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“And then we have desktop apps like Cursor, Whisper Flow, Granola.”
“maybe I want to maximize learning about a specific topic right so I want the algorithm to feed my curiosity right which is in itself a very interesting problem so instead of maximizing my engagement i…”
“I have mapped out all like 5100 companies so far 5,100 I mean it's crazy and I put them all all into buckets so like you can see all the education companies or the real estate companies you know etc e…”
“Perplexity rolling out its AI browser comet to all users this week.”
“It's also available in the Gemini app and all that other stuff.”
“My Town”
“oh yeah yeah well it tried signal oh signals you and i had an extensive conversation that signal like one message back and forth yeah well we could keep going but it seemed to be like we just text eac…”
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“get on threads get on Blue Sky and see which one you like better but you will probably wind up having a pretty decent experience either way”
“A mix of Obsidian, Cursor (for md), and vibe-coded web terminals as front-end.”
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“I'm a huge fan of Duolingo and everything they've done. And so trying to have some sort of, you know, until Duolingo adds Linux as one of the languages you can use.”
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“the Codex app shines for async work!”
“If you still want to hear from me on that stuff, come follow me there”
“Noticing your car insurance rate creep up, even without tickets or claims? You're not alone. That's why there's Jerry. ... Download the Jerry app or visit jerry.ai slash NPR today.”
“tweeting about it and downloading Damas and talking with and again like the moment for me was taking my NC was which was kind of mix between nsec and the hex fields at that point um and moving it to a…”
“I do think Glean is amazing.”
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“X for example and Tik Tok should just integrate built-in VPN in the app so it should be a free VPN if you're in a country that has it blocked it would just still work”
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“recommended reading on AI um you know Twitter uh like uh it's really awesome... there's so many papers that you find on Twitter... go read those papers skimm and I think you'll learn about what's comi…”
“You can either go to dribble mob or any website to get some UI reference and just copy the image over and ask cursor or super design to extract CSS stylesheet from the UI mock.”
“I start sending them post because I I think the the thing that's going to drive people to it is who's on it and the the content and what they can find ultimately so whatever client I'm on um there's a…”
“With this week's update, however, the WhatsApp CarPlay experience feels much more native. There's a new contact info interface that lets you view profile details for each contact. There's a call histo…”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮”
“get on threads get on Blue Sky and see which one you like better but you will probably wind up having a pretty decent experience either way”
“This all led him to create the popular app waking up which I am a subscriber to which teaches the theory of mindfulness and includes the best of ancient wisdom while also being pressure tested by mode…”
“Try the Easter templates on Grok Imagine”
“I use Telegram as the primary one.”
“manis is an interesting demo. Yeah. Um it's actually pushing on this idea that we talked about of like how long can models work while saying coherence”
“Yeah. Well, Arcade. dev, if you haven't checked it out, you can use it in any of the Claude, ChatGPT, et cetera, put it in Cursor and you'll see what we've been talking about today.”
“A native macOS menu bar app that automatically manages audio device priorities. Set your preferred order for speakers, headphones, and microphones - the app automatically switches to the highest-prior…”
“I've been playing We Rule you ever play We Rule iPad I haven't played don't start that's my it's going to be like consider this as a PSA parents I know you see your children playing Farmville and you …”
“This app is essential. The New York Times app. All of the times, all in one place. Download it now at nytimes.com slash app.”
“I fell in love with Evernote back I don't know whenever it first started was 10 or 15 years ago and it got so cluttered because I didn't know how to use it that I quit.”
“or monopoly”
“Network hippo is a layer a social layer that goes on top of all your social connections and your email it consolidates all of your contacts helps you understand your relationships tells you who you sh…”
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“You can use an app like Freedom. There's an app called Freedom that you can use to block certain things for certain periods of time.”
“If you want to build a portfolio that actually reflects your thesis, visit public.com/sourcy, paid for by public investing.”
“we also have one of the most popular decentralized wallet meaning that people can hold their own coins trust wallet”
“going on to Strava going on to Gin going on to whatever else joining one of these clubs seeing what's around and just go out there”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮”
“I use a service called Read Wise where I make a highlight in an ebook and that just that passage gets automatically saved in my digital notes with no action required on my part. Ooh, I like that. It's…”
“for the most part I'm using Gemini Advanced uh and I've actually just started using uh the new uh Gemini flash like the the latest one me too”
“you also got the ability to use Figma designs and create canvas slides and check amplitude dashboards all from your phone inside the Cloud app.”
“This episode is brought to you by DraftKings we're more than halfway through the NFL season but draftking Sportsbook is still pumping out unbeatable offers every single game new customers can bet just…”
“Rosebud is an interactive Journal designed with therapists to create positive change in people's lives and so the way that it works is we take a daily journaling practice and make it a lot more reward…”
“I think the thing that actually really clicked was like coding and developing stuff that like made me want to like push myself to do more was the the game Flappy Bird”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮”
“Brave,”
“The tech World Turns to the brave browser for its unbeatable privacy protections but did you know that brave also has a private ad platform”
“I mean certainly North, our our own product.”
“you have gowala in the middle which is check in with a little bit of virtual objects and a little bit of playfulness”
“you have four square on one side which is just check in”
“so if you're going to ENT the contest uh go to ar.org uh and uh good luck good luck see you on the leaderboard”
“get in touch with Benjamin cruser go to tabs. and uh see what happens”
“write a review on Apple Podcast or Spotify”
“there's an app out there called Doge. It's sort of like a highfashion thing where you can sort of scan your body and your face and it'll kind of render this 3D image of you and then tell you what to w…”
“In addition to comet, we have a product called the email Assistant. It's going to be working in the background... auto drafting your responses to emails... scheduling your meetings on your behalf.”
“So I thought no, it's possible to uh develop fully digitize all education content. And why is that important?”
“the next stage, by the way, like the stage six months from now is you're using like shortwave or some other or Zapier or some email arrangement that's like gotten good.”
“I also vipcoded this app called Menu Genen. And this is live. You can try it in menu.app.”
“I found this guy Aaron stuple on air chat and he was an incredible Expositor of the philosophy he lives his life with it 99% as Extreme as one can go”
“I can't believe that there is a app now nval called slopes just for uh skiing”
“you might have heard about the partnership that meta has done with be my eyes a volunteer network of millions of people who are coming together to help blind people every day and that's a great use ca…”
“I noticed Robin Hood now if you want to go trade something complex, puts, calls, you know, spreads, everything, it forces you to go through a little wizard to make sure you understand it and and to te…”
“you can do authenticate your Apple Health just authenticate Apple Health when these bowls come off the line and see how I talk it's like an assembly line”
“we started building the Android assistant. We put it out in January this year. It was super exciting and a lot of OEMs saw that and they were like, Damn, this is the coolest thing we've seen.”
“there's a company called Manos AI that has like this like on your phone you are controlling remote computers essentially.”
“He was also using a tool called super whisper so that he could talk to the machine. So like imagine just like being in a sci-fi movie where like you sit down like this and you just start talking”
“I just signed up for Clover um on the weekend, but it didn't work on my mobile, so I haven't tried it properly on my desktop yet.”
“should I teach her how to do video editing now with Cap Cut or do I go no learn AI, you know, learn like become good at AI.”
“we have a company called do not pay it's this incredibly genius guy with this thing and it's it's an app that started out with get me out of a parking ticket”
“I have started running Kimmy 2.5 on a Mac Studio. It's not as good as Claude or Gemini or Grock, but you can probably do about 80% there for free.”
“you should do search on like human latency testing or click latency testing. You go to a little website and they'll just like flash a color and click as fast as you can.”
“when I need more Bitcoin or Salana or XRP, Moonpay is always the first app I open. Since Moonay works with Apple Pay, Vinmo, PayPal, bank accounts, and credit cards, it's fast and easy to get what I n…”
“Ethereum now has mature privacy solutions with uh, railway. Now, privacy pools launched.”
“the safe smart contracts like the smart contracts have actually been perfect like basically for like since the start, right?”
“follow revolution.social on Apple podcast Spotify YouTube Nostersfountain.fm, or wherever you get your podcast.”
“a version of the of the IMO gold model is available for Gemini app subscribers. People can actually like put their hands on the model”
“I literally vibecoded it and the Chrome extension this past week and I was like, okay, I've been sitting on this domain and project for like 15 years and I did it in a weekend.”
“Follow Mantle on X at mantle_official for the latest updates on blockchain for banking. That's x.com/mantle_official.”
“But if you take this barberh shop, do you know planet? you've heard about this uh what do they do? It's it's it's a big uh place where you can um book Yeah. book like a haircut or it's very big in Fra…”
“And so today, like, you know, there are features, like, in the T-Mobile app, that if you call, are actually handled by OpenAI models behind the scenes.”
“Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮), and more!”
“It's also available in @code, @cursor_ai, @windsurf, @warpdotdev, @FactoryAI, @opencode (😮), and more!”
“Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more”
“Embedded like Astra in eyelasses. What can you tell me about this building I'm looking at? This is the cold drops yard, a shopping and dining district. She sees what I see. There's a speaker in the ea…”
“At this rate my claw is going to become my personal 200 IQ Google Reader”
“You should get like uh Opal. Have you seen Opal? It's this app that you know locks certain certain apps”
“I could tell since I started using uh the app created by a startup I funded called Nori. It's an AI healthcare app and it hooked up to my Apple Watch data. And boy [music] those AI reports thought I w…”
“We're going to make XT control available to anybody using OpenClaw. That is the one that is right on the right hand side. That is the XT control app which you can use to control XT so that it doesn't …”
“# I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app”
“A macOS SwiftUI app for giving presentations where each slide is a URL displayed in a WebView.”
“Partnering with Mozilla to improve Firefox’s security”
“Comet iOS is finally ready. Thanks for those who waited patiently for it. Appreciate your support! App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/comet-ai-browser-assistant/id6748622471”
“You can find Maggie and Jonathan's full reporting [music] in the Times app or at nytimes.com.”
“I mean during your tenure, like Calm has grown its footprint, as you say, 180 million app downloads and, you know, millions of Americans reached through health insurers.”
“one of the first versions actually maybe a funny story of some of you have used this Files by Google product from a while back.”
“Um I mean I would again say please use Gemini app or AI mode. It will summarize things very well for you.”
“Like for example, you can export your Stitch design and then upload it to a web app builder like Hostinger Horizons for example.”
“Worth playing around with https://wallet.tempo.xyz/welcome if you haven't. Very slick experience.”
“reply with your AI Studio app, along with a 1-sentence story on how and why you vibe coded it”
“Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is rolling out now in Gemini Live in the @GeminiApp and @Google Search Live.”
“# gpuer — Show GPU usage with a macOS menu icon”
“# bandwidther — SwiftUI menu bar app for monitoring application bandwidth use”
“I ran a website for ICQ. Do you you did you ever use ICQ?”
“Make your own App Store.”
“The team at @Pokee_AI is fixing it with PokeeClaw: works like OpenClaw, but with in a secure sandbox architecture with isolated environments, approval workflows, role-based access control, and audit t…”
“Get up to 55% off your Babbel subscription right now at babbel.com slash NPR”
“I will pitch people on June date. So, okay, I actually don't use this product because I'm happily married, but this is cool. And here's the basic idea is if you think about so much of AI right now, th…”
“In, fact,, I, have, been using a different app called Ghosty. That's G H O S T Y. That is a free app but has maybe a slightly improved user interface.”
“Google AI Edge is #8 on the iOS App Store for productivity apps.”
“I didn’t make it clear. Built the two apps with @Pokee_AI”
“That's why there's Jerry. Jerry handles the leg work by comparing quotes side-by-side from over 50 top insurers, so you can confidently hit buy.”
“with uh Microsoft's co-pilot you could you could um and and they've estimated that some 40 50% of the software that's now written in GitHub is produced by AI”
“First is Google Meet. In CarPlay, Google Meet will let you join meetings with a single tap, view your upcoming schedule, and participate in audio-only calls to maintain your focus while driving.”
“If you want to learn more about what Max and his team are working on, go to manaco.ai, m a ko.ai, or you can go through the various bittensor world and look up subnet 44.”
“yeah remind is the freakiest piece of software you've ever seen It listens to everything you say and it watches everything you do on your Macintosh it takes a screenshot of everything I do and shrinks…”
“if you use a program called nanom in VR you you which is designed for material scientists chemists and stuff like that it um when I when I used it they blew up the covid virus as big as my house and I…”
“I'm not using Chrome I'm using the arc browser so I'm trying to do some different stuff there but that's always just there so it's like a click away for when I'm including articles reading up stuff I'…”
“the entrepreneur who told me about this uh runs the company called super normal which takes notes on a video meeting like this right takes a transcript and then at the end of the call it looks through…”
“and then later you were the co-founder of secret which was sort of like the bridge too far in consumer social sort of like the last it was like the last wave of consumer social that had like really in…”
“Six days ago, Oliver Cameron released Odyssey ML to the world.”
“Twitter has released its new version of tweety it's been renamed simply twitter to the app store it's already the number one free app it's probably the number one overall app you're talking about the …”
“I've been playing Hearthstone and I have 999 wins I'm about to have a thousand wins. I'm going to go live on my stream tonight”
“published to a comprehensive customized newswire for print Publications U Jam which is a cloud-based platform allowing musicians to create content online and the winner was saluto • an application tha…”
“it's a startup they've raised a million dollars in seed funding from a variety investors including Lotus founder Mitch kapor battery Ventures founder Collective Tom maer founder Joshua shakor and many…”
“to me feels like i'm playing farmville”
“I use last pass as well I use last pass do you still like last pass oh I do yeah”
“And on behalf of the entire team at Second Dinner, thank you all for playing Marvel Snap and keep on snapping.”
“I have this bet that I made with Jonathan Franco called is attention all you need there's a website is attention all you need.com”
“if you are looking for like full featured desktop software zettler is by far the most beautiful program on the list”
“Anthropic, they have the Claude app. You can use Claude the chatbot, Claude Co-work, Claude Code.”
“And so imagine one application that anything you want your computer to do you can ask it.”
“Zim is as simple as it gets a hierarchical list of notes”
“I love this program man it has the snappy editor with the markdown preview”
“my father, who's also a scientist, is an enormous fan of your waking up app.”
“I use Doom emacs which basically gives you Vim key bindings and easy to modify configuration and a nice theme because I mean I'm not crazy emacs kinda sucks but do me Max makes it super usable out of …”
“if you genuinely care about being productive emacs and Vim are [ __ ]”
“neovim is certainly as simple fast and usable as I could ever want and Vim is super popular and it will be supported in some form forever”
“Codex the app is do I love Codex the app uh some updates there is plugins I think is the recent one the newest one. Can you tell us about plugins?”
“If you're architect, you should go with something like notion or craft.”
“If you are a gardener, you should go with Rome research, Obsidian or Log.”
“I'm not going to switch to emergent labs, but I would say it's in the top 10% of vibe coding apps.”
“If you are a librarian, you should go with Evernote or Microsoft OneNote.”
“And if you are a student, you should go with kind of just like the default built-in note-taking apps like Apple Notes or Google Keep or if you have an Android phone, you might have one builtin.”
“And if you are a student, you should go with kind of just like the default built-in note-taking apps like Apple Notes or Google Keep or if you have an Android phone, you might have one builtin.”
“You and I both talked about the way and Henry Shookman a ton. The Way being his app. And Henry's just a great leader, great Zen master, and was accompanied by Valerie, another Zen mastercloud”
“Andy while has some very good breathing exercises. 478. Yeah. So, I have box breathing and478 on my app. It's still in the app store and it's 100% free. Yeah, there's no way you to pay for anything on…”
“Started using 10% Happier, meditating every day, and it was like boom, within 4 weeks, pains went away.”
“In the last week, Claude's desktop app has shipped a bunch of features that do a lot of what OpenClaw can do in a more userfriendly way.”
“The world of Virgin Atlantic, now in your pocket”
“The example application I want to show you how to build today is a really interesting AI analytics platform called Gummy Search it basically utilizes what larger model is really good at”
“I saw this tweet from Greg Eisenberg where this a micro set called bank statement converter basically just do one thing taking the PDF and convert them into Excel but this simple application itself is…”
“And Cash Ali is the co-founder and CEO of Tax GPT. He went through launch and y combinator and he's building an AI tax assistant for everyone starting with accounting and advisory firms.”
“Thankfully, now there's Quadratic, finally bringing the productivity boost of AI into your spreadsheets. But this isn't like some simple chatbot in the corner who can answer your questions.”
“Some people use iMessage”
“The genesis of this idea is from a app that Disha and I built in December 23. It was called Sudguru AI. Sadguru is a very famous Indian yogi. >> Okay. >> Uh that app went viral in India and one of the…”
“I was working on a team called the the batch team and the product we were working on is called Bookface which is basically like Facebook for all the founders who do YC and it has a ton of resources an…”
“We actually collaborated on launching YC's mobile app together if you remember that”
“So I worked on a bunch of backend systems for Instagram stories and Facebook newsfeed both of which are very large consumer like high DAU products.”
“So I worked on a bunch of backend systems for Instagram stories and Facebook newsfeed both of which are very large consumer like high DAU products.”
“or if you're on Mac, you can download it term 2, which is more advanced terminal app.”
“So this web MC MCP require you have latest version of Chrome and to access that you will need to install this Chrome beta version and after you install you can go to Chrome flags and search for web MC…”
“My name is Bryan AKA MindofBun, I'm on the app Musical.ly and I have a following of over 600,000 people. Not only that but I'm one of four Musical.ly reps that live in New York City.”
“Then you look at somebody like King Bach. - Yes. - On Vine,-- - Yes. - he was the number one guy for a while. Probably still is.”
“If learning a new languag is on your list you absolutely need to check out Babel Babel offers a range of learning tools self-study app lessons live classes and even podcasts which have always been my …”
“And instead of leaving it off or on a static screen, I've been using LG Gallery Plus through webOS.”
“I started using this app, Higsfield AI, and they have this AI stylist feature, and you can literally take all of the clothing that you own or clothing that you want to own and see it on yourself in an…”
“Now we have Dispatch which allows you to control your AI agents from your phone.”
“So, that is um I use one called Monologue, but there's a lot out there on the market. Whisper Flow is another popular one and it just allows you to hold a little button on your computer and just yap a…”
“go to the cheapest gym or like download an app like Freletics and and work out, do like push-ups, squats, do that in the cheapest way possible.”
“If you want to play around with this new model yourself, you can play around over at Meta AI.”
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“the AI edge gallery. So you can just, uh, download it in Android, in iOS, you can play with the model locally. People are very excited about that.”
“Whisper Flow is an app that you can get on your computer and on your phone on all your devices and it allows you to speak to your technology... Check it out now at whisperflow... It will be a game cha…”
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“a goal like a weight loss thing...is to download the face app. There's like an app that'll make you look super fat and real real obese and print it off and put it on your refrigerator.”
“Go check it out. It is free. Like, you just need a semi-new iPhone. like an iPhone that was made within the last four or five years and you could go do this.”
“There's enough um programs to download that how do you get from the the couch to 5K, 3 miles, how do you do that? And there's loads of instructions, YouTube, whatever”
“I use an app like an AI app that helps on the strength training side that gives you a workout based on your goals and objectives and it's way way cheaper than a human trainer but better than just a du…”
“we partner with a company called Natural Cycles. They make a FDA uh clear digital contraceptive. If you use Aura in concert with Natural Cycles, it's a way to not have to do hormonal birth control”
“we want to allow people to very easily have access to these facilities through our mindbody marketplace, our class pass consumer app and then our wellpass corporate subsidized app.”
“Moments ago, I just dropped two new episodes of my opening bid podcast, Finance, YouTube, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon.”
“Now that this essentially covers the bases of your images, additionally, don't forget that if you want even more control, what you can do is use the draw feature.”
“So, right now, you can see that I am in the App Store and essentially all you'll need to do is just download this. There is no weight list. There is no specific things you need. You don't need a devel…”
“I remember coming out of YC with you we were YC batchmates in 2008 and um you were the first either the first or among the first to have a uh Square photo with a feed a social feed with a follow graph…”
“If you'd like to get access to the Metatrends newsletter every week, go to dmandis.com/tatrens. That's damandis.com/metatrends.”
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“I still trying to sort out what the hell is going on there I do think you make a good point that a little self-care a little investment in ourselves it's going to be a it's definitely going to be a ma…”
“Luckily you can use eight sleep one of our investments you can use fitbot another one of our investments for working out eight sleep for Sleep Cal for meditation and for diet you can use neutrient”
“That's thanks to Max, a new Russian super app that could help cement state control over the digital lives of millions of Russians.”