Benjamin Rodde 🇺🇦

Product Manager, ex @zenlyapp (acq. by Snap), @StuartDelivery. Awesome avatar by Scott Listfield

[Steeve Morin @steeve]

Future is bright !

[Prelude @UsePrelude]

Not all users want OTPs the same way.
Some prefer SMS. Others trust WhatsApp or Telegram.
Voice works better in certain regions or for certain demographics.
So… we built something better 👇

[Benjamin Rodde 🇺🇦 @benjaminrodde]

@Doha104p3 Managed to take this poor shot of one tomcat in Tehran some years ago. Such a beautiful plane although not in the best hands. RIP

[Benjamin Rodde 🇺🇦 @benjaminrodde]

@PicturesFoIder This is the guy who saved them https://t.co/qYczrGrQ60

[Benjamin Rodde 🇺🇦 @benjaminrodde]

@GergelyOrosz @DustHQ 👀
https://t.co/mkdJue161A

[Tim Soret @timsoret]

> cyberpunk music clip
> directed by Miyazaki
> most of you have never seen it, so here you go

[Guillaume Simon @guillaumesimon]

🚀 Big launch today at @photoroom_app !

Using @OpenAI’s new gpt image model model, we built 3 powerful tools in under 5 days — helping sellers and small teams create studio-quality visuals in seconds. No studio needed.

Follow the thread 🧵

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Energy is a massive constraint for AI but do you even know what energy your chatGPT convos are using?

We're trying to change this by releasing ChatUI-energy, the first interface where you see in real-time what energy your AI conversations consume. Great work from @juliendelavande powered by spaces & TGI, available for a dozen of open-source models like Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Gemma and more.

Should all chat interfaces have this? Just like ingredients have to be shown on products you buy, we need more transparency in AI for users!

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

BREAKING: In order to avoid tariffs, we will begin shipping from Kursk

[Benjamin Rodde 🇺🇦 @benjaminrodde]

Having seen Steeve’s work firsthand at Zenly without ever bragging uselessly this is quite a statement.🥇
Too bad I understand shit abt Zml though 😅

[Steeve Morin @steeve]

I think @zml_ai is by far the most complex project I’ve ever worked on. And it works beautifully.

[Nathan Sharp @nsharp17]

Subscriptions are annoying, but it’s so much better to pay for apps with a little of your money than a lot of your attention (on ads and ad-like content).

You are your attention.

[Bump app @bumpbyamo]

Introducing: Now Playing 🎶

Tune in with your friends on the map to see what they’re listening to right now.

Works with @AppleMusic & @spotify!

[La Punchline de Yakovleff @G_Yakovleff]

Make Europe Great Again 👊🏻

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this…

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

iOS disable the internet for everyone nearby with your "Personal Notspot"

[Bump app @bumpbyamo]

Official statement [for immediate release]

In a bid to win back our former zenly userbase in Japan — for the record 1 in 4 gen z in the country — Bump will be sponsoring famous TV show Takeshi's Castle.

@an21m will be competing against the CEOs of all competitor apps.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

The key to high work satisfaction — if you are a true craftsperson / builder in a mid-sized startup or a large company — is to choose to do more work every day that will directly improve your product, business, and team, while avoiding most of the optics work that is actually designed to make middle managers feel smart / useful / busy and in reality either adds little value or even negative value.

Bonus points if you can manage to report to a manager who understands this and will shield you from the silly optics work & the TPS report du jour.

[Benjamin Rodde 🇺🇦 @benjaminrodde]

@MCCob @mickaelhoarau12 @legeniehumain @phsilberzahn C’est l’association US contre la mucoviscidose qui a financé en grande partie la recherche du kaftrio and co. Bien que le traitement soit cher l’association touche des droits sur sa commercialisation qui sont ensuite ré-investis dans d’autres recherches https://t.co/7JVxlOJ6uh

[B, The Favorite Ex-GF ✨ @crushed_silver]

Apple Watches are just Tomagotchi’s except the stupid animal you’re trying to keep alive is yourself

[Eric Seufert @eric_seufert]

Meta's Renaissance.

Meta’s trajectory over the past few years has been defined by its response to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, privacy policy, with its recovery serving as a blueprint for success in the modern digital advertising operating environment. And in adapting to ATT, Meta may have executed one of the most remarkable, wholesale business model transitions in modern corporate history.

The company transformed the core engagement model of its two flagship products, Facebook and Instagram, while re-engineering the digital advertising infrastructure that serves as the singular revenue engine of its business. And in doing so, Meta grew its stock price from a low point of less than $100 in February 2023 — a level the company hadn’t seen since 2016 — to over $600 today.

How did Meta go from a 4% year-over-year revenue decline in Q3 2022, with Mark Zuckerberg earnestly entreating investors to remain patient, to 25% revenue growth in Q3 2023? And what catalyzed both of these inflections? In this week's episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I explore Meta’s renaissance: the factors that led to the company’s tumultuous decline in 2022 and, critically, what the company changed to invigorate growth in 2023 and 2024.