Jason Calacanis
44 things Jason uses or recommends, from 38 episodes.
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Uses and recommends it · talked about in 5 episodes
"My favorite troll now is like JD or AOC will come out with whatever their craziness is on either side of the aisle. And then I'm like, 'Grok, please vet these claims. Be as objective and factual as possible. Check your work. Show your sources.' And then it just replies to them."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 6 episodes
"You can try it if you use Perplexity. You can just pick the drop-down menu. It has deep thinking. You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Huang's open-source LLM and Claude for 95% of your searches. I guarantee you."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"I use a really cool product called WhisperFlow. Whisper Flow is just a tremendous product. And then I got a pedal. When I press the pedal down, I just give a stream of consciousness now. And it turns out what these LLMs actually do really well with is taking a massive stream of consciousness where you just keep talking and talking and talking. So I'll give it a one to two-minute prompt. Then I let go and it has changed everything. Everything."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"I've been obsessed with Grok Bot. It just does what you tell it to do. I took a clip of a YouTube file and said analyze this into the five most important clips and make me five clips. It took this Mearsheimer video about tactical nukes — I was like whoa. And it said 'Would you like one of these vertical with captions?' And I shared it on my Twitter. That's a $50 an hour video editor that instead of taking three hours, took three minutes and was essentially close to free."
Uses it · talked about in 5 episodes
"We had to open up SaaS accounts for these four agents. So, actually our SaaS spend went up in the short to midterm because we opened up four more Slack enterprise versions."
Uses it · talked about in 6 episodes
"my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google Drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me"
What Jason warns against
Things Jason says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind with some company sources telling Axios that it's in part due to low morale."
"They started with OpenClaw. They started building it. It got brittle. All the agents started breaking. It's hallucinating. It's like too frustrating."
"The Apple Watch was annoying because I'm getting alerts for things that I installed 2 years ago and it's just constantly bothering you... For the Apple Watch, I think I might have gotten to 24 hours or 36 hours, 48 hours a couple times, but it's a terrible experience."
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All 44 of Jason's picks
- Grok Uses and recommends it 5 episodes "My favorite troll now is like JD or AOC will come out with whatever their craziness is on either side of the aisle. And then I'm like, 'Grok, please vet these claims. Be as objective and factual as possible. Check your work. Show your sources.' And then it just replies to them." +35 others
- Perplexity Uses and recommends it 6 episodes "You can try it if you use Perplexity. You can just pick the drop-down menu. It has deep thinking. You will not be able to tell the difference between Jensen Huang's open-source LLM and Claude for 95% of your searches. I guarantee you." +20 others
- Wispr Flow Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "I use a really cool product called WhisperFlow. Whisper Flow is just a tremendous product. And then I got a pedal. When I press the pedal down, I just give a stream of consciousness now. And it turns out what these LLMs actually do really well with is taking a massive stream of consciousness where you just keep talking and talking and talking. So I'll give it a one to two-minute prompt. Then I let go and it has changed everything. Everything." +31 others
- GrokBot Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I've been obsessed with Grok Bot. It just does what you tell it to do. I took a clip of a YouTube file and said analyze this into the five most important clips and make me five clips. It took this Mearsheimer video about tactical nukes — I was like whoa. And it said 'Would you like one of these vertical with captions?' And I shared it on my Twitter. That's a $50 an hour video editor that instead of taking three hours, took three minutes and was essentially close to free." +19 others
- Slack Uses it 5 episodes "We had to open up SaaS accounts for these four agents. So, actually our SaaS spend went up in the short to midterm because we opened up four more Slack enterprise versions." +52 others
- Notion Uses it 6 episodes "my OpenClaw downloads the video, puts it into a Google Drive for me, then puts it on a notion page for me" +37 others
- OpenRouter Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "It's a cool product. I mean, I've used it. I'm thinking how quickly can I get off of Anthropic and maybe Perplexity and open router — it's got me thinking how I can do this with open router." +8 others
- Claude Uses it 4 episodes "I recently did this and I don't know if you play with Claude Co yet" +245 others
- GLM Uses it 4 episodes "I was given a secret Bittensor project that has the new GLM 5.2. Somebody in Bittensor gave me unlimited capacity. So I started having to do some really crazy jobs where I was saying like every hour I want you to tell me what the trends in the world are that nobody else has identified yet." +8 others
- Athena Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I was able to take about 30% of the Athena assistants work and give it to the replicant that let the Athena assistant work on higher level stuff." +2 others
- Google Docs Uses it 3 episodes "Four more Notion, four more Google Docs. So, it's almost like we added four employees." +11 others
- Polymarket Uses it 2 episodes "I agree the polling data has been suspect for a long time now across many elections... but I do trust Polymarket. I think when you look at the Polymarket, pretty clear what's going to happen here." +2 others
- Muse Uses and recommends it "Muse hit number one last Friday in the app store. Stock — Meta stock was up 10% after this new agent Muse was released. I've been playing with it, comparing it to Grockbot. It's not as freewheeling, but it's really good at getting things done." +16 others
- DJI Mic Uses and recommends it "I just bought this one with two microphones that clip on. They have magnetic clip-ons. I clip this thing on. It lasts for hours. It's over Bluetooth. You could just buy a solo one for like 80 bucks. The thing's the size of a quarter and the fidelity is unbelievable. DJI is not a sponsor — this is off-duty where we talk about stuff we like." +2 others
- Zoom Uses it 2 episodes "It's automatically taking the Zoom transcript and summary so the sales system of record is now like you don't even need to input it it's like I already have the Zoom call notes." +5 others
- Mac Studio Uses it 3 episodes "We are ordering Mac Studio, the really powerful studios with like max memory on and they're putting Kimmy." +5 others
- OpenClaw Uses and recommends it "We had 15 of them come in this weekend and they all got trained over like six or seven hours to have their own OpenClaw agent" +29 others
- Pipedrive Uses it 2 episodes "check those advertisers in PipeDrive, tell us when the last time we contacted them and put it into the sales room" Only Jason
- GLP-1 Uses and recommends it "I take a light GLP. Lost 43 pounds on it... that makes a difference when you're 213, you get to 170, skiing, sleeping, everything." +12 others
- Rucking Uses and recommends it "Long walks and rucking and farmers walks are like the key to longevity, I'm told... I am a rucking machine. I'm in the top 1% of people doing rucking and farmers walks." +3 others
- Warm bath with salts Uses and recommends it "It turns out for a warm bath, which was never my thing... I'm adding salts to the bath. Yes. And that's now also tracked... Warm bath plus 7% on my recovery." Only Jason
- Whoop Recommends it 2 episodes "The Whoop plus getting your blood test, just self-directed healthcare with AI, man — you're going to get some early wins and then when you do go talk to your doctor, you have it right there. Whoop just added blood panels. So now your sleep data, your steps, your heart rate, your respiratory, EKG, plus your blood work." +12 others
- On Uses and recommends it "I moved to On for one reason because I'm like, oh, Roger Federer — he's excellence and mastery. I like him. Everything he does looks effortless. And so I was like, Roger Federer, good for me." Only Jason
- Kimi Uses and recommends it "My team has installed Kimi. It is 90% cheaper. 80-90% cheaper already. Not sure where you're getting your data from, but go on OpenRouter and you pick Kimi, Sacks, and then you get all the providers there." +2 others
- Grok Build Uses and recommends it "xAI launched Grok Build in public beta at the end of May. The newest coding model, Grok 4.5, powers Grok Build. I've been playing with it. It's extraordinary. It's a coding tool that works inside of Cursor." Only Jason
- BitTensor Uses and recommends it "I talked a little bit about BitSensor on the program, known as Tao, dollar sign TAO. It's a crypto project. Somebody who is creating a subnet that is putting GLM 5.2 and other models available at really cheap prices. I experienced, because they gave me an API key, having my token cost go down 95%." +2 others
- Claude Cowork Uses and recommends it "Pop up Claude, go into cowork, and say, 'What can I do to be better at my job?' and just start talking." +15 others
- Comet Uses and recommends it "Then you came out with the Comet browser and I was like, 'Holy cow, I can give this a series of instructions. Go to my LinkedIn, find everybody from this company, put them into a Google sheet and boom, you were the first out of the gate with that.'" Only Jason
- Slopes Uses it "It does log my skiing. So, I use Slopes... The other nice thing is it pulls in my Slopes data and puts it as an activity." +1 other
- Amazon Uses it "I'm a long-term Amazon customer. I've been a Prime subscriber since the beginning. When you compare Amazon's service to anything government provides, it's insane how efficient Amazon is. You order your thing and it can be there the same day or at worst it gets delivered to you the next day." +11 others
- Starlink Uses it "I forgot my Starlink. So let me apologize to everybody. That was a critical error when you're on the road or on the water." +20 others
- Lovable Recommends it "I love the product, but even more than I love the product and you as a founder, I love the outcome. The outcome for business is extraordinary. Anybody who's listening — Lovable is absolutely worth your time. Don't wait. Just put it on your corporate card and start building. It's an incredible product. We built an entire intranet in 4 to 8 hours that would have cost $500,000 two years ago — built for less than $2,000." +11 others
- Hermes Agent Uses it "I started playing with this Hermes agent — which is not a French company by the way, they just use French names, it's Nous Research or whatever it is. I started playing with that. It's a very peculiar piece of software but it's a very open piece of software." +12 others
- Snapchat Uses it "I signed for a Snapchat account just so I could message them where they are, where they're messaging." +4 others
- iMessage Uses it "I prefer if they were just on iMessage, but anyway, that's the reality." +4 others
- Instacart Uses it "I had to take our Instacart, pull out the last 10 orders we did, and then tell us what we order most of time" +3 others
- Galleri Recommends it "All of this cancer treatment requires early detection. There's the blood test — a Galleri, I believe it's called. Getting to the cancer and getting regularly tested is a critical part of this. Early testing is the key piece for all of us to keep in mind — get tested early and often for cancer." +1 other
- All-In Summit Recommends it "You've been thinking about coming to the All-In Summit — this is your year. Speakers are world class. The events, the parties, the networking — 80% of the people there are founders, investors, or high-level operators this year. Greater focus on network. Go to allinssummit.com." Only Jason
- Self-directed healthcare with AI Recommends it "The Whoop plus getting your blood test — just self-directed healthcare with AI, man — you're going to get some early wins and then when you do go talk to your doctor, you have it right there." Only Jason
- Vibe coding Recommends it "This is like the really interesting thing about vibe coding. If we were sitting here last year, people would look at it and say it's a great way to make a mockup. All of that's out the window now. The whole concept of building wireframes and building a mockup — you can just go right to building the product in a day or two days." +3 others
- Ridges AI Recommends it "There's a project that's subnet 62. It's called Ridges AI... they spent about a million dollars in tow like rewards and in 45 days they hit 80% of what Claude 4 is... anybody who's not investigated this, I highly recommend you investigate this" Only Jason
- Coinbase Uses it "Anyone can buy Tao on Coinbase. You can't buy tow on Robin Hood or other places yet. On Coinbase, you can. So, I got a Coinbase set up" +4 others
- Running Down a Dream Recommends it "I want you to buy three copies, give it to two young people and a parent. You know, this book is incredible." Only Jason
- TikTok Uses it "One of my weird like things that I watch on TikTok that I got stuck on and TikTok just keeps showing me them is these auditing videos." +23 others