Design leader @gammaapp. I'm @brownthings on all things. -- Prev: Co-founded @usedarkroom. Early design @facebook @pinterest and others.
San Francisco
Joined July 2008
- Tweets4.6K
- Following5.3K
- Followers3.2K
- Likes24.3K
Matt Brown retweeted
last week I hit my 3 years at @modal where i've been leading design across product + brand and slowly building out our team. we've been investing more in brand as the company has grown and i'm excited to announce that @studiojud has joined us as our Director of Brand.
we worked together last fall as Studio Jud's first client, and i've spent the last year slowly convincing him to join ๐
...and weโre hiring more designers: modal.jobs
Matt Brown retweeted
Iโm thrilled to announce weโve raised $44M to build a new home for product design. Meet @noondesign.
No workflow is more broken and fragmented in 2026 than the product designersโ. The very same people who care most about building software donโt have software purpose built for them. @kushagrasinha7 and I have lived this problem first hand as designers ourselves.
Thatโs why we built Noon. The first product design tool that works entirely on your product code, so you can design not only how a product looks, but also how it works. With AI at its core that works in seconds, not minutes.
For the first time, you can create, iterate, build, test and ship. All in one canvas. No translations or roundtrips to the codebase and back.
Comment โGet Noonโ and weโll get you on the list for early access.
Matt Brown retweeted
Every designer at @tryramp is a builder at heart.
If your app bar looks like this
If you think "months" is an unreasonable timeline
If you are obsessed with details
If you always --dangerously-skip-permissions
You'll find yourself right at home.
We only hire builders (and weโre on a hiring spree)!
Reply with something you've built. I'll read them personally. Weโre interviewing the best ones.
Youโll be a good fit if you:
- work best without permission
- default to โhow could I automate thisโ
- had weird teenage hobbies
- spend your sunday making side projects
- have more Claude agents than cousins
- shipped something this week
- make prototypes, not powerpoints
- donโt like hierarchy
- are good at games: chess, monopoly, poker
- would take dinner with Elon over $100k
Good luck,
Eric
Matt Brown retweeted
Email isnโt going anywhere. Itโs just going to get a whole lot better.
Introducing Sutroโan email client designed for people and their agents. Bring your own Claude, Codex, or OpenClaw agents and have them work with you directly in your inbox.
ALT Screenshot of Sutro's priority inbox.
Matt Brown retweeted
Today we at Playbit are sharing our first iteration of the Playbit runtime, our vision for building playful personal-scale software.
playbit.app/
Personal-scale software means programs by you, for you and for the people in your life. An app for your friends isn't very useful if only some of them can run it, so usually these projects have only one option: the web, an abstraction which many apps don't fit well into.
We wanted a better solution, so that's what we're building. A runtime designed for highly dynamic graphical apps that are collaborative, with a really good set of developer tools.
The Playbit runtime is a bit like an OS, but lives inside a host environment and gives guest code a small system layer to interface with. In practice itโs a minimal ABI-stable syscall interface with well-defined semantics.
While we only support macOS in this initial release, our vision is for a powerful multimedia and collaborative platform which you can write your app for once, and run it on any platform.
Learn more and grab the macOS app at playbit.app/
With love and a bit of code,
โ Edward, Nick, Julia and Rasmus
Matt Brown retweeted
๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ก: ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐
๐ญ๐ฅ;๐๐ซ we've spent the last months building triggers, tools & data sources for wordware - starting today, you can create AI workflows that actually run in your life without writing a single line of code. 2000+ integrations, english as the programming language, it looks like a document but works like magic. see what's possible with AI: app.wordware.ai/lp
๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ ๐ฒ we started by building an infrastructure product for technical teams making AI agents. the high-ceiling, powerful platform got traction - 60 real companies using our API some paying 15k mrr, 10mm+ people used these agents.
then our last launch happened. 400k new users hit the same wall: "love it, but can't use it without coding."
then we realized in today's world everyone is a builder.
so we took the leap: what if our technical foundation became the perfect launchpad to make wordware deployable for everyone?
๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐๐: ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ & ๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ โก
for the last months, our team has been working nights and weekends to transform wordware from an AI platform that requires engineers to integrate, into something anyone can deploy.
you know those AI workflows already in your life? the ones where you copy-paste between different AI chats, manually trigger actions, and piece together insights?
now you can describe it once and automate forever.
๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ ๏ธ
โข ๐๐๐๐+ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ - connect to all your favorite tools
โข ๐๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ-๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐๐๐ - if you can write it in english, you can build it
โข ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ -๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง - not just "if this, then that" but "understand this, reason about it, then act"
imagine: your typeform lead comes in โ wordware analyzes intent, enriches with research, calculates a lead score, and routes to the right sales rep with a personalized draft email.
or: your email triggers a workflow โ wordware determines importance, archives the newsletter, flags the urgent request in slack, and drafts responses that sound like you.
your intent and taste, AI's execution.
๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ก
โข the future of AI is systems working for us behind the scenes.
โข we're making AI the reasoning engine, not just another tool in the chain.
โข traditional automation moves data. wordware understands what that data means.
๐ฃ๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐
we've raised $30M to build the AI Operating System - where workflows get built, shared, deployed and forked.
no waitlists - we're giving out credits to help build this ecosystem. get started for free: app.wordware.ai/lp
p.s. huge thanks to our team who pulled all-nighters, debugged on weekends, and somehow managed to ship 2000+ integrations while having fun next stop: the beach office with the wind/kite surfing rack ๐โโ๏ธ
Matt Brown retweeted
Today, I'm incredibly excited to announce Default's new inbound orchestration platform and an additional $4m in funding led by @8vc.
We started @withdefault with the vision of building the best platform for revenue teams to orchestrate their inbound workflows, from lead qualification and scheduling to routing and enrichment.
Since our public launch a little over a year ago, we've gone from a handful of early customers and design partners to hundreds of fast-growing companies like Hex, OpenPhone, Bland, and Lemlist who automate their inbound, outbound, and rev ops workflows with Default.
Weโve come a long way since we started, and weโre incredibly grateful for our incredible customers and partners who we get to serve, learn from, and work with every day โ we wouldnโt be here without you all.
You can read more about this launch in our latest blog post!
Matt Brown retweeted
Really can't stress enough how much you should read Byung-Chul Han, in my opinion the most interesting thinker of our times
Matt Brown retweeted
๐ Introducing Visual Electric for mobile web. An image generator in your pocket.
Try it now at ๐ visualelectric.com
Matt Brown retweeted
I miss the good old days of Winamp and Spotify.
Working on bringing back this level of quality with @overtone_app.
Matt Brown retweeted
I'm hiring designers for @tryramp.
Who should I talk to?
If I hire them, your bonus would be enough to buy 50 @figma Creator Micros.
No DMs, no Freelancers, must be US-based โ app.liftoff.xyz/kQlk07
Matt Brown retweeted
Today, we launched Web 2.0 for designers. Fetch lets anyone use an API to dynamically update any part of a site.
You can change the login state, display the user's name, show the current weather at your location, or even the Bitcoin price.
Have fun building advanced sites.
Introducing Fetch in @framer. Leverage the power of APIs on your Framer siteโwithout code.
Learn more: framer.com/updates/fetch
Matt Brown retweeted
Exciting news! We are live on @ProductHunt!! ๐ป Check us out before Midnight PDT, and spread the love!๐งกย Our team will be around all day to answer your questions and comments. We'd love to hear what you think! producthunt.com/posts/loops-โฆ
Matt Brown retweeted
RIP to Steve Albini, a wizard who would hate being called a wizard, but who surely made magic.
Here's the Electric Audio layout for 'Magnolia Electric Co', just sketched out simply, on paper, like it's not poised to shift time and space and all our hearts.
Matt Brown retweeted
March 15th, 1999 - 25 years ago on this day, Songs: Ohia release โAxxess & Aceโ via @secretlycndian ๐๐ค
Matt Brown retweeted
Join the small but mighty Perplexity Design team.
boards.greenhouse.io/perplexโฆ
Early innings.
Special kudos to @henrymodis for designing a breakout, consumer grade experience to rival some formidable incumbents
Go work for this guy!
Matt Brown retweeted
In 2007, a tiny team of hackers built Yahoo! Pipes and immediately changed how we think about the web as a user-programmable surface. Our creative team at Retool decided to retell the story in a long-form visual behind-the-scenes deep dive... incredible.
retool.com/pipes
Matt Brown retweeted
Up until this point, I've led design at @trychroma
but as we grow, we need someone who is entirely, obsessively, focused on designing our brand, product, and our future design practice itself.
my dms are open
Matt Brown retweeted
Retro is here.
apps.apple.com/us/app/retro-โฆ