Gary Spagnoli ⚓⛵
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Gary Spagnoli ⚓⛵
@GarySpags
founder - https://t.co/92zw4UjZ1k ⛵ - turning analytics data into direction with AI
Chicago, IL Katılım Mayıs 2007
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Seeing hyper-niche B2B exact match domains popping up in AI search that (I am guessing) are intended to get LLM visibility (vs drive traffic via trad search).
I'm Thinking low effort, AI generated microsites are going to be a gray hat aspect of AEO moving forward.
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@amar_patel @allgarbled Love this reply. In February, we spent some time improving the UI of our application to look less Claude + Gemini built... More brand aligned. And then realized some of that work was a waste of tokens. My users and customers did not care. Removing that does not improve the UX
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@allgarbled No one outside other vibe coders care or see this kinda detail. You’re noticing a real thing with no real impact.
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I don’t know what you call them, but these little side tabs are like the emdash of vibe coded UIs
Juri Strumpflohner@juristr
What's your AI adoption level? (according to Steve Yegge)
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@Travis_Sawchik @TheAstrosLocker $7000 per game is woefully inaccurate. $300k per game is more of a ballpark range.
Each 30 second slot costs between $1000 - $10k
(Source: my business buys RSN / baseball ads for local home service businesses)
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So much of the MLB econ story is the local TV divide:
*The Dodgers enjoy $334m a year from their regional cable deal, and don't pay full revenue share due to their bankruptcy deal.
*The Twins sold 50,000 subs for their streaming product last season. At $99 a sub, that's ~$5 million. Their former RSN deal guaranteed $54.8 million for the 2023 season.
sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2026/…
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Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.
paulgraham.com/taste.html
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@wilreynolds Rather than teach our clients Claude and how to set it up with the MCP... We just built the UI ourselves so clients can login and connect. That was the basis for the first iteration of our product in Q4 when it was just GA4's MCP and Gemini -- app.analyticsmates.com
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[VIDEO walkthrough] - Here's me asking Claude about my GA4 data, I got a thought partner surfacing things buried in my data that I didn't even know was there.
In my "data chat" with Claude I found:
📈 Notebook LM was a referral
📈 A blog post I was going to delete is getting Google Docs traffic
📈 Newsletters sending me traffic to establish relationships with
All because I "just" talked into Claude about a few hypotheses.
Yes there's hallucinations at times, I just double check if there's real risk. It is the endless new ideas as a thought partner that creates the value.
youtube.com/watch?v=jTn2Q-…
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@rileycx We've built analytics AI agents for our agency, and launched them publicly .... And it's funny, because I think a YC application and waiting period would only slow us down.
app.analyticsmates.com
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I have been trying to decide if this is even something that should be said out loud.
I’ve had multiple conversations with friends and peers about how agencies are already becoming more like software businesses with AI.
Over just the past few weeks, we’ve sold multiple “AI-native” sprints. Meaning we are doing the work with the help of AI—and the clients are ecstatic about the quality of the work we’re outputting.
Real businesses don’t care if the work you’re doing is supplemented by AI if that means the output is going to be done better and faster than without it.
The next few years are going to be a wild ride.
PS. I am hiring for multiple roles. Come join one of the first AI-native agencies.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
AI-Native Agencies @aaron_epstein Agencies have always been hard to scale. AI flips this model by letting firms use software internally to deliver finished work at higher margins, turning agencies into software-like businesses that can scale far beyond today’s service firms.
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@JackEllis I pay for both and still use Cursor mainly. I like the IDE. I know people say just use VS Code... But... There's so much efficiency in Cursor already, I need a bigger reason to leave. Claude CLI is great. Cursor gets way more of my attention though.
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Claude Code vs Cursor: I ran the exact same prompt on both. Cursor responded in under 10 seconds, while Claude Code was still running after 4 minutes. I wish someone would do a proper comparison of these tools, because I’m confident that Cursor is so much better.
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@Stretchedwiener @Rono_Kev I love this discussion. I appreciate your take.
In my opinion- the "energy in" part of the equation now can be focused on solving a customer's problem + can be diverted into areas other than coding + dev. I don't disagree entirely with what you're saying. The work matters!
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The content of printed material and the content of social media are two completely different things. And yet social media absolutely had an effect on consumer relationships to printed material.
The printing process is part of the value. That's what I'm saying. The cost and challenge of printing a book means that we put a lot of thoughtful consideration into taking on the task in the first place. It's a filter. It forces us to make sure what we are doing is worth the trouble.
The ease of prompting to a little program absolutely "changes the equation" - how could it not? That's literally the entire point of using an LLM to code.
It's the "energy in" part of the equation. A lot of endeavors succeed because of that difficulty. Now it is being described as something that is radically changing.
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The marketplace will be swamped with 10,000 competing softwares, all made for $100.
To get your money back for the minutes you spent slopping it out - you'll have to invest $5000-$10,000 in marketing ads.
Nobody is going to buy your trash software, even IF what Altman is claiming is true - and it's not.
vitrupo@vitrupo
Sam Altman: “By the end of this year, for $100–$1,000 of inference and a good idea, you’ll be able to create software that would have taken teams of people a year to do. That magnitude of economic change is very hard to wrap your head around.”
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@Stretchedwiener @Rono_Kev This is incorrect.
Distribution always matters. Software still matters. Software creation is lower. It does not change the equation of any successful business.
It's as if the old school printing press complained about social media - arguing the printing process is the value.
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You might be missing the point. The cost shifts from development to marketing. Now the software can't survive on utility, like it once could, surviving by word of mouth. Because of the glut, because the pool of competing programs is now 1000x what it was - utility is drowned out and marketing and distribution platform control will be all that matters.
No matter what great idea that one man "empowered" developer had, 3 days later, there's 1000 other programs, many of which are made by well placed companies with a ton of money for marketing.
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Excited to soft launch today - I've been working on this since about November - It's in beta at - app.analyticsmates.com
It connects to the Google Analytics MCP + API + our knowledge base so you get insights -
If you have any questions, let me know!
Analytics Mates ⛵ | AI for Google Analytics@AnalyticsMates
We just opened a small beta for The Helm — an AI analytics app we’ve been quietly building. It’s designed for people who want judgment, not dashboards. If you use Google Analytics and want clearer answers → 👉 app.analyticsmates.com (Very early. Feedback welcome.)
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@hvpandya met with execs at the design firm IDEO, even they said the speed to prototype is key - often means "the design *tools* that our team has historically been trained on are becoming less important but the design principles are becoming more important than ever." Major impact on ops
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Figma is very quickly becoming a huge bottleneck in building products.
You build a prototype.
People like the vision and buy into it.
Then Engineers and Product sit and wait till you deliver the whole spec in Figma.
Product & Eng have both become faster due to AI.
Design is getting squeezed in the middle with the old way of working.
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@aymanalabdul This absolutely works. I'm endorsing this as a buyer, too.
There are all of these cold sales tricks, and one web dev vendor won my attention for our first meeting with "I have tickets to the hockey game tonight. It's at 7. Want to join me?" and... I did. And later hired them!
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Quick tip for CEOs while traveling:
Make a 5 person dinner reservation at the best restaurant in the city
Open LinkedIn → search your connections in that city → pick 1–2 people worth seeing
Text them:
“I’m in town. I’ve got a table at 7.
Want to join? Bring 1 smart friend”
Suddenly you’ve got 5 killers at one table, without running around all day
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@lilyraynyc I've created a Google Analytics 4 AI Agent copilot with this. Two clicks to connect to the GA4 MCP to start asking questions -
I'll DM you.
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We manage media spend for clients. Advertising charges at minimums of $100k a month. I've had friends tell me about miles + points + credit card benefits optimization and they're always surprised when I bluntly say... I don't have time for it and do not care... This is why...
Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion
Maybe corporate executives think complexity is good for business. Or maybe, through repeated exposure, Americans have been desensitized to the burden that unnecessary complexity imposes on us, writes Eliot Penn on.wsj.com/49AvpBU
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Wiz team has some very, very solid SEO. Have not thought to do this before, but it's a smart move.
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Incredibly useful for any teams coding with AI support -
Boris Cherny@bcherny
I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.
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And yes I know it was on NYE (I was at the game in Chicago) last year.
But as far as I can tell today, New Year's Day, is once again a sports dead zone... And an opportunity for one of the leagues to take.
Thoughts @Braylon_Breeze @EmptyNettersPod
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Yet Christmas day, a holiday typically filled with more activities had the NBA and NFL competing with games. Today nothing?
The NHL used to own this day. Why didn't the NBA and NFL take it over?
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Sports vent- The NHL winter classic being on Jan 2 at 8pm for 2026 is insane.
Today, New Year's Day, when Americans (+Canadians) are off work - we have no professional sports on national TV until the evening.
No sports this afternoon other than college football.
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Something I'm thinking about when it comes to AI and vibe coding... is that it's so easy to prototype tons of features... volume is easy.
The real skill becomes editing away.
You do not have to be perfect up front. You can do a ton immediately, then focus on refining.
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