River Marchand

what's your ideal inspiration process? you know i love cosmos, are.na, and pinterest. but i have problems with all of them. pinterest has a great discovery algo. but it's tuned for engagement, so once it starts feeding you a certain type of image you end up in a spiral that's hard to escape. cosmos is great when culture-drive curation is the goal. but heavy curation has a cost: you end up seeing the same references everyone else does. are.na is a wild child. no notes on that. but as much as i love quirky human curation, i also love an algorithm that feels like it understands how i think. i've tried mymind and i respect their commitment to no collaboration but i need collaborative features since i think the real unlocks happen when you combine personal thought, collaborative though, and algorithmic discovery. so this is why i'm building memio. memio is a local-first, creative memory companion. i've been tuning a similarity algorithm that’s been really fun to use. it's looser than pinterest and cosmos, which means it surfaces unexpected connections instead of just showing you more of what you already clicked on. the goal is for it to feel like a little like human curation. here's where memio is going: multi-modal. right now it handles images. text, links, video, and audio are all in the works. cli, mcp, and all the other acronyms too. private by default. your library lives on your computer or in your own cloud storage. the core algorithm runs entirely on-device, so you can do a lot without ever hitting an external api. collaborative when you want. you'll be able to choose which boards you share with other people and llms and that will extend what you can do in the base version. capture whatever. find connections you couldn't find any other way. make cool shit. i'm building this for all of us so tell me what you want from a tool like this!

@ryry__mimi Do you find that the context switching is required or just a side effect of not doing all the work yourself? I'm in the second category where I find it hard to wait so I always jump to something else.

@Riyvir Don’t have a great solution yet. Really it’s a lot of context switching which negates a lot of the flow state benefits

Design iteration is too slow with Claude to enter flow state

@adebola_io Yeahhhh, at this point I just don't even bother with instructions and consider having to repeat myself as practice in patience.

@Riyvir I have very interesting custom instructions lol It still doesnt work

I now cringe whenever I see the word "not." I hope you're happy, ai.

@karrisaarinen Shhh you're ruining an honest day's work of engagement bait!

My favorite thing is how these screenshots fail to show that there’s an entire navigation sidebar and entire product view next to this one screen. (also a preference to pick any screen you like as your start screen)

@gaanasrini This is the best way! It's like a fun little celebration when you get something right, ha

am i nuts for doing it this way

I have quite similar ideas about creative/artistic coding

@simhskal @vercel @rauchg Thank you for being excited to listen to my feedback!

@Riyvir @vercel @rauchg Thank you for your kind and candid feedback!

I'm so impressed by the @vercel team. Last weekend I told @rauchg that more clarity around billing would give me peace of mind and they've already shipped an update to address it. Creative tools should help you focus on creating so Vercel is quickly becoming a really important addition to my creative toolkit. I definitely didn't expect to be calling a hosting platform a "creative tool."

The @vercel team is always listening and engaging with customers on @x. We shape the product as a result of these conversations. Vercel gives us the velocity to ship, X gives us a nonstop stream of user feedback. Thanks @simhskal & @riyvir!

what if you could navigate unicode characters by visual similarity?

@belindmo STG. I am irrationally frustrated by how much it feels like the models are wasting my time telling me how everything in the world is not anything else.

If I see another "it's not X — it's Y" pattern from Claude I'm going to flip a table

the reason some builders are inspiring and draw people in and others are repellant is because that energy of chasing external validation is inherently stressful and controlling. people feel it. when you build from that energy of inner purpose it’s magnetic it’s alignment with ego vs alignment with soul - and alignment with soul wins in the end, every time

@theo See now I really need to start doing more in T3 code! Conductor was so fun until it started to become unusable the longer a session got.

Kind of sad that Conductor, stripped down to bare essentials with no real UI, is still much slower than T3 Code.

the idea that Karen from Customer Service wants to build their own app for work is highly exaggerated. highly. anyone who ever worked with human knows that already.

@quionie Literally whenever I see the word “not” in any concept I immediately think it’s ai. I don’t know why that one sticks out to me so much.

what’s the easiest way to spot AI writing? besides the em dash lol

I think this is just part of a lot of products realizing they’re just better off as apis.

@devannpatel @naturalpay Love the idea of using "puzzle" more often to describe our work. That just sounds so classy and fun.

coming soon @naturalpay... turns out designing onboarding for three distinct user groups with different compliance requirements from multiple banks is quite the puzzle!

@itskasturiii This is also deeply helpful to those of us who are terminally online but are too busy to really process any information 😂

in case you’re not chronically online, here’s what you missed this week: oracle layoffs 30,000 employees, anthropic banned openclaw, mintlify has 50 employees, new design tool called noon raised 44M, mercor data leak, cursor has their own agentenation, openai acquires tbpn m hope you touched grass unlike me. see you next week

The more I work with agents the more I find myself saying "does that make sense" like in life normally. Does that make sense?