Jacob Wright

Went with Google Cloud as the safe boring bet. I feel less anxious.

I’ve landed on 2 viable options: 1. Stick with the plan to move to Cloudflare and use their beta container product for versioning 2. Stay with Google Firestore and use Cloud Run. Got experience with both and want to offer your 2¢? 🙏

So today is research day. Figure out how to salvage this. The hero pulls out the stops and wins in the end. Armageddon beer moment (x.com/startupspod/st…)

Out-of-memory error. On a large (but not the largest) project. Apparently, Cloudflare's Durable Objects' 128 MB of memory isn't enough to hold one of our projects. I (mistakenly) thought, a 35 MB JSON file would fit easily in 128 MB. Apparently, with lots of strings, it doesn't

You know that part in every story's climax where the hero is about to win? And then the worst possible thing happens? Yeah...that. Me. This morning.

@fordhsmith @BeautifulMetric Because I am my target user, I think I will keep all of it, but I’m sure it will be refined with users. I can’t bring myself to build something I don’t want to use myself. 😬 flaw or strength, my first business has benefited from that mindset at least. 😄

@jac_ @BeautifulMetric Wild how fast you can go from idea to full blueprint now, curious how much of it you’ll keep versus tweak once real users show up🧠

Using Claude Projects to design my next startup from scratch. - ICP - Core differentiators - Landing page copy - Logo concept - Onboarding experience - Feature design - Visual design direction - DB schema & tech details So different from Dabble's start! @BeautifulMetric, soon

I was *just* thinking how nice this would be today on my walk around the block. 😄

Been burning the candle at both ends for a few months, final stretch for Dabble 3.0. It’s been a long road. My authors are going to love it! #excited #exhausted

@SunSparc Thanks! I think the hardest step was post 1. Haha

@jac_ Welcome back!

Decided to start posting again on X/Twitter. #SaaS #StartupLife #BuildInPublic 👋

@startupspod @robwalling Thanks for answering my question, @robwalling! Cheapium is great. 😄

Should founders raise funding to quit their day job faster? @robwalling covers late-joining co-founder equity splits, why your cheapest plan might be killing your metrics and how AI is introducing feasibility risks. Ep 820 👇 startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episo…

@gregisenberg I disagree. Yes, AI models will be commoditized, but the "simplest possible interface" is easily replicable, a small moat, and a small value-add to the end user. The value is in UI + systems/logic + AI, and those aren't AI wrappers any more than a SaaS is a "database wrapper".

In 2006, everyone thought the money was in selling servers. Then AWS said 'actually, we'll give you infinite servers for pennies.' Instant distributio overnight. The biggest companies weren't server manufacturers - they were apps like Airbnb, Uber, Netflix. Companies that used cheap servers to solve real problems. The same flip is happening with AI models. DeepSeek is just the beginning. Soon, frontier models will be basically free. Im just making the assumption they will be free at this point tbh. And just like AWS, the biggest winners won't be model providers. They'll be the 'wrapper' companies solving specific problems really well: The Airbnb of legal contracts The Uber of sales outreach The Netflix of content creation The more commoditized these models get, the more valuable great wrapper products become. Because when everyone has access to the same powerful models, the differentiator becomes understanding specific user problems deeply. Pick any industry that hasn't been transformed by AI yet. Build the simplest possible interface for one specific workflow. That's your AWS moment.

DeepSeek just proved the 'worthless' GPT wrapper startups are actually the ones with real moats. A week ago, nothing was more LOW status than being a 'GPT wrapper' startup. But I think we're learning that's DEAD wrong. Turns out they were just early to the only game that matters While DeepSeek, Meta, Anthropic and Microsoft battle over benchmark scores, these 'wrapper' companies have been quietly building the only moat that matters: interface loyalty. Because of how big owning the LLM is for national defense and the economy, the next breakthrough model is always 2 weeks away. DeepSeek launches today, someone else drops a better one tomorrow. But getting millions of people to make your product part of their daily workflow - that's the real barrier to entry. ChatGPT didn't win because it had the best model. It won because it was dead simple to use. And I think it has staying power because of that. This is why all those AI startups we dismissed are actually positioned to win. They're not competing on model performance - they're competing on being the default way humans interact with AI. Frontier models are becoming commodities. User habits aren't. While everyone obsesses over the next architecture breakthrough, the real game is being played in the interface layer. The moat isn't in the model - it's in being the tool people reach for without thinking. Technology advantage is temporary. Interface lock-in is forever. Keep shipping those wrappers, my friends.

@trueadm @mattjohnstondev Svelte bindings don't provide editing capabilities except in Input and TextArea. Definitely worth exploring this.

@mattjohnstondev Not really to be honest. I know of the Svelte bindings, and I know plenty projects using the bindings successfully in production so I assumed it was already dealt with

I can’t wait to bring my performance background to Svelte. Combined with my ideas around compilation, I think we can do some crazy cool things.

@ChrisStoneBooks @dabblewriter ❤️❤️ It truly has been my pleasure. I love it!

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@KMurphyWilbanks @Chet_Novels @dabblewriter You can use it on your phone as well. We’ll need to improve the website with that information. help.dabblewriter.com/en/articles/39…