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Wes Oudshoorn

Wes Oudshoorn
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Founder of AppSignal. Exited in 2025. No indiehacking and riding AI wave to wherever it brings us.
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Joined January 2026
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I never thought I would say this, but I did some breathwork today.
Needed an optional subtitle in my quote line items so I did some textarea magic. First line is bold (the title), press Enter and the next lines become the description in normal weight. Pretty proud of how clean this turned out actually #offertecc
7 months of being a Chief Product Officer. 3 months of taking a break. 2 months of indie hacking.
New homepage live #piratepage
Improve quote editing lock UX with force-acquire and faster detection #offertecc
working on redesigning the piratepage homepage so it feels more like a blueprint style instead, people were confused.
New tone of voice screen
Simplified the onboarding flow. #piratepage
I completed full Dutch translation coverage across the vendor dashboard and enhanced quote stats with detailed pipeline breakdown. PR #33 on offertecc #offerte
New projects now drop you straight into the homepage wizard instead of a sitemap. Some people confused the old flow felt broken (you landed on a page that said "concept". #piratepage
I'm using a knowledge base inside of PiratePage, but it wasn't used to pre-fill answers for new pages. Fixed that now. #piratepage
Filtered AppSignal uptime checks from OpenTelemetry traces so they don't pollute the dashboard. #piratepage
Apparently AppSignal accepts OTel logs now. Instrumented my full app now. Trying to set up GitHub Actions with Claude Code to automatically fix issues. #piratepage
Analyzed some Reddit posts on what people find most annoying about quotes/offertes #offertecc
Shipped quote and request redesign with versioning, AI question builder, services categories, and vendor branding #offertecc
Shipped a new components preview pages on piratepage.cc/components
Built a component gallery so visitors can browse all 20 sections with live examples before signing up. #piratepage
Visited my old coworker and another SaaS founder in Den Bosch. Spend 87 euros on a return ticket for a first-class train ride. Welcome to the amazing Netherlands 🤣
I pulled all agent skills from another project into #offertecc
Now automatically keeping my internal knowledge base about product capabilities up to date on every PR. #piratepage
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