{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Still Early","title":"I killed my local dev environment","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3221,"description":"In this episode:\nWhy Still Early and the Phone.inc vlog are two different shows, and who each one is for\nPhone.inc has 15-20 companies live on their own infrastructure, and the inbound is getting hard to keep up with\nThe two kinds of partnership Niklas thinks are actually worth doing (and why most aren't)\nNiklas hired a head of engineering in about a day\nPeter got orbpilled: three days on Amp, a form builder and a kanban board, none of it built on a laptop\nNanoform's entire interface is a prompt you paste into an agent\nPhone.inc has started letting people onto the platform, slowly, and it's all running on their own infrastructure now. 15-20 companies so far, a mix of people with a real need and friends of the house who are good at giving feedback. The whole team ran the signup flow and did a friction log, which produced 20-25 issues in Linear, and Niklas had Cursor agents fix the ones he agreed with (watching cards move across the board by themselves was apparently pretty great).\nThe pull is different this time. Random people calling Niklas's private phone because they heard about it, 55 unanswered LinkedIn messages, an inbox he gave up on and archived. Lea pulled him aside to point out they never felt anything like this in all the Firmafon years.\nPartnerships too, which Niklas would normally tell founders to avoid (usually all motion, no customers, and Peter got burned this way with Branch). But two categories look real: vertical SaaS platforms where the customer data lives, so a call can come in with context attached, and incorporation platforms where you catch a company at day one and never get switched out.\nHe also hired Marcel as head of engineering. They'd worked together at Trustpilot and Whimsical, the whole team met him the same day, signed eight minutes later. Thomas made the first Android call too, with the business logic shared in Swift and the apps still native.\nThen Peter, who has had a slightly unhinged week. He tried an OpenClaw-style setup,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jiN5sNwxC3favF-CuribFhPuNYrIJomhSIW6PRT4RAk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYTNj/MDZmN2Y1ZjQxYjEx/MjA1YWIzYzhlNWYy/ZmExYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}