Meng To

15 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2025 by Meng To · across every show →

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Jun 9, 2025 bullish
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Meng To: Aura hit 500 daily signups and $3K MRR organically
“In fact, we already, we're doing 500 users a day right now. 500 users are signing up to this platform every single day, and we're, you know, we just started, obviously but we're making something like 3000 MR at the moment, and we're growing a lot, as you can s…”
Meng To Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 29:47 How to get 10x more out of Lovable, Cursor, v0
Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Insight
Meng To: Taste is what makes humans unique from AI
“So I think there's such a problem right now with AI creating generic content and creating a generic designs. And I think what do you need to learn is how to do it with taste because ultimately it is that's what makes us a human and unique from AI.”
Meng To Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 1:54 How to get 10x more out of Lovable, Cursor, v0
Jun 9, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Meng To: v0 and Lovable defaults make AI apps look identical
“And funny that you mentioned Schatzian because it's one of the most common templates that you're going to be looking at most of the time when you're going to problem with vZero. It's very much embedded into the platform and in lovable, you're going to see some…”
Meng To Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 10:55 How to get 10x more out of Lovable, Cursor, v0
Jun 9, 2025
Insight
Meng To: 80% of all UI design is typography
“80% of all designs are text.”
Meng To Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 7:18 How to get 10x more out of Lovable, Cursor, v0
Jun 9, 2025
Disclosure
Meng To: Aura and Dreamcut each have over 150,000 lines of code
“As someone who is Vibe coding a bunch of products such as Aura, but also a Dreamcut, both of them have over a 150,000 lines of code.”
Meng To Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 4:30 How to get 10x more out of Lovable, Cursor, v0
May 6, 2026 positive
Insight
To: design.md is the recipe, skills are ingredients, HTML is the dish
“The HTML is more like The sort of finished dish, and the MD file is more like the recipe. The skills are like the ingredients.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 9:12 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 positive
Insight
To: AI shifts design from moving pixels to high-frequency judgment
“So, what I believe is that everything is changing, and we're doing a lot less of the moving pixels, moving rectangle and resizing things. We're doing a lot more judgment per minute. In fact, you know, For me, the agent is more like someone who's doing a lot of…”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 39:25 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 negative
Opinion
To: Derivative product design slashes perceived value by up to 100x
“Niche is the key word here because you cannot compete anymore with people who are generalized. It's too difficult. Nowadays we want authenticity, we want niche, we want taste, and if something looks like another thing, it kind of reduced the value by, like, al…”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 47:27 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 positive
Disclosure
To: Appearing on Isenberg's podcast grew MRR from $3K to $15K
“Remember the first time I came to your podcast, I started with a 3000 dollars MRR, and it shut up to 15,000 MRR just by going through your podcast.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 3:14 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026
Disclosure
To builds all his software and tools solo using vibe coding
“Everything I do today, including this tool that I'm showing you, which is my own notion with slides, Is vibe coded, and I made it by myself.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 4:10 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026
Disclosure
To spent nearly $500,000 on AI tokens for his startup
“And I just realized, you know what, like, I spent almost half a million dollars in token for my startup right now.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 24:59 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 negative
Insight
To: Basic typography and colors are no longer enough for landing pages
“Like, nowadays, just having the typography Just having the colors is not enough unless it's a secondary page or unless it's something that is very serious, but if you're talking about a landing page or a promo video or, you know, a slide, you need a moat.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 20:39 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 negative
Opinion
To: Outdated design tropes like purple gradients now repel users
“What used to be wow, five, 10 years ago, now is generic, which is funny, because like, if you look at the purple gradient, everyone was like, wow, purple gradient, I want to use that. But nowadays, if you see something with, you know, purple gradients, you jus…”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 14:35 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
To: Local-first architecture is the key moat against Notion and Figma
“First of all, for me, when I make apps, I look at what is the mode? What is something that I can do with my app that Notion cannot do or Figma cannot do? For me, that mode right now is the fact that everything is local.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 17:10 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
May 6, 2026 bearish
Opinion
To: Products built purely with AI will show visible defects
“They want real people, they want real craftsmanship behind all of these pixels at some point, because, you know, the cracks are going to show if you only use AI. The, you know, the whole way.”
Meng To May 6, 2026 ▶ 43:26 My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
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