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Founder @ https://xitter.gq/t.co/jFO62158uK. Former CTO/co-founder at https://xitter.gq/t.co/JV8vzOuioa. Mainly here to consume news feed and @ companies for tech support.

Melbourne
Joined October 2008
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Just used the Bugbop skill + API to clear my triage backlog, close a pile of old bugs, and rewrite my program scope to avoid dupes. Took about an hour (and that's with a bunch of fixes thrown in). Repo: github.com/PonnyPtyLtd/bugbo…
Bugbop now has a REST API. Pull reports into Jira, triage from a script, comment back to hunters. Plus a skill so Claude Code (or Cursor, Codex, Copilot) can do it for you, with a human in the loop. Also: crypto payouts, PDF invoices, a security page. bugbop.com/posts/2026/10/18/…
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I’ve got 3 employees like this and I’m one weekend away from replacing them.
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I’m in this
We're announcing Galileo Fund II! Backing founders, not markets. Pre-seed and seed-stage cheques for ambitious emerging founders building new technologies from SYD, MELB and SF via @jamesfromsydney @hughstephens @JuliaFrench Let's go!
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John Sherwood retweeted
Our first vibecoded app bug bounty program! bugbop.com/case-studies/auto… Is this how you would secure your vibecoded app?
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This post is a test :-) A mate of mine created a nifty new app called Postopus for posting/scheduling to multiple platforms with them all looking awesome. It's worth it for the awesome octopus brand design (he runs a design agency so it's slick a heck).
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Shipped one of those "Yeah, that was obvious" features 😅
Adding a real time-saver today: Bugbop’s AI triage now runs as a bug is submitted, not after. That means out-of-scope reports get flagged before they ever ping the program team. Full post: bugbop.com/posts/2026/02/01/… #bugbounty #applicationsecurity #infosec #saas #productupdates
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John Sherwood retweeted
If I look at the last 15 years of knowing people in startups, and then seeing who became successful and who didn't, I'm starting to see some general patterns The people I know who became successful (and very rich) regularly asked for help and feedback, and then applied that feedback very quickly (think minutes) and shipped fast while maintaining their own vision The people who didn't become successful are the ones who worked on stuff for months/years without asking for help or feedback, or when they did took weeks/months to apply it So I think the feedback -> implement loop and speed of it is possibly very important
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John Sherwood retweeted
Bugbop turns 1 today. 7 minute founder post on traction, pivots, and next steps. bugbop.com/posts/2026/01/13/…
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John Sherwood retweeted
Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue. Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR. We could've died three times during this journey. This is the story I've never told anyone before:
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I've been loving working with Yash this year ❤️
Different kind of case study this time - one of the most prolific bug hunters on the platform, Yash "Maverick", a 26-year-old self-taught security researcher from Dhaka, Bangladesh who transitioned into cybersecurity. bugbop.com/case-studies/mave…
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John Sherwood retweeted
Different kind of case study this time - one of the most prolific bug hunters on the platform, Yash "Maverick", a 26-year-old self-taught security researcher from Dhaka, Bangladesh who transitioned into cybersecurity. bugbop.com/case-studies/mave…
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AI coding model update: I'm loving Gemini 3 ❤️ It's really feeling like a step up from the other models (my favourite before was Sonnet Opus 4.5). Gets me 95% there and then actually takes me that last 5% (instead of just breaking things constantly).
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From one of the communities I'm in
Today @BlogMakerApp is on @UneedLists 🚀 Uneed is made beautifully by @T_Zahil and I couldn't be more excited to launch on there I want BlogMaker to grab the first spot for the day and I need your help —— 1. vote/comment on uneed 2. comment/like/rt this tweet link below 👇
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As promised, I have used the @OmarchyLinux USB stick from Rails World (at Ruby Retreat 2025)
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Going for a run tomorrow starting at the venue at 7:30am if people want to join #euruko
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Finally met the great @yukihiro_matz. What an absolutely delightful guy! #euruko
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At Café Girassol having a refreshing drink and assembling Rubyists if anyone would like to join us #euruko
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Arriving in Viana do Castelo for Euruko shortly. Will check in to hotel the see what people are up to. I’ll post where we’re heading out to as well. #euruko
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