1/4 Would love people's input on which prototype has the best design. Will do a 1st, 2nd, 3rd prize. Please like the entry you find most compelling (I'm going to reply with all three to this cast.) 1st: $500 2nd: $250 3rd: $125

If you have a RetroPGF application, feel free to reply to this cast with the link.

At its core, most consumer product is about discovering latent desires that people didn't realize they had. Said enough way: seven deadly sins, repackaged in a novel way.

If you want to see a world-class PWA, try X / Twitter in your mobile browser. The engineering work that went into it pre-dated Elon era. And then after using it for a bit, re-download the X / Twitter native app and feel the difference. Not even close.

Favorite activities to occupy a 1 year old on a cross-country flight?

ChatGPT story prompting We sit down and I ask my son what he wants to "make a picture of". I add in a prompt that approximates what he looks like and then we work on "what's next"? Endless amusing and then if you save the photos to album you a customized story book to show during a tantrum.

(Not sure if this would work.) An interesting Farcaster experiment might be hooking up a few Character AIs to a Farcaster account. - Avg Farcaster user: use the entire corpus of casts to approximate the avg Farcaser user. Someone can tag the bot in to get answer questions - Conservative / Liberal steelman bot

What companies are working on LLM-based pedagogy? Reply with a link. Bonus points if open source.

For those that studied computer science in college, do you think the current generation or near-future improvements to LLMs would have made your major easier / same / harder? - Homework gets easier whether cheating or trying to get unstuck. - Tests are same? Harder? - AI tutor helps teach genuinely curious students?

If you’re building a consumer app, the best chance at retention is: 1. mobile app 2. Push notifications 3. Email notifications Can’t think of a recent successful consumer app that didn’t have this. Best I can come up with is MetaMask, Uniswap and OpenSea. But less consumer and more financial (ie whale heavy).

What do we think about FSU? Snub or no?