yj lim

A friend sends you an app that might solve one small problem. You open it and the first screen asks you to create an account before you can see what it does. Some apps need an account to save work or sync; for a quick evaluation, that s a real ask.

As someone building Inquir Compute, I m curious about that first step. The difference may be whether you reach a useful moment before sharing an email, or whether signing up is itself part of getting value.

Spent weeks prompting AI to add new features only to find duplicate functions and messy files everywhere in the repo.

Now every friday i ask it to find redundant logic and unused files so i can clear them out. Keeping the codebase small makes it way easier to manage.

A brand might appear frequently in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's being recommended as the best choice.

There's a difference between being listed among several options and being positioned as the solution a buyer should consider.