There's a sudden gold rush to build all the things, but people will realize very quickly that all those things are now irrelevant for the very same reason they now exist.

You raise, you build, you grow, you exit. That's the startup script. We're trying to write a different one: @TallyForms just reached $6M ARR, bootstrapped and purely product-led, with a team of 10 and over 2.5 million users. Six years ago I wouldn't have believed you if you told me this was possible. Yet here we are. Here's what happened on the road from $5M to $6M, including what went wrong. blog.tally.so/6-years-in-6-m…

This is the defining question for the next phase of <whatever all of this is>. I’m not joking even a little bit when I say you need to be having brunch and watching movies and listening to top 40 playlists and making viral pasta recipes and learning the airwalk to get better at software. How can you build what people want when even you’re not partaking of what a good life has to offer? Like where’s your user research even coming from?

designers are dead. figma is dead. ai ate your job. design is over. bruuuuuuh, every two weeks, same shitposts. my block button has never been busier. meanwhile: for the first time in 12 years the tools actually keep up with my thinking. iterate in minutes, explore 10 directions where before you had energy for two, create design tool by yourself. the golden era of design isn’t coming. it started. express your vision and create something new, bro (maybe social media content is dead? asking for the guys writing “design is dead” every two weeks lol)

wdyt of the clipboard contents?

FWIW designers (like myself) used to code. Then in 2013, React came out, and craftwork became dependency management and CI. Effectively, boxing many of us out.

Cursor internal analysis shows how hard Anthropic is subsidizing Claude Code. Last year, a $200 monthly subscription could use $2,000 in compute. Now, the same $200 monthly plan can consume $5,000 in compute (2.5x increase).

Introducing @QuiverAI, a new AI lab and product company focused on frontier vector design. We’ve raised an $8.3M seed round led by @a16z, with support from amazing angels and investors. Our first model, Arrow-1.0, generates SVGs from images and text. It’s available now in public beta at app.quiver.ai

My steelman case for in-person work is: 1. You are a 996 start-up where everyone is under age 30 and sleeps in the office anyway 2. You are a giant mega co. and you need physical coercion to get the median employee to not completely waste their entire day If you are not one of these two categories, remote is probably better on balance

What is famed child psychologist Dr. Becky doing on Lenny's Podcast? There's a surprisingly large overlap between great parenting and great leadership. As @shreyas often says, "most adults are babies in disguise." In our very unique conversation, we discuss: 🔸 What it looks like to be a “sturdy” leader 🔸 The power of “I believe you" and "I believe in you” 🔸 Why repair—not perfection—defines strong leadership 🔸 The “most generous interpretation” framework for handling difficult behaviors 🔸 How to correctly set boundaries (vs. making requests) 🔸 So much more Listen now 👇 • YouTube: youtu.be/Auxs8ZsHRI4 • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/230… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 @Merge_api — Fast, secure integrations for your products and agents: merge.dev/lenny 🏆 @MetaviewAI — The AI platform for recruiting: metaview.ai/lenny 🏆 @framer — Builder better websites faster: framer.com/lenny

new pr interruptions aren't errors, they're normal ⦿ remove red error box ⦿ remove error toast ⦿ add "interrupted" inline ⦿ add agent and model info ⦿ mute agent icon interrupted agent/model stays below interrupted turn, just as agent/model details stay below full turns

If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time, I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing The send button should not have multiple functions in the same spot

Jason Fried, on the benefits of a light grip. He uses a drum analogy to say: "When I first started, I gripped the sticks too hard, and when you grip the sticks really hard, you don't play as well for lots of reasons. You can't get the same tone and you don't have as much movement. There's no ghost note. Lots of things become harder. Your hand cramps up, so you can't play as long. But by relaxing your grip, you get better." @jasonfried