Ryan Cadby

This was a great read, despite it being a bit hyperbolic. My greatest take away is for anyone who isn't using AI to jump on the bandwagon use a paid tier of any flagship model. I believe and agree with that sentiment. AI is no longer default "meh", it's really good and can be great if you know how to prompt it and provide relevant context

@dennismuellr @hyojun_at I saw that, and i realize you didn't even invite this sort of criticism given you didn't post the email

@ryancadby @hyojun_at i hear you sir 🙏🏼 and i think you can make points why friction (make answer harder) is better and worse. i wrote it somewhere in this thread: the email was sampled. only 15% have received it; giving me room to iterate on it before rolling it out.

i don't think this is a good question for finding a pivot idea

I agree I think it’s very warm, is warmth the goal? whenever I get these emails I always doubt my feedback will be heard, let alone be implemented. That mindset puts pressure on me to write a complete and compelling response. So the question is, how do we lessen that burden for the reviewer? I think we lessen that burden by asking a specific question with plenty of context and re-assurance that feedback is valuable and will be considered. Just my 2cents, I’m not coming at you from a place of malice. I know user feedback is valuable and I think with a couple small tweaks this email could be great.

@ryancadby @hyojun_at it's a pretty warm email imo. was only people who paid for Amie at some point. so basically all of those liked the promise and many not the delivery.

I think the specific question matters the most. Getting people to reply to a cold email is extremely difficult. The question is your only chance to prompt a response, it should matter. I’m not an Amie user, but based on this screenshot I’d frame your goal, then ask the question. This takes the leg work out for the user to contextualize their answer and can just fire off a short response. People are busy and inboxes are crowded, I’d make it as easy as possible for them.

@hyojun_at didn't offend me, since it's inaccurate. we have a long product history, and a lot of potential to reactive (real) customers. so this helps start a conversation. i don't even think the specific question matters that much.

@AKASpencerScott Top notch AI use case right here

What 24 months in the trash industry looks like...

@instance_11 @round Your design direction is done extremely well!

an object born from code casts an infinite shadow

@SamiFathi_ You read my mind, Apple mail just works… it still has parts that suck like the search and the duplicated email chain whenever I’m emailing someone using outlook. I’m shocked there aren’t better alternatives

There is really no good Mac email app. I've tried Notion Mail. I've tried all the knock-off apps on the Mac App Store, and I always end up coming back to Apple Mail. Spark Mail came close, but Apple Mail always takes the edge for some reason.

@alexjcampbell Yes, I'm interested!

@ryancadby If you're looking for a precision-engineered escape hatch, I'd love to chat :)

Every January I'm reminded that QuickBooks is a precision-engineered torture device masquerading as accounting software.

Still working on my grass touching metrics

@thekevingeary I have so many questions, is it a plugin or a theme? does it add-on to existing page builders or does it draft it's own markup? How does it compare to building a custom theme with Cursor + WP MCP server? How does it handle custom fields?

It's so funny... Even though we didn't plan it this way, Etch is likely to be the #1 AI-assisted development platform for WordPress simply because we chose to respect the fundamental language of web design. AI knows HTML, CSS, and JS. It doesn't know Elementor syntax, Gutenberg syntax, Bricks syntax, Divi syntax, or anything else. We don't have to train our AI to build websites in our tool because Etch and the Agents all speak the same language. And since we decided to give you access to the code, you won't have to play everyone's new favorite game, "Reprompt!" You'll just be able to tweak and adjust and move on. If you use AI in a traditional builder (when they finally make it do something other than writing bad copy) you better get a great deal on tokens because you're gonna need a shit load of them. Or, you can use Etch and essentially have a cursor-like experience inside a visual dev environment directly in WP that simultaneously authors all the code to core blocks. #checkmate

Built a website for a publicly traded company. Pretty cool to see your work on a stage this big.

I've heard too many good things about Perplexity. I'll bite, setting my "new tab" home page to Perplexity

@imsamhogan AEO

I’m building a backlink mafia, YC companies, future unicorn startups and growth hackers. Hmu if you want your main source of attribution to be ChatGPT comment AEO or dm me

@gregisenberg I agree with this to a point, yes api's will become more readily available and yes ai will play more nicely with them, but the complete removal of a GUI is unlikely given there is so much data that will need to be edited, visualized and interacted with outside of a chat interface

SaaS is being dismantled as we speak! We're witnessing the slow-motion collapse of an entire business model that dominated tech for two decades. The $1.3 trillion SaaS is being quietly hollowed out from within by AI agents. Here's how I see it playing out: Phase 1 (Now): AI as co-pilot. We're seeing this everywhere, Copilot for developers, Gamma for presentations, Harvey for legal research etc. These AI layers sit atop existing software, making it more efficient. The SaaS companies feel safe, even excited, as AI seems to make their products more valuable. They're bringing knives to what they think is a knife fight. Phase 2 (Next 12-18 months): The agent invasion. AI moves from co-pilot to autonomous operator. They're replacement workers that can fully operate existing software on your behalf. The dam breaks when someone can say "analyze our Q2 performance" rather than clicking through Tableau, or "optimize our ad campaigns" instead of navigating Meta's ad manager. The expertise previously bundled with the software gets unbundled by agents. Phase 3 (2-3 years): Software invisibility. The final phase happens when the agents bypass the human interfaces altogether. Why render dashboards, buttons and menus when AI can just access the APIs directly? The value proposition of SaaS, bundling software, workflow, and expertise into user-friendly interfaces unravels completely. The interfaces were designed for humans, but agents don't need them. Most SaaS incumbents don't see it coming because this isn't a classic disruption pattern. It's not about competing products with better features. It's about the evaporation of the core assumption that humans will operate software. What's more, the barrier to creating custom, internal software is collapsing simultaneously. Companies that once had to choose between expensive custom development or off-the-shelf SaaS can now spin up bespoke solutions in days instead of months. Why pay Hubspot $1,500/month for a CRM when your team can build 'HubspotForUs' with an AI coding assistant over a weekend? The same features, perfectly tailored to your workflow, with no ongoing subscription costs. This democratization of software creation means every company becomes a potential software producer rather than just a consumer. The specialized knowledge that SaaS companies monopolized is now available to anyone with access to an AI coding agent and domain expertise. It went from $1M to build an MVP to build a SaaS to basically free overnight. I bet the metrics will be puzzling at first, DAUs remain strong while feature usage mysteriously declines. The power users who drive revenue suddenly need fewer seats. Customer success calls shift from "how do I use this feature?" to "can your software work with my AI agent?" Or worse: "we built our own version that better fits our workflow." The survivors won't be those with the best features or even those who add AI features fastest (from no AI to "ai-assisted"). The winners will be companies that expose their software's capabilities through agent-friendly APIs and position themselves as the most trustworthy information sources and execution engines in their domain. There's also the shift from monthly subscriptions to outcome based software (pay per outcome, pay per task etc) but that's a tweet for another day! The $1T question: Will Microsoft, Atlassian, Adobe etc. successfully navigate this transition, or will they be the Digital Equipment Corporation of our era too invested in the previous paradigm to adapt to the new one? All I know is this will be a golden era for startups in the space. SaaS is being dismantled, piece by piece, workflow by workflow, interface by interface. Am I wrong?

@freychu my man wants a bigger audience before he monitizes them duhhhhh

No. In the clurb, we all fam.

Who's ready to automate influencer marketing?

I'm consistently surprised by the lack of basic functionality Webflow supports. No default CMS field values. This has been a feature request for 6 years. wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-…

Some cool things happened in my first full month of YouTube. Posted 1 video a week. • +2,900 YouTube subs • Monetized my channel on Jan 10th • Gained 400 newsletters subs • 4 consulting gigs ($150/hr) • First $500 SEO consulting gig • 2 software company partnership requests (from reputable companies) • 50+ directory builders down for an SEO-focused community • Did my first podcast appearance • Co-built my first SaaS But by far, the most fun I’ve had was getting to meet a bunch of smart builders through zoom, email, DMs. Need to find time to finish out a couple of my directory builds that are half finished. On an unrelated note, my passive earnings from my directory sites hit a new PR this month ($2483.78) which is reminding me to finish building these out already. Should come with better organization of my time.

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