Simeon | AI in the real world

Most people think AI has no taste. It does. It just inherits yours. My approach to building: spend an hour with Gemini on vision and tone, then have it write my Figma Make prompt. First output = final output. Stop blaming the model. Start auditing the human at the keyboard.

@BoringBiz_ the rude awakening is real.

CEOs walking into work after realizing that the AI tokens are going to cost more than the employees they fired

@marclou use Gemini for your Frontend

If you think AI is good at UI/UX, either: - You only built a landing page, not a user dashboard - You are good at UI/UX so you know what to prompt

AI is so good at backend, but so bad at UI/UX. Any recent models one-shot my new features, but I'd have to spend another 10+ prompts to get the design right.

AI is good at backend and poor at UI/UX? Here's my approach to solving this problem. Use GPT5-5 or Opus 4.8 for your backend and Gemini for the frontend. Gemini is still lagging behind for coding but it is incredible for the frontend, especially when you are just kicking off.

@hthieblot the tenacity to keep showing up every day, even when no one's watching is what gets you there.

Founders who keep posting with 0 likes fear nothing

@levie The explosion is and path to recursive code is somewhat scary, but it's too late to put the genie back in the bottle. The fact that Anthropic engineers are shipping 8x more code today than they did in 2021 is the proof in the pudding.

Good thought provoking post from Anthropic. I think this paragraph points to the key element of the optimistic scenario of AI: “There has been an explosion of new ideas, initiatives, tools, and simulations, as a result of Anthropic employees working with highly capable models—far more than we have the capacity to pursue. The rate at which organizations can spot and fix these bottlenecks may be a skill that improves over time, and it may become the most important skill for any organization.” AI lowers the barrier dramatically to allowing us to do more. As a result of that, we have far more ideas than we can pursue, and for the ones that we want to pursue we’re ultimately limited by our ability to go take on the surrounding work to execute those ideas. There’s almost no amount of AI progress that can happen where that goes away. AI is going to let us build much more software, launch more marketing campaigns, research more drugs, and so on. All of this work, even when augmented by agents, still ultimately requires people to manage.

@DmitryBBLV good to meet you Dmitry. Those developer forms are quite tedious and it looks like Froxy can help expedite.

@SIM3ONBUILDS Happy to connect! Currently building Froxi AI- froxi.ai, helping indie developers and vibe coders automate App Store & Google Play publishing so they can spend less time on compliance and more time shipping

Trying this #buildinpublic 🥸 looking to #connect with other #founders, builders & growth people. particularly interested in: > Al startups > Indiehacker > Growth and marketing people Happy to share ideas on what i'm learning on AI🤖

@daicandev getting your first 100 customers and making them happy

Builders and founders, If everyone can build with AI now... What will actually make a product succeed?

@leannebuilding great to connect with you, Leanne. I've learnt that you should take all AI stats with a pinch of salt. I wrote a long thread on whether AI is coming for your job: x.com/SIM3ONBUILDS/s…

@SIM3ONBUILDS the ai startups part caught my eye. what's something you learned recently that changed how you think about it?

@thejeremyredman Stats is looking awesome. You said only 50 visitors but I'll take this quality 13% conversion any day.

Allllllrighty almost 13% conversion @SIM3ONBUILDS lol leadquest.ai is just converting idk

@thejeremyredman great to see you here, Jeremy 😃

@SIM3ONBUILDS I’ll connect ;)

@crept_app congrats on the launch, Josh. I love the angle you are coming from. Looks like you've identified your ICP clearly. Mind sharing how you got featured in Startup Fortune? Feel free to DM me if you don't want to share in public.

Hey! Building Crept, a Chrome extension that detects scope creep in client emails inside Gmail. Freelancers click one button, get an AI verdict on whether the request is in or out of scope, then send a change order on the spot. Fits right into the future of work space. Just got featured on Startup Fortune 🎉 startupfortune.com/crept-catches-… Free to try 👇 chromewebstore.google.com/detail/crept/a… Would love your feedback!

@kiwicopple @supabase Amazing! Congrats on the raise! I'm using Supabase for my next project, and so far it's exceeded my expectation.

Supabase has raised $500M at a $10B valuation In this round we are giving @supabase employees the opportunity to cash out 25% of their vested options. We have done this in every round since inception. We do it as a “cashless transaction” so that employees don’t need to front any cash to exercise their options. This is the friendliest way we could design it until we can offer RSUs. On top of that, we give employees a 10 year exercise window: whether they stay or leave the company. The typical/default window is 3 months. IMO, equity is earned and employees shouldn't be penalized because they don't have the cash to exercise within 3 months of leaving a job (often that's the time they need the cash/certainty the most).

@shariar_design Left for sure

Which one do you love 👀 Left or Right? 🤔

@MicroLaunchHQ I see you are solving a problem that most founders have. Get the first 100 customers.

@SIM3ONBUILDS Building platforms to distribute your apps guys. Launch, reach 30k+ makers, get users & customers microlaunch.net/premium Your launch with distribution built in 🫶

@ZeitlightIndex nice. Great to meet you Oleg

@ZeitlightIndex when you say “l’m building” & reaching out from company X’s account, it looks like a company with many people. I’ve realised that people want to see the face behind a product. That’s the only way to sell anything. If I can do it, you can too. This is the way to #BuildInPublic

@thejeremyredman Fair but I’m sure you’ll figure it out. Your website is dope and I love the humour so much, I had to sign up.

@SIM3ONBUILDS Ahhhh idk. I mean I’m guessing not…maybe hover around 5% or so. My hope was 4-5%

Freaking 10% conversion! Kinda good for leadquest.ai

@getantstat Congrats on the launch. It will be good see the face behind “the founder of a16,000-member SEO community”. I’m sure #BuildInPublic without a face must be tough.

@SIM3ONBUILDS Hey, let’s connect I am the founder of AntStat.com

@rpdata_infer Congrats on building something. From your website, it looks like a project for Enterprise clients. Is that your plan or are you targeting solo founders.

@SIM3ONBUILDS Hey! Right in my lane 👋 Building InferReach (inferreach.com) — end-to-end data engineering for startups. Kafka, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake. Also have a free AI outreach tool for founders → inferreach.com/outreach — might be useful for your #buildinpublic journey!

@mommasboi89 great to meet your Prof. J, I look forward to seeing more of your project. Which of your projects are you most excited about right now? Will love to check it out.

@SIM3ONBUILDS Hi Simeon, would be happy to connect.