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Steven Tey

4 months

Life update: I'm starting a company around 🚀 We're building the link management infrastructure for you to create marketing campaigns, link sharing features, and referral programs. Here's how it all started – and where we're going:

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

RIP all the digital business card startups #WWDC23

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Twitter just open-sourced their algorithm. Some initial takeaways: ◆ Your following to follower ratio matters. ◆ @TwitterBlue subscribers do get a boost in the algorithm. Will keep adding more to this thread 👇

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Steven Tey

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2 years

This is the coolest website I've ever seen 🤯 The trick: use cubes to convert the light ray into a rainbow & reveal hidden easter eggs across the screen 🐣 Try it out for yourself 🕹️ ↳

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Steven Tey

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1 year

Design is hard. Here are some of my favorite places on the web for design inspiration:

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1 year

Dallas Texas is just magical this time of the year.

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Steven Tey

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1 year

Surprised there isn't more chatter around VALL-E This new model by @Microsoft can generate speech in any voice after only hearing a 3s sample of that voice 🤯 Demo →

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Steven Tey

@steventey

2 months

Just made the best angel investment of my life ❤️

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Introducing Precedent – building blocks for your @Nextjs project. It's a collection of components, hooks, and utilities that I find myself reusing every time I start a new project. 100% free & open source →

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Steven Tey

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1 year

We're seeing a wave of promising new AI projects built on @nextjs and @vercel ▲ Here are some of the coolest projects built in the last 30 days 🧵

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Steven Tey

@steventey

9 months

If you're building a SaaS in 2023: ◆ framework: @nextjs ◆ ui: @shadcn /ui + @tailwindcss ◆ redis/queues: @upstash ◆ charts: @tinybirdco + @tremorlabs ◆ db: @planetscale ◆ emails: @resendlabs ◆ payments: @stripe ◆ SAML: @boxyhq ◆ deployment: @vercel What did I miss?

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Steven Tey

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1 year

6. To put these feedback loops in perspective: A user clicking on your tweet staying there for >2 min is weighted 22x more than them just liking your tweet If they click into your profile through your tweet & likes/replies to a tweet? 24x more than a like. If they reply to

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Steven Tey

@steventey

11 months

▲ @Vercel just launched the AI SDK. You can now build AI-powered apps with streaming – starting with one simple command: `npm i ai` Here are some examples👇

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Steven Tey

@steventey

6 months

TIL you can turn any website into an editable canvas with just a simple command in the console: document.designMode = 'on'

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Steven Tey

@steventey

9 months

I'm curating a list of open-source alternatives to popular SaaS: ◆ Calendly: @calcom ◆ Algolia: @typesense ◆ Shopify: @MedusaJS ◆ WorkOS: @BoxyHQ ◆ Firebase: @supabase ◆ Amplitude: @posthog ◆ DocuSign: @documenso ◆ Bitly: @dubdotsh What did I miss? 👀

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Steven Tey

@steventey

9 months

Twitter/ @X is working on a new #BrandedFeatures animation 😍 Like this tweet to see for yourself 👀

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

7. When needed, the government can intervene with the Twitter algorithm. In fact, @TwitterEng even has a class for it – "GovernmentRequested" Source →

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

This site is a work of art → Subtle hover spotlights, interactive demos, 3D orb animation – everything about it is just *chefs kiss* Built with @QwikDev by the incredible @necatikcl + @oguzyagizkara

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Steven Tey

@steventey

9 months

It's insane how much you can build with @reactjs + @tailwindcss in 2023: ◆ Websites: ◆ Emails: ◆ Mobile apps: ◆ Dataviz: ◆ Videos: ◆ Open Graph Images:

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Steven Tey

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1 year

This is remarkable → 1. Upload your Markdown/MDX files 2. Get a fully-trained AI model + React component as the prompt interface 3. Track stats like "most asked questions" Built with @nextjs + @OpenAI + @vercel and it's fully open-source 🤩

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Steven Tey

@steventey

5 months

After 2.5 amazing years, it's my last day at @vercel ▲ Immensely grateful to have been part of such a world-class team – special shoutout to @rauchg for taking a chance on me back in 2021. Will share what's next for me soon! It’s bittersweet, but I’m excited for what’s ahead.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

▲ @Vercel just launched @Nextjs 13.3 last week. Here are 3 incredibly cool UI interactions you can build with it 👇

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Steven Tey

@steventey

2 years

Introducing my new side project: It's an open-source link-shortener SaaS with built-in analytics + free custom domains 🚀 Built with ▲ @Vercel Edge Functions + @Upstash Redis

Dub.co - Link Management for Modern Marketing Teams

Dub.co is the open-source link management infrastructure for modern marketing teams to create, share, and track short links.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

6 months

The AI assistant travel app in @OpenAI 's DevDay keynote today has got to be one of the most impressive live demos I've ever seen. Brilliant presentation by @romainhuet + stellar design & engineering work by @simonpfish & @karoliskosas behind the scenes 👏

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Big news: We're launching cron jobs @vercel 🤩 Easily turn any API route into a cron job with 1 line of code 🪄

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Vercel Cron Jobs. Next week.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Just found one of the coolest things on the internet → It uses WebGL for the 3D fluid interactions + neural network to generate the harmonization for the different melodies 🎵 A true masterpiece by @daviddotli

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Steven Tey

@steventey

2 years

I'm curating a list of the most beautiful @nextjs sites of all time: ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Who else did I miss? 👀

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

5. Some negative feedback loops that will reduce your "reputation score" on Twitter: ◆ Getting blocked ◆ Getting muted ◆ Abuse reports ◆ Spam reports ◆ Unfollows (not as heavily penalized as the above 4 though) Source →

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Steven Tey

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1 year

This is one of the cleanest landing pages of all time → Dynamic island menu bar, impactful hero section, subtle hover animations – a true masterpiece. Built with @nextjs and it's fully open-source 😍

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Steven Tey

@steventey

11 months

Introducing my new AI side project: It's an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor with AI-powered autocompletions ✨ Built with @tiptap_editor + @OpenAI + @Vercel AI SDK ▲

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Steven Tey

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1 year

The AI-native product generation is here. Here are 10 free, open-source AI projects that you can learn from, deploy to @vercel , and build the next big thing:

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Steven Tey

@steventey

5 months

Just found my new favorite OSS company → It's a modern, open-source alternative to Salesforce/Hubspot that lets you manage your customer relationships in a secure + privacy-first way. Incredible work @charlesbochet , @thomasdesfrancs , @_felx & team 👏

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

The new @pipe website is built on @nextjs , @chakra_ui and @vercel and it's breathtaking ✨ →

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Steven Tey

@steventey

2 years

This site is absolutely magical 😍 It gives a glimpse into the future of ticket purchasing 🤯 Watch with sound on🔈 ↳

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Steven Tey

@steventey

11 months

Introducing Platforms Starter Kit v2 → It's an open-source @nextjs template for you to build multi-tenant apps with custom domains in days, not months. Built with Next.js App Router and the @Vercel Domains API.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

5 months

Just found my new favorite app → An open-source repository of some of the most popular SaaS logos in SVG format, with lightning-fast search ⚡ Built with @sveltejs & @tailwindcss by the amazing @erdemkirmit

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Introducing ShareGPT → Share your wildest ChatGPT conversations with one click. Built with @nextjs , @vercel and @upstash

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Steven Tey

@steventey

6 months

Humane's new AI Pin launch feels akin to the iPhone launch back in 2007. Lots of skeptics in the beginning (too expensive, too bulky), but it ultimately revolutionized the way we interacted with the world. What a time to be alive.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

11 months

This app is incredible → It's an AI-powered interview prep platform for you to practice your tech interview skills. Built with @nextjs , @openai , and @vercel by @tmeyer_me – code is fully open-source as well 🤯

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Steven Tey

@steventey

13 days

Google, a $2T company, just shipped dark mode to Google Drive after 12 years (launched in 2012). Let that sink in.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

3 months

OK the new @vercel AI SDK Generative UI demo is wild 🤯 ...especially the last part where I highlighted a section of the chart and asked "why did it dip here?" Live demo →

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Steven Tey

@steventey

20 days

Open-source Loom alternative just dropped → Features: ◆ Native macOS App ◆ AI-powered transcriptions ◆ Built-in video editing features Built by @richiemcilroy and it's fully self-hostable 😍

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Steven Tey

@steventey

4 months

Just discovered this amazing project by @sherb → It's a collection of beautiful SVG animations for your loading states, fully open-sourced under the MIT license 😍

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Steven Tey

@steventey

8 months

Open-source Linear/JIRA alternative just dropped → Features: ◆ World class UI/UX ◆ Powerful integrations ◆ Host on your own domain ◆ Custom themes/dark mode Built with @nextjs , @tailwindcss , and @vercel ▲

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

RIP 1Password #WWDC23

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Steven Tey

@steventey

6 months

okay whoa 🤯

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6 months

let's go

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Steven Tey

@steventey

8 months

This is amazing → An AI emoji generator, built by @pondorasti using @nextjs , @replicate , and @vercel ▲ 100% free & open-source too 🤩

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Steven Tey

@steventey

10 months

Thank you n̶e̶x̶t̶ @nextjs .

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Introducing DomainsGPT → Generate brandable & memorable domain names using AI. Powered by @OpenAI and @Vercel Edge Functions ▲

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

The cat is finally out of the bag – Google relied heavily on @ShareGPT 's data when training Bard. This was also why we took down ShareGPT's Explore page – which has over 112K shared conversations – last week. Insanity.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

In 2023, @reactjs / @nextjs and @tailwindcss are all you need to build anything you want: ◆ Web pages ◆ Open Graph Images ◆ Dataviz ◆ Emails ◆ Native apps ◆ PDFs ◆ Desktop/menubar apps ◆ Chrome extensions 🧵👇

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

1. Your following-to-follower ratio matters. Twitter's "Tweepcred" PageRank algorithm reduces the page rank of users who have a low number of followers but a high number of followings. Source ↓

How the Twitter Algorithm works in 2023

On March 31, 2023, Twitter open-sourced their algorithm. Here are some of my takeaways about how their algorithm works after diving into their codebase.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

4 months

What is this floating nav bar design trend and why do I love it so much?? I'm dubbing this "the dynamic island of the web" 😁

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Steven Tey

@steventey

6 months

You can now turn memes into animated videos with AI 🤯 Made with @replicate by the amazing @fofrAI 🔥

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

3. Twitter identified 4 different user groups to track & compare how often their tweets are being impressed to users: ◆ Power users ◆ Democrat users ◆ Republican users ◆ @elonmusk Source →

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Steven Tey

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1 year

Netlify just acquired Gatsby. All of the major open-source React frameworks now have the backing of a for-profit company: ◆ Remix → Shopify ◆ Gatsby → Netlify ◆ Next.js → Vercel

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

"Time to hack" feature on a password field 💡 Delightful UX nugget by @column ✨

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Just found my new favorite site → Discover some of the coolest apps that folks have in their MacBook Dock 💻 To get featured, simply run `npx dockhunt` in your terminal and watch the magic happen 💫

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Notion just released Notion AI. ◆ Generate blog posts with AI ◆ Brainstorm ideas with AI ◆ Fix grammar with AI ◆ Translate text with AI ↳

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Steven Tey

@steventey

3 months

Tired: ◆ Jira ◆ Notion ◆ Trello ◆ Linear ◆ Evernote Wired: ◆ Apple Notes ◆ Apple Reminders ◆ Raycast Floating Notes ◆ VSCode Untitled-1 ◆ Slack DM self

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Steven Tey

@steventey

5 months

Skewed infinite carousel w/ vignette effect ✨ Built entirely with @tailwindcss – zero JavaScript required. Live demo & code 👇

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

8. Presidential elections is also another big part of the Twitter Algorithm. It can: ◆ Recommend election candidates to follow: ◆ Suppress misinformation during Election events:

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Steven Tey

@steventey

7 months

Just found my new favorite app → Create beautiful animations of your code snippets just by typing them + adding a frame to the timeline 🤯 Built with @remotion by the amazing @dparksdev

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Steven Tey

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1 year

Tailwind is not just a tool. It’s an ecosystem. It brings instant familiarity and a common language for everyone in front-end development. These are my favorite resources to master @tailwindcss :

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Steven Tey

@steventey

4 months

Perplexity vs Google There's literally no comparison 🤯

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Search across a half million git repos at Algolia-level speeds ⚡ I'm never using GitHub code search ever again.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

We're seeing more and more AI startups choose to build on @vercel ▲ Here are some of the most exciting ones I've discovered recently:

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Imagine being able to configure & purchase a backyard house as easily as buying a Tesla 🤯 @jgebbia 's new startup, @samara , allows you to do exactly that via a beautiful online experience. → powered by @sveltejs and @vercel ▲

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Steven Tey

@steventey

8 months

Open-source GitHub alternative just dropped → Landing page built with @nextjs , @tailwindcss and @rive_app 🔥

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Introducing @Vercel 's new font ▲

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@browsercompany

1 year

What if the internet... was actually 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 internet? 🎨 Introducing Boosts 2.0 — only in Arc

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Steven Tey

@steventey

11 months

Whoa, @github is fully down 👀 Looks like a catastrophic outage across the board 😳

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Steven Tey

@steventey

11 months

It's crazy how scalable & affordable @OpenAI 's latest `gpt-3.5-turbo-16k` model is. went viral on Twitter/Hacker News yesterday and got 26K users who made ~20K AI completions (as per @Vercel Analytics). Total cost? Just shy of $20 ($0.001/request) 🤯

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

Just found one of the cleanest @nextjs apps → Featuring: ◆ Next.js App Router ◆ next/image for image optimization ◆ Beautiful & snappy animated transitions Incredible work by the @umbrel team 👏

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Steven Tey

@steventey

9 months

is incredible. It's like Wikipedia + ChatGPT had a baby – except it has data from the entire internet – not just Wikipedia 🤯 The perfect tool for doing a deep dive into a particular topic.

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Steven Tey

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1 year

@elonmusk 4. There are a few factors that determine if your tweet will appear on someone's "For You" tab, mainly, the probability the user will: ◆ like/RT your tweet ◆ click into your tweet & reply/stay there for >2 mins ◆ check out your profile 👀 Source →

How the Twitter Algorithm works in 2023

On March 31, 2023, Twitter open-sourced their algorithm. Here are some of my takeaways about how their algorithm works after diving into their codebase.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

9 months

We just launched our first ever @vercel billboard in San Francisco 🤩 ▲ ~/ npm i ai

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

We launched @ShareGPT just 7 days ago. Here's everything that has happened during that time:

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Steven Tey

@steventey

1 year

This is sublime. A realtime collaborative whiteboard app built with @nextjs and @liveblocks ' API, with auth & permissions built in. Think Figma/Miro – but 100% free & open-source. ➤

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Steven Tey

@steventey

2 years

Got promoted to Senior Developer Advocate today 🥳

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@steventey

11 months

I was today years old when I learned that "light years" is actually relative to time on Earth 🤯 E.g. if you're traveling at 99.99% the speed of light to a star that's 4 light years away, it would take you just 3 weeks. But to your loved ones on Earth, those 3 weeks = 4 years.

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1 year

The absolute 🐐 stack for developing beautiful & accessible web-apps in 2023: ◆ Framework: @nextjs ◆ CSS: @tailwindcss ◆ UI components: @radix_ui ◆ Icons: ◆ Platform: @vercel ◆ 1000x developer: @shadcn LGTM, ship it to prod 🤩

Lucide Icons

Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit made by the community.

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shadcn

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It’s here. Beautifully designed components built with Radix UI and Tailwind CSS. A collection of accessible and customizable components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Free. Open Source. And Next.js 13 Ready.

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Steven Tey

@steventey

10 months

Today, I crossed my 2-year mark at @Vercel ▲ 🥹 During that time, I shipped: ◆ 5 side projects ◆ 12 open-source templates ◆ 22K GitHub stars ◆ 7 viral threads (5M+ combined views) Here are some of my favorite ships:

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1 year

We're seeing some companies on @vercel that are literally making science fiction a reality. Here are some of my favorite ones:

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@steventey

10 months

This AI chatbot is incredible: It can crawl + index any given URL, generate accurate answers about it, and cite the *exact source* in the article 🤯 Built with @Pinecone + @Vercel AI SDK and it's fully open-source 😍

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I built a free ChatGPT Plugin that helps you brainstorm domain ideas by automatically checking if they are available inside ChatGPT 💡 Bonus feature: Compare prices across registrars and get the cheapest price for your domain. Here's how I built it 👇

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1 year

This has got to be one of the best product demos I've seen on a SaaS landing page → It's an open-source DocuSign alternative 📝 Fantastic work by @ElTimuro and the @documenso team 👏

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9. So far, I've scoured both the Twitter Algorithm repos but I still haven't found anything about the following: ◆ If a tweet containing a link will be ranked lower ◆ If bookmarking a tweet will boost its rankings It looks like these are more myths than facts but I'll report

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21 days

Introducing my new open-source side project: It's a crowdsourced list of the best open-source projects on the web. Best part? It's dogfoods @dubdotco 's API to create short links for each project page + display real-time click analytics for them 📈

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9 months

Incredibly excited for @Supabase 's new integration with @Vercel ▲ Best part? Database Branching. Whenever you create a new preview deployment on Vercel, Supabase automatically creates a preview branch of your database 🤯 No more "intern accidentally took down prod DB" 😁

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Introducing Mux Meet → It's an open-source template for building video conferencing apps – think Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. Built with @nextjs , @vercel , and @MuxHQ by the talented @liam_lindner 🤩

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2. It looks like @TwitterBlue subscribers do get a boost in the algorithm. Source →

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Introducing Spirals: Generate beautiful AI spiral art with one-click. Built with @vercel and @replicate – 100% free and open-source!

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1 year

Love seeing builders like @joshdschneider move fast & succeed with @nextjs + @vercel ▲ Josh built – an app that lets you upload any PDF and chat with it via a beautifully-design interface. Within 48 hours of launching this app, he sold it for $20K 🤯

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I am blown away by how good is 🤯 With a single command `sshx`, you get a web-based & multiplayer replica of your local terminal – built with Svelte + Rust. This will make debugging terminal issues with remote teams so much easier 🤩

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10. In the current light ranking model (Earlybird), tweets with images & videos seem to get a nice 2x boost → However, this is an old model that Twitter is planning to rebuild completely, so things might change →

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Great news – you now can update an environment variable in your .env file and @nextjs will automatically hot-reload when you click save 🎉 Kudos to @_ijjk for implementing this quality-of-life improvement 🙏

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10 months

Underrated: CSS Variables. It makes implementing dark mode an absolute breeze 😌 Instead of prefixing dark mode styles with "dark:" in @tailwindcss , just use CSS variables to manipulate global styles:

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The animations on this site is marvelous → Built with: ◆ @nextjs + @vercel ▲ ◆ @rive_app for animations ◆ @tailwindcss for styling ◆ @framer motion for animations Incredible work by @alex_barashkov and the Pixel Point team 👏

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This is huge. @OpenAI just acquired @illdotinc – the company behind the popular open-source MMORPG game Biomes. Fun fact: Biomes is built entirely on web technologies like @nextjs , Typescript, and WASM, which means that it runs in browser – no download required!

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Update: I added all of the above into the blog post below, will keep updating it as things change. For example, the 4 user groups tracked by Twitter (point #3 ) has already been removed in this massive PR:

How the Twitter Algorithm works in 2023

On March 31, 2023, Twitter open-sourced their algorithm. Here are some of my takeaways about how their algorithm works after diving into their codebase.

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