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I’m intrigued by the potential of Linear agents to help with product development, especially the grunt work.

Asking around, some of the agents being worked on by folks I know include agents that:

- auto-update issue statuses based on GitHub activity.

- post daily summaries of Linear changes to Slack.

- discusses product requirements with you and creates Linear issues

- listens to Sentry error stream and auto creates linear issues for new crash signatures

- interprets GitHub events such as pull requests and deployment reviews, and propagates that context back to related Linear tickets

Markdown was the inspiration: easy to scan, consistent, doesn't support fluff, etc. Trying to avoid many of the typical SaaS site tropes that get in the way.

Not sure about the rest, but these are a few tools that can help with the community parity part: https://opensauced.pizza, https://www.crowd.dev, and https://bitergia.com

I can confirm that it's not a paid promotion. Just my reflections on what I see as being exemplary community work.

Sorry to hear you found reading the article difficult. It's an aesthetic choice I've received only positive comments about before this, but I'll look into providing some option to disable it - perhaps I could hook into the prefers-reduced-motion option or similar.

Ah, thanks - will get that fixed up shortly.

Thanks for sharing George, much appreciated!

If you read article it outlines why I think so. Profitability is a larger issue than their community programs. Although, the process of converting community into customers is still slow for them, which I think is a contributing factor for sure.

Not astroturfing, just my take - I have no connection to the company. There's a section that goes into the licensing change a little more, but in my view, there's a lot of great stuff that can be learned from HashiCorp's approach to community from before the licensing change that is worth knowing about. If anything it highlights just what they've put at stake by making that move.

No, it's new, although was completed a couple of days before their announcement and updated to reference it. My audience is primarily community managers, DevRel, and community-minded rev teams and HashiCorp have done an exemplary job at community-led until the licensing change. There's a lot such folks can learn from before the licensing change, I didn't want to wipe that away. Also, I didn't see it as my place to provide too much commentary on it specifically, since the impact isn't yet fully understood.

They have Copilot: https://zed.dev/blog/copilot

That's what I respect about Citymapper in the linked article - they're 11 years in and still putting in the effort to their updates.

Yeah, in times of auto-downloading updates, I can see why many don't, but I certainly appreciate it when they do.

I couldn't find a non-paywalled version, but do you know if they measured length of use in those studies? I can imagine it might be better short-term, but after a few hours...

There is more to it though. Like PLG encourages a freemium approach, to maximize the number of folks who can experience the product quality. As well as things like aligning user outcomes to business outcomes through usage-based pricing.

This isn't just PLG though, it's taking things a step further by layering on community that changes the go-to-market motion and not just business model. Corinne Marie Riley has an interesting article on this, too: https://corinneriley.medium.com/community-led-growth-the-pro...

I agree in part, at least the quote often applied to Henry Ford “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses” rings true. But I think that only really applies to the core innovation, actually turning that into a viable business requires a lot of customer understanding and getting user feedback is key to that. Rob Fitzpatrick's book "The Mom Test" explains how to get actually useful feedback from users.

Sure but how were they no-Sales? I used to work for an Atlassian consultancy and Atlassian put a ton of effort into their partner network. We would run Atlassian user groups, answer questions on their forums, etc. It was a community-based strategy, they were just earlier than most to it.

That's not the point being made in the article, though. It's not saying marketers should do community, but rather that companies should invest in community instead of marketing for mutual benefit (members and company). The follow-on Value Creation > Value Capture piece I think makes it clearer: https://orbit.love/blog/value-creation-beats-value-capture

The Orbit Model community framework, around which Orbit is built, is an interesting read too: https://github.com/orbit-love/orbit-model

We're producing a print version. We will have to tweak some of the colors for sure, but we've had a few test prints done and they match surprisingly well.

It’s because of their Teams product - https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/stack-overflow-adds-a-free...

Nice article! You mention doing more events earlier, is there anything else you’d do differently?

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Yes, but there are exceptions, like for rendering non-JS versions of pages for example. That’s why Google themselves created Rendertron.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/dynamic-ren...

This update is really a ton of tiny things that improve the editor experience, but mostly it's about laying the groundwork for what's to come. Still lots of work to do

Any plans for a unified inbox? I’ve two email accounts and switching between them in Consider is a hassle.

It's Small Press Day today in the UK and Ireland, so shops, activists and organisers are coming together to celebrate all things self and micropublished. It inspired me to put together this collection of development zines created by some of the smartest zinesters around. Enjoy!

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We actually raised the funds a few months ago, and have already put some of it to use growing the team, and building new features (like Glitch for VS Code, which we announced today - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20392773).

We're looking for a VP Engineering, so check out https://glitch.com/about/careers if you know someone great.