Channing Defoe

Building @usevidovo

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

Current stack:

- Claude design for UI
- Codex for self-running tasks
- Cursor for fine-tuned edits

Then spamming Command + Tab while I watch my AI army work

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@alfiearnaud_ Anyone who disagrees should lookup icon.

There’s a reason they pivoted

[alf @alfiearnaud_]

People who say AI UGC is good or even better than Human UGC just dont know how to properly run a Human UGC campaign...

AI UGC does not, and will never work as well as Human UGC

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

Okay so codex is actually better than Claude code now?

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@TripleNetTyler This happens too often

Old friend randomly reaches out.

“We should catch up.”

10 minutes in…

“So I’m actually doing financial advising, life insurance, etc now…”

No thanks

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

Fastest method for getting your meta ad account banned

[Nick Lawton @nicholasnlawton]

Thoughts on AI UGC?

Be honest.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

This was our exact thought when we started building @usevidovo almost 2 years ago.

I needed content and my Co-Founder, @elijahkhasabo, had an agency.

The market is ripe for explosion. It’s still new. Educating potential buyers on what UGC is has been the hardest issue to tackle.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@shefska Mortgages are the same way.

Lender: “Send me all the info from the other lender and I’ll see what we can do”

Me: “No thanks, just give me your best rate”

[patagucci perf papi @kenwheeler]

this reminds me of that video where they see if pro nba players can spin a basketball on their finger. most couldn’t. steph curry couldnt.

leetcode is spinning a basketball on your finger.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@michaelaubry @elijahkhasabo

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@levelsio Cool technology, but AI UGC ads SUCK.

No one is running these. They don’t perform.

Easy way to burn cash.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@webdevcody Laravel doesn’t have 10-100’s of millions of VC funding behind it.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@sweatystartup Cheaper mattress + @eightsleep

I don’t see any difference in purple mattress vs other cheaper memory foam brands like Casper.

The best mattress I ever purchased was actually a $600 off-brand king mattress from Amazon. Felt identical to the brand-name ones for half the price.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@moizali @elijahkhasabo at @usevidovo, skip the white-label middlemen

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@maxlynch I can’t wait until there’s a sqlc equivalent for typescript: https://t.co/tlu47eY2k4

Haven’t used an ORM since I started golang

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

AWS is sunsetting Fig 😩

Any good alternatives from #techtwitter?

This was one of my favorite tools

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@TaylorHoliday West loop for sure!

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@t3dotgg @DarkViperAU Idk who DarkViper is, but you’ve done the same exact thing.

Like when you went after that kid with 1000 followers who named his open source project “t4 app.” And your followers started attacking him.

You’ve done the same thing to people in the dev community.

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@taylorotwell @theandreval @fideloper @themsaid The GOAT @themsaid is back!

[Channing Defoe @channingdefoe]

@thdxr Bezos looks YOKED!

Goal late-life physique.