jay clark ✦

It's out in the wild! Proud of the team for getting such a high quality product out which will really help people grow their money over the long term.

@hemeon I liked what I heard @kevinrose say. Something like: paid adds are useful for adding fuel to the fire. But wait until you have good momentum before you spend too much. Great products should grow themselves to an extent.

I'd love some advice / insight. Seeing lots of talk about paid ads for consumer apps. I'm curious if a consumer app raises 2M how much of that spend would you use for paid ads?

🏄‍♂️ I designed & built a surf journal in 2 days whilst on a surf sabbatical. surf-journal.xyz I built something which would be fun for me to use, and gave me a good excuse to play with some new tools. @cursor_ai @claudeai @vercel @suno @github @Firebase @figma

@tferriss what are your top Taiwan recs Tim Tim? 🙏🙏

@SebJohnsonUK I have a good feeling about this. This is the energy we need.

The UK Government has just OFFICIALLY launched Sovereign AI, the Government’s new £500m venture fund and it looks FRESH. The Unit has been given £500 million to invest to help build and scale AI capabilities on British shores. It's been know about for a few months but it has officially launched its brand and website and it looks FRESH. The team itself is also STACKED: > @Jameswise: Partner at Balderton and Chair > Joséphine Kant: Head of Ventures aka running the show And of course the Minister of AI - @KanishkaNarayan This is one of the most exciting initiatives in the UK right now and I can't wait to see what they invest in. Check it out here: sovereignai.gov.uk and follow them on @UKSovereignAI

@UKSovereignAI @talfanevans @jeffrey_hawke @DanAkarca @HannahMadan @juliafanli Huge! Excited to follow along

Today, we hosted a small group of exceptional British founders to discuss how Sovereign AI can support them on their journey to scale in the UK and win everywhere. We're building Sovereign AI for founders. Lets get Britmaxxing.

Resharing this discussion I had about design at @monzo here :) @jaydesigns/note/p-177901771?r=12v5f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@jaydesigns/no…

@mhudack Can’t wait to take the grandkids to the opening ceremony

This is extremely exciting. I just hope they manage to build it quickly.

@vanschneider The beauty of pm’s being able to tell Claude to ship the backlog

Spotify just launched a feature which I worked on ~12 years ago (while at Spotify) (:

@lil_dill @stripe GDP ticker is top tier. Is there a fun story about how that idea came about?

Today, we launched our new homepage to better reflect the full scale of what @Stripe does today. From the GDP ticker to gradients, easter eggs, customer stories, and book recommendations—it's chockfull of love and we're so excited to get it live.

2026 full year calendar @figjam for those getting their lives in order 🫡 figma.com/community/file…

@Stammy Respect

Limitless was acquired by Meta today. Great end to a lovely journey with Rewind and Limitless. reuters.com/business/meta-…

@cobie Well deserved 🫡

when i started building echo 2 years ago, i knew it had 95% chance of failing. to be honest, i couldnt really imagine any other outcome, but i thought at least it may be a noble failure worth attempting. i certainly didn't think echo would be sold to coinbase, but, here we are: today coinbase bought echo for ~$375m. echo will remain a standalone platform under its current brand for now, but we will integrate sonar's public sale product into coinbase, and likely introduce new ways for founders to access investors, and for investors to access opportunities into coinbase itself. over the years i have chatted to brian a handful of times, and mostly to complain at him honestly. i have always respected how brian would listen to an outsider chat shit at him on the phone and take the feedback seriously. now, instead of complaining, i will have the opportunity try to do the work to make things better. crypto itself has moved on a long way since we started working on echo. i guess partially this is because of the election result. but, i feel energised by a lot of the cool things being built in crypto again: hyperliquid, zcash, stablecoin supercyle, and so on. feels like a good time to be on the field instead of an idiot with a twitter account yapping nonsense. well, i guess i still will be that. anyway, job's not finished. onwards. oh fuck yeah, before i go, the final season of up only (now "unc only" due to our severe old age) will commence when we figure out who the guests should be lol cobber

@lucaisdesigning I believe the bottom right action on the tab bar always has to be search from their guidelines

what if apple built a calorie tracker app? #madeinsketch

@vanschneider It’s funny how quickly we’ve gone from people complaining about colour contrast to this 😆

@hemeon I’m really loving all the new navigation patterns and updates to modality in the native apps. There’s so much cool stuff in this update even ignoring liquid glass.

The backlash against Liquid Glass from Design X makes me wonder how many other amazing design ideas are getting killed inside of companies by Design Leaders who are afraid of change.

@Macbaconai This is great. Would it be possible to get a higher res version please? 🙏🔥🌊

@ANoffsinger Yeah I imagine you could reverse engineer their calculations reasonably easily. Figuring out your 1rm for each lift is quite intense so it’s good to have the option to get something rough quicker

@jayclark___ Oh interesting. I love the idea of being able to extrapolate that info. I've been planning to add ability to track 1-5 rep totals too, so that would unlock that extrapolation

My personal lift tracking app now uses AI to spot imbalances between lifts and tells you what to focus on next. Let me know if you want access to the TestFlight!

@ANoffsinger Oof this is nice dude. One thing I like about the 531 app is how you can calculate 1rm by saying you can do 5 reps at Xkg. Could be a cool addition here

@jayclark___ testflight.apple.com/join/74U5Gx6b

@benjitaylor Were you prototyping in Xcode or just working closely with an iOS engineer? We’re spoiled now as designers with tools like cursor

I finally sat down and wrote ~2,000 words about what made Honk feel ‘honkish’, along with 40+ visual examples. Enjoy! benji.org/honkish