Have you used Poke? Leave your thoughts in the comment or share other AI Assistants you've used!
What is Poke?
Poke.com is a proactive AI assistant that automates your digital life with smart integrations and real-world utility. It s like Claude via iMessage or WhatsApp that doesn t always need a user prompt to message you.
Can an AI Assistant Finally Deliver on Its Promise?
I launched my SaaS company, Encharge, in 2019 with less than $1,000 in my account, no funding, no network, no audience, and no accelerators. It generated $2 million before we sold it. Here are 17 things I learned from it.
1. Startups are a last-man-standing game.
The one to win is not the fastest, smartest, or best. It's the most persistent and resilient.
I'll say it bluntly that running a business is not as easy as it is presented on the Internet. You have to come up with a good and useful idea, and even then, you don't win.
You can only see the results after a long time. Not everyone can do it for a long time. To do it, you need to have a strong motive. For some people, it may be a family tradition, for some, money.
Have you used Poke? Leave your thoughts in the comment or share other AI Assistants you've used!
What is Poke?
Poke.com is a proactive AI assistant that automates your digital life with smart integrations and real-world utility. It s like Claude via iMessage or WhatsApp that doesn t always need a user prompt to message you.
Can an AI Assistant Finally Deliver on Its Promise?
I've recently been recommended various new tools like Warp (terminal) and Zed (IDE). They are both quite intriguing, as I expect both could help speed up my development workflow. However, actually switching to them seems to be a huge lift. I've downloaded and explored the two apps, but the thought of figuring out which current habits can be replicated vs. which ones I should completely relearn with the new app's tools is quite daunting. As a result, I haven't re-opened them... I think the ProductHunt community would lean on the side of more experimental and motivated to try new things. How many new products do you try? How many end up sticking? Do you also feel the obstacles I've mentioned above and what ends up pushing you over that activation energy?
At Warestack, we treat documentation as part of the product!
For everyone asking how to start and what features we support, we ve created a complete playlist of short tutorials and demos to guide you through every step.
Watch the playlist: Agentic & Custom Protection Rules
We are almost at the end of our Summer of Workflows series! This week we are featuring the Label Studio Workflow inside ApertureDB Cloud: See It In Action
Spin up Label Studio connected to your ApertureDB instance
Label & annotate images right where your data lives
Build labeled datasets faster without manual transfer of cloud bucket URLs.
Perfect for anyone building multimodal AI agents or applications and looking to streamline annotation + dataset creation. Ready to try it yourself? Start here Read The Docs | Explore The Code | Additional Resources Only 2 workflows left in the summer series stay tuned!
Feedback always welcome we re building this for the AI/ML community!
After rebuilding the same project three times because AI forgot my architecture, I got fed up and built @CodeRide (Beta) with my team.
The problem: AI code assistants lose track of your project between sessions. Every time I start coding with Cursor, Claude, or any AI assistant, I waste time re-explaining my codebase structure, architectural decisions, and coding patterns.
What we built: The project management tool for coding agents using MCP. Upload your project documentation or PRD, and CodeRide breaks it into optimized, fully contextual tasks ready for your AI agent.
HyNote is giving out free HyNote premium access to attendees who want to turn scattered sources into organized notes.
What can you do with HyNote?
- Record onsite audio with your phone or Apple Watch to get a brief summary, which can then be turned into a LinkedIn post right after the event.
- Take pictures of slides to get a summary and save it all in one place. No more losing notes in your photo album and never looking at them again. - Merge all the notes after the tech week and get an overall insights. Comment below or email to sandy@hybran.com if you are interested.
Over the past year, I ve noticed more founders stepping into the course creator role. Some are sharing genuine frameworks, while others lean heavily on personal branding and hype.
A recent example is App Mafia: a group of young founders (Zach Yadegari, Blake Anderson, Alex Slater, Connor McLaren) who claim to have built mobile apps valued at over $100M. They just launched a $997 marketing course, and the reaction online has been mixed.
No matter what you're building, investors new favorite question: "What stops OpenAI from doing this?"
For @Migma AI: we operate on the software layer while OpenAI provides the foundation models. they re pushing toward AGI, not building specialized vertical products. email requires deep integrations, brand learning, cross-client rendering, and a compiler we built in-house. OpenAI won t spend years perfecting how 40+ email clients render html but that s exactly our edge. Look at how they acquired @Windsurf for billions: instead of building vertical products themselves, they buy proven software players. we re in that category. Now tell me: what stops OpenAI and giants from doing what you're doing?
I spend a lot more time on PH at the moment to see what indepedent makers are spending their time on. I've noticed some patterns and also want to share a little bit about my journey at South Park Commons. Most startup stories begin at zero when there s already a team, an idea, maybe even a prototype. But at South Park Commons (SPC), the philosophy is different: people gather in the -1 to 0 stage. That liminal space where you don t yet know what you re building or even if you should build at all. It s a place for exploration, experimentation, and being brutally honest about what s working and what s not.
A hallmark of SPC is how often industry leaders drop by to share what they ve learned in the wild. Recently, I was in a small chat with Tyler Payne former Google and LinkedIn AI lead, startup builder, who has spent the last decade helping teams actually ship real-world ML systems. We're always talking about what's being launched at SPC.
As a member of the @v0 by Vercel Ambassador Program, I just had early access and there's no difference with the desktop app. This. is. freakin. mind-blowing.
As someone who's worked for a long time in both the "content creation tools" and "educational content" industries, this is a question I get asked all the time.
I spent last month testing some assumptions like: founders want to meet others in-person. These assumptions failed as it's not as simple as that. There are some intricacies.
Well, I think will come back to the original asusmption that sort of worked. People liked being on the map, sharing their profile, and getting discovered.
