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Minecraft

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Used as an analogy to explain bounded optimization and motivation — the game creates desire to complete tasks without overriding other life priorities

"If you take Minecraft, the greatest video game ever invented — agreed — when you start up a new world, there's a joy to the world, but if you lose it, there's sort of a temporary 'oh, that's sad.' I don't smash my computer. I can start a new Minecraft world."

Tom Bilyeu

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Model for game design that elongates attention spans and promotes self-direction

"The DNA of Kaizen, the video game that I'm building, is Minecraft. Because Minecraft to me is the thing where you have to be most self-directed. You've got to set a goal for yourself, work almost in a boring way to go get your resources, think long-term pla..."

Tom Bilyeu

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MoneyGuidePro

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1 creator

Retirement income planning — stratifying spending goals into needs/wants/wishes and running probability of success (resilience) analysis at each tier

"I chose MoneyGuide Pro because they stratify their funding goals into needs, wants, and wishes. And you can even run what I call resilience curves — what they call probability of success analysis. You can run that for needs, needs and wants, and needs, want..."

Bradley Clark

Nitrogen

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1 creator

Risk tolerance questionnaires for clients, though now used later in the process after down-market protection discussions

"We're using Nitrogen for risk tolerance questionnaires, although we've changed a lot of how the order of that goes — leading more with the discussion on down-market protection and the number of years rather than risk tolerance, and taking more of an educati..."

Ryan Townsley

Nothing OS

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1 creator

Daily smartphone OS experience — widgets, icon packs, customization, AI toolkit, Essential Space

"When I first started testing this phone, it had an update to Nothing OS 4.1 waiting for it right out the box. I installed that and it's been really smooth sailing ever since. I found that the Nothing software is one of my favorite skins, if you want to call..."

Marques Brownlee

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Mobile operating system with unique customization

"I like the Nothing software clearly. It's got good character. I'll find myself missing some of the Nothing home screen features specifically because no other phone has quite the same set of stuff."

Marques Brownlee

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One UI

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1 creator

Mobile operating system on the Galaxy Z Fold 8

"This is the first phone I'm getting to test with One UI 9 on Android 17. So that's why it has this fancy new responsive clock on my lock screen that like moves according to my wallpaper. It's super sick. And the thicker volume and brightness sliders in quic..."

Marques Brownlee

Pipedrive

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1 creator
"check those advertisers in PipeDrive, tell us when the last time we contacted them and put it into the sales room"

Jason Calacanis

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"One of the skills is being able to go into our sales database which is in Pipedrive."

Jason Calacanis

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Price Labs

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1 creator

Dynamic pricing for short-term rental properties, setting price baselines and allowing rates to fluctuate based on demand signals like airline ticketing

"We were not set up on dynamic pricing for the first few months. So we had a flat rate for weekends and weeknights before we got set up on Price Labs, which is our dynamic pricing software where you can set baselines. The software once we unlocked that for o..."

Kyle Miklasz

Pylon

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1 creator
"What Pylon allows us to do is looking at a really long Slack thread, it can help you generate a help article. The main thing with Pylon is that everything is kind of just like in one interface."

Al Chen

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"We use a tool internally called Pylon for monitoring all our different external Slack channels."

Al Chen

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Redtail

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1 creator

Central hub for tracking all work, client information, and team member progress with automation and workflows

"We use Redtail, but we have everything in Redtail and it's tracked and not just client everything obviously client things and I'm not just talking about names and addresses, but work any one of us at any point during the day can see exactly what other team ..."

Mary Chapman

Retool

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1 creator

Building internal applications connected to their database

"Retool which is essentially like an internal app building tool and then we were just connecting it to kind of like our own database structure that we had set up."

Zach Cherin

Sentry

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1 creator

Bug tracking and error monitoring at ChatPRD; primary data source for the debugging harness

"I picked Sentry debugging — really figuring out the issue using some of our custom internal tools and then doing all the follow-up actions we do when we close bugs — as a good first harness. It has coding in it. It needed custom content and custom context."

Claire Vo

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Error monitoring and tracking for debugging edit tool operations

"I gave Codex access to Sentry. I gave Codex access to these edit requests. And I said slash goal Codex go through every example in Sentry, every trace in Sentry of an invalid operation on the edit tool."

Claire Vo

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