Spencer Schoeben
@netspencer
dad & entrepreneur & engineer. building @withdelphi. previously @capitalxyz.
we shipped the fastest, most delightful onboarding i’ve ever seen—your digital mind spins up in under a minute, predicts your info, and gives you full control to tweak as you go. proud of the team, but honestly, we’re just getting started 🚀
we have raised our series a @sequoia is coming along for the ride and this video is epic what a time to be alive man 👨🏼💻🫡
Every time I spend time with @withdelphi I catch glimpses of an extraordinary future Don’t fall asleep on this team—so many design opportunities packed into one mission
this is ridiculously cool don't even need to DM you anymore just gonna hit up your delphi
if you’re a dude & you do not take risks in your life, you will be a nobody.
40 years ago Steve Jobs predicted @withdelphi in an interview with Playboy magazine His vision has been on my mind for almost half that time This is a generational design opportunity, one that will transform how knowledge moves through human society
writing the code is the easy part now. the bottlenecks are: - defining the right product (insight, taste, timing) - distribution (narrative, audience, partnerships) - design that feels alive - data access (auth, api, privacy) - user motivation & trust (esp. w/ ai) - platform…
i used to think that perhaps poetry was the last refuge of humanity safe from ai but i just spent several hours writing poetry with chatgpt. he’s a poet
It honestly doesn’t matter how talented you are. Speed is literally the number one metric that matters.
Parenting is the most difficult thing Ive ever done. Constant trade-offs, no time to yourself. It’s also the most rewarding. No one will ever be happier to see you or enjoy nothing more than sitting in your lap to read the same book for the 500th time. Have babies. Feel real…
pure ui is also incredibly important so that we can easily test the important parts of the code ui can be hard to test, but state is easy to test test the state and then make the ui just a function of that state
it's time for your annual reread of pure ui by @rauchg! rauchg.com/2015/pure-ui it's still one of the most important product design blog posts ever written. it'll only become more relevant with ai codegen. i wish more people acted on it!
come work with us! this is what it’s like. aka pretty great delphi.ai/careers
Curious about the behind the scenes of @withdelphi? 2.5 years ago, we set out to build the modern Library of Alexandria 1000s of digital minds later, we're accelerating that vision w our Series A from @sequoia Check out this mini doc to learn about the world we're building👇
It’s crazy how much AI Agents are going to change the core premise of software. Since the beginning of the industry, software has been something that enables people to do their work. We’ve spent decades building features that make people incrementally more productive when using…
claude code is the greatest piece of command line software since unix