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Vibe coding is addictive: build one app with AI, and suddenly, you’re tokenmaxxing your way through all the free credits.That’s exactly what happened to me weeks after my experiment with building an Asana-inspired dashboard for my team.This time, a friend asked me to build a Pinterest-style web app to help…
Like a lot of guys of the era, Eli Cohen had a great idea for an app back in 2010. But unlike many of his peers, whose musings were confined to bar hangouts and bad dates, he actually invested about $20,000 of his own money to try to bring the…
It’s time to welcome back two social networks we once loved: Friendster and Vine. Loading audio narration… After shutting down in the 2010s, the two social media platforms are rising from the dead this week.Both of the apps, however, are Frankenstein versions of their predecessors. Neither is being resurrected by…
As a former group fitness coach, I was trained to track my goals in numbers: calories in, hours trained, kilograms lifted. Numbers don’t lie. Loading audio narration… However, tracking them was messy. I bounced between MyFitnessPal for meals, Apple Watch for workout duration, and the Notes app for lifting logs.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jake Castillo, the 31-year-old CMO and cofounder of Cal AI, based in Los Angeles. Cal AI is an AI-native app co-founded by a tiny team of Castillo and three others. The lean team quickly scaled to millions in monthly revenue, leading…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Boo Kok Chuon, the chief operating officer of a law firm in Singapore. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… Since early last year, we took a bold step in introducing ChatGPT to Kiki, our 8-year-old…
Just 15 minutes, from concept to publish. That’s how long it took for me to create a basic version of a work management tool like Asana without writing a single line of code. Loading audio narration… The idea struck me one weekday when I asked my team: “What annoys you…
