Ben Tossell

Ben Tossell

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dad 3 under 3 // droid dealer @FactoryAI // dev tool investor + writer https://t.co/iLpIJT2Vlg // founder makerpad (acq by zapier)

Plans Supersede Prompt Engineering with Context‑Driven Interaction
SocialMay 11, 2026

Plans Supersede Prompt Engineering with Context‑Driven Interaction

plans replaced prompt engineering right? we do context engineering and talk 'normally' to agents but the plan is just what 'how to prompt X model' is

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OpenAI Deployment Company Launches to Help Businesses Deploy AI
SocialMay 11, 2026

OpenAI Deployment Company Launches to Help Businesses Deploy AI

i should start the bens bites ben deployment company to help non-technical people become builders catchy

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AI Startup for Non‑Tech Builders Attracts Hot Acquisition Interest
SocialMay 7, 2026

AI Startup for Non‑Tech Builders Attracts Hot Acquisition Interest

acquisitions are hot right now i sold my last co because of a tweet who'd be best to acquire bens bites 🤔 an ai company focusing on getting more people to build (non-technical folks is my jam)... think there's a few of those around...

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From Startup to Acquisition: Teaching Non‑Tech Creators
SocialMay 1, 2026

From Startup to Acquisition: Teaching Non‑Tech Creators

been doing the same thing since 1st july 2018 teaching less technical people how to build this was my first startup ('newCo), that turned into makerpad, that got acquired by zapier, which is where i started bens bites in 2022 old dog, new...

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Loving Personalized Reflections From SF Shared with Builders
SocialApr 28, 2026

Loving Personalized Reflections From SF Shared with Builders

i loooooooove getting messages like this todays email included my reflections from sf for the builders: https://t.co/GqgDLIGybU https://t.co/XfB6RM6kqZ

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Treat Email as Background Task, Not Urgent Priority
SocialApr 27, 2026

Treat Email as Background Task, Not Urgent Priority

somewhat accidentally i treat email as a background job i only look at every so often per week nearly 0 emails are urgent most are asks from someone else (99% you don't owe them)

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User Confused by Mismatched Anthropic Billing Receipts
SocialApr 27, 2026

User Confused by Mismatched Anthropic Billing Receipts

i dont understand anthropic billing at all... haven't used any agents over the weekend get email receipts all the time dont seem to match whats in my dashboard extra usage is off https://t.co/tiriTIK1y2

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Effective Prompt Engineering Unlocks Codex's Design Capabilities
SocialApr 18, 2026

Effective Prompt Engineering Unlocks Codex's Design Capabilities

what’s the skill that actually gets codex to do decent design work? i’ve tried a bunch

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Cowork Lacks Built‑In Email Sending; Users Seek Workarounds
SocialApr 18, 2026

Cowork Lacks Built‑In Email Sending; Users Seek Workarounds

can cowork actually send emails? tried via gmail connector (which has no send-email tool) if you install the gog cli (ie give cowork the docs/command) it doesnt actually add the skill to the app (in 'customise') how are people getting this to work...

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Seeking Mobile Tools for Editing Markdown Outside GitHub
SocialApr 15, 2026

Seeking Mobile Tools for Editing Markdown Outside GitHub

how do you all read/edit md files on your phone? don’t tell me thru github

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Claude App Adds Features, but Still Requires Manual Markdown Edits
SocialApr 15, 2026

Claude App Adds Features, but Still Requires Manual Markdown Edits

new claude code in app has lots of nice things, i still need to edit md files all the time tho (which you cant do)

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Seeking SF Connections: Teaching, Funding Dev Tools Startups
SocialApr 15, 2026

Seeking SF Connections: Teaching, Funding Dev Tools Startups

heading to SF tomorrow - teaching at Stanford on Tuesday 😳 also writing $100k checks for dev tools/infra founders + seeing new lps who should i meet?

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Droid Mobile Web Seamlessly Runs Claude & GPT Models
SocialApr 9, 2026

Droid Mobile Web Seamlessly Runs Claude & GPT Models

set up @droid computer (your mac-mini) use droid mobile web on the go basically an openclaw (point to your clawd workspace) that just works with claude and gpt models the mobile experience has improved significantly 😍

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Stripe Projects CLI Forces New Account, Not Existing
SocialApr 8, 2026

Stripe Projects CLI Forces New Account, Not Existing

anyone using the stripe projects cli? i dont know how to connect to an existing stripe account - it keeps asking me to set up a new one

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