Making the web faster at ▲Vercel while bootstrapping SaaS on the side. Currently building tryslater.com ⏰
Test but don't lose focus
Side project tips
- Take time to investigate new technology, but don’t lose focus on your main thing. Suhail shipped @tunesproject, an NFT in the music space, and immediately refocused on MightyApp.
- Avoid cargo culting and looking to your peers for validation. If 90% of IndieHackers fail to generate revenue, then why should you be doing what the average IndieHacker is doing? (listen to this great podcast)
- Garry Tan had a great tweet this morning (see below). Start today and try to think in decades. A thing to keep in mind: it won’t likely be obvious why you should stick with it for the first year.
Web dev
- Next.js Conf is 43 days away! Sign up to claim your ticket. Over 8,000 people have registered as of this writing (check out my ticket.)
- Be careful when naming and making API decisions, they might end up set in stone:
September 4th 2021
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Drew Bredvick
Making the web faster at ▲Vercel while bootstrapping SaaS on the side. Currently building tryslater.com ⏰
Hey there, Google Chrome shipped WebMCP in early preview this week. It's a W3C standard that lets any website expose structured tools directly to AI agents through a browser API. No MCP server required. Platform shifts build on existing networks. What's more likely — every company builds their own MCP server, or agents get good at using the web that already exists? MCP adoption is growing fast but it's still a tiny fraction of companies. WebMCP bets on the existing network. Always bet on the...
Hey there, Two new posts this week plus a bunch of stuff I've been thinking about. Two Waves of AI — Most people treat AI as one wave. It's actually two. Wave 1 is LLMs as cheap, scalable intelligence (AI added to products). Wave 2 is 10x productivity in verifiable domains like coding (AI added to the creation process). How to Break Into GTM Engineering — We're hiring at Vercel and I wrote up the trends I’m seeing. Four paths in: solutions engineers, former founders, product-obsessed...
Hey there, This week I’m sharing the full breakdown of how we built Vercel’s first GTM agent. The results: 10 inbound SDRs → 1, $2M+ in savings, and a 32x ROI. I joined Alex Lieberman on the Human in the Loop podcast to walk through the whole thing. The blog post is a cleaned-up version of that conversation with everything you need to build something similar. Building Vercel’s First GTM Agent The short version: we turned lead qualification from a slow slog into something that happens in...