Today's SaaS Pulse
Salesforce Launches AgentExchange, a Unified AI Marketplace with $50M Builder Fund
Salesforce has merged its three app and AI stores into a single AgentExchange marketplace, offering over 13,000 ready‑made apps, AI agents, and automation components. The platform features intent‑aware search, one‑click buying, and instant activation within Salesforce or Slack, and includes a $50 million builder fund to encourage partner development.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Loop raises $95M to scale its supply‑chain AI platform
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Dec 2, 2025
Based on the Enterprise SaaS CEO Mastermind meeting, this is what we discussed:
The 2025 State of Digital Agencies: It’s Still Rough Out There, but Slowly Improving; and Is AI Really a Threat?
The 2025 State of Digital Agencies survey shows a mixed but improving picture. Half of agencies reported revenue growth, while net margins rose for roughly a third. Concerns about AI as a business threat increased to 53%, and two‑thirds worry...
Focus Beats AI‑built SaaS; Stick with Proven Platforms
"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?" I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself). Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered)...
"The World Is Not Slowing Down" - AWS CEO Says AI Agents Will Be Bigger than the Internet, so Act...
At AWS re:Invent 2025, CEO Matt Garman proclaimed AI agents will become more transformative than the Internet or cloud computing. He highlighted an accelerating wave of AI innovation, noting that enterprises are already seeing agents reshape customer experiences and operational...
Eight Must‑Read Books That Built $25M Bootstrapped Startup
Over the past 10 years I’ve read over 250 books about startups. Here are the 8 books that got me from $0-$25m ARR with zero funding (in order of impact) and what I learned from each of them: 1. Four...
No, It's Not Just You – ChatGPT Is Having some Issues, but OpenAI Is Working on It
On December 2, 2025 OpenAI confirmed a widespread ChatGPT outage caused by elevated error rates, affecting both web and mobile interfaces. Down Detector recorded more than 3,400 reports as users encountered endless loading circles and unresponsive answers. By 3:12 PM ET OpenAI applied a...
Claude Opus 4.5 Outperforms Human Engineers on Real Test
Claude Opus 4.5 just beat every human candidate on Anthropic’s performance engineering exam. Here’s what this breakthrough actually means👇 Anthropic’s newest model outperformed every software engineer who has ever taken their real hiring assessment. And this isn’t a small quiz....
AI Agents = Stateful Workflows with Built‑in Resilience
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the...
Amazon Releases an Impressive New AI Chip and Teases an Nvidia-Friendly Roadmap
Amazon Web Services unveiled Trainium 3, a 3‑nanometer AI training chip, at re:Invent 2025, powering the new UltraServer platform. AWS claims the system is over four times faster, offers four times more memory, and is 40 % more energy‑efficient than its predecessor, with...
Built $6.6M SaaS Solely Through LinkedIn Content
I’ve probably made more money directly from posting on LinkedIn than anyone else. In March 2024, I posted an idea for RB2B on LinkedIn. Solicited feedback, iterated in public, pivoted in front of everyone, and built the product while you watched. 18 months...
AI Transforming Analyst Research and Vendor Evaluations
When you get Daniel Newman and me together in front of a microphone at Ingram Micro ONE a few weeks ago, you never know what we might say about research, vendor evaluations, and the role AI will play in an...
A Year Free of PostHog ($16,500 Value): The All-in-One Analytics, Experimentation, Feature Flag, Surveys, Session Replay, Error Tracking, Data Warehouse,...
In this episode, Lenny Rachitsky introduces PostHog’s all‑in‑one product analytics platform and announces a free year of PostHog Scale (a $16,500 value) for annual newsletter subscribers. He highlights how PostHog combines analytics, experimentation, feature flags, session replay, error tracking, data...
Persistence Pays: Stay in the Game to Succeed
15 years, 1 exit, a semi-failed ecommerce brand, and 3 moderately successful agencies into my career, Alex Fine🌲 asked me for the best piece of advice I'd give my younger self, if I were just starting out today: Just stay...
Stop Rebuilding ERP; Use AI to Build New Capabilities
“Every hour spent recreating Salesforce or Workday is an hour not spent building the proprietary capabilities that actually move the business forward.” This is one of the more essential reason why most companies are not going to have AI clone their...
You Can Build a Website for Just $1 with IONOS Right Now - but This Deal Won’t Be Around for...
IONOS is offering its mid‑range Plus website‑builder plan for just $1 per month for a 12‑month commitment, a steep cut from the regular $22 price. The plan bundles AI‑driven page generation, text and image tools, SEO assistance, site analytics, and...
Fizzy: Simple Kanban, No Corporate Bloat
INTRODUCING FIZZY Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware? Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub...
Vista Point Advisors Launches New NYC Office
I’m excited to share that Vista Point Advisors is opening a new office right in the heart of New York City! This is a big step for us as we keep growing and getting closer to the amazing founders, investors,...
New Training Method Boosts AI Multimodal Reasoning with Smaller, Smarter Datasets
Researchers at MiroMind AI and partner universities introduced OpenMMReasoner, a two‑stage training framework that first fine‑tunes a base vision‑language model on a curated, high‑quality dataset and then applies reinforcement learning to sharpen multimodal reasoning. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on...
Invest Time Upfront, Save Money and Avoid Vendor Lock
People saying I'm not valuing my time: Of course I do! At some point, I had to exchange my time for the money I'd use to pay for expensive cloud tools. Instead, I now pay upfront with a bit of my...
Match CTAs to Audience Intent to Build Trust
You're not tricking anyone into buying anything. A "Learn More" CTA that goes to a form to contact sales, book a demo, or otherwise become a "lead" that will then be "nurtured" is not, in fact, increasing your conversion rate...
Binary Enemy Narrative Limits Growth; Embrace Both PLG and Sales
I picked the wrong enemy. When I started ProductLed , I studied how great categories were built. - Inbound Marketers declared war on Outbound. - CROs fought against "gut-feeling" updates. - Content Marketers hated pure advertising. The pattern was clear:...
Real AI Tools Founders Use, Not the Hype
Craig Hewitt spent 100 days building SaaS with AI and documented everything on YouTube. I had Craig on the pod to share what he learned including: • The AI tools founders are actually winning with • The ones that are...
B2B Must Match B2C Investment in Customer Research
B2C invests in knowing their customers. B2B invests in… another feature. In B2C, it’s normal (expected) to put a substantial amount of marketing budget into customer research (sometimes as high as 25-50%!) Why? Because they know the truth most B2B...
Stop Chasing Vanity Metrics; Prioritize Qualified Leads
The dangerous myth: more steps mean better qualified leads. I've been duped by this myth before as a Founder. So I'm sharing it here so it doesn't sabotage your pipeline generation efforts. 1. Optimizing for Vanity Metrics I watched Startup...
Entrepreneurs Drive Record BFCM Growth on Shopify
Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again. → Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year → 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands → 15,800+ entrepreneurs made their first sale → 136+ million packages tracked in the Shop App → 2.2 trillion edge requests →...
5 Biases That Drive Every Conversion
Here are 5 cognitive biases that quietly drive most of your conversions: 1. Loss Aversion: People fight harder to avoid pain than gain pleasure. 2. Mere Exposure Effect: The more often someone sees you, the more they trust you. 3. Authority Bias: If it sounds like expertise, people...
Nova AI Automates Hiring From Calls to Coding Interviews
Nova from @peopleboxai is a human-like AI that makes sourcing calls, screens resumes, conducts two-way video interviews, and runs live coding rounds in a single automated workflow. https://t.co/0z8WkpN7qX https://t.co/onTGhWMmAZ
Joining TBPN at 2 PM to Discuss Fizzy Launch
I'll be on @TBPN around 2pm pacific today to talk about the Fizzy launch. Unless they totally surprise me and ask me about 5th grade history.
Profit, Not Revenue, Is the Real Scoreboard
Revenue is a vanity metric. Profit is the real scoreboard. It’s not about what you make. It’s about what you keep.
200+ Agency Owners Reveal Industry Health, Growth, Threats
NEW post: https://t.co/fMrZMJxj34 Thanks to the tireless work of @paddymoogan, our survey of 200+ digital agency owners is now live featuring answers to critical questions about the field's health, growth, and threats. https://t.co/O1PWZVpqWV
Bootstrapped SaaS Sold for $1.25M in 65 Days
We just helped a founder exit for $1,250,000 on @acquiredotcom. Business was a bootstrapped SaaS. Multiple 4.7x profit. Took about 65 days from listing to close. Another life changing outcome. https://t.co/z3cU78jzi5
Tangle Simplifies Shopify ML, Eliminates Redundancy, Now Open Source
Tangle is a major piece of our Shopify data and ML system. It makes complex things easy and automatically avoids doing things more than once, saving an insane amount of waste. Open source today: https://t.co/4KvIoFuetG
Prep, Docs, Communication Accelerate M&A Deals
Another awesome @acquiredotcom webinar tomorrow. We'll be showing buyers and sellers how preparation, documentation, and clear communication make deals move faster. Register here (you'll get the recording): https://t.co/9GxFHTo3dz https://t.co/tAD5US18j5
Introducing Picture Cards: Visual Guides for Easy Setup
I didn't show this in the Fizzy demo video, but it's one my favorite obscure features. Text is great, but sometimes a picture just makes more sense. So why not make picture cards? So we did. Here's an example for setting up...
AI‑Generated In‑App Guidance Updates With Your UI
Frigade (@FrigadeHQ) learns how your product works and creates in-product guidance from simple prompts. No flows. No selector tagging. No stale docs. Guidance stays up to date as your UI evolves. https://t.co/mdmrJKGBLU https://t.co/S7BzH2ybxs
AI Boosts Alaska Airlines' Ramp Safety Culture
Alaska Airlines Uses AI-Driven Technology to Transform Ramp Safety Culture https://t.co/nsaB9YY7QV @Samsara
Support Team Publishes Fizzy Help Guide on Writebook
The Fizzy help guide was written by our support team, and it's hosted as a Writebook, of course: https://t.co/7NRogb3IYp
Ask Your Fizzy Questions for Tomorrow’s Live Walkthrough
Planing on doing a livestream Fizzy walkthrough tomorrow. Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to focus on. Design decisions, product decisions, why things work (or don't work) this way or that way, etc.
AI Agents Are Just Robust, Stateful Workflows
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the best...
Repeat Customer Feedback Loops For
How do you actually learn from your customers in B2B? I get asked a lot about my biggest learnings from my last company (Gainsight). It's hard to not feel cliched. Culture! Focus! Strategy! But there's a thing I did 1000+ times that...
Fizzy Adopts UUIDv7, Enables SaaS‑to‑on‑prem Migration
Fun fact: Fizzy is using UUIDv7 primary keys. Plan is to offer import/export between our SaaS hosting and people's own on-prem installations. Start on SaaS, grab your own SQLite DB, then run it yourself (or the other way!). Will upstream...
Fizzy’s Core and SaaS Code Now Open Source
Fizzy is split into a core codebase that anyone can run on their own and then our hosted SaaS setup. We've published the source to both! So even if you can't run fizzy-saas (since it relies on internal gems), you...
Three-DC Deployment Delivers Sub‑80ms Latency Across Regions
Fizzy is deployed in three different data centers: US Mid-West (Chicago), US East (Ashburn), and EU (Amsterdam). Our writer is in US East, and the two other DCs are for reading. It's fast! P95 response time is 50 for readers,...
Fizzy Opens Full Development History with 1,792 PRs
Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase, Fizzy's public codebase has the entire life of the product development cycle out in the open. 1,792 pull requests of historical fun and insight into how we make things...
Fizzy's HTML Bugs Fixed and Deployed in 124 Seconds
We're barely a few minutes into the public life of Fizzy, and @marcoroth_ has already tidied up some HTML errors, which we've already deployed to production in 124 seconds with Kamal 🤘 https://t.co/lYwPHqLBrg https://t.co/5XjCHUNsJz
Fizzy Launches Under O'Saasy License, MIT‑style with SaaS Monetization
Fizzy is released under the O'Saasy License. Which is basically MIT with a carve-out for the original licensor to monetize the SaaS aspect of the code base. Feel free to use! https://t.co/guhoBdMBXC https://t.co/BtdlJBSC6n
Jason's Fizzy Walkthrough Offers Deep Product and Code Insight
Jason's complete walk-through of Fizzy is a great way to get a feel for the product. And if you're technically inclined, you could even follow along in the code base to see every controller, every action, every view. https://t.co/XlaJRj0Ydt
Fizzy Launches Modern Kanban with Freemium SaaS
Fizzy is live! Our modern, beautiful spin on kanban for tracking just about anything. Nothing revolutionary, but just right, just nice. And we're launching our freemium SaaS version alongside an O'Saasy-licensed codebase for you to run it yourself too! https://t.co/AfDsofwNQ8...
From Bootstrapped Success to VC Scaling: Duncan’s Journey
Bootstrap or raise? After scaling GoCardless into a multi-billion-dollar company, Duncan Barrigan knew he wanted to swing big — and VC was the path. Watch Episode 220 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/9ssXthmWdb
AI Property Manager Automates Maintenance From Photo to Fix
Brickwise (@brickwise_ai) is an AI property manager that fully automates maintenance for landlords and real estate agents. Tenants can send a photo, describe the issue, and Brickwise diagnoses, troubleshoots, schedules contractors, and resolves the problem automatically. https://t.co/kCmJp6XptH