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“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 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…”
“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.”
“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?”
“It's called the Building a Second Brain Public Notebook on a platform called Notebook LM by Google. Very few of you have seen it, which is why that's what I want to show you today.”
“If you want to build a custom life OS, then notion.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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…”
“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.”
“I didn’t make it clear. Built the two apps with @Pokee_AI”
“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”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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”
“She just launched her app like a couple weeks back. It's called Equine on an app store.”
“if you are looking for like full featured desktop software zettler is by far the most beautiful program on the list”
“I've been really addicted to this new site called Moltbook, where people have unleashed their AIS to interact in the first ever AI agent-only online community.”
“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”
“Download SLY in the app store or by scanning the QR code that's on your screen right now. And for a cheeky 15% off your first purchase, you can use the code Deina at checkout.”
“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”
“Check it out at euphoria. Finance and download the app or find it in Telegram as a mini app.”
“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?”
“metsai.com that's a collaboration with Dr. Alli Houston, he's at Oxford and Georgia Eid, who might be good to have on the show.”
“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.”
“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”
“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.”
“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…”
“if you want to share contact info with a bump there's an app for that that became bump”
“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.”
“I used to use My Fitness Pal all the time. I was like entering in the food and you could do they had a pretty good database.”