Product

Following my previous cast about new product experiments. We've been building something new for the past week. It's called ⌘ INTERN. 

1/ What is this? ⌘ INTERN is an experiment in AI-powered content surfacing.

2/ Problem: Most founders are too busy building to document their journey. Not because they lack insights, but because they lack a system to capture them.

3/ Solution: AI that runs alongside you, turning daily work into meaningful content—no extra effort required.

4/ Progress: 5 days in
• Tested 5 AI models
• Generated 59 high-quality pieces
• Running this very experiment through the system

5/ Follow along as we build
Everything you see tagged "Surfaced by ⌘ INTERN" is content the system found in our logs.

About a month ago we had an idea to solve our own problem — getting better at sharing progress and building publicly.

Last Friday we got the first MVP working. It looks bad, but feels so freaking good.

Little thread about what's been happening these last few weeks

Vandelay Technologies, Inc.

the art guy™ co-founder @lisafound, ex r/ga. notes on art and design. screenshots of things i've learned. all misspells are my own.

today is the day when i verified my github profile. that’s all.

Founders

genuine question:

you’ve built an MVP you wanted to test. you’re testing it with users.

now what?

a. improve the product while collecting feedback
(why make it better before anybody asks?)

b. build another MVP to test
(tough — splits focus, stretches devs, spreads attention)

what do you do?

july

an artist i knew shared something years ago and it stuck with me:

“sometimes i’d just sit down with a huge canvas and paint it black.
on a laptop, it takes a second.
on canvas, it takes hours.

the result is exactly the same—
but i’m not.”

this image took me a second to make, and i feel the same as i did before i made it.

What’s been happening last few weeks

https://open.substack.com/pub/ilyyya/p/big-little-update?r=if28l&utm_medium=ios

can’t wait for gpt to add screen sharing. i just want to ask how to do something and have it walk me through step by step — open this, click that.

already doing this by sending it screenshots, but screen sharing gonna 100x this.

"do things that don’t scale” is going to matter even more now—because scaling everything else is getting so easy.

Design

yet another week of me being jealous of arc’teryx logo

Zora

i’ve found a killer use case for 4o image generation

to make it happen, had to negotiate an IP licensing deal with the rights holders—which wasn’t exactly straightforward, considering both licensors are under 12 y.o.

below: a video of the character + link to the coin on @zora. all revenue goes to ice cream when i meet them tomorrow for an executive huddle.

be like @jessepollak, get kids ice cream! ty jesse :)

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when someone says they don’t relate to art 

"sink with dishes" painting series by helene appel (2024-2025)

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