🐤 Product Nuggets #5 — AI Cliffs Notes, Gas App's 1M DAU and Microsoft's dev empire

Jacob's top 5 product tweets from the past week

Oct 28, 2022

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2 years ago · 9 likes · Jacob Jolibois

🐤 Nug #1 — The new Frame.io site is gorgeous!

Hats off to the frame.io team.

Kurt Varner @kurtvarner

We shipped a new marketing website. The homepage is 32,000px long. Some people say they’ve met god on it.

🐤 Nug #2 — Cliff notes plz

This is one of the coolest use-cases for AI, in my opinion. Makes complicated ideas accessible to people who aren’t in a particular industry or don’t know all the jargon.

Aman Jha @amanjha__

It's here! Upload *any paper* to Explainpaper and start instantly getting explanations! Ask follow up questions if you need a more in-depth answer. Go to explainpaper.com and go read all the papers you've been saving! 📝📝📝

🐤 Nug #3 — Take it back to the basics.

Sometimes we overcomplicate things. Data, frameworks, slick designs etc. Sometimes we just need to see our products like a human. With fresh eyes.

joshpuckett @joshpuckett

Most designers overcomplicate 'user empathy' or 'user centered designer' by trying to use personas or other UX-y tools. Just imagine someone in a realistic scenario using your product to accomplish their goal. That's it. Here's an example with @linear:

🐤 Nug #4 — Gas me up!

The 🔥 new social app, Gas, crossed 1M daily active users. This is wild. After selling his first company, TBH, to Meta, Nikita wanted to build something new. Something built to go viral.

And boy did he deliver. Despite (or maybe because of?) an awkward name and fighting a rumor that they’re a front for a trafficking ring.