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Kevin Yien

@kevinyien

product @stripe • thinking out loud • made of 🍦 • random ideas (#sparkfile)

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Your career is not a ladder, it's a game. Those who treat it like ladder will make linear progress at best and let their fear hold them back. Those who treat it like a game will collect the resources, find the people, and build the skills that compound — and have fun doing it!


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We’ve been shipping a lot to help developers build new AI products and make money doing it. Here’s a recap of what @stripe launched last week: A new API to track model pricing changes and protect your margins:


if there is a way to make money move more easily (and securely!), you better believe we'll find it

Hi! We have three big agentic commerce announcements to share. @stripe is: 1/ powering Instant Checkout in ChatGPT 2/ releasing an open standard: Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped with @OpenAI 3/ shipping an API for agentic payments: Shared Payment Tokens Let's dive in ⤵️



URLs are part of the product experience

LOVE that @stripe finally added account IDs (acct_xxx) to the URL 👏 Makes it so much easier to create permalinks to the correct Stripe account. Moral of the story: URLs are underrated – you should always try to persist state in the URL if you can.

steventey's tweet image. LOVE that @stripe finally added account IDs (acct_xxx) to the URL 👏

Makes it so much easier to create permalinks to the correct Stripe account.

Moral of the story: URLs are underrated – you should always try to persist state in the URL if you can.


still surprised chat doesn’t learn from the user’s input on stylistic preference

Most users should like GPT-5 better soon; the change is rolling out over the next day. The real solution here remains letting users customize ChatGPT's style much more. We are working that!



wild that to this day you can't create a new channel in slack by starting a new message

kevinyien's tweet image. wild that to this day you can't create a new channel in slack by starting a new message

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proto rig the future of bitcoin mining hardware × software × operations built with 🧡 by a stellar team proud to play a small part in it

arjunmahanti's tweet image. proto rig

the future of bitcoin mining
hardware × software × operations

built with 🧡 by a stellar team
proud to play a small part in it

this section on the posthog homepage has to be one of the clearest / boldest / best ways of showing your product suite succinctly (now and future) — love it


the crossover i didn’t know i needed @danshipper x @lennysan two of my favorite writers / thinkers jamming on ai — what more do you want?

ive been lucky enough to do a lot of cool stuff recently but this one is pretty surreal thanks for having me on @lennysan 🫶

danshipper's tweet image. ive been lucky enough to do a lot of cool stuff recently but this one is pretty surreal

thanks for having me on @lennysan 🫶


++ to this once upon a time agency background was viewed as red flag because they “never saw the work through” but i almost always look for it for these exact reasons (fast, creative, versatile, gritty — can’t be phased)

some of the most versatile designers I've worked with come from digital agencies, not big tech. they're hungrier, scrappier and less expensive. they can jump between product design, branding, motion and illustration. big tech usually boxes you into one specialty. there's…



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