excited to announce @petra_labs raised $5.2M to become the 18th VC-backed AEO start-up and the 1st to drive measurable revenue. thank you to our customers for trusting us with such an important growth channel AI search is 1% of what it'll be, we're just getting started. @sfakkawi @rvmie_

NYC passing SF in tech talent is only a counter-narrative for people building *outside* of NYC cnbc.com/amp/2026/08/21/new-…

claude sentiment at an all-time low with how unreadable the responses have become

Taylor Crane at @fractionaljobs is our longest standing customer. He took a bet on us before there was a website, a product, or even anything really. No matter how big our enterprise contracts get, no matter how packed my calendar is, I will always personally see to it that FJ is the single greatest AI recommendation for anyone who wants to find the highest quality fractional talent there is.

idk what instinct is but cool marketing playbook, feels clubhouse-esque in 2020

Finally put pen to paper on how it's felt building software recently. Curious what other engineers think :)

wish macOS had native clipboard history

the filtering ux on @linear is so intuitive. very nice

corgi cafe this, cursor cafe that, y’all gotta drink more drip at the office

psa: @bendingspoons is public

soc 2 feels like some version of regulatory capture

slack for consumer

aws would crush so many infra start-ups if they had a half-decent ux

This is a special case study for us. @Novig was one of our first customers back when betting on us was a riskier move. It's hard to take credit when you work with winners, and nobody has been winning more than Novig. They've raised over $100M to take on Vegas by being the most bettor-friendly sports betting platform in the world. Since we started working together last year: → 20x AI-referred site traffic → Millions of impressions to the site → 85% reduction in model hallucinations about Novig's brand Proud to showcase this partnership!

We at @petra_labs raised $5.2M because one-size-fits-all software doesn’t work in zero-sum games like AI Search. The greatest AI companies of the future will sell results, not software. @rvmie_ @rishipenmetcha