Tristan
@homsiT
i will not be elaborating. founder @readwise, past: @stripe @superhuman
Huge news: after 1.5 years of private beta, thousands of testers, and a looot of incredible work by the team... @ReadwiseReader is finally in public beta! Save everything to one place, highlight like a pro, and replace several apps with one. readwise.io/read
oh noooo by the nature of my startup building reading software, i am forced to read books for hours and hours to "understand my users" and "find issues" it's a tough job, but i will make this sacrifice
we started this weekly newsletter (featuring the most highlighted content in Readwise) almost 2 years ago.. now at our 100th edition! huge shout out to abi & dan for this milestone and thanks to @sivers for letting us feature his WHOLE latest book 🤯 x.com/ReadwiseReader…
We just sent out our 100th edition of our weekly newsletter, Wisereads! This edition was extra special, and features the full ebook Useful not True by @sivers (one of our favorite authors!)
Pocket is officially shutting down tomorrow! Here are a few things new users coming over from Pocket have said about Reader :)
Pocket users: You can save your entire Pocket archive into Reader in seconds. Reader is under constant development, supports many features (save pdfs, tweets, epubs, etc, AI, filtering) that Pocket never did PS- we're also bootstrapped & not going anywhere :)
the team has been cooking...
We just sent out Reader's 12th Public Beta Update, with a ton of new features & improvements: 📚 ePubs v2 📜 PDF Clean View v2 💬 Chat with Document Preview ✒️E-Ink Mode ⚡️ Faster Document Opening 🎧 Audio Reviews 🧠 AI Themed Reviews and much more! Let's get into it...
obsessing/analyzing iq is the most midwit thing you see on this app nobody high performing even thinks about this stuff
I used to think Andreesen was a 130 IQ Until I realized he’s a fast talking 115 Thiel is still a 130 But a greedy and selfish 130 Sam is an evil 110 on a lot of strong psychedelics Elon is a 140, blasting K Take your pick, anon
Wow! Saddened to hear that @Pocket (the biggest read-it-later app) is shutting down on July 8th. You can import all of your pocket articles, highlights, etc into @ReadwiseReader with two clicks
every AI powered feature in @readwise and @ReadwiseReader is powered by turbopuffer -- it's fast, cheap, and a pleasure to use if you need to store/query embeddings it's really the only option
turbopuffer is generally available. petabytes in prod. turbopuffer.com
how did generals deal with the psychology of their army getting too big & they couldn't always fight at the frontlines? asking for an IC->manager friend..
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Thrilled to be published today in @firstround's Review At the start of @Superhuman, we knew onboarding would be a big deal. We had no idea how big. Onboarding has taken me on an obsessive, decade-long journey, including: • 🤩 Personally onboarding hundreds customers to…
I didn't have the time to prompt a fast model, so I prompted a slow one