Mike Kaczmarek ⚡️

@soleio 💯 I believe designers trying to use ‘taste’ as a moat in these AI times is only going to hurt them.

Too much talk about craft and taste Too little about luck, desire, and power

@adriankuleszo It’s like a capsule wardrobe. Master the use of four or five color pallets and master the use of three or four fonts and you have a strong flexible base to create amazing products and visuals with enough variety.

The more experienced I grow as a designer, the more I appreciate the simplest solutions, clean designs, no cognitive overload. Spent years overdesigning everything. Now I strip things down until there's nothing left to remove. Better results every time 🤷‍♂️

@darylginn It's a problem in every creative vertical. YouTube is a great example. You'll see one of the bigger or more creative creators make a video, and like clockwork 3-4 hours later, all the smaller channels in the category release an oddly similar one. I'm just sayin...

I feel like there needs to be an open source list of all these designers constantly stealing others’ work on this platform. I’m seeing it daily now and it’s disgusting. They all need shame and mass blocking.

@theo Not a great UX but it’s reliable - eTrade

Robinhood refused a buy order, didn't notify me, withdrew my money anyways, and cost me over $10k in lost gains in the last 24 hours. What the hell should I be using instead?

@Ui_Eaxi @kargulstudio You missed that your mental health was prob at an all time high 🤣

Been off Design Twitter for 5 months… just locked in and working. Here’s what went down: • Hit $25K on Contra • Got the opportunity to work with Framer • Shipped 2 major projects and other minor projects • Collaborated with amazing talent at @kargulstudio • Made great friends like @danieldesignzz while building • Moved to a new city + got my own apartment And a lot more behind the scenes. I’m back now. Let’s dominate.

@siddharthvij_ What have you found to be the best method to get designs into isometric in Figma?

isometric bento 🤩

@DannPetty Claude isn’t there yet when it comes to cost/availability but it’s getting there. Honestly, Codex is the only usable one right now.

I'm worried about Figma Make failing here. Credits are way too expensive and go by too fast. I pay $240/M for 10K credits (on top of whatever I already pay Figma). 10K credits ran out in 2 hours on Version 11. That's unusable right there. They reset every 10 days. TEN DAYS!

@desgnwitkinsley IMO, anything past a click-through prototype or a simple linear interaction Figma has always been a subpar prototyping tool. But it’s what we had.

Prototying in Figma now feels like you just intentionally want to purnish yourself.

@tech__unicorn To do apps are the one thing AI is disproportionally good at building

only in sf do you incorporate in Delaware, open a Mercury account, get a Stripe Atlas, join 3 founder Slacks, go to YC day, read the Paul Graham essays just to build a to-do app wtf is wrong with ppl here?

@connorpaton I’d be down next time you do it. I’ve been really enjoying the St. Franks in the sunset if you want a bit more energy or Bazar cafe if you want some super chill. Plus, a backyard garden.

anyone in sf want to find a coffee shop and co-work on this fine rainy day? coffees on me

@zuess05 A lot of my early career was in B2C. It's a much harder hill to climb because generally consumers don't want to pay for things. My best advice there is to lean into the freemium model and offer really cheap paid plans.

@itsKazski This was very insightful thanks I’m trying to achieve the same but with B2C :)

I am actually curious for the founders who have made it out. What actually triggered your first massive user spike?

@MatthewBerman Wait till you find out that Chrome on macOS is just Safari because it has to use WebKit.

Wtf Safari is actually a really good browser…

@delveroin Na dude. Make friends and be fun to work with. Since I went solo 4 years ago, every single client I have had was a referral.

Shamelessly promote yourself. Nobody else will do it.

@yashwanth941v Both feel off to me, but reminds me of this banger: tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-ico…

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Spent some time rebuilding my personal site just to see if I could ditch Webflow for AI + a headless CMS. Nothing flashy or complex. TLDR: wouldn't recommend it if you value your time or maintainability. Good learning exercise for those who want to start learning how web dev works under the hood. I definitely wouldn't recommend anyone push their team or clients to do this. mike.today

@ThePrimeagen @theo @skeptrune @michael_chomsky let'em have their quarter-life crisis, sir

@theo @skeptrune @michael_chomsky 1. don't do a podcast

hi, @michael_chomsky and i are starting a low effort podcast and hiring a video editor we're recording once or twice a week, and you should apply. remote, pay is $1500-$3000/mo depending on experience and location our interview process will be entirely proof of work based. dm us with your experience and pitch. you'll be expected to ship the podcast and clips end to end. we care that you've done this before if you're interested, dm me! --- 00:00 SDLC Is Broken: Ship Fast, Kill Faster 10:22 DevRel Is Dead 24:05 Handling Public Criticism: Cursor, Roy Lee & Hacker News 34:07 Composio & the Pain of Agent Integrations 46:30 Jensen's OpenClaw Takes & the Buggy Reality 56:08 Proactive Agents as Autonomous Employees

@theo Guess people will just need to dissect the project they are interested in the old school way. AI taking away the shortcut of AI. 😂

Claude Code now throws an error if you use it to try and analyze the Claude Code source

@atmoio AI doesn’t solve, or really even help that much with the distribution problem. That’s really where the rubber meets the road.

there’s a sort of permanent valley of despair i’m seeing a lot of non-technical people who are building software fall into. they have a wonderful time vibecoding the thing. but when they reach the point where everything is functionally correct, they have no idea what to do next. they have no idea how to go from having a product to actually getting people to use or pay for it. it’s not something an agent can help with because it’s the part of the job that requires you to go soak yourself in present, dynamic reality and learn how to change yourself and your product to satisfy a market need. it’s a very painful and slow process many builders get out of the way in their twenties. and now you have a bunch of middle aged men with kids and a mortgage trying to navigate this, and it’s not really working out too well for them. it’s why everyone is talking about what they’re building but no one is shipping.

@peer_rich @danywander Crazy to say that universities were being progressive when they changed STEM into STEAM to incorporate more creative thinking and understanding for technical education.

i want developers to develop design taste not to replace designers but to protect them if every spacing decision requires a figma file youll never ship fast and clean