Building ecommerce & POS apps on Shopify and Commercetools. Interested in ecommerce, Shopify, AWS Serverless, React, and Indie Hacking.
Sydney, Australia
Joined January 2011
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Rich Develops retweeted
As of two days ago, Kill the HiPPO, the book I cowrote is now published!
Kill the HiPPO explores how bootstrapped software companies decide what feature to build next.
It's based on interviews with founders from 10 stable, mature, profitable, well-run bootstrapped software companies.
Alert: We offer neither answers nor frameworks!
Instead, we tell the stories of how the founders have encountered headaches with overbuilding, got mired in tech debt, and found themselves in overly long development cycles - and how they went about solving those problems.
More info at killthehippo.com/ - or search for "Kill the HiPPO" on Amazon.
Rich Develops retweeted
Jesse Genet on Agentic Parenting
Jesse Genet joins a16z's Sarah Wang and Katherine Boyle to discuss her journey from founder to parent, how she's using agents in her household, and how AI could transform parenting for the better.
00:00 YC founder turned homeschool mom
03:00 Discovering Claude Code and agentic building
06:00 Building while homeschooling 4 kids under 5
11:00 How AI generates personalized lesson plans and logs progress
18:00 Jesse's 11-agents
27:05 Agent tech stack deep dive
33:56 How agents improve daily life
40:04 Letting kids interact with AI: values, risks, and the future of parenting
@jessegenet @KTmBoyle @sarahdingwang
Rich Develops retweeted
The future inmates of America list was just dropped
AI isn't the future—it's now. Meet the Forbes 30 Under 30 revolutionaries harnessing machine learning to build robotic astronauts, cut off funding for terrorists, and turn anyone into a genius coder.
This is the new class of innovators making history.
See the full 2026 #ForbesUnder30 list: forbes.com/30-under-30/2026/…
(Photography by Sebastian Nevols; Additional Photography by Guerin Blask)
Rich Develops retweeted
Stuck in a rut? Getting some advice could be the best thing for you.
I've coached, trained and mentored dozens of graduates and technologists into their dream jobs.
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Rich Develops retweeted
The Hydrogen February 2025 release is out 🚀
• Use Single Fetch to combine data loads
• Better combined product listings handling
• Stabilized B2B utilities
Rich Develops retweeted
It shows how folks think about systems, which is really the point of the question. Networking people think network stack, ops people think package management, Serverless people don't think at all, they just condescendingly tell you it doesn't matter, etc.
Rich Develops retweeted
Possibly the greatest moment on Australian TV.
There was a huge security ring around the APEC meeting in Sydney back in the days of GWB.
So the @chaser wanted to see how porous it was.
Oh wow.
cc @pryorlisa
youtube.com/watch?v=VfGkbeki…
Rich Develops retweeted
BREAKING: @awscloud Route 53 Database Migration now supported!
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
Rich Develops retweeted
For every retweet this gets, I will add an Uncomfortable @awscloud Truth to the thread.
Rich Develops retweeted
I wrote a tool called img2lambda to take Docker images and convert them to AWS Lambda layers! 🥳
github.com/awslabs/aws-lambd…
Thread below on when img2lambda is useful 👇
