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Good Products are Opinionated. “Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things. Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do. If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features. @Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity. You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google. Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do. You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it. ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer. It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer. So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough. To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting. In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make. In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”
Currently I have two prototype features on my phone that solve the two largest problems of X. Can’t wait this to get this out. Almost there.
if you use @shadcn ui for your apps, you're gonna love these 7 ui libraries: > http://kokonutui.com > http://cult-ui.com > http://pro.cult-ui.com > http://tailark.com > http://smoothui.dev > http://patterncraft.fun > http://motion-primitives.com imagine spending thousands on overpriced designers to make your app sexy when you have prebuilt components like these that elevate the shadcn experience i sprinkle em in all my apps and everyone loves using it for a reason...
tech bro obsessed with "storytelling" but hasn't read a book in the last 5 years
Full architectural model of the $2+ billion Las Vegas #Athletics ballpark. Drink it in.
Cursor 2.3 is starting to roll out! We’ve spent the past two weeks fixing bugs and making reliability improvements based on your feedback. I’m so proud of our team for sprinting to make this our best release yet. We’ll be rolling 2.3 out over the week to ensure there are no regressions during your holiday coding. I also wanted to shout out @theo, who had a rough experience with Cursor and was kind enough to stop by our office and give the team a ton of feedback on how we can make the product better (including helpful reproductions of issues from their team). There are a number of bugs in this release, specifically around worktrees and plan mode, that were fixed thanks to him. Thank you! There’s also been feedback on layouts and the default panes in Cursor across X and Reddit in the past week. We’ve been digging in and listening, and I hope you’ll love where we’ve landed. It’s always been slightly annoying if you’re using Cursor with 3+ different windows open for different repos. I was talking to @schickling about this last month, and we wanted a way to better hop between different workspaces. I still think there’s more we can do here, but I really like the new Command+Option+Tab switcher to move between layouts and workspaces (thank you @JasonBud!). Since I use Command+Tab on macOS all the time, this feels very familiar. Especially when defining custom layouts like in the video below to keep my terminal always open. We’d love your feedback as we keep working to make Cursor more extensible and customizable. Another small but nice thing: we heard your feedback that it's frustrating to have releases rolled out before the changelog is live, so we made sure the 2.3 changelog was posted before you saw the update button. Speaking of the update button, while it's great we're getting updates out frequently... I also agree it can be annoying to see the update banner every time you open Cursor. We've made it so this banner will show less frequently Happy holidays everyone!
Design is the hardest part of vibe coding for me The strategy I've been using lately is collecting any beautiful designs I find in a Figma board. Whenever I want to build out some UI, I include a screenshot of one of those designs in my prompt as a reference for the LLM to use.
BREAKING: Within the past 72 hours: - Apple's AI Chief steps down - Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta - Apple's Policy Chief steps down - Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down
A Call for New Aesthetics: https://newaesthetics.art.
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It feels pretty obvious at this point that someone’s going to make billions building a social app that’s just for friends, no AI slop, no brainrot, calm design, chronological feed and no concept of followers.
Most of our marketing videos & slides are vibe-coded on @Replit now — hard to imagine how much budget this is saving us.
a huge number of “ai products” feel impressive for 72 hours and then quietly exit your life without friction, which is starting to look like the defining failure mode of this cycle