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Joined February 2021
Merci @getfernand for making my life easier by using Jev to classify spam and outreach. This should save me a ton of time.
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxSep 30
Sorry SEO gurus, dev agencies, VCs asking to invest, recruiters trying to place ppl.... but I'm not even triaging your messages anymore. Cold emailing me is effectively useless. Potentially the best feature we ever shipped on Fernand, powered by Jev (for now, but likely going to replace with a local open weigh solution soon..) Oh, and it works with everything. You can just say: A conversation is about... "A bug, but it's not really clear and doesn't include reproduction steps" → AI draft reply "Clarify and ask more details" + send Webhook to create a Linear issue
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Soooo..... I built this. And it's already saving me ~4-6 hours/week. When we receive a support ticket... → An agent (codex) is booted up → The agent reads our docs on @ferndeskhq, our codebase, our logs on @axiomhq and customer error. → If it's a bug, the agent does a root cause analysis and opens a PR + @linear ticket! → If it's a feature request, it tracks it on our feedback board. → It then, drafts a reply to the customer in my own voice + includes customer success tips. → and then creates a handover for me with a note in our support tool (@getfernand) Now all I need to do every morning is approve, approve approve, reject, approve. And @ferndeskhq analyzes replies every week and updates our docs so that we get fewer tickets ongoing! Can't believe this is now possible!!
Has anybody set up an automation that: - debugs customer issues - creates a PR - drafts a response When customer support tickets come through? For a B2B SaaS with low volume? Thought @bot might be the answer but usage limits seem too low.
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jack friks
@jackfriksAug 14
proud to be a customer of this amazing business. @getfernand has saved me weeks of headaches and stress in the last year alone. perfect tool for me and likely other founders who do their own support.
Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxAug 14
Zendesk was called Zendesk for a reason: customer support is a pretty fucked up job. Even Zendesk says nearly 70% of support agents feel overwhelmed, and a separate study shows 92% of them report anxiety symptoms daily... Then, they became a giant enterprise corp, got bought by private equity for 10Bn, and somewhere along the way their leadership thought “zen” wasn't what was selling seats to managers. They even dropped the cool little buddha mascot from the early days :( I've finally released the new Fernand site today, and the main change isn't really the design itself, it's the whole approach to the brand. I stopped trying to look like a polished SaaS company, winning design awards, get featured on minimal cool hipster boards, and instead turned up all the things that are uniquely Fernand. The postman metaphore. The flowers. The calm, opinionated design philosophy. The weird little details. The product itself. It's clear that AI is making it much easier to build software, which probably means we’re about to get even more customer support tools than the absurd number we already have (...!) I don't really want to add into the noise, and I'd rather do something slightly weirder than the rest, but that somehow shows... or even make you feels? (but surely not tell!) what our product is about.
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxJul 8
Just released scoped API keys on Fernand. You can now limit what each key can do (all, read-only, or pick from a list of permissions) so you can give AI agents like Claude Code or Codex access without giving them full control.
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Replying to @Shpigford
Cloudflare for inbound, @getfernand for outbound
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxApr 2
Currently exploring a new direction for Fernand's landing page, doubling down on the calm aspect and increased focus of our tool. I want users to feel like they've landed on an oasis of positivity in an ocean of slop
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxFeb 10
Pricing handled via a micro-interaction on the permission list for active vs passive users. Need the user to reply to customers? $29/mo. Or just collaborate inside the tool? free. No need to pre-purchase seats and assign them to team members, then realizing you never have the right amount. Also, it automatically re-adjusts every month based on your team composition. → product craft series #015
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxJan 23
> Start writing a reply > Get distracted > Close the tab or refresh by accident > Come back... and it’s still there 😍 → product craft series #013
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinouxJan 19
Snooze with natural language —product craft series #011
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinoux2 Dec 2025
I’ve spent the last four days secluded on a tiny island in North Germany shooting and editing the new @getfernand product demo video. This place has literally three times more sheep than people. This photo sums up the setup pretty well: my camera is propped up on a baby chair we've found lying around, and held in place by a jar of Nutella. Hey, whatever works! The biggest learning is that this stuff is harder than it looks. As a bootstrapped founder you just end up picking up new skills because it’s faster than coordinating with someone else. Sure, we could have hired someone to do this for us, but the time and energy it would’ve taken to find the right person and brief them isn’t really aligned with how we’re building this company. So... I wrote a script, sat in front of the camera (..yikes!), learned video-editing basics, and spent 30+ hours to get to something that felt “good enough”. I'm still not really satisfied, but it does the job. Huge respect for the founders like @dceddia who manage to ship a video every day. I genuinely don’t know how you do it. Now that Fernand’s product has reached a certain maturity, it feels like the right moment to invest more in product marketing. Explaining the feature set better, showing real workflows, and helping teams get more out of what they already have. Our pricing is super simple: one active seat, everything included. Unfortunately, some customers still only use a third of what’s available. I think sometimes it's because the feature doesn't totally fit their use case, but sometimes it's just because they don't even know it exists... and that's on me to fix. My setup: - Google Pixel 9 camera shooting in 4K - Makeshift lights we gather from around the house - @screenstudio for UI footage - Shure MV7 microphone recorded separately with Quicktime - Adobe Podcast Enhance to erase my cofounder keyboard tipping noise 😬 - Descript for editing (Really impressive tool!) - A jar of Nutella for stability
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinoux29 Oct 2025
When Alex first reached out to invite me on his podcast, I hesitated. If there’s one thing I’ve never really seen myself as, it’s a “true operator”. I’ve always felt more like a starter, someone who likes to build, simplify, and move on once things get humming. But maybe that’s part of operating, too. Maybe there isn’t just one way to run things. Some people operate by scaling, others by shaping. Both matter. One keeps things alive, the other gives them direction. We ended up having a great conversation about what it means to build a calm customer support operation: why most setups break, where AI helps (and especially where it doesn’t), and why I believe in embracing slowness. Taking the time to keep improving a small, focused product instead of chasing endless features and complexity. Calm doesn’t mean static; it means intentional.
The True Operators Podcast is back 🎙️🎉 Ep 2: How to Build a Calm Customer Support Operation A couple of weeks ago, I sat down with @AntoineMinoux (founder of @getfernand) to unpack: 💔 Why most support setups break 🛟 Where AI helps (and doesn’t) 📈 Turning support into a growth driver ...and more. Enjoy the full episode: youtu.be/8fmROIQuYvI
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7. @getfernand I handle all my support with Fernand, the "Calm customer support". The DX is incredible, pricing is very generous, and it keeps evolving constantly. Bonus: you can do EVERYTHING with keyboard shortcuts, I love that
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Replying to @loaibassam
I've hired @getfernand AI assistant recently, and he's the best
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jack friks
@jackfriks7 Sep 2025
this lil guy has been saving my sASS so hard these last few weeks i've never been so overjoyed by how useful a tool is i don't know what i'de do without you @getfernand here's my appreciation post in hopes more people hand them their money and they stay in business forever
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Reaching inbox 0 with @getfernand is a great experience 🥰
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinoux26 Jun 2025
I'm reading Zendesk's founder biography Funny enough, a lot of what he originally imagined for Zendesk 18 years ago is remarkably close to what we're now building with @getfernand. Back to the basics. No clutter. A sense of craft. No enterprise BS. What happened?
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinoux18 Jun 2025
We're the first support platform to integrate natively with @polar_sh. The timing couldn’t be better — @birk and his team just raised $10M to build the open-source monetization platform of the future. Huge shoutout to the Polar crew for being insanely fast and collaborative!
Fernand now integrates with @polar_sh, the modern payment gateway for SaaS. See who's paying, auto-label VIP conversations, refund or cancel subscriptions natively all without leaving your inbox.
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinoux13 Jun 2025
Humbled to see that @getfernand is listed amongst the likes of Intercom, Zendesk, Helpscout and other gigantic players as an integration for launch. Wilson is building something unique, and I think we might be seeing an incredible success story in the making. Exciting!
Introducing Ferndesk The help center that automatically keeps itself up to date.
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Antoine Minoux
@AntoineMinoux6 Jun 2025
Superhuman-like inbox. Mintlify-like knowledge base. Chatbase-like trained chat AI agent. @getfernand now does it all in one calm, human-first product. Still only $29/user/month.
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