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Alex Arena 🥥 🌴

2 years

Super excited to finally share what our team has been working on for the past few months 🙂 @useinterval : build internal tools right in your app's codebase with zero frontend code. 🧵Some backstory: (1/?)

Interval | Build internal tools with just backend code

Interval supercharges your backend code with UIs, auth, audit logs, and more, leaving more time to focus on writing the code that matters.

interval.com

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Alex Arena 🥥 🌴

@alexarena

5 years

I scam, therefore I am

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@alexarena

6 years

@lkmcgann Today, you should have the basic human decency to give those grieving the loss of an American hero space to breathe. Publishing a political hit-piece upon the death of someone who gave so much for their country is really sick.

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@alexarena

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Back in June, we previewed - our approach to building complete tools w/ just backend code. It's for engineers who love writing code but hate building UIs. Since then, we’ve learned a ton and today I'm thrilled to announce **Interval 1.0** 🎉 🧵 1/ 11

Interval | Build internal tools with just backend code

Interval supercharges your backend code with UIs, auth, audit logs, and more, leaving more time to focus on writing the code that matters.

interval.com

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@alexarena

6 years

when it’s time for a kiki

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@alexarena

9 months

Decided to build a Mac app during the holiday break... meet Table Service ✨ - Generate + run queries for any Postgres db using natural language. - Connects *directly* to your db, no cloud service! - BYO OpenAI key - pick between GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 for query generation.

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@alexarena

11 months

Some personal news🤠 ⬇️

Interval

@useinterval

11 months

Interval has been acquired by @meter 🥳 More here:

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@alexarena

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with the new React Router hooks (👋thanks @mjackson @ryanflorence ) we can make our own `useQueryParams` hook in just a few LOC 😎

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@alexarena

4 years

Donald Trump outside the White House, January 21st 2021

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@alexarena

2 years

TIL people have the surname "Interval" ... sorry pal 😅

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@alexarena

5 years

iPhone 16 Pro (2024)

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@alexarena

5 years

@PhilipinDC Ah yes a fine example of, the uh... master race.

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@alexarena

5 years

@DaleJStephens @chelseaborderr Venmo me $47b!

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@alexarena

2 years

Is Interval for building internal tools at tech companies? On the one hand, yes that is its intended use case. Did I spend an hour this weekend using it to build a bulk Barry's booking tool? I may have.

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@alexarena

2 years

much to consider...

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@alexarena

7 years

@shayfromonlin3 Broke: Bumble Woke: Torian

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@alexarena

8 years

We need EXTREME VETTING. This admin isn't sending their best... they're bringing conflicts, they're rapists, some, I assume, are good ppl.

Matt McDermott

@mattmfm

8 years

Poor vetting has now cost Trump... - his Labor Secretary - his Navy Secretary - his Army Secretary - his National Security Advisor

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@alexarena

3 years

manifesting circle 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 new display that 🕯 isn't $5k 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

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@alexarena

11 years

New Year’s Resolution for @marcoarment and @siracusa :5120x2880

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@alexarena

10 years

@marcoarment Now we need another reprint of the shirt. This time in swift.

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@alexarena

9 years

Everything @marcoarment loves in one photo.

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@alexarena

4 years

asu the us capitol 🤝 way too easy to get into

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@alexarena

4 years

startup web design is so unoriginal these days 😒

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@blankenship

4 years

New looks like they’re ready to raise Series A.

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@alexarena

5 years

my iPhone recent calls list: - spam - spam - spam - spam - spam - spam - mom - spam - spam - spam - spam - spam - spam - dad - spam - spam

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@alexarena

2 years

I make a habit of personally emailing all new Interval signups. (Great way to meet our users!) Today I noticed a not-yet-launched direct competitor signed up. So... do we think they'll let me in? 😳

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@alexarena

5 years

@profgalloway (hello big dog) @karaswisher pls rate our costumes

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@alexarena

5 years

depugging

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@alexarena

5 years

If you don’t tweet nights and weekends about working nights and weekends in your 20s, you’re not going to have a successful Twitter career. Sorry.

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@alexarena

5 years

world’s wealthiest people 2019: █ 　　 █　 █　 █　＿ people who own Jeff Bezos AirPods Pros

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@alexarena

7 years

@TheSafestSpace This is a bad take. Men obviously commit more crimes, but I’m assuming you’d agree this is mostly due to nature, not nurture (biological sex has meaningful impact in this area). Suggesting that black Americans are more biologically predisposed to commit crimes is just racist.

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@alexarena

5 years

He said it’s time to upgrade from my Series 0 ⌚️😅

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@alexarena

5 years

In our thermal corner, watching The Talk Show @hrrsn @dyountmusic

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@alexarena

8 years

I trust @GlennThrush with most things. But I've listened to enough Off Msg recently to know he's always lying when he says "last question."

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@alexarena

2 years

This tweet has been up for 1 hr. For any engineers at Twitter trying to solve this impossible problem, some free pseudocode you may want to implement: When a verified acc changes their display name If any other verified account already has that display name Then don't allow

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@alexarena

2 years

@useinterval we've been thinking about a few qs: 1) What's the simplest way to let people to experience our programming model? (CLI-style code, web UI output) 2) Could you use our model to build things that aren't strictly internal tools? 3) Can we make Interval apps shareable?

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@alexarena

5 years

Basecamp: owned entirely by capitalists @dhh @jasonfried and @JeffBezos VC backed startups: owned by investors, founders, and *workers* 🤔

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@alexarena

5 years

friends please euthanize me if I ever utter this sentence

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@alexarena

2 years

You should be able to message STOP to leave a group text

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@alexarena

3 years

Just got my vaccine! 💉

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@alexarena

2 years

A few weeks ago we added 2FA to @useinterval . Now in SDK v0.30, we're letting developers programmatically prompt for 2FA verification inside high stakes actions with a *single line of code*. (s/o @nurodev for the I/O method suggestion) (Video of this in action in the🧵)

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@alexarena

2 years

I'll never go over how great it is to work on a small team. Community suggestion -> shipped in 4 days is commonplace. ()

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@alexarena

2 years

@CaseyNewton @ZoeSchiffer I’m sorry but can we get trigger warnings for some of these AI images in the future please?

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@alexarena

4 years

Sawyer faces off against an imposter

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@alexarena

5 years

If a friend ever suggests that backend work is the more difficult/serious branch of software engineering kindly invite them to make a date picker.

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@alexarena

2 years

Bug report received: 8:53AM New version of Interval live with a fix: 12:35PM Not bad...

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@alexarena

2 years

Welcome Patrick! If you don't know Patrick, he previously led growth at @Replit , another great dev-focused company. I'm so excited to work with him on growth and lots more at Interval.

Patrick Coleman

@patrickscoleman

2 years

Here’s what’s next for me! Ops/growth consulting for @useinterval We’re taking on the $250B internal tools market by letting devs build tools with no frontend code or clunky UI builders. @alexarena & team are brilliant. Expect to see tons of growth!

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@alexarena

6 months

when we reach AGI I am prepared with receipts to prove that I have always been kind and courteous to chatty

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@alexarena

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@alexarena

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@alexarena

2 years

Just stumbled across what I _believe_ is the first ever mention of Interval on a podcast ( @DevtoolsFM ) !! Honestly incredibly cool to hear it getting discussed on a podcast that I listen to 🥰

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@alexarena

5 years

@jonathonbarkl where do you get a $3 coffee Jonathon

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@alexarena

8 years

@akarl_smith its subtle but can u spot the difference?

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@alexarena

2 years

The Interval user ➡️ Interval investor pipeline ❤️

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@alexarena

4 years

thank you LG 5k, very cool!

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@alexarena

3 years

“Platforms like , which started last year to let instructors stream fitness classes online, are a part of the biggest category by revenue: education.” What we’re building at Interval wouldn’t be possible without Stripe in general and Edwin in particular 🙌

Interval | Build internal tools with just backend code

Interval supercharges your backend code with UIs, auth, audit logs, and more, leaving more time to focus on writing the code that matters.

interval.com

edwin

@edwinarbus

3 years

1/ The creator economy isn't letting up. We measured its growth on @Stripe and found that creators will soon earn $10B+ in aggregate: . Perhaps the most inspiring thing we found was that the # of creators earning a living wage (>$69K) has increased 41% YoY.

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@alexarena

2 years

ah yeah this is class, been wanting one of these for ages 🙌

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@alexarena

5 years

begging for our lives.

Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

5 years

Ten years of progress at Boston Dynamics. Where will we be in 2029?

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@alexarena

2 years

🌁 In SF? Like JS? @useinterval will be hosting the first IRL @sfnode meetup since the beginning of the pandemic on July 14! Ft. yours truly giving a talk about end-to-end type safety and @jasnell telling a tale of two runtimes.

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@alexarena

2 years

Other presidents may have claimed to support gay rights but only Biden has given a speech from the Barry's Red Room.

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@alexarena

2 years

⚠️ Do I risk updating to iOS 16 before it is time to BeReal?? ⚠️

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@alexarena

5 years

your celebrity bibliophile name is the last name of the first british prime minister you can think of + a drink of your choice

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@alexarena

2 years

Ok I want to try something: respond to this tweet with a little app, a utility, a tool you want in your life. I’ll choose a few to build for you, for free. Fine print: I’m gonna use Interval to build it.

Maggie Appleton

@Mappletons

2 years

📣 Request for examples 📣 Mini apps and bits of software you’ve built just for yourself and/or friends and family. Things that don’t scale, aren’t meant for others to use, & valuable just for your specific, snowflake use case. Ideally custom built, but could be jerry-rigged

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@alexarena

5 years

Djibouti call

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@alexarena

6 years

@terronk Donald Trump

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@alexarena

2 years

@useinterval In our previous project we had ~65 CLI scripts for working with customer data. We liked these scripts. They were quick to write, type safe, and had access to all of our app's shared code. But over time, and with a mess of hardcoded values... they became scary to run!

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@alexarena

2 years

A favorite photo of myself!

Jen Yip

@nifferkin

2 years

"Founders You Should Know is our Superbowl!" - FYSK host "Only startup event I've been to with real heart and soul." - FYSK attendee "Already exceeded my expectations." - @alexarena , a FYSK! Broke bread together last night...go-time tonight! See you soon.

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@alexarena

5 years

Things that didn’t exist when the Normans conquered England in 1066: Snapchat Lyft Slack Siri Gunpowder Kickstarter Twitch Plumbing Tinder Printing Press iPod Eyeglasses Amazon Alexa Constitutional Monarchy Uber FB Messenger Apple Music MS DOS iPhone iPad Feeling old?

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@alexarena

8 years

@ismh Just barely. I’m sure they’re just waiting to release it alongside the new 5k display!

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@alexarena

5 years

cannae wait for the Nike smart sneakers that require you to send feet pics before they work

Klinton Kacatin

@klintonkacatin

5 years

I said no. Dont take my ear data @Sony @reckless @verge

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@alexarena

5 years

Earthquake twitter hello

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@alexarena

1 year

there are downsides to having a single english word domain

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@alexarena

7 years

Funny story... I was on WWYD with @JohnQABC and my scene got cut. But I did get a #rare selfie out of it

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@alexarena

5 years

you can imagine my disappointment

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@alexarena

5 years

Been doing this now for a month or two (about 2 miles each way). Sooo much nicer than BART and only about +10 mins in commute time. Feeling lucky to live in a climate where this is possible.

Will Manidis

@WillManidis

5 years

in the last few months i've started a practice of walking for ~2 hours a day-- back and forth to work, and after dinner for a bit often while taking calls. I feel so much happier, healthier, and more alive. this is wild

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@alexarena

6 years

Dunkirk (2017)

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@alexarena

2 years

I've been spending some time building example Interval Playgrounds... Here's a complete app to query any Postgres database using plain English in *65 lines of code*🤯

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@alexarena

2 years

console.log("here")

Zoë Schiffer

@ZoeSchiffer

2 years

Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers 2/

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@alexarena

2 years

The true tragedy of SBF was that the fraud was exposed before he had the chance to pivot to AI.

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@alexarena

2 years

Gave an Interval demo the other day, the person I spoke to wanted a tool to bulk edit issues in GitHub Projects... ~45mins and 83 lines of code later:

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@alexarena

5 months

GPT 4o would be pretty neat on a Humane Ai Pin 🫢

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@alexarena

6 years

Choose your fighter

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@alexarena

2 years

@useinterval @prisma @postmarkapp All of this wouldn't have been possible without @DanPhilibin @jacobmischka and @ryancoppolo 🙌 Together, I think we've built something really great and we're just getting started. Interval is free for small teams and you can have your first app running in just a few minutes.

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@alexarena

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@brianklaas .

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@alexarena

2 years

@useinterval Enter: Interval. Interval has two components: 1. An SDK that plugs into your Node backend. 2. A web app () that handles auth, permissions, audit logs, and, generates exceptionally great UIs for your team. It's powerful *and* fun to use. Some examples:

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@alexarena

6 years

Very normal behavior from a 2 month old “pro” laptop! cc @JoannaStern @marcoarment

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@alexarena

5 years

these👏articles👏are👏all👏clickbait👏nobody👏loses👏money👏unless👏you👏panic👏and👏sell 👏

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@scottlincicome

5 years

Helpful context for the next time you see one of those dumb "Billionaire X made $Y this week and that's not fair" articles

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@alexarena

2 years

I'm happy with the design of but I am also cognizant that nothing we've shipped yet matches the impeccable vibes of our forebearers.

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@alexarena

2 years

round 1 of AI generated @useinterval mascots

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@alexarena

5 years

this airport bathroom is a prolific programmer

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@alexarena

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@jonfavs @anamariecox but still nobody calls him :(

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@alexarena

2 years

I know we just launched, but what we've shown so far is honestly just scratching the surface of what we're working on. Here's a peak of file uploads in Interval: ⬇️ (in 19 lines of code 🙂)

Interval

@useinterval

2 years

A few people have already asked about uploading files with Interval so we thought we'd share what we're working on. ☁️Introducing our first file upload API! It's an experimental API, but for the adventurous, it's available to use in your apps *now*

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@alexarena

5 years

Future kids names: - Brexleigh - Mercuree - Strype Corporate Card

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@alexarena

7 years

me, on every final

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@alexarena

2 years

Ok this is easy... M: model -needs thought + commitment F: controller - fun, nothing serious K: view - just use @useinterval (I was told this was too unhinged to tweet from the company account)

-webkat-huang

@katmhuang

2 years

fuck, marry, kill: model, view, controller

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@alexarena

2 years

@useinterval So we tried adding nicer (and safer!) input prompts using Inquirer: But this was only marginally better: we couldn't just hand off CLI scripts to support folks, so they still had to ping engineers to do routine customer tasks.

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@alexarena

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Whenever we sign an enterprise deal, I get to run one of my favorite Interval actions: an action to enable SSO. Why is it so great? It collects the required info (domain, user id, etc.) up front, then shows _dynamic_ instructions for next steps using `io.display.markdown`