Roy Tomeij

Get the Full Picture: AppSignal Adds OpenTelemetry Support | AppSignal Blog We're proud to launch OpenTelemetry. Learn how to use AppSignal's monitoring and observability toolkit to level up your app's performance.

We're excited to officially launch our OpenTelemetry instrumentation! 🎉
blog.appsignal.com/2025/08/07/g...

Apologies for the unclear instructions! We’ll try to improve our implementation docs.

We’ll consider anything 150+ characters, just to weed out the ones who answer “looking for work” and similar 😅

Want to Work With Me? Start Here. I can't read every résumé. Whether I read yours is based on the answer to the question that's our equivalent of a cover letter: “Why do you want to work at AppSignal?” That’s the cheat code. It's...

I can’t read every résumé. Whether I read yours is based on the answer to a single question. It’s
the cheat code. It’s the high-leverage moment where 98% of people quietly disqualify themselves. roy.io/want-to-wor...

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"Why do you want to work at AppSignal?"

The answer to this question is the cheat code that can move you to the top of the pile. I'm pulling a somewhat random number, but out of a thousand applicants, no more than 2% recognize this.

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Dutch word of the day: “bestuurdersaansprakelijkheidsverzekering”

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It’s not what you know but who you know. See you there!

Come join my Customer Success team at @appsignal.com! 🥳

Bootstrapping Was My Identity. Then We Raised a Round. As you probably know by now, AppSignal, the company I co-founded, raised $22 million in a Series A not too long ago. Overnight, I was no longer the bootstrapper I had proudly identified as since...

Bootstrapping Was My Identity. Then We Raised a Round. 😵‍💫

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Do I Have a Boss for the First Time Ever? (I’m 44…) A few days ago, I asked if anyone had questions about AppSignal's recent funding round. Lahiru Himesh Madusanka responded: “Do you feel more pressure now that you’ve raised capital from external...

Do I Have a Boss for the First Time Ever? (I’m 44…)

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Why a Dutch Company Raised $22M in the US Instead of the EU

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AppSignal for PHP: help us test! 🔥

We're currently working on our PHP integration and would love for you to test it and provide early feedback. Will barter for stroopwafels and credits. Let me know if you're interested!

🙋🏻‍♂️ Yesterday, we announced that AppSignal closed a $22M round of… | Roy Tomeij 🙋🏻‍♂️ Yesterday, we announced that AppSignal closed a $22M round of funding. The whole thing took well over half a year to pull off, in stealth mode, while also running the business. While I can’t di...

I'm doing sort of an AMA on "whatever you wanted to know about (how it feels) raising funding, and why" on LinkedIn, but will take questions here, too :) www.linkedin.com/posts/tomeij...

Thanks, it is!

Thanks for the kind words, Olivier!

Thanks, and I feel the same excitement! Looking forward to letting the fine folks in Ruby, Elixir, Node.js, Python, but also Java, PHP, Go, and others know that we're one of the good guys.

Running a bootstrapped company in a highly competitive market meant generating enough operating income to stay profitable, but not enough to challenge the status quo. That’s about to change… 🚀

Someone called unparsed mail merge tags in some email an “AI failure” today.

In the middle of the Venn diagram of “computer” and “something I don’t understand,” it doesn’t say “AI.”

So everyone’s been making these "starter pack" AI toy mockups using prompts. Cool. But I wanted mine to actually exist.In this vid, I take the viral “Figurin... 3D Printing The Meme Everyone Just Screenshotted

Asking AI to make an image of a toy version of yourself + accessories is one thing, making a physical version is something else. This guy does it (and I love his energy):
youtu.be/MBjiiPC8rdE

One of my favorite macOS apps: MonitorControl! Controlling my external monitor's brightness and built-in speakers using the native Apple keyboard buttons ✨

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I'm back! 👋🏻

Geeft niks, en je bent niet de enige: het gebeurt me minstens één keer per week!

Roy ;) En dank voor de mooie woorden :)

248 - Roy Tomeij (AppSignal) over SaaS pricing, verkopen aan developers en empathie in leiderschap SaaS Bazen Podcast · Episode

If you understand Dutch and are into SaaS: I was a guest on the "We Love SaaS" podcast! 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5sp5...

Good to know, thanks!

Join a Former Michelin-star chef Ashley Palmer-Watts at The Devonshire, one of London’s most popular pubs, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at what ma... London’s Most Popular Pub: How The Devonshire Serves 500+ DAILY with a Former 3-MICHELIN STAR Chef

Alright, I need to go to The Devonshire in Soho, London. The place and food look absolutely amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjG...

Thanks! ❤️

I'm covering a bit of Customer Success today, and I love that we created a place where the below is an acceptable reply 😅

"Yes, you should be all good! If "the system" keeps bugging you, please let me know so we can use some blunt tools to try to make it behave better."