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James Tamplin

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James Tamplin

@JamesTamplin

Having fun eval'ing models @KradleAI 🤖 Previously co-founder @Firebase, @CovidActNow & Partner @HF0

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Joined September 2009

James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Aug 6, 2023
Some news! I'm joining @hf0residency as a visiting partner from Sep 13 - Dec 6 in SF. The application deadline is tonight at midnight. (1/5)
Dave Font
@davefontenot
Aug 5, 2023
The founders crushed it at Demo Day this week👇 Since then, we’ve been getting so many incredible late recommendations that we decided to extend the final deadline to this Sunday: HF0.com If you know a founder we should absolutely meet, let us know right away.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Sep 19, 2023
Some fun @Instacart context on their IPO day (Congrats to the whole team!) @apoorva_mehta and I shared an office back in 2012. (@somacentral where Instagram, Twilio, AngelList, GetAround, and several other now-famous companies were at 153 Townsend). 1/n
Garry Tan
@garrytan
Sep 19, 2023
In 2012 this was what I wrote to the partners when I got that six pack of beer from Instacart— This is a glimpse at what the YC partners do behind the scenes. We are literally just trying to figure out if you are good at building things people want! That's it.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Dec 27, 2023
I spent the last 3 months mentoring this incredible bunch of humans as a partner at Hacker Fellowship (@hf0residency) I loved it. Thank you & bon voyage!
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Feb 5, 2025
I've been hacking on a project lately with one of the other early Firebasers. We spend a comical amount of time figuring out how Firebase/Google Cloud works now.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
May 15, 2024
Firebase now supports SQL 💥 Kudos to @mbleigh and the whole team for shipping it today!
Michael Bleigh
@mbleigh
May 14, 2024
Introducing 🔥 Firebase Data Connect 🔥. You define your app's data model and queries. We: 🐘 Generate a PostgreSQL schema 🏗️ Serve secure API endpoints 🪄 Generate strongly-typed SDKs for your app It's a powerful new backend-as-a-service building on 10+ years of experience.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Dec 23, 2024
I'm observing that my critical thinking is degrading when coding with AI. I'm just throwing the errors at Claude and expecting it/he/they to fix them.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Nov 24, 2023
Replying to @rrhoover
Watch the first 1/4 of the network state conference, lots of interesting projects in this space
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Apr 22, 2024
I wrote love letters to First Republic. They were a humanizing force in an industry of impersonal automatons Alas, post JPM acqusition, it has degraded Fortunately, @mercury (@immad, @MaxTagher, Jason Zhang & co) have built a banking experience that is :chefs kiss: Thank you!
Mercury
@mercury
Apr 17, 2024
It's here. Join the waitlist: mercury.com/personal-banki…
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Apr 27, 2024
Oh Google. $23.7B in profit on $80.5B in revenue in Q1. Up 15% YoY. And also doing unceremonious and poorly thought out lay-offs. Perhaps take a lesson from @OpenAI and realize you’re nothing without your people?
Frank van Puffelen
@puf
Apr 25, 2024
Replying to @puf
For those not following tech/business news: there was another round of lay-offs at Google. I am still here, Firebase is still here, but I am beyond sad about the amount of talent that was let go (again), the way it was done (again), and the reasons given for it (again).
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Jan 16, 2024
Replying to @garrytan and @outerbase
There was a Chinese clone of @Firebase called WildDog. They copied us right down to our edge server URLs. Eg we’d serve traffic from “nss1-dal.firebase.io” (namespace server 1 in Dallas on our colocated hardware). They of course didn’t know that, but blindly copied it.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Sep 6, 2024
Replying to @rauchg
Nice presentation too. Ben is a great designer :)
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Mar 27, 2023
2000s: "Now, with EC2, you can do with a team of 20 what used to take 40" 2010s: "Now, with Firebase, you can do with a team of 5, what used to take 20" 2020s: "Now, with AI, you can do it all yourself." Single-person products will be the end-state.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Mar 12, 2025
Just updated my Firestore security rules for my new app.
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James Tamplin
@JamesTamplin
Mar 26, 2024
Every new platform or tech shift gives us a new set of analytics providers. Visibility is a necessity Dawn is a great set of founders building AI analytics
ben hylak
@benhylak
Mar 25, 2024
in the future, ai will improve the products you use, before you even have a chance to leave feedback. to that end, i’m excited to announce @dawnanalytics, which i’ve been building with my best friends @snarkyzk and @alexisgauba
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