Allen Pike

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A clip from this morning's daily huddle. It's always fun when your own tool does something you didn't realize it could do! (I'll allow myself to feel proud for one day. I'll resume insisting it needs to be 10x better tomorrow.)

@adamlisagor 🚀

Hovercraft is how I always wanted to share my slides. So I made it. It’s a virtual camera for the Mac. No more disembodied voice. No more “can you see my screen?” Just me, tossing around my windows like it’s 2027.

We Can Do Hard Things: On the considerable benefits of ambition. allenpike.com/2026/we-can-do…

It's annoying when you're in a meeting, and somebody describes a bug really well. So you're like, "We should file an issue with what you just said" – but then have to actually type all that stuff out. Like an animal. So now Cedarloop will do it for you.

The Rise of Transparency: How tooling improvements will pull company cultures to be more open, and make better use of the firehose. allenpike.com/2026/the-rise-…

RVSPs are now open for the next Infer Vancouver meetup. We have engineers coming from WealthSimple, Cresta, and Gumloop to share things they've learned building with LLMs. Thursday, Apr 9 – spots tend to fill up fast. luma.com/4i1dyhyf

Launch Now: On putting things in front of people, early and often. allenpike.com/2026/launch-no…

@ThomasDeVuono @rjonesy Yeah, we’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with realtime and meetings. Would love to hear more about your take on these problems if you’re up for it Ryan!

@rjonesy Maybe cedarloop.ai is in line with what you are looking for! Built by our friends at @forestwalkai @apike

I want live Granola that: - adds creative ideas - fact checks against company corpus - answer posits - recalls prior convos/decisions - gives me personal feedback Live on the call. 😍

A Broken Heart: Getting a 100x speedup by changing one dumb line of code allenpike.com/2026/a-broken-…

WealthSimple Co-Founder and @bretthuneycutt shares lessons learned, including the underlying wisdom of “Launch now”, increasing both speed and quality, attention to detail as a brand promise, and hiring people you would want to work for. itshipped.fm/episodes/35

A Box of Many Inputs: On browser address bars, local AI, and Roger Rabbit. allenpike.com/2025/a-box-of-…

An addendum: Why is ChatGPT for Mac So… Bad? allenpike.com/2025/why-is-th…

Why is ChatGPT for Mac so good? A look at the the different AI labs' approaches to the Mac, and the opportunities therein. allenpike.com/2025/why-is-ch…

This episode, Zapier’s first PM @chrisgeoghegan shares about building Zapier from millions in ARR to hundreds of millions, the effects of AI on PM roles and automation tooling, and disrupting yourself before anybody else does. itshipped.fm/episodes/34

How to Not Get Acquired: An approach for staying focused when trying to do something difficult. allenpike.com/2025/how-not-t…

UX Entropy: How products like Zoom can bloat from hero to hulk. allenpike.com/2025/ux-entropy

Building Something Big: On the pros and cons of the indie path. allenpike.com/2025/building-…

Getting Tied Up: On little things that get in the way. allenpike.com/2025/getting-t…