LLM generated prototypes is the kind of the late night drunken white boarding session of product building. Ideas seem super cool at the time, and people obviously get excited about new prototypes, but then after a day or week you might realize these was a bad or useless idea. Now you wasted all this time and focus instead of working on something more meaningful, and maybe something more deeper and harder than a quick prototype.

Start of a journey! Firmhouse is going to get its own place in @Shopify very soon. Great payment experiences for European merchants: here we come! Fun fact: We had a Shopify API integration for years already. Helping merchants across Europe to support their customers where other apps and Shopify's native features are lacking. It takes quite some effort to go from "we have the Shopify API integrated" to "we can submit the app to Shopify". You need to implement all kinds of extensions, implement compliance webhooks, get some marketing and product demo content up-and-going. Our team rallied around since last Sunday. And we got it done in a week. We submitted our app yesterday evening on Friday. We even had two @heroku outages punching us in the face while doing so. And despite of that, we still got it done. Our app is now submitted and up for review. Happy to work with whoever at @Shopify is going to be on the other side!

The entire tech eco-system is going back to basics. Remembering that revenue minus cost equals profit. Something that self-funded founders live and breath.

Good day to remind people that founding new businesses (aka startups) is a personal development journey in hard mode.

The one thing every CEO of a startup from 5-500 employees notices: The ones that truly, really go the extra yard. For real. Stands so, so far out. Even up to 500 employees or so, the CEO can see it themselves.

If you told me 10 years ago that a group of the smartest engineers in the land would evoke the threat, "Do what I say or I will go to work at Microsoft," I would not have believed you. Amazing shift in corporate reputation (and much credit to Satya).

So it seems that the best way to break an app addiction/habit is to change the logo. Haven’t been off Twitter (X) for such a long time. Good!

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number

My company just hired a new product manager. It's a Boston Dynamics robot, powered by GPT-4. It immediately came in and started filming day in the life Tik Tok videos of the office. It's so over.

Examples of a company actually taking LLMs to market for the support use case, which I think will be straightforwardly massive.

Yann was part of the team @firmhouse for 4 years. If you have an open position for Senior Product Designer you should definitely have a chat with him! 👇

Product managers jumping into the Figma file to add comments for the designers

Bij andere bedrijven eist FNV automatische prijscompensatie, maar voor het eigen personeel vond de directie 3 procent voldoende rtlnieuws.nl/economie/artike…

That new Twitter timeline split/feature where ‘for you’ is now the default is just terrible. Is there any way to disable it or change the default to who I follow?

Twitter is more than $13 billion in debt from Elon Musk's acquisition x.com/Jason/status/160201680…

Do not enable him with his own platform then.. Oh wait. Didn’t you and your buddies helping with the Twitter take-over enable exactly this kind of speech finding an audience? The massive amount of hate speech that is back on Twitter can physically harm many more.

I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner. I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client.