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zachary

6 months

An app that takes in your LinkedIn profile and interests to show you a map of possible future life paths 🗺️ I like to think of it as verse-jumping (from EEAAO) but irl

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@wenquai

4 months

my AI-powered career exploration app (Wanderer) has been experiencing explosive growth and my GPT-4 costs were starting to pile up ($100+ a day 💀) here's the playbook I used to lower my AI costs by 99%, while also decreasing latency and maintaining quality: 1. start with the

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zachary

@wenquai

2 years

DALL-E can bring fantasy novels to life 💭 Each paragraph can be used to generate a unique set of vivid imagery on the fly #dalle

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zachary

@wenquai

4 months

i was so pumped about @perplexity_ai as a default search option in Arc browser tried it for about 30 min immediately set it back to Google

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@wenquai

6 months

If you’re an AI engineer or builder that relies on GPT4 and are worried about the API collapsing, here’s a contingency plan for you to follow: First things first, make sure you apply to the Azure OpenAI service (link in replies). You can use it as a drop-in replacement for GPT4,

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@wenquai

5 months

this is live now

Wanderer

Discover your future life paths.

www.wanderer.space

zachary

@wenquai

6 months

An app that takes in your LinkedIn profile and interests to show you a map of possible future life paths 🗺️ I like to think of it as verse-jumping (from EEAAO) but irl

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zachary

@wenquai

2 months

weekend hack: made a stupid desktop app that pops up "dark souls" style notifications based on what you're doing on screen

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@wenquai

6 months

first invites are being sent out today! Made a couple of changes from what's in the demo: - LinkedIn url no longer required! This lets the app work better for people that aren't updating their LI (e.g. young kids and seniors) - You now have more control over what information you

zachary

@wenquai

6 months

An app that takes in your LinkedIn profile and interests to show you a map of possible future life paths 🗺️ I like to think of it as verse-jumping (from EEAAO) but irl

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@wenquai

1 year

The ChatGPT API has practically doubled the viable use-cases in education overnight 🤯 ChatGPT is great but it lacks interactivity and visuals (impt for learning!) I built an app that allows ChatGPT to control an visual interface - in this case, an interactive IDE

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@wenquai

4 months

Perplexity only beats Google at answering questions. for general search (e.g. looking up restaurants, movies, celebrities etc) Google is still unparalleled i also much prefer Google’s instant results for quick searches

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@wenquai

4 months

it’s funny because I pestered The Browser Company about this feature for so long and once i got my hands on it i actually hated it lol the lesson here is: never listen to your users /s

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@wenquai

3 years

You can theoretically learn anything on the internet for free. The tricky part is knowing what path to take. Introducing Vivid, an AI that shows you how to learn anything using free online resources. Here's a demo of Vivid teaching me 3D rendering

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@wenquai

6 months

Been playing around with GPT-4V as a skateboarding coach and it works surprisingly well! 🛹 In this demo, I give the AI a video of me attempting a skateboard trick (bigspin) and it gives me actionable tips on landing it

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@wenquai

1 year

Been thinking about this @jsngr tweet since yesterday and hacked together a prototype using @LangChainAI , @tailwindcss , and @nextjs You can use it to generate a full-fledged UI with just a simple text prompt (video sped up) All the code is open-sourced - repo link 👇

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@jsngr

1 year

i call this the Dynamic Interface raw notes:

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@wenquai

1 year

lmao this tool is like steroids for Idea Guys now you can have an AI cofounder that - looks for biz opportunities - comes up with solutions - simulate user interviews - creates the specs for an MVP - write engineering tickets - drafts pitch deck and cold emails VCs and then

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zachary

@wenquai

3 years

I signed the offer for my dream job today on my birthday. I can’t believe this is really happening 🤯🥳

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@wenquai

3 years

Wow GPT-Neo is pretty good at writing code 🤯 All I did was provide this prompt: Below is the React code to create a red button that says "Click me!" Without token limits, you can have the model output code that's more complete than what GPT-3 would output.

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@wenquai

4 months

wanderer now uses a fine-tuned version of Mixtral 8x7B from @NousResearch - this one in particular my daily AI costs went from $100 -> less than $1 a day

NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO · Hugging Face

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@wenquai

1 year

Started putting together a Langchain-friendly boilerplate for building type-safe, full-stack, LLM-powered web apps comes with @nextjs , @turborepo , @tailwindcss , @trpcio , @LangChainAI , and @OpenAI GPT-3

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zachary

@wenquai

4 months

i still use Perplexity every day tho - it’s an amazing piece of software just severely underestimated my reliance on Google search as the default

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@wenquai

3 years

My dream job starts in 2 weeks 😭 ✨I’m joining @copy_ai as Lead AI engineer!! ✨ I went from meeting @chris__lu and @PaulYacoubian for the first time to signing my offer in just 2 days 🤯 Without #buildinginpublic , it’s safe to say this would’ve *never* happened

zachary

@wenquai

3 years

I signed the offer for my dream job today on my birthday. I can’t believe this is really happening 🤯🥳

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zachary

@wenquai

5 months

if only there was an app for this

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@waitbutwhy

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New year, new you

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@wenquai

3 years

Launch day! Today we're happy to announce the launch of Vivid, a tool for learning anything. Vivid uses GPT-3 and knowledge graphs to break down any skill into bite-sized lessons and content. We're currently waitlist only - check it out at @usevivid

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@wenquai

1 year

ChatGPT as a project-based programming tutor Everyone says that projects are the best way to learn, but no one tells you exactly how to get there. Hooked the ChatGPT API up to an IDE and had it teach me how to build websites with @astrodotbuild

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@wenquai

3 years

How do you guys keep track of your side project ideas? I have a simple Notion list where I label each idea with a difficulty level, fun rating, and market potential. Helps me prioritize which ones I want to work on 😁

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zachary

@wenquai

5 months

sharing some wip: career simulator 2024 an ai-generated video game thats trains you for any career been shaping this concept for several months - here's my favorite iteration so far

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@wenquai

6 months

wow thanks for all the love! as soon as I posted this demo, I realized that something like this should really exist. not just for kids that are going into college, but also for adults that want to find their true calling. therefore i've decided to start turning this into a real

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@wenquai

1 year

The code for this is now public! This is Wove, a tool for create chained workflows of LLMs. It's still in early alpha but wanted to get the code out before the weekend Link to repo below!

zachary

@wenquai

1 year

lmao this tool is like steroids for Idea Guys now you can have an AI cofounder that - looks for biz opportunities - comes up with solutions - simulate user interviews - creates the specs for an MVP - write engineering tickets - drafts pitch deck and cold emails VCs and then

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@wenquai

3 months

i’m so incredibly excited about this next product. can’t wait to share with everyone soon 🤞

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@wenquai

2 months

AI devs after trying Claude 3

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@wenquai

4 months

vanity metric, but Wanderer passed 25K users last week 🥳

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@wenquai

3 years

quick break from coding 🧑‍💻

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@wenquai

1 year

Submitted my YC app with one min left to spare 🫡 Good luck all!

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@wenquai

6 months

This was an old “edtech” experiment (23/36) from the summer that hasn’t made its way into production yet! Made with @OpenAI @xyflowdev @vercel @nextjs @shadcn @tailwindcss Recorded with @screenstudio

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@wenquai

4 months

added a “day in the life” simulator to Wanderer! now you can try out new careers just like a playable text adventure game 👾

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@wenquai

1 year

lil life update: I left CopyAI a few months ago to build an AI-native consumer education startup was working in stealth for a while but been getting back into sharing my work more publicly - more to come ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

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@wenquai

2 years

What if browsers had multiplayer? 🎮 I hacked together a quick Chrome Extension using @liveblocks that adds real-time collaboration to every website! It makes things like brainstorming in the GPT-3 playground feel much more social and fun 🫂

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@wenquai

2 years

This idea came to me in a dream a few days ago There's no DALL-E API (yet) so this demo was made in Figma Also this would prbly be too distracting for a real reading experience but 🤷

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@wenquai

2 years

The Gates (of heaven/hell) by James Turrell #dalle2

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@wenquai

3 years

didn’t go outside but it was a nice day today

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@wenquai

5 months

been using this stack for every product and i love it so much

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@wenquai

3 years

Here's how to play around with GPT-Neo, even if you can't code EleutherAI built this open source version of GPT-3 and @huggingface built a model pipeline around it! Run it here - just change the text, desired output length, and "creativity" params

GPT-Neo for Beginners

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zachary

@wenquai

1 year

I've created an AI tool initially designed to assist me as an early-stage founder. Surprisingly, it has become more valuable than my main product and significantly enhanced my capabilities as a brainstormer, designer, product manager, dev, and founder 🤯 My commitment to AI and

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@wenquai

1 year

Almost done open-sourcing this! Will drop a link when it's ready

zachary

@wenquai

1 year

lmao this tool is like steroids for Idea Guys now you can have an AI cofounder that - looks for biz opportunities - comes up with solutions - simulate user interviews - creates the specs for an MVP - write engineering tickets - drafts pitch deck and cold emails VCs and then

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zachary

@wenquai

6 months

Apply for Azure OpenAI service here: Apply for Microsoft for Startups here:

Dynamics 365 Customer Voice

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@wenquai

1 month

rejected from that accelerator? missed out on that promotion you really needed? use AI to generate affirmations that distort your reality and make your problems ✨go away ✨ 1. enter your job 2. get a personalized affirmation session 3. inner peace ☮️

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zachary

@wenquai

3 years

The secret to being able to quickly ship indie projects as a dev is having go-to templates. I use these for every project 👇 SaaS Web App template: Bedrock by @mxstbr UI library: @tailwindui Marketing Pages: @Cruip_com or @WickedTemplates What's yours?

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zachary

@wenquai

3 years

@copy_ai skate team

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@wenquai

3 years

Gonna try to write a blog post on how you can quickly try GPT-Neo out for those who haven’t gotten GPT-3 access yet! I’m pretty impressed with its capabilities

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@wenquai

6 months

Great write up on fine-tuning OSS LLMs that was published yesterday by @rasbt

Practical Tips for Finetuning LLMs Using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)

Things I Learned From Hundreds of Experiments

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@wenquai

6 months

@wangzjeff To get GPT-4 to generate interactive diagrams, you can have it generate React Flow code instead of just Mermaid diagrams In the demo video, the app takes in a linkedin profile and uses GPT-4 to visualize all your future “life paths” You can also do this with Remotion for

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@wenquai

3 years

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@wenquai

4 months

i wake up every day excited to work on Wanderer

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zachary

@wenquai

3 years

#buildinpublic fam, I have a new project for you! Introducing Transparent, a free way to create a beautiful dashboard for your Open Startup. Started coding it this morning, now working on the design. Get early access here 👇

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zachary

@wenquai

1 year

Built with @vercel cron jobs, @LangChainAI , @OpenAI , and the usual T3 stack Working on adding agents for web browsing, Github, Figma, Linear, and Notion so it can truly automate my startups

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zachary

@wenquai

3 years

The year is 2022. Every major world problem has been solved by @heybereket and his projects. You log onto @ProductHunt and see this. Life is good.

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@wenquai

3 years

We’re live at ! Used @WickedTemplates and TailwindUI for this landing page design 🎨

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@heyblake

3 years

Pre-launch alert! 👀 Wanna create a course in minutes, not months? Invites are going out soooooon. Here's how to get invited: 1. Go to 2. Enter your email and click the button 3. Copy your referral link 4. Share with friends and on Twitter

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@wenquai

1 year

@jsngr @LangChainAI @tailwindcss @nextjs Github: Tried my best to document my prompt engineering process - you can find the AI code in server/api/routers/openai.ts

GitHub - zckly/dynamic-interface-web: Dynamically generate UI with Large Language Models

Dynamically generate UI with Large Language Models - zckly/dynamic-interface-web

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@wenquai

7 years

I GOT I GOT I GOT I GOT #dna #damn

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@wenquai

1 year

@KennethCassel This tool kinda does that! It basically lets you set up Cron jobs for chained LLM workflows Working on adding in agents so they can actually interact with APIs like GitHub, Zapier etc Code should be open-sourced tomorrow!

zachary

@wenquai

1 year

lmao this tool is like steroids for Idea Guys now you can have an AI cofounder that - looks for biz opportunities - comes up with solutions - simulate user interviews - creates the specs for an MVP - write engineering tickets - drafts pitch deck and cold emails VCs and then

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@wenquai

1 year

Can LLMs create text-based Westworld hosts? By giving GPT-4 an elaborate backstory and long-term memory, it could potentially use prior experiences for decision-making. Here's what HostGPT would look like: (1/n)

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@wenquai

3 years

It feels great to work at a company where everyone is both kind and brilliant 🙏

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@wenquai

3 months

wanderer got its first ddos attack 🥲 reminder to future self: never full launch without cloudflare and upstash rate limiting

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@wenquai

1 month

my LLM tier list as of today. judging criteria: - cost - quality (tested on usecases like RAG, writing, coding, creativity, etc) - speed - capabilities (e.g multimodal, tool use) - restrictiveness (how overly strict is the content flagging) - developer experience

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@wenquai

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Dan Siroker

@dsiroker

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We have surpassed 10,000 Limitless Pendant orders! It is truly the world’s most wearable AI. Order yours today for only $99:

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@wenquai

6 months

here's the prompt if you'd like to build a fitness/sports coach of your own! I found that approximated few-shot examples were key. without them, the model was not able to consistently detect what was going on in the video.

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@wenquai

1 year

Github: Still some missing features, but should be finished by next week ! Also for transparency: I'm not pivoting my startup to focus on Wove. Wove is a fun project, but it's time to get back to building AI-native education - will share more soon!

GitHub - zckly/wove: Wove is a tool for building long-running workflows with LLMs.

Wove is a tool for building long-running workflows with LLMs. - zckly/wove

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@wenquai

3 years

@useFluent is going to be a household name for language learning apps in 1-2 years. If you've always struggled with staying consistent with apps like Duolingo and Rosetta Stone (like me), I *highly* recommend you check them out 🌎

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@wenquai

7 years

happy to announce that I'll be enrolling as a student in the Data Science Immersive at @galvanize !!

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@wenquai

3 years

missing Kyoto 🇯🇵

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@wenquai

5 years

kung fu tea promotions be like: merry christmas! if you spend 50 bucks we’ll give you a free topping

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@wenquai

3 years

It's not launched yet, but I do plan on making this open-source and free to everyone. Right now it only really curates Youtube videos but I plan on adding Wikipedia, free courses, and paid courses to the knowledge graph

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@wenquai

3 years

@katherinecodes Currently going through these! @MengTo 's courses for mastering Figma @JoshWComeau 's CSS for JS developers for next-level wow factors in your designs @bruno_simon 's ThreeJS course if you want to integrate 3D graphics/animations!

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@wenquai

3 years

can you guess my favorite color

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@wenquai

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@wenquai

3 years

Made a ton of progress on the design / engineering side today but adding Custom Slack Emojis has easily been my most valuable contribution to @copy_ai so far

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@wenquai

1 year

yesterday I had a dream that I smoked a blunt with Sam Altman. I think I was trying to convince him to give me GPT4 multimodal access and for some reason smoking zaza with Sama was part of the requirements

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@wenquai

3 months

hey Playground made it onto an a16z market map! i wouldnt consider us "corporate education" but I guess its the closest thing 🤷

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@zachcohen25

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Taylor Swift is old news, I am talking market maps over here! Our team @a16z has spent the past year talking to founders, tracking usage, and envisioning the future of education. This post is a culmination of what we've seen + the characteristics that get us excited 👇

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@wenquai

6 years

i cant believe justine bitcoin invented bitcoin

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@wenquai

1 year

Since the launch of GPT3 in 2020, we’ve seen 3 distinct generations of AI startups 1st gen: built prompt layers on top of GPT3 completions 2nd gen: built data-augmented chatbots with @LangChainAI + embeddings 3rd gen: building agentic AI with @LangChainAI + agents What’s next?

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@wenquai

7 years

i can't believe trump issued an executive order to shut down club penguin. he must be stopped

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@wenquai

6 years

but only a REAL baller would have 9 TRILLION in their PayPal!!! Retweet for $50

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@wenquai

3 years

Excited to share @heyblake and I's new project 🎉 Float allows you to create and sell courses using *only* Notion. It's the easiest and fastest way to monetize your courses, especially if you love @NotionHQ ❤️ Here's what one of your course modules would look like:

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@heyblake

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Announcing my first SaaS side hustle 🎉 Waitlist here if you just trust me: If you want the full story, keep reading 👇👇👇

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@wenquai

7 years

obamas been wearing less and going out more 😥

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@wenquai

1 year

Here's another example of ChatGPT understanding user intent and creating a visual syllabus for them

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@wenquai

4 years

#NewProfilePic

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@wenquai

8 years

JUST APPLIED TO FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM GOOGLE AND YOUTUBE LETS GET IT

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@wenquai

3 years

Excited to work with @joincolab_io and share my learnings on breaking into the tech space with a non-traditional background! #youbelongintech (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑ Have your own career story to share? Participate in this campaign with Co.Lab

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@wenquai

5 years

why do people insist on referring to UT as a public ivy school

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@wenquai

4 months

@HarshaSomisetty I don’t currently but I plan on implementing a model router to help solve this. Really like NotDiamond by @tomas_hk

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@wenquai

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Help what should I name it

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@wenquai

4 years

global boredom from quarantine has transformed Instagram into middle school Facebook

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@wenquai

4 years

At this point if you're against the senseless killings of black americans AND against the use of violence in protests then you're either a) A naive idealist who thinks we can Kum ba yah our way out of systematic oppression b) Not angry enough (stemming from your privilege)

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UHHH I just leaned back a lil in my @autonomousdotai chair and the screws broke in half so I fell backwards off my chair 🥲 Really glad this wasn’t during a zoom meeting

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@wenquai

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made with Claude 3 haiku, the fastest vision model out there 💨

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@wenquai

3 years

@WaitlistAPI has changed the game for indie makers 🤩 Having a waitlist/referral system for an early product I'm launching helps me 1. validate that people actually want what I'm building 2. create a growth flywheel of people referring their friends Super easy to integrate too!

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@wenquai

6 months

Sam Altman just got ousted from OpenAI. Here are the top GPTs you should be using to accelerate a hostile takeover for your company 👇

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@wenquai

4 months

AI UX Pattern #1 : Multiple Choice Responses The biggest problem facing chatbot-based user interfaces is the fact that users are forced to type out their responses. This is probably hurting engagement and long-term retention in your AI apps 🫠 Solution: have your AI generate

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@wenquai

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howdy ⠀ 🤠 　 🤠🤠🤠 🤠 🤠 🤠 howdy 👇🏽 🤠🤠 👇🏽 　 🤠　🤠 　 🤠　 🤠 　 👢 👢 howdy

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