AnthonyIsaacson

distribution is the big lie of the startup world
the secret to distribution?
Sell your product. Call people. Email people. Go to conferences.
it's legwork you have to do
"I don't have distribution" = I am lazy

if you're not using OTA updates you are really missing out
no substitute for testing your product on live devices within 30 seconds

after a hard day of prompting Claude, I like to kick back by prompting my friends and family using my face keyboard

friendly reminder that agent marketplaces are a tarpit idea

ai is killing family connection
Who are we asking for recipes? Mom, or Claude?
Who are we asking for business advice? Dad, or chatgippity?
So many lost opportunities to connect and learn from the people we love

founders that hold ideas back like they're clutching grandma's pearls are going to lose
if you think it's smart, articulate it today or someone else will
things are moving too fast to build anything stable on an idea you have now
use it to build credibility and move on

Foundation models? negative margins.
Agents? open source.
Productivity gains? incredible.
selling ai makes no money, applying it makes all the money

cybersecurity stocks are going to zero with haste
(not financial advice)

you learn fast selling automation that small businesses don't have any processes
you can't automate something without 1 source of truth and a stable-ish set of steps to follow
they don't have that. They can't automate shit.
world is much wilder than our home offices

fear and desire are the only factors you need consider when creating something new
today's most common fears:
- employees: being replaced by AI
- founders: being left behind by competitors using AI
- execs: noncompliance with law
desires (universal, variable intensity):
- money
- connection
- sex
if your product doesn't satisfy a first-principles desire, you have nothing.

the best ai products are going to come from non ai companies
homegrown stuff that works extremely well, not bespoke apps
You’re too far from the problem space as a dev. People thrive at solving their own problems but miss nuance when building for others

if everyone is building the same primitive, only the best version will survive
that best version will be absorbed by the lowest common layer - the operating system
all of this agentic “stuff” will disappear into Mac, windows, and iOS.