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twin dad || learn how to use ai for work - || investing in AI cos - bens bites fund || founder of makerpad (acq by zapier '21)

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I'm so excited to launch bens bites 2.0 today! AI made simple with bite-size tutorials. I built a no-code education site, makerpad, to make it simple for people to build without code and sold that to Zapier in 2021. Fast-forward to today, AI is on everyone's minds so we've…
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AI tools that didn't exist one year ago: ChatGPT Whisper GPT-3 Codex GitHub Copilot InstructGPT Text-to-product AI slides DALLE + API Midjourney Stable Diffusion Runway videos Email AI AI chrome extensions Replit Ghostwriter No-code AI app builders Ben's bites πŸ˜‰ what else?
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All the best examples of ChatGPT, from OpenAI:
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Today I bought my dream car 😍
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The real AI winner: Microsoft - $1bn in OpenAI (2019) - Owns GitHub which released Copilot - Dalle powers Bing Image Creator - Valle which produces an AI voice from 3s of input - GPT in Word, PowerPoint, Outlook etc - GPT-powered Bing - $10bn, 49% stake in OpenAI + 75% profit
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I asked 100 founders of unicorn companies, what made them so successful? None of them responded. No thread.
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What working in tech means to my family: - can fix WiFi - can fix any laptop - understand all cables - app troubleshooter - technical dictionary - phone signal operator - Bluetooth ninja - build any website/app - spreadsheet wizard - document formatted - email assistant
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New wave of startups coming. Their stack: - landing page - form input + stripe button - ChatGPT api - output displayed/emailed Who can make money the quickest?!
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Jobs erased by AI
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Most popular web browsers 1995 - 2019 h/t Pie Chart Pirate
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All the best examples of GPT-4, from OpenAI:
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11 business ideas you could build on ChatGPT:
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Sounds familiar
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$600k+ per year as a one-person business. That's NomadList. You can do the same. This is what I'd do... Here's how I'd do it...
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ControlNet for QR Codes - it actually works 🀯
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I got everything I ever wanted Arabella & Maximilian, born 12th June
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How to be a startup founder (phrase edition): - let’s unpack this - circle back - I’m heads down - nice to e-meet you - quick zoom chat - ping me - zooming in/out - thread - some thoughts - dive in What’s missing?
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2 big things in AI from (just) yesterday: πŸ“ Text to music 🎢 by Google 🩻 Text to 4D by Meta Examples, explanations and links ‡
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I just watched @gdb use GPT-4 to: - write code for a discord bot - debug & read documenatation - look at images and describe them in detail - create website code (that works) for a site based from a pencil mockup made in a physical notebook wtf
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A million things β†’ what's happening in AI, summarised. Here's a bunch of cool shit that's going on. (plus Sir Benedict Cucumber batch h/t r/stablediffusion) ‡
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How long until we see these tweets: "GPT-5 is rumoured to be trained on 69 quazillion parameters"
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ChatGPT is just mass scale user testing in final stages of GPT-4 prep right?
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Some news... I left Zapier, to go all in on AIβ€”focusing on Ben's Bites and investing. I became an @a16z scout, (+ something else soon πŸ‘€) And most importantly; my wife and I are expecting twins πŸ‘ΆπŸ‘Ά in July! I'm so excited about the next season of my life.... β€”β€”β€”β€”β€”β€” πŸ“°β€¦
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Microsoft released their annual Future of Work report and this time around it’s not about remote work, it’s about AI. (slide numbers in brackets) - Knowledge workers with ChatGPT are 37% faster, 40% higher quality but ~20% less accurate. Simple UX solutions to solve this are…
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The next wave of impactful startups won’t be: [insert idea] + AI assistant. They’ll be: Old ideas, re-imagined from 0, by AI, minus human biases. Eg. An education system built to promote creativity + critical thinking.
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Before OpenAI β†’ during OpenAI
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Google AI Announcement: - PaLM API & MakerSuite - AI in Gmail, Google Docs & workspace - Generative AI support in Vertex AI - Generative AI App Builder - Partnerships, programs, and resources for each segment of the ecosystem
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My fav use of ChatGPT + Browsing so far 🀩 Looking through the code for the Twitter algorithm and asking questions, seeing how things work, what means what etc. I can't code so i can't read the repos
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Just married ✌️
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Restaurant owners: if you want me to set you up with an app like this. let me know ben @makerpad .co -menu & online ordering -gift card system -customisable for you
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Forget DAN, now there’s DNN: Do Nothing Now
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AI is huge. Think bigger. Instead of X company + AI feature, rethink everything from first principles with AI in the picture from day zero.
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Thank you no-code
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Thank you Javascript.
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AI will mint many millionaires. None of them will be selling prompt guides, or remixing the same content that’s already out there.
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ChatGPT + Zapier Demos: - find email and respond - slack team message - notion lookup and create
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Trying this out... reply with what you want to build and I'll suggest ways to do it without code πŸ‘‡
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πŸ“£ OpenAI is now available on Zapier πŸ“£ It lets you create images and prompts directly through a Zap. You can build full no-code AI apps!!!
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ChatGPT + Zapier Plugin = your own AI assistant You don't have to be technical or build anything!
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All the educational resources to learn Machine Learning in one spot:
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Looks like my June wedding is off πŸ’” Not from restrictions, just sick of each other after a week.
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When the calculator was invented, some mathematicians were put out of jobs. But the best mathematicians used the calculator to solve problems faster. Same will happen with AI tools.
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AI tools in todays email:
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The AI hype train won't stop. Why? There’s already important use cases solving real problems:
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Product design goals
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Why Google is in trouble
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Google is done. Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT)
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This is a huge deal to me after having a couple years trying to figure out WTF I'm doing Got to make enough things until one starts sticking
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No-code makes building a startup so easy. Your only worries now are: - getting customers - hiring talent (+firing) - managing a team - raising $/bootstrapping - competitors - doing support - listening to feedback - non-technical debt - plus your health, family and friends
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AI tools for today's email, the longest one yet! ChatGPT API aftermath
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βœ”οΈ Airbnb-clone marketplace w/ no-code - Pages auto-generated from CMS - Book via @airtable - @zapier updates the row - @stripe invoice sent - Once paid, the row is 'confirmed' in calendar on site Tutorial πŸ”œ
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Generating AI art prompts.
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OK so @OpenAI 's new #ChatGPT can basically just generate #AIart prompts. I asked a one-line question, and typed the answers verbatim straight into MidJourney and boom. Times are getting weird...🀯
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ChatGPT plugins is rumoured to be as good as apples greatest feature πŸ‘‡
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Explaining and fixing bugs in code.
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ChatGPT could be a good debugging companion; it not only explains the bug but fixes it and explain the fix 🀯
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Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it Don't do it
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Indie Hackers: spend 6 months on a their SaaS tool with $590/mo revenue @levelsio : $79k MRR (did 400k in one month?!) Landing page, stripe checkout link, Typeform redirect to upload your photos β†’ Pieter manually put photos into a tool to make AI-generated versions, send them…
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πŸ“£ tell me what you want AI to do, and I'll tell you how to build it
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This month in AI so far...
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AI tools from today's email, going out in 2.5hrs (always lots on a Monday from weekend shippers 🚒)
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Joe Rogan fighting a bear
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who can teach me 'coding with chatgpt'? I want to be able to use chatgpt to write scripts, create apple shortcuts with API calls, small apps like this. i just keep getting stuck with chatgpt and can't get past it.
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The best threads on what’s happening in AI:
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What are your AI predictions for 2023?
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In 2021 I; 🀝Sold my company πŸ€΅β€β™‚οΈGot married 🏑Bought a house πŸš—Bought my dream car πŸ›©Bought my dad his dream gift πŸ’°Raised a $1m+ micro fund πŸ“ˆInvested in 50+ companies 😷Got covid 2022 has a lot to live up to
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15% of YC's Demo Day were for AI/ML companies. These are a few that caught my eye:
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there's one, dominant no-code stack: webflow, zapier, airtable and memberstack. you can do almost anything with it. there isn't a more powerful one right now. there's all-in-one tools too.
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MusicLM: Generating Music From Text (sound on πŸ“£) project page: arXiv:
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I turn 33 today πŸŽ‰
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Unpopular opinion: I don’t care that openai is for-profit now.
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Microsoft has been secretly working on an artificial intelligence chip, code-named Athena, since 2019. The chip is designed for training large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and could help alleviate the shortage of specialized computers needed for AI processing. The…
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πŸ“’ Announcement: I'm launching πŸŽ‰ The first no-code focused fund where we will be investing in companies who are building around the no-code ecosystem. Very much linked to the work we do at Makerpad. @FinlaysonConnor is joining me to run this.
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assume token length will be billions assume videos will be indistinguishable assume images will be indistinguishable assume every sentence is by ai (fully or in part) assume day to day tasks can be 90% automated what mad stuff will blow us away then
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This is huge. @huggingface Tasks; everything you need to know about any ML task. - Summary of what it is - Resources to go deeper - Models, demos and space related to that task
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Don’t learn to code Newsletter: @Mailchimp / @ConvertKit / @SubstackInc Podcast: @anchor / @TransistorFM Ecom: @Shopfiy / @webflow πŸ“±: @glideapps / @thunkable Website: πŸ’°: @stripe DB: @airtable Automation: @zapier Biz tool: @clayrunhq πŸ—£: @VoiceflowHQ
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Your own ChatGPT? Talk to your data? Anyone, anywhere, with any skill level will be able to do this very soon.
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$1000 for the most impressive thing built with the new @OpenAI ChatGPT api and whisper model… $1k for each (ChatGPT + whisper) Deadline: Sunday 5th Midnight PT Submit: ben @bensbites .co
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Who are the best people in AI to follow? New year, new feed
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✨⚑️ @Makerpad has been acquired by @Zapier 😍 I couldn't be more excited!! We're now able to educate many more people on the democratisation of software development I'll continue running Makerpad with the team Read more: a few bits to πŸ“ ‡️
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We're joining Zapier

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Makerpad has joined Zapier. Our desire to democratize software, and push towards a future where people aren’t limited by a lack of coding knowledge, is a...

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Will you upgrade to ChatGPT pro now it’s released, $42/mo?
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Notion now has AI baked in h/t @NotionHQ
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It works !!! πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈπŸ§™β€β™‚οΈπŸ§™β€β™‚οΈπŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ An AI mini model chat app thingy, without code. β†’ Upload your data in a sheet β†’ Interface to ask a question β†’ Zap to use OpenAI embeddings to search β†’ Interface + tables to see results Still testing further and pushing itπŸ€“ Tutorial?
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There’s a ton of AI tools popping up. What’s one you use daily?
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Text-to-3D by NVIDIA
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I made an AI <> no-code tutorial. Build an AI-powered app without writing code, in 5 mins.
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Build an AI app without writing code, using Zapier, Airtable and...

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The only thing holding me back from using AI is that no one’s published a list of tools or prompts to use.
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Build your own AI coach (for anything), with no code. β†’ form input (tally) β†’ openai prompt β†’ output (email, slack, SMS) all automated through zapier
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$300k/year as a one-person business so many options. one I love: - collect data and sell the database. I've seen countless of these that generate $$$$. Can use Airtable, website builder and zapier - that's the stack! Easy right?
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Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition | TechCrunch

Zapier, a well-known no-code automation tool, has purchased Makerpad, a no-code education service and community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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no-code is hawt
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ran out of reasons why I'm not full-time on now I will be. stepping back from Earnest, they're leading a small round. excited is an understatement.
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Build your ideas, no coding required | Makerpad

You know when you have an app idea? Instead of learning to code or hiring someone, Makerpad teaches anyone how to build their ideas, without writing code. Free.

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a browser extension that uses ChatGPT to answer every StackOverflow question
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This is how you market AI products
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New year. New magic. New ways to Make the Impossible. What will you make in 2023? Get started now:
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Video + text prompt = AI edits the video 🀯 project page:
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AI tools from today's email, going out in ~3 hrs
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wow @coda_hq has taken a big bet on AI πŸ‘
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