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Today we’re introducing Cheats in @Spielwerkapp Prompting has failed us. Most people don’t know what to type. AI unlocked a ton of skills for experts, but the rest of us kinda need a… cheat. Sound on!

@jsharkey 🫡

Just shipped out of our cracked Palo Alto office. Beautiful use of websockets too.

Whop is where the internet does business. This is what that looks like — in real time. whop.com/pulse

@yacineMTB tfw someone runs custom prettier format on your code

CHECK BLAME GUESS WHO'S THERE YEAH THATS RIGHT ITS ME BITCH

@yacineMTB been doing this to repurpose books with Dagster it's p good for this

map reduce with llms is gonna be huge

@sammcallister @AnthropicAI This is such a sick role to have hopefully this becomes a trend

@desmondhth a lot of dtc brands are picking up on this strat too

This is a perfect example of “Distribution-led design” This film adding this scene, while totally unnecessary in terms of plot progression, makes a great screenshot to be shared on social media hence virality Same for b2c apps - add a screen that is not useful but extremely sharable or easy to make content with. The virality will be insane.

@pwang_szn Made to Stick is a banger

How to master any skill fast (with NotebookLM) : 1) Gather the top 1% textbooks for a given skill 2) Upload into NotebookLM (it's basically a *free* consultant PLUS it compress and quickly finds the key concepts for ANY skill.) Right, I've been doing it for : storytelling, sports psychology, customer interviewing -- the point is, you can do this for ANY micro-skill

@apostraphi @perplexity_ai @RypeArts @gunnargray designers when they find fontsinuse and sort by most liked

Layers & Florals

@levelsio You made hood maps holy shit used it yesterday

🤝 MapTiler.com now very kindly sponsors my project 🗺️ Hoodmaps.com by hosting the map tiles for free for me MapTiler provides map hosting for developers and is much cheaper than the other ones like Google or Mapbox I've never been able to monetize Hoodmaps and the bills can range from $1,000 per month to $10,000 per month to essentially infinite, so it's essentially a charity project When I launched Hoodmaps in 2017, it immediately went viral and Google Maps shut it down, so I switched to Mapbox back, then a year ago it went viral again and Mapbox gave me a massive bill (which they discounted thankfully) Thanks for the sponsorship and if you're considering adding a map to your site, maybe try MapTiler cause they're very nice people ☺️

@tom_doerr very useful

Maybe that's useful for gen AI applications

@JamesonZaballos Great list the classic books are always more substance and less fluff. Is there a methodology behind your writing style? Been seeing similar styles from very successful copywriters

I was recently at a small dinner with a bunch of successful YC founders. (I’m not in YC, don’t ask me how I managed to sneak in.) There wasn’t really any common thread between their companies, but they all had one thing on their mind. Content. And how to use it to get more customers. We talked shop - lots of different approaches. Some were crushing it on TikTok, others had these crazy email flows. But since I’m a writer, they only had one question for me. “What’s the best way for founders to learn how to write better?” My first answer is copywork. If you want to write like Paul Graham, copy how Paul Graham writes. But they wanted more - reading material, that is. Thankfully, it’s an easy answer...humans don’t change. The same principles that worked 100 years ago work today. And thankfully, over the last 100 years, there are a few people who worked their asses off trying to understand every part of writing. They were kind enough to spill their secrets in written form. So, these are the four books I’d recommend if you want to learn how to write better, especially if you want to sell. 1 - Oglivy on Advertising - The GOAT of 20th century ad copy. He had a hand in the most iconic ad campaigns of the last century, and he’s brash as fuck. If a guy like him can do creative for the biggest brands in the world, you know he knows his stuff. 2- Stephen King’s On Writing - but just the second half. The first half is about life growing up in Maine - the second half is about the best habits that successful writers have. How often to write, how to treat editing, how long to wait between drafts, you get the idea. 3 - The Adweek Copywriting Handbook - If I had to pick one book, it would be this one. You learn so many basic skills here…how to write like you talk, how to structure your copy, how to get people reading every word…it’s worth its weight in gold. 4 - The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert - Gary Halbert is the undisputed king of direct response copywriting. These letters start out as a diary to his son, and end with him spilling all his best secrets on writing copy that sells. If you read these four resources in 30 days, and worked on what they teach you, you’d be an insanely better writer. That’s what I told them. But I also told them they can outsource this - working with a talented writer to turn their opinions and experience into posts that bring in clients. tbh, if you’re a busy founder, you should probably do this too.

@AustinTByrd @NoahShreve Perfect case study for Crossing the Chasm amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm…

When Figma was really taking off, you would see designers and engineers that worked at Figma all over Twitter, interacting with the public. You don't see this anymore. Instead, you see PM's from Figma asking "What features do you want to see added?" Once a platform achieves their monopoly, their biggest threat becomes diminished brand loyalty. This is why Meta abandoned Facebook for Instagram. Figma's brand among designers is diminishing.

I don't know about you all... but the new Figma UI just isn't doing it for me

@gao_zibo @VLerede I’ve seen people argue if you don’t know what/why goes viral, you have no idea what ads will convert And one has lower upfront than the other

@VLerede if you don't know what ads to run, you have no chance of going viral

hot take: every consumer app should run paid ads

@colin_dunn Version 17.3 (19617.2.4.11.8)

@phantasticbrian Which version of Safari are you using?

Today we are launching VE2 — a brand new model for Visual Electric. It can produce hyper realistic photos, accurate text, and generate images 2.5x faster. This is the biggest update ever to Visual Electric. 🔊 SOUND ON

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