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found this tweet I made exactly 7 years ago using a tool that does this exact same thing for twitter ☺️ chandsethi.github.io/twitter_lookba…

i wish more companies experimented with unique feature discovery and ingresses most of the time its "why do we need a new component" and "why can't we use a bottom sheet" or "add a new tab"

@subodhkolhe @_nishankj comes w workspace, used to fix english

@_nishankj curious where and how are folks using Gemini? mostly seeing Claude across everywhere

From what I see here in India, Gemini is much more prevalent than what is shown in this graph.

imo it opens a clear way for people to build alternates to claude code and cowork it was either - let people use claude subscription but run risk of getting banned, or make people bring their own key both terrible

everyone yest: we want clarity on using third party tools using anthropic subscription everyone today: we don't like this clarity

feels like a ragebait tbh, but if not, we really need to stop brainwashing designers with 'consistency' agenda it's not a proud OCD to have

there's never really any body pain, but every kind of pain relief seems to work

logging life in 30s:

@dharmeshba is your point that ads don’t work? i use cred once a month but I know they do loans, bcs of their banners. when i need one, i’ll go to cred. attention doesn’t translate to wallet, but user love makes it more likely

I open my UPI app approximately ten times a day. I have not bought insurance through it. Nobody in the industry can explain this, so they blame the creative. Better targeting, they say. Better placement. A/B test the CTA. The click-through rate will improve. They are solving the wrong problem. For many a UPI app does not live in their head as a financial services platform. It lives there as a verb. They usually don't say "I'll use PhonePe." They will say "I'll scan and pay." Many people I've interviewed don't even say that - they just hold up their phone. The app has become so indispensable for one thing that it has essentially disappeared. It is infrastructure now. This is the great delusion of platform thinking: that if you achieve daily habit, cross-sell becomes easy. That share of attention translates to share of wallet. That being trusted for the small thing means being trusted for the large thing. It doesn't. Trust is rebuilt from scratch in every new category, every single time. When I open PhonePe to split a dinner bill, my brain is in a completely different mode than when I am contemplating what happens to my family if I die. One requires two seconds of attention and zero vulnerability. The other requires me to confront my own mortality, assess the credibility of an institution with my family's future, and hand over money I will never personally see returned. The psychological distance between those two acts is not bridged by a banner ad. The banks and platforms that will win in insurance and wealth are not the ones with the most daily active users. They are the ones willing to do the slow, unglamorous work of earning trust in a new category - which means starting again, with different conversations, different proof points, different emotional register entirely. Being everywhere is not the same as being trusted.

all these saas that could never invest in making a mobile app/site (amplitude, mixpanel, firebase, etc) now don’t need to; they can get by via mcp connectors that give some interactive / rich preview

if you want to learn “taste” experimentally, move to iOS. it has flaws but if you are keen observer, you will notice decisions that feel invisible that are intentionally so

Always felt android was poorly designed as an OS but holy shit. Pressing ‘back’ on ShareChat says “press again to exit”. Clear sign that OS hasn’t been thought through. But when you do press back on ShareChat, it plays a fucking ad

live artifacts in claude are giving me ideas; will make plugin and proto for this

imo, given how well AI works for coding and how crap it is for non-coding, non-coding stuff will keep picking up pieces from coding world next up will be: * product wiki's as codebase equivalent for non-tech work * 'plan mode' for every task, uses wiki to get all context

everything's moving to become a 'task'. claude chats become cowork tasks. slack's new activity tab also feels like a kanban card (you can mark a message as 'done'; it has labels like 'replied')

what's the different between "going bad" vs "going directionally bad"

Hate this concept of talking to individual claude sessions; I want one big claude guy who: 1. I can talk to for multiple days 2. Doesn't code do or talk code to me 3. Translates my fleeting mind into tickets 4. Kicks off agents and keep them synced I want a middle manager

onboarding should either be really short (or nil) or really long (not in the manipulative way)

what if in 12 months, you are given a basic token limit, but for anything beyond, you pay up X% of token costs from your salary

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