Ben Shih

Growth Designer at @Lovable. Building @notchflow and more. Visit

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Designers are the unhappiest people in tech.

I sat down with @OpenAI's Head of Design @iansilber to talk about why—and why he still thinks this is the best time in history to be one.

We discuss:
🔸 His theory for why designers are so unhappy right now
🔸 Why he thinks this is the best time in history to be a product designer
🔸 His hot take that AI is already an incredible product designer
🔸 How OpenAI designs at two speeds
🔸 How Ian thinks about craft, taste, and what will be left for humans

Listen now 👇
https://t.co/dHSL5lXXv4

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@lennysan @Replit @andrey_esipov SO MUCH FUN!!!! Congrats @andrey_esipov! Love how much detail you put into the characters 💛

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Over 500 applications so far

Get on it!

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@rileybrown Cuteeeeeee

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@lennysan More about LennysData: https://t.co/a0iJvZ4rZG

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

What if @lennysan lived in your Mac Dock...?

Meet Lil-Lenny.

Ask product, growth, and pricing questions on demand. Drop in files, brainstorm with Lenny, or pull in the guests when you want more perspectives.

Download here: https://t.co/JWkxVrRtpw

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[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@lennysan Lil-Lenny is open source, feel free to build on top of it 👇

Download: https://t.co/JWkxVrRtpw
GitHub: https://t.co/ufosVIvazy
If you’re tired of terminal UIs, you might enjoy this one :)

And of course, huge thanks to @lennysan for building LennysData and for the fun!!🙏

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[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@lennysan A bit of background:

Ever since @lennysan released LennyData/MCP, I’ve been using it a lot for inspiration around growth strategy, pricing, and product thinking.

Then I came across @Ryan__Stephen's lil agent project, and it clicked, and turned that into Lil-lenny.

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[Rahul Mathur @Rahul_J_Mathur]

Lovable’s Head of Growth has shared 5 key lessons about Lovable’s $1M to $400M ARR journey

Elena joined Lovable at ~$1M ARR

> $100M by July 2025
> $200M by November 2025
> $400M by February 2026.

I’ve been following Elena for a long time (since she was doing sessions at Reforge in 2023) and take detailed notes each time she is interviewed on any show!

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

Best day of my life is here ����💛

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

A non-technical designer turned 300+ of my podcast transcripts into an RPG game.

You explore an 8-bit pixel world, meet guests like @bchesky @nikitabier @ElenaVerna @zoink, compete with them to test your product knowledge, and capture them like Pokémon.

SO FUN. And surprisingly educational!

Here's the step-by-step story of how @hbshih built this and what he learned: https://t.co/yJDmuCQfOx

If this doesn't get your vibe-coding juices flowing, I don't know what will.

(Play it here: https://t.co/Dyh61QvMGo)

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@thisiskp_ @lennysan @bchesky @nikitabier @ElenaVerna @zoink Lenny <> Pokémon!

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Today I'm releasing my entire newsletter archive (350+ posts) and all podcast transcripts (300+ episodes) as AI-friendly Markdown files. Plus an MCP server and GitHub repo.

A few months ago I shared my podcast transcripts on a whim, and y'all built the most amazing things—an RPG game, a parenting wisdom site, infographics, a Twitter bot, and 50+ other projects.

Let's see what happens when I give you even more data.

Grab the data here: https://t.co/xEPCcPiZHO.

Paid subscribers get all of the data (some 350 posts and 300 transcripts). Free subscribers get a subset.

I don’t think anyone’s ever done anything like this before, and I’m excited to give you this excuse to play with that AI tool you've been meaning to try.

Here’s my challenge to you: build something, and let me know about it. I’ll pick my favorite and give you a free 1-year subscription to the newsletter. Just post a link to your project in the comments here: https://t.co/yJDmuCQfOx.

If you’ve already built something, slurp in this new data and submit it, too. I’ll pick a winner on April 15th.

Check out today's newsletter post for inspiration on what you could to build: https://t.co/yJDmuCQfOx

LFG.

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@cristian_is_c @Tomek_Duda Yeah I agree I just didn’t know it will go this popular 🙈 will compress the images first!

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

My favorite podcast transcripts projects yet: "An RPG game where you test your product knowledge by getting challenged by podcast guests, and capture them like Pokémon."

Wild shit: https://t.co/Dyh61QveQQ

Created by @hbshih, a designer at @MiroHQ 👏

"The crazy part is that this whole game took ~8 hours to build using a mix of Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. It’s wild to see Claude Code automatically find open-source libraries, pull in background music, and generate all the assets needed, with minimal input from me."

Truly astounding. Incredible work Ben.

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@chunonline @lennysan @MiroHQ @bbalfour that's actually a bug, fixed it just now 🙈 But be aware that now @bbalfour is the big boss! https://t.co/sKRVv36bVh

[Brian Balfour @bbalfour]

This is freaking awesome. Plus, due to an update my character will now be the "boss" with more hitpoints. Can you capture me? Good luck.

Amazing work @hbshih

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@nichochar looks interesting!

[Ben Shih @hbshih]

@joshm PIP!!! Finally!!

[Nathan Lands @NathanLands]

I'M BLOWN AWAY.

Andrej Karpathy just explained Software 3.0 at YC.

BIG IDEAS: English is coding. AI is electricity. And, build for LLMs, not just people.

Key takeaways:

[Rob Hallam @robj3d3]

I ditched Cursor for Claude Code and it's absolutely insane 🤯

$1000s of API credits for just $100-200/month AND way better at following instructions

My complete guide to 10x your coding with Claude Code: