Stripe, TikToks, and Slack Locking Us Out 🫠 - Honest interview
@cerwindcharlie and I recently did an interview for the Stripe Developers channel (500k+ subs!) and shared stories we’ve never talked about before on Pretty Prompt:
Behind the scenes on the Techstack of Pretty Prompt 🛠️
Sometimes the “aha moment” isn’t a dashboard… it’s TikTok videos 🎥
Growth can literally get you kicked out of Slack 🙃
I didn't know you can get locked out of your Slack workspace if you hit a rate limit on the amount of notifications... (We hit the limit because too many users were signing up!)
But it shows that no straightforward journey to building a startup. It's just getting over a hill, then another, then another, and each time they get bigger and bigger. Pretty Prompt has now improved over 90,000 prompts, and I learn something new every single day.
My biggest lesson so far: How powerful it is to be different from your cofounder, yet highly complementary! (You'll notice that in this interview) 🙌.
Let me know what you think about this interview, and if you've also had some unexpected learnings through your journey!


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That Slack lockout story is classic startup rush - things escalate quickly when you’re building something people actually want.
Big fan of teams that embrace real, honest growth (even the wild surprises)
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