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“Our general framework for it is to look for user demand, right? And actually the easiest way to check for user demand is to just see what has virality, right? Usually what has virality. What people want to share and talk about. There's something at the core of…”

“If you did something unique that nobody else has done, you can go and show that to people and people will come to your app just for that. And even if your app doesn't have a lot of the obvious stuff, maybe it doesn't have justify alignment, right? People will …”

“Our engineering goal is every engineer should ship A marketable product every week.”

“We are using cursor. We've tried all the different tools. We were using Devon as well, which is another, you know, that's more advanced, I guess, you know, it's kind of solving bugs for you.”

“So it's like almost reversing the process a little bit and starting with design first, but it can often result in like finding unique ideas, basically.”

“I do think to fully get there to the point where it cannot be differentiated at all, it's still a couple of years away.”

“I have to say here that I actually don't read books. It's actually something that I decided on purpose where I decided I don't want to build my skill in reading and I want to build it in listening and watching instead, because I think that's the future.”

“The social network that we had at the time, we actually removed it from the App Store, so it's not available anymore. But till today, there are people, there are thousands of people that are using it, posting on it, and all the different things”

“Took two days to build. We put it out there and it immediately took off, right? It was absolutely shocking because I built it on a weekend. We put it out there. I call my close founder on Monday and like, it's at the top of the app store. We're getting like, 6…”

“So we had this feature where it basically shifts your eyes to look at the camera, and we were actually the first company to build this.”

“About a year ago, we would run AI video in ads and things like that, and we would get all these comments of people being like, oh my god, this is so fake, like, you know, don't show me this, and Around that time, the technology got just about good enough that …”

“Usually Q four for us is infrastructure quarter, right? We just like go and build all the infrastructure. Q four is generally, you know, we've already delivered a ton of products and stuff. We're feeling pretty good about the rest of the year. Things are windi…”

“And a lot of times the biggest wins will come from the secret roadmap, right? That's the game-changing stuff, right? It's not gonna be the user requests usually that are gonna do that.”

“And about a year and a half into the company, as we're working on other projects and stuff, I went back to a personal account, just opened it. And I saw that there was like, 500,000 dollars in there. And I looked at a chart and it was just like growing. The re…”

“But these are all features that every competitor knows about, right? Like these are public. Like if a user is asking us for it, they're asking everybody for it. And every team has essentially more or less the same list and everybody's prioritizing it. And yeah…”

“And we actually divide our roadmap into two different roadmaps. So we have what we think of as the public roadmap. This is basically what people have asked us for, right?”

“Our goal Specifically for video is not to build professional tools, right? We're not building for professionals at all. We're building for the person who could not have created video before, right? They didn't have the tools, the skills, the means to be able t…”

“This reminds me I had Gaurav, he's the CEO of Mirage. He used to be called Captions, which is a really successful AI video company startup, and they have a policy of you ship a marketable feature every week.”