Tom · building Dily

Building Dily, a calmer way to listen to podcasts. Sharing the process as I go.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

I love podcasts, but I hate the backlog.

So I built Dily around one simple idea:

Today’s episodes.
Yesterday’s episodes.
That’s it.
No endless library. No guilt. No “catching up”.
Just open the app and press play.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@KhrazeGAMING Its really looking good

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@theo I just want Linux for TV

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

I dunno. I would be pretty annoyed they kept asking.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Every leaked Meta story is so funny bc the C Suite there so viscerally hate their employees. Indeed, they hate the very concept of having employees. And their employees clearly hate their executives right back. All the leaked quotes from both sides always boil down to “Fuck you”

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@theo @vatsalcodesit To be fair half were minor changes

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@yonann This is how my dad talks about his Apple Watch

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AI is now a fundamental part of my job. I’m a massive nerd. I love messing around with this stuff. I tried to set up a really simple email reader using chatgpt work. It fundamentally did not work.

[Josh Miller @joshm]

Hot take… isn’t it kinda crazy that nobody is really using AI Agents? I don’t mean software engineers or AI early adopters. I mean “college friends talking about it in group chat,” the feeling you got when everyone started using Instagram or TikTok.

These frontier AI models are *insane* (as are the harnesses & tool calls & the like). And every large tech co has an AI agents platform, not to mention all the YC startups doing vertical agents. Yet all of your friends and family outside of tech — who spend all day staring at their iPhones and get paid to work in browser tabs — don’t really care or find themselves using any AI agents yet.

Yes ChatGPT, Claude, etc. are extremely popular… but if you look at the engagement data the vast majority of people are still using these aI chat tools like a glorified Google + Grammarly. That’s why the AGI labs are all pushing desktop apps for Codex, Cowork, etc. so hard to non-technical ppl. And yes exceptions for lawyers and customer service but even those have some asterisks and exceptions to rule.

Look I’m not saying the ChatGPT moment for AI Agents is not coming… it most definitely is! Remember we pivoted from Arc to Dia precisely because we believe computing is going to be radically reimagined around these AI primitives. No doubt. But that’s my point: it’s just so surprising it hasn’t happened yet because all of the tech you’d need is there.

Again if you stop for a second and think about it… for all the press and money and hype and models and crazy ARR numbers… this “AI Agent” moment does not *feel* like the other breakthrough tech moments we’ve lived through (e.g. think the shift to Stories via Snapchat & Instagram, or shift to on-demand via Uber/Airbnb/Doordash).

Which is a long way of saying: if you can figure out the answer to “why” most people don’t care about AI agents yet (and have no enduring interest in using them) — especially since the models and harnesses are here and ready — the answer to that question will allow you to capture a lot of marketshare and make a lot of money in 2027.

Theoretically, the tech is ready for AI Agents to totally transform how we work and live our lives… but alas the general public dgaf… that’s the generational puzzle to solve for the next 12 months for anyone not working on the models themselves.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@robleathern No way is BMW sitting in a meeting and saying we can make our cars cheaper with ads.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@joshm 1. I don’t think the tools are there yet. We are still in the windows smartphone days.
2. Ask any person on the street to think an ai use case for them personally, they won’t be able to tell you. Most people don’t need to plan a trip, or book a fight.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

This reads as a list of once was and could have beens.

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

List of Bending Spoons acquisitions to date:

Evernote
Remini
Splice
Filmic Pro
Komoot
Vimeo
Brightcove
StreamYard
Meetup
WeTransfer
Issuu
Eventbrite
AOL
Harvest
Tractive
Mosaic Group

Now airtable. Any that I have missed?

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@joshelman @hnshah Path was so legit

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@FutSheriff This looks so terrible

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@round Because it’s fun

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@CoachDanGo Enjoy it more

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@noahhermanyt It’s wonderful

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@nikitabier This is funny as fuck

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@Kev_Bayliss Mate you made this!? What a legend, great work. Unbelievable memories tide to this logo. Thank you

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

Everyone I know who built generational wealth is generationally unhappy

[Piyush 100x @piyush100x]

i hate marriages man, concept of it ... watching my most cracked friends give up their entire potential to rule the world for "settling down" ... bro you had one shot at generational wealth and you chose to marry a normal another human.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@shadcn Sliders should be used in general very sparingly, I think they work best as a fine tune, when the actual slide position doesn’t matter but what it affects does. Tuning a blur for instants.

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@heyhatem @claudeai Yes this is a great idea. Just had this problem.

[Tom · building Dily @dilyapp]

@ashpreetbedi The code was never the bottleneck. Large businesses had 1000’s of developers working. It’s everything else. We’re still running the same playbooks