Santanu DasGupta

Founder at Meerkats AI - Building Agent skills platform for growth marketing. One-click install, secure hosting, model-agnostic, and chat-to-launch.

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

Most marketing agencies using AI automation hit the same wall.

You build a workflow, it works great until you need to replicate it for 10 more clients.

Suddenly you're spending more time managing automations than actually doing marketing.

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[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@lennysan April's frameworks are super amazing to help founders position and cut out the noise!

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

https://t.co/lJsG6fxoXV the screenless revolution isn't that far away! Invisibility begins with simplicity.

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

Building a SaaS used to cost $200k and 18 months.

Today it costs almost nothing.

Here's what that actually means for founders, solopreneurs & indie hackers 🧵

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1/ The obvious take: amazing news for solo builders.

The real take: it changes *what actually matters*.

When everyone can build, the product stops being the moat.

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2/ The winners won't be the best builders.

They'll be the ones with:
→ Distribution
→ Domain expertise
→ Community trust
→ Brand and taste

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@hwchase17 great insights!!

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https://t.co/sn3DADHioO

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Solves a huge pain point for MCP usage

[Matt Carey @mattzcarey]

Code Mode is all you need, very excited about this direction for MCP

https://t.co/a5E5Xqrvrt

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@lennysan That's incredible.

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@_philschmid Webmcp is cool 😎

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@hwchase17 LLMs are very good at navigating file systems and much more efficient at so many tasks. Smart move @hwchase17

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@nichochar It's a really good point... Lovable has to crack enterprise B2B asap. Offering a gamified experience for b2c segment is a very leaky bucket TBH.

[john kutay @JohnKutay]

Whenever I’m showing our system to folks who are remotely technical, I spend about 50% of the time of the UX, 50% of the time on the traces. The latter is when most light bulbs go off.

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

AI to Improve Access

One of the biggest opportunities to emerge from AI won’t be about speed or efficiency—it will be about access.

I was talking to a friend recently about her dad, now in his 80s. He struggles to read newspapers, letters, and everyday documents.

Not because he’s disengaged or uninterested—but because the interfaces we’ve designed assume perfect vision, dexterity, and technical fluency.

That conversation really landed for me.

AI changes this fundamentally. When information can be spoken, summarized, explained, and conversed with, the barrier shifts from “Can you use this tool?” to simply “What do you want to know?”

This aligns closely with recent conversations I’ve been having with Stephen Comstock around human-centered AI. Senior citizens may be the clearest proof point that we’re finally moving in the right direction. If an interface works for someone in their 80s, it will work for almost everyone.

As intelligence becomes more accessible—and devices fade into the background—we’re not just unlocking new capabilities. We’re restoring independence, confidence, and participation for people who have quietly been excluded by modern technology.

That’s what makes this moment exciting. Not the novelty of AI—but the lives it can meaningfully improve.

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@hwchase17 Very useful construct...thanks @hwchase17

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@jaynitx PG's stuff is always timeless :)

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https://t.co/jvO2vuvWWj

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💡 If DOS Spoke English, Would We Still Need a GUI?

This post is inspired by a great piece from Tomasz Tunguz that really stuck with me.

His core point:
Today’s AI experience — a blank text box waiting for a prompt — is basically DOS that understands English.

Yes, it’s powerful.
No, it’s not the final form.

Back then, GUIs didn’t replace DOS because DOS was weak.
They won because they made computing usable for everyone.

Same thing is happening with AI.
A single text box:
• Favors power users
• Forces linear thinking
• Hides what’s actually possible

Smarter models don’t remove the need for UX — they increase it.

🔮 Looking ahead to 2026
This is where things get interesting:
→ AI agents will run long, multi-step workflows on our behalf
→ We’ll manage multiple agents, not single conversations
→ Interfaces will dramatic show progress, context, and decisions — not just text
→ Prompting will matter less; orchestration will matter more

The winners won’t be the tools with the smartest models alone.
They’ll be the ones that build the best interfaces on top of intelligence.

The text box was the beginning.
The real productivity gains come after it.
Credit again to Tomasz Tunguz for the original insight 👏

Original post in the comments.
hashtag#AI hashtag#UX hashtag#ProductDesign hashtag#FutureOfWork hashtag#AIInterfaces #2026

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

@aryanlabde What to build and for whom and how!! These questions are time tested and vibe coding euphoria doesn't change it!

[Santanu DasGupta @sdasgupt]

Are you voicepilled? I am!

UX and VX merge to create AI First UX! The future of Human Computer Interaction is already here.

We wont entirely ditch the mouse or screens.
But voice will be the primary interface. "Click" or "Tap" only when required. Or only for confirmation.

This may seem futurisitc but it's not here. All the pieces to make this the default way for Human Computer Interaction is already here.

#ChatGPT #ChatGPTApps #ConversationalAI #AIArchitecture #DeveloperInnovation