Steffan

Design. Art. Music. Building @getinflowai

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@KurtBenkert You still got it? Better get that arm warmed up!

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

I'm not really pointing at Indy, specifically. I'm only speaking to the fact that 9/10 applications I've gotten are clearly someone taking my original job ad, running it through ChatGPT (or whatever), and then returning a perfect application that is like a direct 1:1 mapping with my original job ad. I know there's nothing you can do about that, but wooowwiiie it makes it brutal to sort through applicants

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

Big fan of what @contra is building, but the use of AI to apply for jobs is not it. As someone who is hiring, it's an immediate disqualification if you apply to an open role and you've very clearly just taken the original job ad and layered in an AI response. Almost every single application I've gotten is like this. I have absolutely no idea how these people actually think or communicate. Is this what we really want?? It makes it even MORE difficult for hiring managers to find qualified candidates when every single person has a perfect AI-generated application. Commmeee on man

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@AnyaY55178 lying about what?? You have a mental disorder and need to seek help.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@AnyaY55178 @zachtratar haha you are just making my point even stronger. Another smooth-brain touting rhetoric

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@BrettFromDJ Damn. horrific....

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

using the chat feature to think and plan with lovable is a better way to get the results you're after vs. just asking the LLM to make more and more updates, which tends to bloat the codebase and creates a web that the LLM can't sift through. It can get messy fast.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@DannPetty dt is so lame and pretentious. i don't know if there is a bigger group of sychophants, posers, and all around insecure people, all in one place. always ready to dunk, expose or grift.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@kyleanthony I see the green in everything you do. Your signature

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@BleedGreenPGold @NFL I was at the game. I closed my eyes on the Hail Mary, somehow thinking it wasn't going to happen and not wanting to see it. I don't have a ton of regrets, but that's a big one. I was there but missed it.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@contraben @ProductHunt Congrats homie! Very cool

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

Most early‑stage founders wonder if brand matters or how much they should invest in a visual identity in the early days.

What I've seen is that at pre‑seed, you don’t need a world‑class identity; you just need a Minimum Viable Brand (MVB) that’s easy to iterate on and understand.
- One‑sentence value prop
- Two primary colors
- One font
- Simple logo (even just your name in clean type)

That's it.

Neuroscience shows that repeating a handful of visual cues builds neural “superhighways,” making recognition faster, whether an investor’s flipping through decks at 2 AM or a prospect scrolls your site. Extra fonts, colors, or icons only create friction.

Your goal in the earliest stages is to become inescapable, NOT differentiated.

Repetition breeds familiarity. Familiarity builds trust. Choose simple. Choose consistency. Repeat until your core message, colors, and logo stick. Until you become inescapable.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@harjtaggar As painful as it is for some, the CEO has to be all business, almost all of the time. I've made the mistake of being too peer-like in the past, and it's ALWAYS bit me in the ass. If you're the boss, just be the boss and let your friends be those in your personal life.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@rsg Totally forgot about it. Locked in 🎧

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@Jason I have a million ideas and will design the whole thing end to end. Where can I send you some initial concepts?

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

Brand identity for a gen z streetwear brand

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

It feels like vibe coding gives us a false sense of confidence. We think if we can prompt and generate something, that it's "working". But unless you're building the simplest of CRUD apps, you're going to run into serious issues. Forget the backend stuff too...Even on the frontend you can burn soooo many credits and time just trying to have the AI fix something small and trivial like aligning elements or creating UI consistency between screens. It'll also randomly add so much extra bullshit to your code base.

Obvs it'll get better, but right now, it's primarily good for these platforms and their revenue and pretty terrible for it's customers.

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@GeoffLewisOrg You should dumb this down for those of us who don't speak in such abstractions. :)

[Steffan @SteffanHowey]

@aliszu I feel the same way. That said, I've found that, even though it's painful, it usually saves so much time vs. waiting around on async comms. :-/