Aditya Thakur

Applying art to problem solving

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

Working on some quality of life updates for designers in my team :)

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@screenkite_com Yes tried it on smooth motion also, doesn’t work sometimes - screen studio has really nailed it

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

You know I dislike Screenstudio's pricing plan so much - let me prove that free users can also give feedback and not leave!

@screenkite_com your auto zoom on follow cursor is janky and not smooth like other app, I often turn it off and do it manually to avoid janky movement.

[ScreenKite @screenkite_com]

☺️ ScreenKite is free alternative to Screen Studio because we believe we're building something much better

3x exporting speed
AI-native app : )

Also faster than Recordly, Openscreen, Screen Charm, Loom!

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@screenkite_com AFK at the moment but you can see the same problem here on follow cursor, very shaky (could be a anim curve issue)

https://t.co/YEH7jbxjiK

[Mike Chong @realMikeChong]

We're making 3x faster Screen Studio / Loom / Recordly / Openscreen / Screen Charm with all the features

It is called ScreenKite.

Enjoy!

AI Video Editing with HeyGen Hyperframes, Remotion, Reel/TikTok canvas!

Native Metal GPU support.
Save your time.

[smoothie @shedrinkswater]

Lose yourself in love. Let it take you. Stop this sterile modern obsession with saving yourself from the very thing that is meant to transform you. Devote yourself to him. Let your partner become the centre of your world, in the sacred, terrifying way love was always meant to reorganise a human being.

Let go of these shallow pleasures. Stop feeding yourself fantasies that will never build anything, or hold you at night, or give you children, or stand beside you when life becomes brutal. Dream about having his children and belonging to him completely, and having him belong to you with the same intensity. Be his, and let him be yours.

Make him food. Learn what he loves. Study the architecture of his mind. Know what softens him, what strengthens him, what brings him peace. And he should do the same for you. You should be the centre of his universe too like you are his home, bloodline, devotion, and future.

Build an empire together, or build a small house filled with warmth. Be the suns of each other among all the other stars. Hold each other tighter every day, even when tomorrow is uncertain. Give it everything. Make the world better for the little merged versions of you who may one day enter it.

Enough of this cold, clinical obsession with healing yourself out of love. Some love is supposed to consume you. Some love is supposed to make you kneel, build, cook, protect, provide, surrender.

Let devotion become the highest form of directed life-force.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@krispuckett @joshpuckett But yes forever aiming to get to Josh’s level in terms of design and otherwise

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@krispuckett @joshpuckett Wait I thought you guys were brothers 😂

[Jip @jipvandervelde]

grug is probably the first Apple Design Award winner built by two designers using Codex to write the code.

We didn't prompt "build me an award-winning app, make no mistakes.” It did not wake up one morning and decide the world needed grug. We did. We wanted to build it and AI was the tool that helped us take it all the way there.

Ever since we started building with AI a few years ago, we got bolder. You stop killing ideas just because they sound too hard to build. You get weirder when trying things becomes cheap enough to be silly again. You start following the strange little thought further than you normally would.

That is how grug happened.

AI can write your code. It can help you move fast. It can make impossible things feel possible.

But it cannot care. It cannot make your app memorable. It cannot make your app feel like it has a soul.

You have to bring the taste. You have to stay incredibly close. You have to take small steps, make thousands of tiny decisions, throw away good-enough work to get to your best work, and protect the thing that made the idea worth building in the first place.

grug would not have been this memorable if we didn't have Codex to go all-in on all the crazy ideas we had. If we had not decided to make the whole thing hand-drawn. If we had not spent days and nights obsessing over every detail, every animation, every interaction, every tiny bit of weirdness.

That is the difference between slop and something with a soul.

And I think that is why this award means so much to us. Not because what we were able to do using AI to build grug, but because Apple recognized the care we put inside all the weirdness.

For the past 15 years, so many of our ideas stopped at the mockup. They were too weird, too small, too hard to explain, too expensive to build, too unlikely to survive a meeting. Now designers like us can build the fun little things. Designers like us can ship the crazy ideas. Designers like us can make unreasonable little things and see if the world cares.

There are plenty of people who do not get grug. That is totally fine.

We do not try to build for everyone, because when you do you end up building for no-one. The people who get grug really get it. And if it makes their morning feel a little lighter, that is all that matters to us.

Make the weird thing. The right people will find it.

grug no wait for permission.

grug back sun rise.

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@Lovable unable to connect to custom domains even on paid plans. Have been trying for last 3 days and your email customer support is non existent.

Should I just cancel and start hosting again? Please own up to your outages if that’s the case and inform your clients!

[Juliette @shedsgns]

you can fool with anything, but typography completely exposes a designer’s game

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@SparklinGuy @asitkhanda @charmiekapoor @JeevanshuN @shivamdwn @N80rious @designerdada @ritikdange08 @LizaFatwani Absolutely loved it Himanshu

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@asitkhanda @SparklinGuy @charmiekapoor @JeevanshuN @shivamdwn @N80rious @designerdada Paying it forward @ritikdange08, @LizaFatwani please try this out!

[Aditya Thakur @createdbytango]

@jeetnirnejak @motiondotdev @xyflowdev Hey @jeetnirnejak this is pretty good work. Have reached out to you via email! Let’s talk.

[Mind of Saka @WFAFOOTBALL14]

“Pressure is a Privilege. And if you’re feeling any pressure or weight of expectation, you are breathing rare air, that very few of us get to live inside”.

Unbelievable piece of poetry .

[Maxim Leyzerovich @round]

Constraints matter.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Designers, now it’s your time.

AI can generate interfaces. It still can’t figure out what feels right for humans.

[Snake Oil Salesman @ghuubear]

when agents collapse execution time, every IC needs to turn into a business thinker. they need to develop the judgment that used to live two layers up. coz if you wait for those layers to weigh in, you kill the speed. so the judgment has to move down for the gains to materialize.

[Kevin Twohy @kevintwohy]

“How do I get great projects?”

You don’t. You’re going to be handed a bunch of stinkers and each one is your chance to roll up your sleeves and take a big swing.

If you do this enough times and crack a few hits your phone will ring.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Making something people love is mostly making something you love and hoping the overlap is real

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

No this is a "manager brain" problem (saying this, yet as a current holder of the same job title).

Manager brain: "if me who doesn't code hands on can make Claude do it 90% right in 5 min, then the IC should be able to do it 100% right in 5 min"