I'm the co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting and analytics). I write about SaaS marketing, bootstrapping startups, pursuing a good life, building calm companies, business ethics, and creating a better society.
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Hope you're having a good Sunday! Here are a few things on my mind... Thoughts on vibe coding and V0.devI've been experimenting a bunch with Vercel's https://v0.app/ this week. I used it to build a free tool for podcasters: What blows my mind is V0's interface: you prompt it with your vision for how you want something to work and look, and it provides a near-instant feedback loop, showing you what it might look like. I had to get a bunch of thoughts out, so I did a livestream you can watch here: Once you start building things this way... It's hard not to want this interface + feedback loop in everything you build. (For example, I'd love to edit the transistor.fm marketing site this way) In the video I also compare V0 to Lovable and Bolt – I think V0 wins. The Last Days Of Social Media"Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion." Damn, this piece hit hard: The article's author (James O'Sullivan) perfectly encapsulates how "blah" many of us are feeling these days: "People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement." This podcast interview with Des Traynor is so goodJohn Collison (Stripe co-founder) has a podcast called Cheeky Pint. What's so good about it is that he asks his founder friends pointed questions, and they answer him. I've been listening to his chat with Des Traynor (co-founder of Intercom): There are so many great lines and interactions from this episode. Loved Des Traynor's response to this question: A product is a conversation with the market.
Your launch is your opening bit, and then you have to basically adapt and react to what gets thrown back at you, which might drag you in different directions. And then you need to have, again, the confidence to prune certain things.
You can listen to it as an audio podcast here:
Pursuing wisdomFrom Donald J. Robertson's book, How to Think Like Socrates: “People are not upset about events but rather by their opinions of them.” – Epictetus
Therefore, “we should question the assumptions that cause our distress, if we want to get better.”
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I'm the co-founder of Transistor.fm (podcast hosting and analytics). I write about SaaS marketing, bootstrapping startups, pursuing a good life, building calm companies, business ethics, and creating a better society.
Happy Saturday! Here are a few things on my mind... Adam Wathan has a new podcast where he walks and talks about what's on his mind. And it's great. ADAM'S MORNING WALK • EPISODE 1 The Tailwind business ain't what it used to be 29:13 MORE INFO View the podcast website How high is customer demand? Successful startups don't create demand. They position themselves in the path of existing demand. In a good market, customers provide their own motivation. I made a video about this: Your job isn't...
Happy Saturday! Here are a few things on my mind... Warren Buffett's game Great post on Farnam Street: Students often go to visit Warren Buffett. And when they do, he often plays a little game on them. He asks each student to pick the classmate they would choose if they could have 10% of their earnings for the rest of their life. Which classmate would you pick and why? Then he changes things up again. Who would you think least likely to succeed? Why? He asks the students to take out a sheet...
Hey friends, Not recording The Panel today (sorry!), but I do have a ridiculous new animated video to show you: This is an inside joke from the Mostly Technical podcast: Ian Landsman (one of the hosts) loves to keep restarting his programming project (outro.fm). He does this by typing `laravel new` (which initiates a new Laravel project) in the terminal. Aaron Francis isn't impressed. (I have a new technique I'm using for these; I'll update this post about it soon) Cheers,Justin Jackson –...