fredd

Back in San Francisco this week, who's around?

@kedis @round Clean

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@ClementDelangue @Pinterest @Airbnb @NotionHQ @cursor_ai @eoghan @intercom No doubt

After @Pinterest @Airbnb @NotionHQ @cursor_ai, today it’s @eoghan @intercom publicly sharing that they’re finding it better, cheaper, faster to use and train open models themselves rather than use APIs for many tasks. And hundreds of other companies are doing the same without sharing. Ultimately, I believe the majority of AI workflows will be in-house based on open-source (vs API). It took much more time than we anticipated but it’s happening now!

@nikitabier Correction: 3h today

@nikitabier 36 to 48h

iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days? It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.

@allanyu_ It's true!

good compliment on a crazy feature we're testing rn

@awxjack What a ride, thanks for sharing your fascinating story.

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue. Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR. We could've died three times during this journey. This is the story I've never told anyone before:

@mercebent Personal phones. My takeaway is those normal people don’t like ai taking over their phones. Might be Apple UX, not sure, but ai has a bad rep that I hear in many discussions with younger people.

@fredd were they trying to turn off ai on their work phones?

ai has a huge ideological problem. a lot of mainstream users, i think a vocal minority?, absolutely hate ai. i've spoken with a lot of CEOs who can't even say the word "ai" because their users revolt.

@jmj Design is how it feels

When vibe coding started getting popular, some people said, “we won’t need designers anymore, you can just design things yourself.” The opposite happened. I talked to a well respected designer friend today who said freelance design rates are getting more expensive, and hiring a full-time designer in the U.S. now starts at $150K. He shared a framing I liked: "Teams understand the models are going to make everyone 7/10 designers. Which does eliminate the need for low end of the market. But if you can help someone ship 9 or 10/10 design you’ve never been more valuable because it’s now one of the core means of differentiation." AI made bad design easier. It also made great design harder & more expensive.

@juliapintar Would love to join

no one is sharing how to build a creator army that pumps viral vids out for you every day we've built pristine systems to manage our 200 creators & now i'm giving away the playbook on how to replicate it tune in on wens 10/22 for my masterclass - lmk if you want the rsvp link

@hamburger @brennanjp On it :)

@brennanjp true! but if you look at products like Retro (or Stories), i still think there's a desire for *a lightweight way to keep up with friends' lives* and the mainstream space for that is all but vacant now

friends simply aren't engaging enough (lol) to survive on today's social platforms...

@NobleInvesting @SherryYanJiang Talk with other founders

@SherryYanJiang How do you stay sane between that?

founder life is basically: oscillating between “we’re gonna be huge” and “i’m wasting my life” 10x a day. still somehow addicted to it.

@samhenrigold @laurentdelrey 🤯 and 🤣 at the same time

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

@laurentdelrey @skydotcs @round Crazy lol

@skydotcs @round no way

the time picker on iphones alarm app isn’t actually circular it’s just a really long list

@JohnExley Always!!!

Go harder & keep going

@MothatiSeteng @SpotifyAfrica Nice, thanks.

@SpotifyAfrica @fredd

Name your current favourite artist right now. 😍

@HugoAmsellem @hthieblot Around 97 my mom met her now husband on IRC, haha I still can't believe it.

@hthieblot I had a Q on my channel - spent my entire childhood living in mIRC / Quakenet - learning life!

If you know what this is, you are a true OG

@bonatsos That’s a nice way to put it

The older one gets, the better stories they have. One of the few benefits of aging!

@soleio 50s: check out to golf swing drill I found

20s: hey check out this beer I found 30s: check out this startup I found 40s: check out this salad I found