Kevan MacGee

Friend of all dogs. 14+ years experience selling Software & SaaS, Web Developer. Previous lead at Instacart. Former Congressional Staffer. Big fan of sandwiches

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@HVACSEO The text of your tweet is correct.
In the screenshot, you show information the installer should have already provided and is a pretty reasonable request, although a tad on the extensive side.
That's a big investment in a house.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@ArtWong128 Cameron wore the Gordie Howe jersey because John Hughes spent part of his childhood in Detroit and liked it.
Allegedly, he also felt the untold backstory should be Cameron had a bad relationship with his dad but a great one w his grandad, who was a Detroit fan.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

Don't forget, the question isn't just if implicit state machines exist in your app, it's also whether or not they can get into unexpected states that cause things to break.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@zarazhangrui Agentic coding?
AI assisted coding?

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@Awesome_O_AI @milesdeutscher Yeah but what AI tools do you think would have enough penetration to make doing it on a local scale feasible?

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@LoanNinja @JoshuaBarzon That's 100% the opposite of Gen X.
We don't really care about the list.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

This is a nothingburger.
This feature might get some hype when it comes out and then it will settle into a small selection of music nerds using it to make remixes and mash-ups.
The $4 or $5 extra fee will be a huge barrier to someone already not crazy about paying $12 a month

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.

Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.

The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.

Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.

This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.

A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.

“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”

Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@gregisenberg That’s because a cracked engineer can be had for $20 / month.

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@Akirasaki Thanks!

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@defjavid @nevmed @todayyearsold So is the opposite true?
With September 1st being the most common, does the Labor Day weekend help induce labor?

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@HenryLSchuck I had a great manager who would grill us twice a week in front of the rest of the team on all our opportunities in the pipeline.
Even details like our contact's manager's name, the purchasing person's name, every detail to finish a deal.
We all knew our accounts cold.

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@justmazer What if I am both technical and non-technical?
I know way more about sales and marketing than the tech staff and I've usually been the most technical person on any sales team I've been on.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@buildinpublic Adding some stuff to "for fun" project. It's a SaaS and startup namer.
https://t.co/SFPF3suhL6

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@TTrimoreau Let's see

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@SeeDaneRun @GayBearRes To be honest, I'll state things sometimes that way to be a smart ass about something that is obvious.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@sandislonjsak Nope.
I only started on it because I had a temporary promo but then I loved it and had it for a year. Later, Codex eclipsed it.
Then with the new plans any chance of going back faded.

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

As I am sitting here, I just heard a computer beep. But it did not come from the direction of any of the 4 I'm looking at.
That means there may be a fifth one here I forgot about. Because I know it's not the 6th one, which is bricked, or the 7th one--the one I am typing on.

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@somebodysx @fiveoutofnine I know! This was the best option, they barely had any gifs with him.

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@thebuggeddev I was doing that with Gemini web and Antigravity or sometimes Stitch and was getting nowhere.
You have the touch!

[Kevan MacGee @kevanmacgee]

@thebuggeddev Same with Codex and Codex always does what I want. I have a discussion w GPT on the web, talk details through, then have it make a prompt on that, collect visuals, edit the prompt, add any extra info & plug into Codex.