Edison Wang

making gizmo @makegizmos

ex: co-founder @sleepbot; @airbnb, @snap, @vine, @twitter, @squarespace; alum @cooperunion

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

Chipotle's support bot is free:

[Jess Lee @jesskah]

A perfect use case for AI-generated personal software: I merged multiple Thanksgiving recipes into one idiot-proof step-by-step timeline with a timer.

I tried a few different options:

@Claudeai Code was fast and ergonomic, and even looked up sous vide temps, but the design was rough and it didn’t get my request for a “dark academia vibe.”

@Lovable was fast, but made a critical logic error by assuming I’d hit “start” at the exact right moment. Also missed the aesthetic. More prompting fixed it.

@MakeGizmos succeeded in one shot and was the only one that understood the assignment on dark academia. Mobile first was super convenient. One nit: the timer paused when I exited the app.

@wabi ignored my design direction and stuck to its white liquid glass look. It made the same timing mistake as Lovable and had to be prompted to fix it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[felix fung @ffx]

If you're proud of it, publish it. Create a Stripe profile and share.

[Josh Siegel @jsiegz]

It’s not too late to be one of the first million Gizmologists 👩‍🎨 Now with a sounds library, group chat, image gen, and lots more coming soon! Here’s a recent favorite: https://t.co/eVAREW0RoJ

[Gizmo @MakeGizmos]

Countdown Is On ♠️

Made On Gizmo 
↓ Link below

[Edison Wang @wew]

@lucy_guo Just hit up any ex-Snap employee. :p

[Gustavo Moura @gugaflu]

From Snap's earnings call, Snapchat+ has now amassed 12M subscribers, pretty much doubling year-over-year.

Non-ads revenue has reached $123M for the quarter, a half-billion annual run rate, and 9% of total revenue for the company.

Snapchat+ launched in July of 2022.

[Edison Wang @wew]

@reed @Waymo Can’t wait to do airport rides with Waymo soon. Saw some test runs last time I was in SF.

[Edison Wang @wew]

Finally got the salute sticker as an Android ex-twitter eng from @friendlyMikhail

[Jack Brody @jackdbrody]

We’ve now reached over 5 MILLION Snapchat+ subscribers! Because of them, we’ve been able to test new features to some of the most passionate members of our community, driving innovation (and getting amazing feedback along the way). Grateful for our entire Snapchat+ community.
https://t.co/4rN7xFtFOi

[Edison Wang @wew]

@sebmzz The one thing you learn from the history of social networks is actually the opposite of what that tweet says: IRL friends are the only ones that will switch to new apps with you (new MSN, or WhatsApp vs new LinkedIn).
Keep it up!

[Edison Wang @wew]

A year ago today I was still squashing last minute bugs for this $3.99 a month subscription service, can't imagine there are now over 4,000,000 subscribers paying for it! https://t.co/YmNQ7cinsK

[Edison Wang @wew]

@tokudu @bjdodson @gugaflu @nkoroste We will miss you every day….

[Edison Wang @wew]

@jacobandreou @nateparrott @nateparrott I wonder if one can just ingest Chrome's Discover/Following page call and just generate a summary each time. The recommendation there is already very good.

[Edison Wang @wew]

🫡💙

[Edison Wang @wew]

@wongmjane @elonmusk @StephenKing the best argument I heard so far is that the blue check is not for the benefit of the check owner but for the audience to see, seems ridiculous for check owners to pay if the value is taken away that way.

[Edison Wang @wew]

@pandemona that was my exact first reaction as well. but later @ffx informed me that it's only the parts that I wrote that Elon doesn't want.

[Edison Wang @wew]

knowing what was written, it may be better to rewrite from scratch as the video creation platforms on mobile have evolved so much over the last ten years. @elonmusk

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

Scoop w/ @sarafischer: Twitter engineers have been instructed to look at the old Vine code, with hopes that Vine could be revived by year-end. https://t.co/XL6kdZFhEw

[Edison Wang @wew]

@rallat I wonder if it means what it means in Chinese..

[Edison Wang @wew]

@rallat Your Japan tweets are the only ones I’m looking at on twitter these days.