Chris Vasquez

I can't tell you the number of times I've gotten questions from people about why their open rates tanked, only to see they got clipped in gmail. That's why we show you how close to getting clipped in gmail you are right in our AWeber editor. No nasty surprises.

Roast my newsletter.

@Shpigford Agreed, although it hurts my heart. The Claude MCP UI / OpenAI apps update make the argument really convincing.

as much as i don't want it to be, i'm increasingly convinced chat IS the best UX for just about everything

I freaking love the Chrome Dev Tools MCP. In my dev flow, Claude write the code, writes the QA test plan, tests it in the browser, fixes the things it can, and then sends me a list of questions and suggestions.

@arvidkahl @jamonholmgren I can say the same for AWeber. MCPs are really useful for non-technical power users of assistant apps.

@jamonholmgren So I added an MCP into Podscan, and now several definitely non-technical people (who were neither confident or capable with CLI or API tools) have integrated my SaaS into their ChatGPT and Claude Web workflows. I'd argue MOST SaaS integrations outside of dev tools are like this.

The vast majority of MCP servers can just be replaced by CLIs. Change my mind.

@psomkar1 I really don’t know what internet you folks are using. Sure, you probably can’t deploy something that’ll be usable to thousands of people. But I’ve seen plenty of people ship production websites and small scale webapps.

Unpopular opinion If you can't code, you can't vibecode.

Managing your subscribers just got a massive upgrade. Search is up to 12x faster, plus you can see how they engage, share what you find with your team, and never lose your place in your list.

If you're an engineer, and your problem with AI is that it doesn't create high quality, usable code, that's a you problem. There are reasons to be skeptical of or oppose AI; but the idea that it can't create good working code in 2026 is completely untrue in most use cases.

@DorianDevelops Yeah! I’m like, I’m asking you because I don’t know in the first place!

Does anybody else hate when their AI chat gives them two options to choose from and wants to know which one is better?

@kaleighf I feel the same way. For me, it's mainly group chats with under 10 people in them. Feels like so much of the magic of the internet is fading.

I remember when I used to come on Twitter to ask a Q or share a musing and then spend the next few hours eagerly replying, having real conversations with people where did this magic gooooo where are we *actually* yapping these days

We just shipped a massive speed increase to subscriber search and reporting at AWeber. Searches across millions of subscribers with complex filters for engagement, links, and attributes are frequently more than 10x faster. It feels freaking great to use.

UI is part of UX, but equally important is Speed. You can nail every little interaction & aesthetic, but if it's slow, it feels broken. This is especially true if it's early in your experience or if you're in a high stress situation (eg. you're trying to get a newsletter out).

@kaleighf Ah, interesting. Are you thinking in terms of making the content more easily accessible for inclusion in training, or scraping through web requests from the agents? Your goal is to make sure your content can be ingested by the models and sourced to you?

@ClickPop I feel like substack is better for LLMs

It's that time again...debating switching email platforms. I think it may be time to leave Kit and switch to Substack.

@Shpigford RIP.

just realized i might have to start posting on linkedin to generate leads. 😭

@OSheaSEO Sheesh, man. Sorry about that. Reminds me of some of the user testing feedback I get. Once, I was sharing two possible approaches, and the response was, "I thought I would hate the first option most first, but then I saw the second one and hated it even more."

The joys of spending nearly a decade building an email newsletter, researching stories, carefully crafting those stories, sharing them for free, and putting your heart and soul into each weekly edition, only for a guy to reply with this 🤣 🤣🤣

@arvidkahl Time to cry in the shower, for me.

Claude Code is throwing 500s. Time to do some dishes I guess.

Hey @reallygoodemail I'm looking for the single best welcome message you've ever seen for a newsletter. I'm talking about the one you still dream about. Whadya got?

I was browsing @reallygoodemail today, this is a really beautiful, simple email. reallygoodemails.com/emails/valenti…

I'm almost never using Figma anymore for my existing projects. I'll sometimes start there when making a new app, but once I have a codebase established, I'm doing all of my design experimentation in code. Any reason I should still be in figma more?