I just did my first ever in-flight app demo of a piece of software that I built myself (to the COO I met sitting next to me) Got a follow-up meeting... hehe

West Village was a little dead yesterday so the Tesla shop let me and my three year old mess around in all the cars for a half hour haha

prepping for my first formal school pilot program for my kids' app, Scribblins, which basically just means generating INCREDIBLY cute visuals like this for my slide decks 😍 😍 😍

it's 90 min later and i'm still mad at my alarm for interrupting a dream where I was at an all-you-can eat Japanese breakfast buffet. carefully choosing what I was about to eat...

well, well, well... let's see if ChatGPT can save my life a second time this year 😳

Anyone here selling small batch software? I just priced my first build (a fork on something I made for myself) and would love to pick your brain on how you price for this sort of thing….

Who will fund the next wave of creators? I started Build First because I believe the digital transformation from software user to maker is the most powerful paradigm shift of our generation. And yet. Being a high-agency builder comes at a cost. AI has collapsed the cost of building...but not the cost of living. The ... Show more

ITAP of an IRL filter of the flatiron building

it's come to this -- my therapy session officially became a product demo for the self-help AI therapy app I made myself over the break i showed her how it works and asked for her feedback on what else i'd need to make it more effective turns out she had a pretty great feature idea for me based on her 8 years of seein... Show more

Why was everyone suddenly building apps over the holidays? Because we finally had enough cognitive surplus for our minds to wander... which meant we found time to tinker. And then we built. As it turns out, you don't need to be an engineer to build an app anymore. But there are 3 things I've noticed that all my AI... Show more

last year i spent 48 hours prototyping + 6 months refining an app to help kids get customized audio guides for any museum exhibit next week i'm going to see if i can get a group of college CS students to rebuild a v1 prototype of that exact app in 45 minutes flat

So many incredible people looking to stay solo vs. join the corporate grind... So much empty commercial real estate in NYC... So many people who want to learn about AI but don't have the time or confidence to learn on their own (or get taught by their bosses)... Hmmm... here's a fun idea I mocked up today...

Hey parents... You can officially try my new app, Scribblins! Now available on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices Scribblins is an audio-first, co-play experience that uses AI to turn your child’s real artwork into characters, stories, and stickers. Built in classrooms with my own kids in mind. 95% AI coded. (1... Show more