Abhi Works

AI Product Manager during day, Builder at night

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[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Imagine having Shreyas Doshi, Julie Zhuo, and Brian Chesky in a room, weighing in on your product questions.

They don’t just give a generic answer. They listen to each other. They challenge assumptions. They offer completely different takes backed by their actual frameworks and experiences.

Then, you can dive deeper with any specific persona.

That conversation alone would unlock perspectives you’d never see on your own.

Introducing Council - your personal product roundtable, based on @lennysan's podcast transcripts, converted into personas that mirror their exact styles and frameworks.

Ask any question, you get 3 perspectives from the most relevant product leaders.
Each answer cites the actual episode. You see your blindspots.

Huge thanks to Lenny for sharing the transcripts, and @clairevo for making them easily accessible.

I’d love to hear if you find it useful!
Link in comments.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

@rajshamani AI Labs will keep on making models/ systems better but the one who uses it the best wins.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

This literally blew up. Didn't expect at all.

Ended up becoming the top post of that community for the day.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

New day, new post and a new milestone.
I just broke my last post record and have a new top post of all time.

And it's just been 2 hours since I posted.

I know it's not that big of a deal, but feels good that the direction is working.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

New day, new post and a new milestone.
I just broke my last post record and have a new top post of all time.

And it's just been 2 hours since I posted.

I know it's not that big of a deal, but feels good that the direction is working.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Tried something on reddit recently and that became my best post till date.

Interesting stuff!

Reddit indeed has a lot of potential if used correctly.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

A really good line to remind oneself of enjoying the process regardless of the outcomes:

“The vast majority of your life will be boring and not noteworthy, and that’s okay”.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Tried something on reddit recently and that became my best post till date.

Interesting stuff!

Reddit indeed has a lot of potential if used correctly.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

@iamtanzil_ Great going! 🚀

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

I saw a few tools which I was skeptical to use or link my account with.

Mine approach requires no connection and no risk.

Let's see if it works. Would this tool help you increase your engagement?

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Noticed I was spending an awful lot of time reading and replying to LinkedIn posts that I don't even remember later.

Building something to solve that for myself.

Phase 1 is working well so far: I get a tailored set of suggested replies for any post I want to engage with.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Noticed I was spending an awful lot of time reading and replying to LinkedIn posts that I don't even remember later.

Building something to solve that for myself.

Phase 1 is working well so far: I get a tailored set of suggested replies for any post I want to engage with. 🛠️

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Fascinating how our perception of language is shifting. I looked at this screen and immediately flagged the em dash (—) as an AI signifier.

It's actually just standard, pre-AI typography from @X’s team

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Meanwhile Google in the past few weeks, trying to target all the competitors at once:

Gemini Omni - video gen
Google Flow - cinematic editor
Antigravity - agent builder
Gemini Spark - always-on personal agent
Stitch & Pomelli - design + brand tools

what's missing?

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

41. Dang AI
42. HackerNoon
43. Dev to
44. LinkedIn
45. TikTok
46. Instagram
47. Youtube
48. Groups you're in
49. Discord communities

Anything I missed?

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Launch your saas here if you haven't already:
0. Your X profile
1. Product Hunt
2. Hacker News
3. Indie Hackers
4. Reddit communities
5. BetaList
6. Peerlist Launchpad
7. Uneed
8. Microlaunch
9. Tiny Startups
10. Launching Next

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

25. Capterra
26. G2
27. Crozdesk
28. Software Advice
29. SourceForge
30. FinancesOnline
31. Serchen
32. Tekpon
33. Futurepedia
34. Toolify
35. There's An AI For That
36. AI Scout
37. FutureTools
38. TopAI Tools
39. AI Tools Directory
40. All Things AI

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Do you have a dedicated work journal?

How do you keep a track of your day to day contributions, wins, impact at work?

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

I just came across the ability to create a canvas directly on top of a Google Sheet using Gemini, and tbh I'm amazed.

​It basically feels like you can just spin up a fully functioning dashboard that uses the sheet as a backend database.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

@gregisenberg Advanced and feasible based the example use case. But it takes control away from humans I believe.
Agents can do everything but this might require someone to review each step of the workflow or atleast ensure there's no hallucination.

[Abhi Works @abworks_co]

Seriously, what was wrong with the old ones?

Why do they look so weird? The tabs look messy and unprofessional, especially sheets.

Tbh I don't get why they needed gradient icons anyway lol.

It feels like change for the sake of change.

Is anyone actually a fan of these?

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I just got back from SF and I FEEL INSPIRED.

I spent 5 days with frontier AI model teams, AI startup founders, and 3 billionaires.

My takeaways:

1. I had lunch with 3 billionaires. All of them are buying SaaS companies and rebuilding them agent-first. They were deeply inspired by Bending Spoons and Ryan Cohen's eBay deal. Buy the company, cut the headcount, rebuild the tech, add agents, add features, make more valuable experience, raise prices.

2. The frontier model companies are hungry for usage data from the field. They can see API calls and token counts. They can't see the actual workflows. If you're deep in a niche using these models in ways the model companies haven't seen, that understanding is incredibly valuable. Usage intelligence is the new alpha.

3. Consumer AI is massively underbuilt. Every billboard in SF is either B2B inference infrastructure or vertical agent companies. The entire city is optimized for enterprise. Meanwhile you have companies like Cal AI doing $50M ARR in 18 months as a consumer app. I met with a cool few teams doing consumer AI (@paulscherer / @ekuyda)

4. MCP came up in literally every conversation. The companies exposing their product as MCP endpoints are getting pulled into deals they never pitched for. The ones that aren't are becoming invisible to agents. This is the new SEO. If agents can't find you, you don't exist. Building products for agents is the new zeitgeist in general.

5. Not uncommon for hot seed rounds to be $25-50 million valuations. I saw a Series A at $450 million

6. If I had a dollar every time someone mentioned "forward-deployed engineer" this trip I could have funded a seed round. It's the hottest role in SF right now. The person who sits between the agent and the customer, making sure everything actually works.

7. The mood around open source shifted. A year ago it felt like open source was chasing the frontier models. Now founders are telling me Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of what they need at a fraction of the cost. The "which model do you use" conversation is being replaced by "which model for which task." Model loyalty kinda feels dead.

8. Voice agents came up more than I expected. Multiple founders told me voice is the interface for the next billion users. The billion people who will never type a prompt will absolutely talk to one.

9. The Obsidian community in SF is weirdly intense. Multiple founders showed me their vaults unprompted. Like showing someone your home gym. It's a flex now. The quality of your knowledge base (second brain?) is becoming a status symbol among builders.

10. Maybe it was just the people I met but the age of the founders is shifting. I met more founders over 40 this trip than any trip before and more founders under age 21 than ever before. Founders getting older and younger at the same time.

11. I spoke to a lot of fast-growing startups, VCs and frontier models who are hiring content creators right now.

12. The restaurant scene in SF is actually better than it's been in years. Founders are going out more. Alcohol is out, not surprisingly.

13. SF doesn't feel like the only place anymore. We all have access to the same frontier models. We all read the same X feed. A founder in NYC or Lagos is calling the same APIs as a founder in SoMa. So in the past it felt like SF was always lightyears ahead, doesn't feel that way anymore. It's okay not to live in SF and have BIG DREAMS.

14. The coworking spaces in SF are half empty but the coffee shops are packed. People want to be around people. I had a few startup ideas here....

15. Walking around the Mission I noticed something: the street-level businesses, the taquerias, the barbershops, the laundromats, none of them use any AI at all.

16. I heard the phrase "agent debt" for the first time. Like technical debt but for agents. When you hack together an agent workflow fast and never clean it up, the system prompts conflict, the memory gets polluted, the tools overlap. 6 months later the agent is doing weird things and nobody knows why lol.

17. Met a few people who carry two phones now. One for personal. One that's basically an agent terminal running Telegram or iMessage connections to their agent fleet.

It's always amazing to get that dose of inspiration in SF. I FEEL INSPIRED.

But I'm so happy to be back home, locked in and building.

We're 12-18 months into a shift that will take 15 years to play out. The urgency in every conversation was real.

What an incredible time to be building.