Chris Vasquez

@kaleighf Breaking news, I'm not.

"I'm going to Cannes Lion this year" is officially the only thing being posted on LinkedIn right now I wanna know who's NOT going at this point

Today I learned that Lucide has icons for both "Wheat" and a "Wheat Off", for the cases where you want people to be able to disable wheat in your application.

@Shpigford I call it "playing Bloons Tower Defense 6 on my iPhone."

what are we calling the things you habitually do while waiting for LLMs to do their work?

We had a competitor just tease a big announcement about their landing page builder. The announcement? That they'd be announcing their landing page builder in a month. What are we doing, folks?

@kaleighf @LiebermanAustin I think sharing the actual brands was the best choice for the rest of the community, Kaleigh. Thanks for the transparency.

@LiebermanAustin This was through the Kit ad network, not brand reps from either. But I think transparency is important around these topics as creator economy work becomes more prevalent. We need to talk about this stuff.

Turned down newsletter sponsorship offers from Lovable and Superhuman this month bc the pricing was CPC, and that feels a bit too transactional for my taste. Brand-building and visibility with hyper- relevant audiences does not always translate cleanly to cost per click.

I'm working on a visual critique skill. But in the meantime, this one little prompt is doing the Lord's work for me. "I want you to act as an art director or creative director and critique this prompt for style and aesthetic. Improve it and give me a better prompt."

@stoolpresidente Narrator, “They did not blow it.”

If Philly blows this it will go down as one of the greatest chokes in the history of sports.

Anyone else seeing inconsistent tool calling in OpenAI Apps SDK in ChatGPT free compared to paid accounts? Is this a thing everyone is aware of?

We've had people using our MCP since January, but today we got our ChatGPT app approved so people can enable it with one click, right from ChatGPT (free users too). chatgpt.com/apps/aweber/as…

Claude Code gets me.

Just gave the most engaged webinar of the hundreds I've ever done. The difference was I focused almost entirely on how, not why. People often know why they should do things (that's why they attend). They're starving for someone to show them how.

Facebook says my cost per lead for my newsletter ~$3. But only 35% of those leads open an email and 16% click one. Best case, my cost per engaged lead is ~3x what Meta tells me. This isn't a catastrophe; but it reinforces the fact that Facebook isn't telling you the whole story

@scohen I had the check the specific post before answering, but no!

@ClickPop wait, is this ai posting right now?

Feeling mildly insulted that no one has commented "AI" on any of my illustrations.

@Shpigford This ruined my day.

the saddest loading state on a button

I usually like beehiiv's marketing; but claiming to have the first MCP in the space is completely wrong. We've had one at AWeber for months. Just google [ESP] MCP and you can see their claim is patently false.

@arvidkahl Agentapi was going to be the name for our child if she'd been a boy. A classic, traditional human name.

Find the 7 red flags in this email.

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