What a wild surprise, @ADPList made the headlines in Singapore’s largest Chinese paper. 🇸🇬🇺🇸
James and I started ADPList in our bedroom, and now serves over a million people in 140 countries.
We free humans to connect, so they can dream bigger than we ever did.
Design is still underrated in SF.
Design is the act of understanding people’s lives and unmet needs.
As Milton Glaser said, "We’re always looking, but we never really see…it’s the act of attention that allows you to really grasp something, to become fully conscious of it."
Despite this, design has historically been an afterthought in the business/startup world, applied only to touch up a product’s aesthetics.
We live in an era of experiences, be they services or products, and we’ve come to have high expectations for these experiences.
With each evolution comes a new set of unmet needs.
Design is very much still alive.
We designed a new ranking algorithm on @ADPList.
For context, we have 40K+ verified mentors. That's a huge # of mentors for people to choose from. It's brainfog!
I'm inspired by what drives networks like TikTok/Airbnb → learn what consumers actually click on, then reshape who shows up in their explore.
The result after one rollout window (48h):
>clicks up 168%
>views up 122%
>personalized paths up 3x
>errors down 72%
Think of this as an algo that works with you.
Next week, I'll open-source how it works so our community can see this transparently (scoring weights, feedback loop, eval setup, everything)
Fifth anniversary. ❤️
A 22yo in Lagos and a 22yo in San Francisco should have the same shot at a senior mentor.
Not because one of them paid for a bootcamp. Not because one of them happened to know somebody.
Because someone, somewhere, gave 30 minutes of their time. That's the world we're building @ADPList.
Five years in, it's already arriving -- 40,000+ expert mentors, 1M+ connections, 500M+ minutes of conversations across nearly every country on earth.
Mentorship was never supposed to be a thing you bought. It was supposed to be a thing you passed down. Somewhere along the way, the people who could help started acting like access was scarce -- paywalled courses, gated communities, DM lotteries.
We hated that. So we built the opposite.
To our mentors: you proved that 30 minutes can change the shape of a life. To our team and partners: thank you for refusing to let this stay small.
The lottery of where you were born should not decide what you get to become.
Five years in. The work is just starting.
I have a new personal website.
https://t.co/6XmFlsagLW
I'm not a developer. I built this v2 of my website, all by my OpenClaw agent (on Codex) + built an AI clone of me, with Claude Code.
So can designers ship?
Yes, its the future.
Introducing Design Stack.
Today, we're releasing @ADPList's entire masterclass library ⭐️ 80+ videos on design, career, AI, product and more (100% free) from all our flagship conferences.
Why are we doing this?
We believe opening this full knowledge base will move our community in the fast changing AI era.
These video courses have taught more than 10k+ people in design and tech. 🚀
Comment for "design" and I'll DM you the full library.
LFG! 🤘
A designer who can ship code is one of the most valuable hires in tech today.
Here's my new episode with @felixleezd (CEO of @ADPList) where he showed me how to use Claude Code and Figma MCP to go from:
✅ Figma → Code: Design to website in 15 min
✅ Code → Figma: App back to editable design
Felix also demoed a few apps he's designed and built in Claude Code, including a 3D globe website and a landing page analyzer.
Some takeaways from Felix:
1. Stop pasting screenshots into Claude Code. Instead, use Figma MCP to pull in all your assets, icons, and images automatically.
2. You can use the same MCP to convert code back into editable Figma layers to explore more variations.
3. An underrated way to build: Use FigJam to plan a flowchart of your app first, then paste the link into Claude Code with the MCP.
📌 Watch now: https://t.co/rIDCvPJoN9
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