Kevin Rose

Kevin's top picks

What Kevin uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.

All 35 of Kevin's picks

• ChatGPT Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "You could do this in whichever model you're using, whether it's Copilot or ChatGPT or whatever. If it knows you — if it has enough history on you — you can just ask, 'What do you think I should do in the next 5 years? What might be some rewarding paths of exploration?' The answers were outstanding, really really good." +155 others
• Instinct Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I've told it there's a restaurant that's a hard reservation to get into... it's like, 'Hey, I can't log in with your OpenTable, but it drops at this time every 2 weeks.' ...it snagged the reservation for me perfectly and added it to my calendar. And then the cool thing is, if you have multiple friends with Instinct, you can friend your Instincts together... It's magic." +17 others
• Momentous Creatine Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "When I travel, I kind of flip brands all over the place, but lately I like the stuff from Momentous cuz of the quality checks they do. And I have their little travel satchels that I take with me and just mix them with some stuff. As long as I slow drink it over like 3 hours, I'm fine." Only Kevin
• Claude Code Uses and recommends it "I had a council of Claudes that would review chapters. When I finished a draft, I would feed it into Claude Code, which I had set up to run this sort of swarm of agents. I assigned each of these agents a persona or a perspective... It did catch a couple of factual errors that I had not caught and my human editors had not caught." +107 others
• Google Docs Uses and recommends it "I am mostly using Google Docs. You know, it has many issues, but for just pure, like, I want to quickly open up a doc, and these days I'm usually writing for the show, so I'm writing with producers in the doc too, so it just is the best way. I did experiment with using sort of more specialized writing apps like Scrivener and stuff in the past, but for me it has always been Google Docs." +11 others
• NotebookLM Uses and recommends it "I could not have written this book without tools like NotebookLM, which allowed me to just sort of dump all of my research material into a notebook or a series of notebooks and just ask questions, help me spot connections... and it would comb through every piece of source material I had and give me a recommendation. So that was incredibly helpful." +6 others
• Airofit Uses and recommends it "There's two knobs on here on each side of this thing that adjust the resistance on inhale and exhale... This is to train your respiratory muscles... They showed after 8 weeks a 30% increase in lung capacity... Ruck backpack, 6% incline on the treadmill with this in my mouth, and it's really helped." Only Kevin
• BodyTech Elite Creatine Beadlets Uses and recommends it "I looked up the study that the technology they're using to create a delayed-release creatine... this is the first one I've been able to take because of the delayed release and it does not mess up my stomach at all. It's amazing." Only Kevin
• Pioneer Pastures A2 Protein Shake Uses and recommends it "A2 and what's so cool about it is that way less stomach discomfort... I found this one drink, 160 calories, 30 grams of protein. It doesn't need to be refrigerated... lactose-free and it tastes really good... take this with some coffee. It's fantastic." Only Kevin
• Vampire facial (PRP) Uses and recommends it "I do vampire facials... I do it like twice a year... They draw your blood. They spin it. They take out the platelet-rich plasma... first they microneedle your face... and then they rub it in. And then I swear after like two weeks the wrinkles just go away... you're a little red, but it works wonders." Only Kevin
• Crowded bar conversation test Uses and recommends it "Can you really distill down this idea to that one concept so that when you're in that, I used to call it the crowded bar conversation. Not the elevator pitch, but the crowded bar. Like, if you want to say in two sentences what your thing does. Can you get it out to there where they say, 'Oh, yeah, I'll go check that out.'" Only Kevin
• A Court of Thorns and Roses Uses and recommends it "This is called A Court of Thorns and Roses. Have you heard of that book? ... I downloaded it on Audible. It's damn good... it's well-written fantasy... I never thought I would be listening to this." Only Kevin
• OneSkin Uses and recommends it "And then OneSkin with the peptides is awesome. And again, I did put a small angel check into OneSkin because it worked so well for me." Only Kevin
• Wait but why Recommends it 2 episodes "People should know it — Wait But Why. Fantastic blog." Only Kevin
• Duolingo Chess Uses and recommends it "I play Duolingo chess because they have chess on there now for Duolingo. They teach you chess — it's amazing. You can play friends and live people and all that stuff, and they do game replays and teach. I'm learning a ton. Thirty, forty minutes go by and you're drenched in sweat. If you just want something to both be learning and engaged and kind of having fun so you forget about the time — I've really enjoyed that." Only Kevin
• Duolingo Uses and recommends it "I play Duolingo chess, because they have chess on there now for Duolingo. They teach you chess. It's amazing. You can play friends and live people and all that stuff. They do game replays and they teach. I'm learning a ton. 30, 40 minutes go by and you're drenched in sweat." +2 others
• Grok Uses and recommends it "I actually like Grok. I use Grok more than people might realize — for current events and synthesizing. They have direct access to the X API and X tools built into Grok. It is one of the most grounded models and doesn't hallucinate. On Digg, when we relaunch it, we use a lot of AI to come up with the different stories — we use it a ton because we want that grounded information that is true." +35 others
• Ubiquiti Uses and recommends it "I have something called Ubiquiti — they have cameras and it's a very common kind of household type situation when you want to have a security system, front door thing, cameras, sensors, water detectors underneath things in case things leak. They have a full-on API where you can just tell Claude or whatever to code against it. The cameras now have AI sensors where they can detect who it is that's walking in. The camera is like $200 — anyone can do this at home." Only Kevin
• GPT-4 Mini Uses and recommends it "And then what I hit is I hit GPT-4 Mini largely because it's fast as hell and cheap and it's very it's quite smart." Only Kevin
• Trigger.dev Uses and recommends it "And so what I do for that, actually, let me just do a screen share again, is for the durability side, I use a service called trigger.dev. And so I like trigger.dev because what it does is it allows me to create these functions and they're all TypeScript that live in the cloud." Only Kevin
• Claude Uses it "I'm playing with everything. Literally, like I can't keep track... But yeah, I'm using right now Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini for some things." +245 others
• Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Color Correcting Treatment Recommends it "This is a horrible name for a product, but it's Dr. Jart. It has something called Cicapair... It's green... Its color, when mixed with red, will even out the tone... and it's SPF... The reason why I bring this up is because I know a lot of people have rosacea and it's a shitty thing... This is like matte, so if you're on camera or whatever..." Only Kevin
• Plum Flower Curing Pills Recommends it "I take one of these little packets and it freaking works... These little packets are like 50 cents a piece on Amazon... They work, dude. If you had too much to eat and you're like, oh I'm bloated, just take one little package." Only Kevin
• Gibbon slackline Uses it "So I found this online. It's like a little home one. They have a little QR code there at the end that you scan and they give you about 20 or 30 different exercises." Only Kevin
• HeartMath Recommends it "This is the coolest device I have owned in a while. It's 250 bucks. I'm not an investor or anything, but heartmath.com and 60-day money back guarantee." Only Kevin
• Mitopure urolithin A Uses it "I take 500 milligrams a day. Because that's what all the studies are done on. 500 to 1,000." Only Kevin
• Iframely Uses it "So it comes in via RSS I hit Iframely and Iframely gives me back additional metadata about it so like title description sometimes it can pull in even additional kind of deeper context about it article data things like that and I want to store all of that that's really important for me to have that rich data." Only Kevin
• PostgreSQL Uses it "And so we're pulling in and saving all of this in a PostgreSQL database." +3 others
• RSS Uses it "So first thing I want to show you is that there's going to be some errors here because it's been a minute since I have actually done the whole actually touch this codebase. But what you see here is I have 63 sources of information coming in. And so these are from just your classic RSS feeds. Yes, RSS still does exist." Only Kevin
• Tavily Search API Uses it "I use a Tavily search API and you can say go out and find me other stories outside of my RSS ecosystem that may match this and bring them in." Only Kevin
• Muse Recommends it "Muse has been number one in the App Store for like the last couple of weeks. So, that one's pretty easy to get and you can just sign up for it. So, I would say probably Muse." +16 others
• Every Compound Engineering Recommends it "If you thought Claude or ChatGPT was really good at helping you write, wait till you throw this harness on top of it. There's a company called Every... they had released a package for coders called Compound Engineering. They now have one... just type in Every compound engineering writer harness." Only Kevin
• Free Solo Recommends it "Watch Free Solo. It'll freak you out. For people who haven't seen that documentary, even if you're not into rock climbing, that is amazing." +1 other
• Pioneer Pastures Recommends it "I just got turned on to this new protein called Pioneer Pastures and it's 30g in this little tiny shake. It's A2, so it has lactose removed and it's also from that special genetic cow. I don't get any stomach issues or anything with this type of whey protein. I'm not an investor or anything like that. You can get it at Target or whatever. It's tasty as hell and it's 30g." +1 other
• Vercel AI SDK Recommends it "And I will say Vercel's AI gateway is a great way to kind of code once and just flip a model on the go. So, highly recommend checking out Vercel AI gateway as a way to quickly swap models, rather than having to recode it." +2 others
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