Anish Acharya
Everything Anish personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"ChatGPT Work — it's kind of buried in the UI, but it's really really good. It's one of the best products they've released. It runs in the cloud, it does a good job of caching browser credentials, and the remote feature has the full deep duplex voice mode. So you can actually just call it — it can see all your threads and you can just talk to it and say, 'Hey, what's happening across all my coding agents?' So the voice plus the model of it being able to see all threads is really well done."
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"Grok Bot totally nailed it. And also the model underneath it is awesome — they came out right out of left field. The three big products that I love here: Grok Bot totally nailed it, ChatGPT Work is kind of buried in the UI but it's really really good — it's one of the best products they've released. And then there's a startup called Instinct which has made some more aggressive and interesting trade-offs."
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"In the last few weeks, I've been obsessed with Qwen 3 8B. It's very good at long horizon tasks, and it's actually really creative. It's a great storyteller. So, I've been using it to create these impossible documentaries, mostly of planets in the Star Wars universe. I did Tatooine, which turned out great. I did Bespin last night. And it can just work for 4 or 5 hours."
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"When I was playing around with Codex, I had it build a slide deck for Mother's Day for my wife that pulled from my text messages. It looked at my photo gallery, set some music to it, created like a 20-slide deck of our relationship and pulled some cool old texts from when I first asked her out. It was a really nice Mother's Day."
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"GrokBots is an awesome product. The defining characteristic of GrokBots is resourcefulness. I went to bed a few nights ago and said, 'Hey, buy me a pair of jeans inspired by these.' I took a photo of my current jeans, said don't spend more than $500 and get it done. I woke up in the morning and it had researched, found a pair, same fit, different wash, used my credit card, purchased them and they're on the way."
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"There's a startup that's really getting some buzz called Instinct, which has made some more aggressive and interesting trade-offs, but all in the same domain."
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"If you look at coding agents, we were talking about it — Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Wobby — they're all sort of working."
"If you look at Claude Code, which many of you I'm sure have used, it's just so oriented towards software engineering — it's in a terminal UI. Everything from the small design decisions to the areas in which it specializes, like code planning and code testing, is oriented towards the software engineer."
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"For the average consumer, their ideal interface is TikTok. So, we need to find something between chat and TikTok."
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"Suno has done such an amazing job. It's companionship products — all of that entire area is, you know, uncomfortable to talk about, so I think it's under-discussed, but there's some huge fast-growing products there."
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"Have you heard of MSCHF? They're awesome — they're sort of like this creative studio that uses technology as their medium. They created this very funny product called Card vs. Card where they shipped 100,000 people a debit card and then every day they would text those people with a location they had to spend the money at."
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"The best example company that we've invested in is Wabi, where it's sort of a platform for mini apps. People can create them, consume them, share them."
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"If you've ever tried to have an agent come up with a business idea for you — 'Hey Claude, make me a million dollars, make no mistakes' — like, why doesn't that work?"
"You can have a conversation with Claude or OpenAI or Kimi K3 and feel feelings. We've had 40 years of technology that really boosted our intellect and productivity, but nothing that kind of spoke to our humanity."
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"Gemini Ultra 250 a month."
"Gemini, despite all the kind of heavy cross-selling Google has done, nobody would say they're winning."
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"Cursor — you know, they were criticized a lot for not having a moat, but it turned out that initially being a high-end prosumer product was really good. And over time they captured all the reasoning traces, they trained their own models, the Composer 1 and 2 models, and so on and so forth. We know how that story plays out."
"In coding, we're actually seeing this with Cursor a ton, where you want to use a very frontier model for planning, for example, but then you can use a lesser model for execution, and you really need to have one product harness or product architecture that lets you use multiple models."
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"Look at Granola. Two years ago it was really criticized and I don't know that they have a super strong durability story today, and yet it is like beloved and dominant."
"Granola, which we're not investors in, but I admire them a great deal. It's a great company."
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"Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Wobby — they're all sort of working."
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"Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Wobby — they're all sort of working."
"All of these products are working in their respective areas of the stack. Claude Code does such an excellent job of exposing the raw hardware to the developer all the way up to Replit, which is a great abstraction layer for the average small business owner that's unfamiliar with code."
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"Harvey's had some great results with this as well. The trade-off of that kind of reinforcement learning is you lose generality — the best model fine-tuned for solving legal problems may not be great at solving theoretical math problems, and that's okay for Harvey's uses."
"we talked about Harvey that's a really impressive company"
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"The new Codex harness and ChatGPT desktop app is very well done."
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"We had this collective moment of excitement around OpenClaw in January, and it was an extraordinary composition of primitives, but it never really crossed over into consumer. It was sort of a developer-oriented thing, more of the homebrew computing club kind of energy."
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"For a lot of companies like Decagon, open source is actually the only option. It's not just cost — they can actually localize it, train, fine-tune it."
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"A good metaphor for this is Expedia. It's so much more useful to use Expedia than it is to go to United, then to go to Delta, then to go to Southwest. You just want a single place where you can benefit from seeing every airline's inventory."
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"I would argue Character was kind of an entertainment company."
"Character, but also janitor, right? There's a ton of products that are there"
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"GLM5.2 and GLM5.3 are great examples of this — they're very literal and they'll only do exactly what you told them to do and nothing more."
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"Microsoft will make a better word processor than they've ever made."
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