Building @gobrand while exploring LATAM π΅πΎ OSS maintainer. Prev Tech lead @ProsperaGlobal @messagebird. Founder Hackaboss (acq)
Joined July 2013
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Built Storybook as a native desktop app. Open a folder, it finds your components, fast Vite HMR, controls code panel. One .stories.tsx per component, minimal config.
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During an informal meeting with a VC in a public Cafe in Spain, he proceeded to sniff a bit of c*ke as he sat down and video call Luka ModriΔ just to say hi and hang up
First and last meeting with a VC
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I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.
12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.
I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.
You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.
It's a dance.
And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.
If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.
No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.
It is weird.
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12M tokens. <5% of Opus. 52x faster than FlashAttention.
If SubQ holds up under a real workload, my whole RAG layer is dead code.
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Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.
It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA),
And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is:
- 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens
- Less than 5% the cost of Opus
Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention).
Only a small fraction actually matter.
@subquadratic finds and focuses only on the ones that do.
That's nearly 1,000x less compute and a new way for LLMs to scale.
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Lessons from building pricing for GoBrand as a bootstrap founder.
Our pricing model is nearly ready to go live. Here's what I learned building it from scratch in a crowded market:
The free tier reality.
As a bootstrapped startup, I can't afford a generous free tier. Instead, we're offering just enough to experience the product, complete the onboarding, publish one piece of content, and get a feel for what GoBrand can do. Simple, honest, sustainable.
Rethinking the "per seat" tax.
Most competitors charge per user, which gets expensive fast for teams. We flipped this: our Pro plan includes 2 seats, and Business has unlimited seats. If you're scaling a team, you shouldn't be punished for it.
Credits that actually make sense.
Here's where it gets interesting. Competitors charge per message, usually 50-200 basic actions like "make it punchier." We built a credit system that tracks real API costs: input tokens, output tokens, and model usage. The result is thousands of messages with context-aware agents that know your brand instead of a few dozen generic rewrites.
This isn't just cheaper, it unlocks possibilities like automated agents which would require way more than a few basic messages.
Built for agencies from day one.
Our architecture supports organizations, workspaces, and granular billing. Agency with 5 clients? Create 5 workspaces, each with its own channel limits and credit pools. Billing happens at the org level, but usage is tracked per workspace. Fair, flexible, transparent.
The long game.
Right now, pricing assumes every user is a power user maxing out every feature. It's sustainable, but not yet optimized. As we gather usage data, I expect we'll get more competitive, potentially moving to pure usage-based pricing.
Excited!
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GoBrand Calendar - the next-gen calendar library built from the ground up for the Temporal API.
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Bulletproof Timezones & DST support
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100% Type-safe & Headless
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Flexible Multi-view logic
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Elite DX
The modern way to build calendars. π§΅π
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@gobrand/react-calendar docs coming soon.
The easiest way to build fully customizable multi-view headless calendars with timezone support.
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Working with timezones and dates feels good now π₯Ά finally a familiar Temporal API alternative
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How to 5x your agentic output overnight:
- Stop running Claude Code in a standard terminal.
- Move to Superset.
I went from 3 agents (mental limit) to 10 parallel agents (effortless). If youβre serious about scaling your AI workflows, this is the move.
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What's New this week in Tiempo (v2.3 β v2.6), the modern date-fns alternative.
Approaching 2,000 weekly downloads β here's what's been added:
toPlainTime (v2.5.2) β Extract wall-clock time from datetimes
- toPlainTime('2024-03-15T14:30:00Z', 'America/New_York')Β βΒ 09:30:00
- toPlainTime('14:30')Β βΒ 14:30:00
toPlainDate (v2.5.3) β Extract calendar dates
- toPlainDate('2024-03-15T14:30:00Z', 'America/New_York')Β βΒ 2024-03-15
toIso & toIso9075 (v2.4.0) β Flexible ISO formatting
- toIso(instant)Β βΒ '2024-03-15T14:30:00.000Z'
- toIso9075(zdt)Β βΒ '2024-03-15 14:30:00'
toDate (v2.3.1) β Convert to JS Date for legacy APIs
Rounding utilities (v2.6.0) β Round to nearest hour/minute/second
- roundToNearestHour(dt)Β β rounds to nearest hour
- roundToNearestMinute(dt, { roundingMode: 'ceil' })Β β always up
PlainDate/PlainTime comparisons (v2.3.2, v2.5.2)
- isPlainDateBefore(),Β isPlainTimeAfter(), etc.
simpleFormat (v2.3.4) β Human-friendly dates
- simpleFormat(zdt)Β βΒ "Dec 23"Β orΒ "Dec 23, 2020" // also with times
Explicit timezones (v2.5.0) β No more implicit browser timezone
- now('America/New_York')Β instead ofΒ now()
browserTimezone (v2.4.1) β Get device timezone explicitly
IANATimezone type β Autocomplete for 400 timezones
New site
New Skill β `npx skills add go-brand/tiempo`
Try it:
`pnpm add @gobrand/tiempo@latest`
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my feed today is just @openclaw posts. feeling the fomo π
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I love Fumadocs by @fuma_nama but I hate writing docs, skills and llms.txt files and keep everything updated.
So here's a Fumadocs MDX to llms.txt Claude Code SKILL generator, link in π§΅
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I hated working with Dates and Timezones until I tried Tiempo.
- Type-Safe & Familiar
- Nanosecond Precision
- DST-Safe Arithmetic
- Any Timezone, Anywhere
- Great DX without magic
π§΅Link
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JavaScript's Date was modeled after a Java class deprecated 25 years ago. The Temporal API is its modern replacementβtiempo makes it accessible.
`pnpm add @gobrand/tiempo`
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TIL Cloudflare Workers Routes exist
Was proxying /blog/* requests through middleware to another worker. Worked but felt slow.
Turns out you can just route URL patterns directly to workers from the dashboard. No code needed.
Deleted the middleware, same result, way faster.
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1/2 𧡠Build calendars incredibly easy in seconds.
`pnpm add @gobrand/react-calendar`
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Built on Temporal API
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Automatic timezone handling - DST transitions just work
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Bring your own data - works with any structure through accessors
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Type-safe - conditional types based on which views you configure
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Framework-agnostic core React adapter
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Tiny
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