installment of "Ned, the boomer startup founder:" Outbound email doesn't work, so we just do outbound snail mail 🤷‍♂️

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2 months

@samraaj yeah actually most of those were just @ucarion

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6 months

proud to announce a new people & culture initiative employees that meaningfully advance our field (e.g, by successfully centering divs in under 48 hours) will receive the below Turing Award

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8 months

@auren @LiveRamp Like, a version of this that feels unsolved is being able to link N email aliases to a unique person ID dynamically. I want to figure out a good way to do this for our CRM business, and it doesn't seem like a reliable version of this exists...

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