Some thoughts on going from an idea to the App Store in one week

Recently, I released a macOS app called SoundSeer to the App Store. It’s a Spotify companion that shows your current song in the menu bar. It also has a couple other conveniences like Next Track, and Copy Spotify URL. I’d like to briefly share how this came about, and how I feel about making my first app from scratch.

Snowflake announced Artic, their open 17b model. The LLM perfomance chart is replete with new offerings in just a few weeks. Overall knowledge performance is asymptoting as expected. It’s hard to discern the most recent dots.

One thing stands out from the announcement - the positioning of the model.

“The Best LLM for Enterprise AI”

Just half (47%) of our sample of editors, CEOs, and digital executives say they are confident about the prospects for journalism in the year ahead, with around one-tenth (12%) expressing low confidence. Stated concerns relate to rising costs, declining advertising revenue, and a slowing in subscription growth – as well as increasing legal and physical harassment

With the right instructions, your SEO writing can go beyond basic words on a page to pique curiosity, provoke thought, and form a deep bond with your reader.

Effective content marketing doesn’t just superficially match search intent. It empathizes with the reader, listener, or viewer’s needs. Which makes your brand memorable.

It only takes one-time of getting auto-renewed and stuck in a contract you don’t want to learn your lesson.

My policy is to push to remove auto-renewal clauses every time. If the vendor refuses, then I will send a cancellation notice immediately after signing the contract.

When the vendor has you as churning because you sent them your cancellation notice they 1) engage a lot earlier before renewal and 2) tend to be more flexible on price at renewal.

So not only do you eliminate the risk of getting auto-renewed, but you also save money!!

I’ve always thought Twitter makes you twice as informed but half as productive. On net it’s probably a wash.

A lot of media works that way. Everyone has access to an astronomical amount of data relative to even 10 years ago. How much does it make us more informed vs. more distracted? More intelligent vs. more biased, able to cherry-pick, and confirm what you already believe?