been figuring out life through videos and working the past year
for the past month or so been working on something for my fellow christians, we’ll see how it goes
Poke is inevitable 🌴
there’s 100 reasons @interaction might lose as a company, from getting banned by messaging platforms to getting sued for price discrimination
but Poke as a product is inevitable:
> a single-threaded ai w all context in one place – simple and just like you talk to other humans
> constantly running inference on live context like email/calendar
> proactively offering you help, from checking you into flights to updating calendar invites, linear issues, notion docs, and responding to emails
> right in your existing, familiar interface, with a high degree of spatial awareness (which platform did the msg come from, what time/location)
> talking like your human friends instead of a sycophantic version of C-3PO
> knowing you frighteningly well:
→ what you’re working on w which deadlines, and what are jobs and studies you’ve prev pursued
→ how you slept every morning (via whoop/oura) and what music you listen to (via spotify)
→ what you tweet and post on socials
→ which newsletters you read and creators/topics you follow
→ who your family, friends, and coworkers are
→ …
becomes painfully obvious once you’ve tried it for a week.
no normie wants to go into an app where they start from a blank conversation every time for everyday requests. no one wants a three-page em-dash-filled report about the history of the US dollar when just asking for a conversion rate.
and rec’s for restaurants, purchases, things to do will be so much better from someone who knows what else you like from email receipts and travel itineraries
i don’t know yet if we’ll be the ones winning this market, or if apple/google at some point ban us and copy our ux.
but i’m betting everything on this becoming the biggest consumer product of our time.
build the future and join us in palo alto:
https://t.co/MBCZlvCeYB