Craig Mod

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"Maybe it'll just be in Figma or in Claude Design or whatever the hell you build software with — thinking about infrastructure is going to completely disappear."

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"If you took away everything today and you only got whatever DeepSeek open source blah blah blah — I'm not really paying attention to the open source ones so I don't know how they're doing. It feels like you could almost take one of those and still be so far ahead of the game."

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"Substack's innovation was not even the subscription thing. Their innovation was you can email everyone for free. You can import 10,000 addresses and send unlimited newsletters for free. That's the value prop."

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"Spin up a DigitalOcean server or whatever, use a Cloudflare worker — all this is so hard to use because you have to know what to ask for it to do any of these things."

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"You've got Supabase and all these pieces now where you don't need infrastructure investment and it can scale with revenue effortlessly."

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"Apple's Siri — she could not get it to do any of these terrible things and it kind of refuses to anthropomorphize itself, and I think Apple's sort of nailing it. They saved hundreds of billions of dollars and they're like, 'Okay, great. Now we can use this subset of state-of-the-art model to just do the things that people actually needed to do on the phone, and it's a more efficient search. It's actually wonderful.'"

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"Spin up a DigitalOcean server or whatever, use a Cloudflare worker — all this is so hard to use because you have to know what to ask for it to do any of these things."

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"I rebuilt Quicken, which is tax software, because I need... you can watch my interview with Paul Ford and Rich over on a board about that."

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"Phantom Thread, with Reynolds and the breakfast scene where she's doing the toast too loudly — I'm like that's me. This is sort of a documentary of how I feel every morning. I love that movie. I can talk about that movie forever."

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"I fucking hate it. Discord and Slack make me want to just shoot myself. It's like I will do anything to avoid having to ever use those pieces of software."

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"The iPad version of Obsidian or the iPad version of Ulysses to me doesn't feel as good as the MacBook versions. Like it just doesn't — there are things that just don't work as well."

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"I want to build a Very Good Reads — basically Goodreads but that also doesn't suck again, like all these platforms just become so toxic."

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"The iPad version of Obsidian or the iPad version of Ulysses to me doesn't feel as good as the MacBook versions."

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"Campaign Monitor has not done anything in a decade. That's just been sitting there taking people's money for a decade plus with no innovation whatsoever. Zero, nothing, with like a really abusive pricing policy. I was spending like $7,000 a year."

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"Discord and Slack make me want to just shoot myself. It's like I will do anything to avoid having to ever use those pieces of software."

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"Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp — I'm also not their target consumer. It's businesses. They kind of don't care about people like us."

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"Threads is doofy and Bluesky is like everyone's crying and complaining. Like it's just weird."