Marak

Product stuff @yondercard, ex founder @paywithboost ex @wise

recipe engineer 🍲
food tour guide 🥟

Just some thoughts.

[Marak @Marak210]

Composing an orchestra of sorts today 🎼🍔

Follow the adventures https://t.co/Iw44mjXEaz

#BurgerSauce

[Marak @Marak210]

Filling in country/city specific government forms when booking @Airbnb really needs a central solution - it's mostly data that @Airbnb has + it's a huge hassle since I booked I need to chase everyone else to do it too :(

e.g. https://t.co/JSZR5FBhWR

@bchesky

[Marak @Marak210]

She singin' my songs

[Marak @Marak210]

Have @GeminiApp and @ChatGPTapp designers considered a Miro-style, branchable chat UI (tree of threads) so you can follow multiple adjacent topics without losing your place vs one endless scroll?

[Robert Youssef @rryssf]

DeepMind just did the unthinkable.

They built an AI that doesn't need RAG and it has perfect memory of everything it's ever read.

It's called Recursive Language Models, and it might mark the death of traditional context windows forever.

Here's how it works (and why it matters way more than it sounds) ↓

[Marak @Marak210]

Hey @netflix stop making me choose between reading the whole movie or hearing nothing. How about just giving us "heatmap captions" which toggle on whenever the global rewind rate hits a certain %

[Marak @Marak210]

@HighwaysEAST It's moving now

[Marak @Marak210]

@sama Yes!

[Marak @Marak210]

Weekends, get it poppin' on the low

[Marak @Marak210]

Wonder if most news sites should turn their focus into monetising APIs? Content APIs instead of consumer facing. Like what @X and @Reddit have done. Hey 3rd party... you want access to our content then pay because we're not good on the UX side. They can definitely keep both going

[Marak @Marak210]

I was just casually clicking a link from social to quickly read more, instead I had to

1. Deny login (not pictured)
2. Accept cookies
3. Hear about a new privacy policy
4. Agree to cookies again (in the footer)
5. Deny taking a survey (not pictured)

Then finally the article.

[Marak @Marak210]

My trust was killed quickly in what was supposed to be a quick transaction between me and @bbc ... to be fair the rest of the news sites do it too.
No wonder article readers and ChatGPT are more popular... They give you the content without all the hassle.

[Marak @Marak210]

@patrickc @stripe Would love a podcast version of this

[Marak @Marak210]

How about mouthwash you can swallow? Is that a thing?

[Marak @Marak210]

Hey bedding designers I have a serious question - why don't we use zips for duvet covers? Who keeps looking at 15 buttons and thinking - ship it

[Marak @Marak210]

Why's @instagram getting rid of the long press gestures on @Android ? I was able to bring up recent friends & long press indicators to scroll albums? They're super useful shortcuts 😵‍💫 cc @mosseri

[Marak @Marak210]

MetaAI is a bit of a missed opportunity... Instead of making use of all the social context it has, it's just another ChatGPT...

@metaai @Meta

[Marak @Marak210]

Dear #lazyweb has anyone seen research on frequency vs length of product marketing emails? To me it seems intuitive that you should send more frequent shorter emails vs longer infrequent novels.

[Marak @Marak210]

Seriously though, what am I supposed to do with this permanent notification @Cowboybike ? I'm not sure what it's even telling me or why I need it always visible

[Marak @Marak210]

Would be great if @WhatsApp had a "I'm taking a detox" feature so we can signal that we're unreachable for the next x. Kinda like an auto status response.

[Marak @Marak210]

Seriously though... Why isn't the "feels like" temperature not the main temperature?