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.
Hope you're having a good Sunday! (And happy Thanksgiving Weekend if you're Canadian). Here are a few things on my mind... When customers lean in Another great article from Rob Snyder on what "customer demand" looks and feels like: "You'll hear concepts like 'pain points' and 'problems' that make sense and sound right... But, as you've likely experienced, you can have someone complain about their big problems and pain points, who agree that your product would solve these pain points and...
Hey friends, Sometimes AI gets me excited ("wow, look at what we can build now!") and sometimes it gets me scared ("are my kids going to be able to find a job?"). Brian Casel and Justin Jackson are going live at 12:15 pm Pacific today to chat about it: On today's topic list: Sora V2 app OpenAI eating more SaaS categories? Tony Dinh and TypingMind - super inspiring Agent OS 2.0 is out. What's next? Could we do Aaron's "no-devices vision quest?" How do you introduce tech (or entrepreneurship)...
Here are a few things I've been contemplating lately: ------- ⛈️ What kills motivation? Aaron Francis wrote about this in his newsletter, and I can’t stop thinking about it: “Maybe, working hard doesn’t lead to burnout, but the lack of hope leads to burnout. If you're working really hard for something that you don't believe will pay off, it's easy to lose motivation. But if you believe that the thing you're working on will have a payoff, the amount of work almost doesn’t matter.” Working on...