Taste Labs raised money on the premise of giving AI models 'taste' to stop AI design from looking generic. Andrew and David were unconvinced: curating better training data just makes that style the next AI slop. David added that design trends are a pendulum — the better AI design gets uniformly, the faster it starts to look dated.
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Andrew opens the final segment with two AI companies that have been confusing him on Twitter. The first is Poke — an AI personal assistant that lives inside iMessage (and WhatsApp and Telegram), has access to your Google accounts, and periodically texts you throughout the day with reminders and observations in lowercase Gen-Z slang. David tried it for a day and found it unsettlingly accurate about his life. The unusual onboarding: you literally negotiate your monthly subscription with the AI, and users have bargained it down to 99 cents or even free. [1] — David Imel "Poke is an AI assistant that lives inside iMessage, has access to all your data, texts you unprompted, and uses Gen Z slang with no capital…" 1:03:32 The PokeHumans tier — $199/month — escalates tasks the AI can't handle to actual humans, which Andrew compares unfavorably to a slow call center. The 'human element' for a service designed to be a personal AI concierge struck both hosts as fundamentally contradictory — and expensive, at minimum wage rates for human labor.
Poke's human-assisted AI service (PokeHumans) costs $199 per month, more than most traditional personal assistant services.
Game apps keep users engaged long enough for ads to pay off. Tool apps don't — so if you're building a utility, ads are almost always the wrong call and subscriptions are your only real lever.
Inside SEO Bot, a single button labelled 'Boost My Domain Rating' routes users directly to Listing Bot. That one interaction converts a user of one tool into a user of two — without any marketing cost.
Directory listings are a powerful but underrated growth channel — but only if your product is genuinely interesting enough to earn the click. AI products have a natural advantage here because they're easy to package in a compelling, clickable way.
The fastest path to Twitter growth isn't volume — it's forming sharp opinions about how the platform works and sharing them immediately. People cluster around those who understand the rules and say so out loud.
Sam had no coding knowledge, so he used ChatGPT voice mode to generate his entire codebase and copy-pasted it into Notepad. A friend later introduced him to Cursor, and he never looked back.
Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
Sam's top advice: when prompting Cursor, tell it to architect code for 100,000 users from day one. The AI changes its approach, building scalable frameworks instead of brittle one-user code.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu replicates an existing free tool for a new keyword in under 5 minutes. What used to be a multi-day build is now a lunch-break task.
Ahrefs, SiteGPT, Cal.com, PostHog, Datafast, Sibyl AI, Bento, Feather, Featurepace, Mintlify, Cloud Code, ChartMogul — Bhanu runs his entire business solo with these 12 tools.
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