... This is garbage, it hung up on my mother" is rude and actionable. "Love the vision, excited to see where this goes!" is lovely and worth nothing. Second, the distinction that changed how we respond: hate at your product versus hate at your category. A lot of what looks like hostility toward us is not about us at all - it is people who object to the whole idea of software answering a phone. That is not a bug report ... ... trolling either. It is a values position, and you cannot support-email it away; trying to "resolve" it treats someone's worldview

... galdayan): our setup ended up being a Slack webhook per agent session, posted to a channel only that agent writes to. sounds basic but the key part was making the notification say WHY it's waiting (needs approval vs finished vs

... were only concerned w/ my wellbeing I'd do the same, but when I have others I'm responsible for, and they themselves have mouths to feed, I think differently about the long term effects of my brand vs my company/product. Comment from Gabe Moronta(@mogabr): @kabirsalunkhe   @busmark_w_nika   @deangelo_hinkle   @henry_lindsey  Henry, I don't think you separate it, especially when you built it around your brand/identity. You just sort of outgrow ... ... launch. We've analyzed more than 6000 launches and the most common among top launches are because the founders arleady had a solid PH profile with engagements. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): For specialist/practitioner products this 'brand vs

... content is never about features. It's founder stories about productivity failures, burnout moments, stuff people recognize in themselves. The implication is a bit uncomfortable: people don't want to buy your product. They want to buy into your worldview. The product just happens to be the most convenient way to do that. Comment from Tudor Moldovanu(@tudor_moldovanu): People buy from people, and with the dead internet theory being more and more closer to our reality, personal accounts that ...

... what s next, too.) Platforms: we ve spent time with Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Microsoft in the last few weeks. Their roadmaps heavily influence the entire industry. Other builders & events : it s amazing seeing what excites people. SF vs. London is hilariously different. VCs : they see thousands of pitches. Their pattern-recognition is a cheat code if you listen carefully. Customers : sometimes you have to ignore everything above and ground yourself in what the average, non-bubble, person ... ... build Ting in the direction we think the world is going... So here are my hot takes. Some of them are echoed elsewhere before, some are more specific to me, my media digest, and my more consumer-focused worldview

... then a reality check: the world wasn t ready for neural hardware, but it was ready for frictionless voice. So WisprFlow pivoted into software, keeping the same ambition: Voice should replace the keyboard . Not complement it. Replace it. That worldview shows up everywhere in the product: cross-platform support, real-time auto-edits, tone learning, and a push-to-talk workflow that feels more like thinking than typing. Pricing & basics Free tier with weekly word limits Pro plan: $12/month ... ... just as-needed Founder Story @superwhisper started with one emotion: rage at macOS dictation . The founder built a client-side Whisper wrapper purely to fix his own workflow, then realized it had become the thing he used all day. Worldview

... understand your life context, your current mood, your relationships, even your upcoming trips or career changes. Because sometimes you need a comfort watch after a hard day, and sometimes you're ready for something that will challenge your worldview. We're launching TasteRay - think of it as having a friend who really knows you and always has the perfect recommendation, except this friend has analyzed millions of stories and understands the psychological DNA behind why certain narratives resonate with certain ...