Adam Novak
@adamvnovak
Building the future of language learning. Prev 1st hire @222place, CS at @USC. Aspiring polyglot, design engineer, urban monk.
Honored to be recognized for designing one of the best onboardings by top storytellers and designers "today, people are starved a lot more for meaning than they are utility" agreed—that was our thinking behind the @222place onboarding thank you @ridd_design @hamburger
One of my favorite parts is when Ellis compares his experience writing at Snap vs. the Browser Company If you're looking to level up in writing/storytelling then there is a LOT in this episode 👇 join.dive.club/hamburger
I am so glad to be a design engineer in the age of AI Claude can implement all my backend code well based on my specs, works great, even with high complexity But Claude could never implement the bespoke, high touch, world class onboarding experience I’m building rn
To what extend will real creators be able to compete with ai content? I’m genuinely not sure Just saw ai Kanye speaking Korean pop up on my feed, and… it was so engaging Can founder led marketing compete with ai content engines?
That would be me 😊
This Western guy is going on dates in Korea until he is fluent in Korean
Request for startups: I want to get long mold Mold is super hot right now. It’s like the protein of environemtal contaminants. It’s in everything with no signs of going away. It’s literally in the air!
More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development. It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it. Instead, founders should have…
If you’re building in consumer and not putting out founder-led marketing videos w 400K+ views… You’re doing something wrong
The fact that services like @supabase, @Letta_AI and @raindrop_ai exist is so awesome as a founder They’re basically fractional CTOs for your startup — the fraction being ~1/20 IMO these tools are what really make solo founding easier, more than strategizing / coding w LLMs
Fastlane for iOS is awesome, how did I go without using it for so long…
Holy shit… we hired this guy at 222 Did amazing in the interviews. Lied to us that he’d be moving to NYC soon Once onboarded, I was the one working with him. His work was so bad I pushed for us to fire him within a few days. We did later that week. This is sad & disgusting
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
The kid next to me on the plane was playing Minecraft on his iPad while also watching a TV show in the mini player at the same time This is not the multitasking Apple had in mind when making the iPad It’s most definitely contributing to the ADHD in our generation
Please don’t name your AI startup some arbitrary sequence of characters followed by AI Especially if it’s in consumer Zona AI Loru AI Mulo AI You will not be remembered I came across one startup like this and still couldn’t remember its name after several interactions
omakase software in a world where anyone can build anything, most won’t. if previous consumer behaviour tells us anything, it’s that we value convenience and and others’ taste way more than we think. even in systems designed for flexibility like notion, people buy templates to…