The Builder
“Name the primitive.”
Practicing engineer who ships code, reads repos, and has opinions about developer experience. Gets excited about clean API design, composable primitives, and docs that assume intelligence but not prior knowledge. Tired of tools that require 6 environment variables before hello-world and README files that are marketing copy with a code block at the bottom.
Gets excited about
- +Clean APIs where the right thing is the easy thing
- +Composable primitives over wholesale platforms
- +Performance from thinking, not hardware
Tired of
- -Landing pages that don't say what the thing does
- -"AI-powered" as a feature, not an implementation detail
- -Frameworks that wrap three API calls and call themselves a platform
Communication verdicts(16 tools, 14 shipped)
Open-source notification infrastructure
“Open-source Knock alternative. Self-hostable and the workflow editor is well-designed. React components for in-app notifications.”
Open-source scheduling infrastructure
“Open source and self-hostable scheduling with a great API. Webhooks and workflows enable custom booking flows.”
Notification infrastructure for developers
“One API for all notification channels. The workflow builder handles complex routing and preferences elegantly.”
Chat API and SDK for apps
“Drop-in chat that actually looks good. Pre-built UI with customization saves weeks of development.”
Video and audio APIs for developers
“Clean API for embedding video calls. The prebuilt components save weeks of development time.”
Your place to talk — voice, video, and text
“Best platform for developer communities. Bots API is powerful. The fact that it's free for communities is unbeatable.”
Scalable chat and activity feed APIs
“The most complete chat API with pre-built React, Flutter, and native components. Moderation and threads are production-ready.”
Open-source decentralized communication
“The open protocol for secure communication. Self-hosting and bridging to Slack/Discord/Telegram is powerful.”
Encrypted messaging for developers
“No official API for building on top of Signal. The protocol is brilliant but the platform is intentionally closed.”
Where work happens — messaging for teams
“Essential for dev teams. GitHub, CI, and alerting integrations make it the nervous system of any engineering org.”
Scheduling automation platform
“Cal.com offers the same features with open source. Calendly's API exists but the platform is locked down.”
Video conferencing that just works
“SDK and API are solid for embedding video. Zoom Apps platform lets you build in-meeting experiences.”
AI-first customer service platform
“Excellent JavaScript SDK and API. Product tours and in-app messaging are great for developer-facing products.”
Email delivery and marketing API
“Transactional email API is rock-solid. Event webhooks for delivery tracking are essential. The standard choice for SaaS apps.”
Communication APIs for SMS, voice, video, and email
“The gold standard for communication APIs. Well-documented, reliable, and battle-tested at every scale imaginable.”
Customer service software and support ticketing
“Robust API and marketplace. Building custom apps and integrations is well-supported. Webhooks and triggers are powerful.”
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