Been using Patina for past couple weeks. Truly a birds eye view of my life and the people I interact with. I attribute the private-by-design approach to me being willing to give access to everything. Can't wait to see how it evolves. Thanks for making this Gabe.

Got into @FounderUni by @jason. The community as an accountability partner has been great to push @hellocuro along. Lots of progress to be made in the 2 months left.

At big companies I was designing for users but also leadership with their own personal POVs. That's what a product really is. A codebase built on a bunch of different people's POVs. It's never just the user's. That's a myth.

First time being a bit sad about an AI usecase: Music. I just randomly discovered IngaRose and Solpulse music. They're so good. I wanted to learn more about the artist then realised they're AI generated. Felt a little piece of the human connection wither away.

Curo iOS app is live. People use social media as their go-to source for everything (workouts, recipes, places to go, etc). The freshness and diversity of content cannot be matched, but the gap between finding something great and actually making use of it is where most friction lies. Curo closes that gap. Share a workout, recipe or restaurant post from Instagram / TikTok and we make it immediately actionable. Workouts become guided. Recipes meet your dietary needs. Restaurants are mapped and researched. No jumping between apps. No manual work. Our goal is to help remove friction between being inspired and living the life you're inspired to. If you're new to Curo, you can check it out using code: FWHE-8736-BWSW-NEC3 apple.co/48ppCzl

Claude 👌

Designers' underrated skill in the ai code generation world is pattern matching. Most of us don't know how to write it. But reading what seems like gibberish and matching the patterns over time sets us up to be a lot more deadly.

Wife to designer: "stop comparing your progress to everyone else's and run your own race"

Have exactly 60 days of full-time runway left to make @hellocuro work. Some doubts exists but the conviction is still strong. No time to slow down.

Person A: Build something ppl want. Person A: People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

GenAI + Figma + Figma MCP + Cursor/Claude + Supabase = Designer

As an employee you sometimes learn what not to do but then still end up making the same mistakes when trying to be a founder. Why?

"High craft is a differentiator" initially sounds like you need to be closer to "perfection" before release but that's not it. Don't forget you can iterate your way to high craft. Just iterate faster if you can. Kudos to those that can do both well, at the same time.

Spent the past 8 months building a consumer experience. Traction is utterly terrible. 4 months of runway left. Running a bunch of new experiments during this time with different audiences. That was hard to write but it's truth.

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Them: "What do you do as a designer?" < "I push pixels" > "I push pixels and commits"