Samir

What is the past tense of troubleshoot? Troubleshot? Troubleshooted? They all sound terrible.

Go with Daddy.ai @GoDaddy. It's cleaner.

Small price to pay for fame.

I wish every product I used had updates as clear and beautiful as @useorigin. This sets the standard for a good product update and I really appreciate the transparency around bugfixes and other improvements.

I left my @Replit app alone for an hour to work on some nasty bug and I came back to this. Should I be worried?

Okay I did not realize that you can start a chat in one model and mid-thread change to another model while retaining context. That is definitely a differentiator. Why isn't everyone using @t3dotchat ??

PSA: Can you all just please index your websites for AI? They will figure out ways around this soon enough on their own. And I'm 100% going to just manually select all on the webpage and feed that to AI (but I'll be frustrated while doing so).

Give access to info & be the source of truth.

Samir's protein builder snacks starter kit for lazy people just dropped.

Brooklyn Biltong - 19g protein / 100cal
Koia Cinnamon Horchata - 9g protein/ 100cal
Wilde protein chips - 6g protein / 100cal
Bavarian Meats Landjaeger - 6g protein / 100cal

Wait, what if instead of entering passwords, your password was just the concatenation of the answers to your 3 security questions (could vary order and questions by site)? That would be so much easier to do and still result in strong passwords.

Can't get enough of Ototo Design's design ethos focused on creating fun, useful everyday tools.

Okay I used to make fun of silly dog owners and their sisyphean game of fetch that never ends. And then my kitten brought back her ball that I threw to her.

I GET IT NOW. It's such a beautiful, powerful thing.

Had my first experience w/ connecting a bank account that wasn't @Plaid or @MX that I'm aware of.

Honestly great experience. No loading screen, no logo interstitial & often no req to enter any password (just a direct "Authorize" button).

Unclear how @eMoneyAdvisor does it, but it's awesome.

Financial planners - this is the new level 1 for advisory.

It performed a thoughtful, objective analysis, incorporated our personal financial situation, answered follow-up questions on when to sell and which tranches of shares to sell and gave me a set of considerations with specific metrics to watch that might make us want to change course.

Just used @perplexity_ai to analyze whether to sell my wife's old Udemy stock following their monster 30% share price boost following solid earnings.

Funny story - a good friend tells me I have a very similar personality to @pitdesi, have personally referred a few companies to The Mint, have worked at a @btv_vc company, and am good friends with one of @iamjakestream's newest portco founders, and yet I've never met Jake or Sheel in person.

Sure I knew some things would be different when we adopted another kitten, but I wasn't expecting to lose MFA security answers:

It replaced 3 diff Bellroy bags that just weren't quite right) and I'm pumped to try their other stuff (like the gym duffel.

Helpful comparison of cable bags from @perplexity_ai

Okay I've been a @Bellroy fanboy for such a long time because they have had the best quality backpacks, cable bags, dopp kits and phone cases.

But a new challenger approaches. @aer_sf blew me away with the best cable bag I've ever owned.

I wouldn't know the first thing about using Cursor effectively because I don't code. I'd never be able to build an app there. But my brother & cousin would be able to build great things.

On the other hand, I can do so much with Replit it's crazy. But coders might find it limiting in some respects.

fwiw, I think of @cursor_ai and @Replit as different from each other. Cursor is AI-assisted programming. Replit is AI-driven programming.

Strongly considering just subscribing my favorite services who somehow have terrible customer support to @DecagonAI just to improve the situation ( @beeper, @getvolv I'm looking at you).

One of my favorite uses of AI from Google yet - AI-driven screensavers for your Google TV:

But now times have changed and OEMs like Samsung, OnePlus and Nothing. It's time for Google to re-focus on Android software, Google Apps and bringing AI into the ecosystem (for which they've fallen behind). I'd love to see more of this focus in 2025 and beyond.

Unpopular opinion: Google should kill the Pixel business unit. Pixel was started to raise the quality level of OEM phone manufacturers on Android and to give users an option for vanilla stock Android. And it succeeded in a big way.

tfw the NYT article perfectly encapsulates your state of being (not a dad yet but already feel like a gear dad).

Article - www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/...

Hands down the best IRA rollover experience of all time. Between Robinhood painstakingly evaluating every part of the user journey to Capitalize seamlessly handling all the logistics of a transfer, it's the perfect example of how fintech makes financial services accessible.

Stop relying on a walled garden to retain users. Instead build multi-device capability and easy data transferrability to make it a no-brainer to give your app a try. If the product is compelling that's the only staying power you need.

In the age of a one-screen world (Desktop) I understood wanting to encourage data lock-in for note-taking apps, but in the multi-device world where we also have history with other apps, the ONLY way to get a user to want to come try out your app is if you have pre-built import AND export features.

Hey Google - instead of building AI features I didn't ask for like AI-generated lists in Keep or half-baked AI overviews, why don't you use AI to bring back natural language event inputs to Google Calendar?

If we had this back in 2018 and it worked well, imagine the AI-powered one!

Or what about those parking meter QR code stickers that are actually trying to get you to type in credit card details? The app behind that is now easy to make.

Fraudulent app development just unlocked a new easy mode.