Reading up on consumer-technology

Genuinely, the feed for https://on.design is the best I've ever seen in my entire scrolling career. I know that sounds like bias, but genuinely it is insane 🔥

@CharlesPattson

Had a fascinating conversation with the owner of a local arcade/fun park...you know, those places with go karts, putt putt and the arcade games where you spend $1000 and win enough tickets to go home with an eraser. A few interesting things... Their most profitable game is a bass fishing arcade game. As in, $75,000-85,000 a year profitable. 🤯 For that one single game. They've had it for nearly 10 years and 100% of the time it completely destroys all the other games. The next closest game only does $20k a year. Go karts make nearly no money, need adult staff to run and require employing a mechanic. They have to replace the engines in every one every single year. But "go karts are what bring people in, games are how we keep them here". Essentially a loss-leader. The worst part about having putt putt isn't maintaining the turf, or any equipment...it's the landscaping. It basically has to be immaculately maintained like a prize yard...for little kids to make an absolute mess of every day. Spring/Summer is the holiday shopping season of fun parks. They make all their money April-August and then pray it lasts them through the Fall and Winter. It takes at minimum 6-8 people to staff the park, even on slow days. On really busy Saturdays it takes over 20. Staff turnover is intense as it's made up entirely of high school kids. Wanted to chat about the insanity of the tickets-to-prize ratio, but alas School House Rock Live started (we were sitting next to each other on a school field trip for our kids).

@Shpigford

TIL: prompt kiddie https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/

@steipete

Holy shit, I can't believe it took this long but I'm so happy it's finally here @1Password

@SoVeryCuul

check out the Meta AI desktop app! the dictation has been a game changer for me personally

@alexandr_wang

Talking about Omarchy Quattro STARTING IN 8 MINUTES https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1kKzDPzDplLJv

@ThePrimeagen

This is genius E-ink art frame called InkPoster Don't get stuck with one artwork/painting forever, just change it whenever you like Imagine setting up scenes/moods for your house, like calm, relaxed, ambitious, agressive and your art all changes etc.

@levelsio

More than half of the text I 'type' into my computer is now dictation via the Meta AI Mac app - has quickly become indispensible 🎤. Get it at https://meta.ai

@dps

Congrats to @Fairphone on the launch today! A good day for repairable, long-lasting consumer electronics products.

@FrameworkPuter

Perplexity, the last 6-12 months, is disappointment after disappointment. I used to be a huge advocate for the service thanks to how good it was at search. I did this promo with them (where I received no payment) for paid subscribers to get access. Then Perplexity does this 👎

@GergelyOrosz

Soar on X: "Book Flights As Easy As Ubers" / X

@soarflights

WIRED magazine just gave a 10/10 rating to a piece of hardware for the first time in a decade. It is a robot vacuum. Meet Matic. You do not use an app to control it. You literally treat it like a pet. You can point at a coffee spill and say "Hey Matic, clean this." You can even tell it to "follow me" and it walks behind you. It spent 9 years in development to solve the biggest smart home problem: privacy. It has 5 cameras, but it processes everything locally on an Nvidia chip. Your data is deleted in real-time. Hardware is finally getting fun again.

@shiri_shh

OMG. What just happened?! @elonmusk reposted @Scobleizer saying I was legit bc of the June Oven when I was saying how good @grok @bot is.

@mvanhorn

If you have a Costco membership and own your home - this link is about to save you some money: https://www.costco.com/f/-/services

@BillDA

Did this this morning and Claude fixed my WiFi from 200 mbps → 810.

@mhudack

me: Claude was used to autonomously reverse-engineer and modernize a mission-critical 1996 system with zero source access them: incredible, what vertical? me: …consumer, handheld consumer

@trq212

Great to see Dell collecting their well-deserved accolades for the XPS 13. And doubly so that YouTube reviewers are now focusing so much on Linux compatibility! The XPS 13 is a great choice for an Omarchy terminal/agent deck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2B7oI0FYqo

@dhh

Somewhere on your phone you have the closest thing to magic we have shipped. It does things for you. All day if you want. Go try it.

@thsottiaux

Jessica bought a new Tesla today. Her experience with self-driving was the usual religious revelation. Impressive that a 23 year old company can still generate that kind of reaction.

@paulg

I just reserved my Cloudflare Wallet tag: http://eastdakota.cloudflare.pay. Reserve yours now at http://cloudflare.pay

@eastdakota

http://zoneless.com cost $1.2k, which I'm pretty happy with. ❤️.gg is still my favourite domain investment though!

@tinyprojectsdev

i would have never bought this monitor if it wasn't a business expense

@jackfriks

This just arrived and ngl it’s freaking cool. Thx @OpenAI for the gift :)

@ryancarson

Just today I've already seen Wispr Flow, Granola and WHOOP all "reverse engineered" and open sourced with a fully free version Very interesting to see what's happening The question is if normies will pick up on this (I think they will) and how companies will react and pivot to still make money

@levelsio

Marketing ™

@yongfook

continuing my war on paid software that should be free, today's victim is: granola. quill gives you the same thing for free and completely private, just start recording and after you stop it, the entire audio gets transcribed into a default folder. completely open source as always

@dremnik

Things I learnt after buying a house after 1 year and going through lots of shitty products and things and what I'd do know if I bought or build a house again: - home assistant + their HA Green (little box that's open source to connect all your devices with Home Assistant) - LG or Mitsubishi air conditioning in EVERY room, both cooling/heating, every unit should have its own outdoor unit, or you get annoying things like you can't cool one room and heat the other at same time! I think they're called mono splits - xiaomi air purifier in every room, big spaces get the big purifiers, smaller rooms small ones (most air purifiers are too small for the space they're in!) - a good smart lock, it's so good because you come home and your door auto opens (esp nice if you carry stuff) - matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck) - unifi router with access points, outdoor extenders, cameras, doorbell, all PoE - starlink with local fiber backup - tesla dreamwall or other batteries sufficient to power for days (means like 4-8 batteries @ 13kwh per maybe!), then connect your freezer, fridge, stove, etc to it (heavy loads) so you can keep and cook food when shit goes down - related get a Weber Genesis gas bbq so you can always cook food, fun with friends too - solar panels actually sufficient to power (so like 30-50, crazy number but if you get like 15 it's just not enough?) - pool is honestly overrated, you'll almost never use it, also lots of maintenance (we had a massive water leak with a $10,000 water bill this month, so F that) - but u DO want a standalone jacuzzi, that's nice, with lights! - if you care about safety get steel doors with massive locks for other rooms, and make those safe rooms, so if someone comes in you have multiple layers of security - also get weapons to defend you and your family where legally possible! - garden should be permaculture kinda concept with vegetables, herbs and stuff you can grow to eat, like strawberries, rosemary etc - harvia dry sauna, and if outside, add a little changing room to it so you don't exit in the cold outside! - related, build a home gym, get a big power rack with cables, free barbell, smith barbell, everything built in, and then some dumbbells and kettlebells, and a gym bike like concept2, maybe concept2 rowing machine too, with that you can do almost anything to stay fit! then hire personal trainer to come to your house or you will never go! - ALL lights should be changeable to red at night, via home assistant, so you can make everything red at 10pm for sleep! - also get outdoor lights for fun and security (burglars hate lights) - ALL windows black out blinds on outside, for both security and just NO light during sleep - when you're not sleeping, get lots of sunlight, big floor to ceiling glass windows, it's great! - all doors to outside flat on floor level, no stepover edges (like in PT) - preferrably lots of land around your house so you're not close to any neighbors (neighbors are always annoying even if they're nice!) - fellow water kettle, fellow ode 2 coffee grinder - sofas, other interior, make sure to find natural materials, 99% of interior is polyester/plastic - LG makes the best TVs, end of story, but their software is shit and spies on you, NEVER connect them to the internet/WiFi, instead buy an Apple TV box and connect that, that doesn't spy on you and has no ads, then connect it with HDMI and you're good, also no annoying LG TV updates - re: TVs, people show these formulas of like blalba distance to sofa from tv is N meter so now you need 60", in my experience they always sell you a TV like 10-15" too small, we had 77" LG TV and it was like diving into the screen, beautiful, but then we followed the formula and changed it for 65", not the same! get bigger! - get a VERY big bed, 2m wide by 2m long at least, get natural bed sheets/duvet and seperate duvet from partner, the less you wake up when your partner moves the better - guest rooms are a bad idea, it's annoying to have friends and family IN your house for weeks or a month, good luck trying to have SEX! better get a small house or apt near for them or put them in airbnb!!! - add a delivery box outside ur house so delivery people can put packages inside without having to ring your doorbell 10x per day - get a $500 mini projector and big projection screen outside (or a white wall) so you can have movie nights outside w friends

@levelsio

✅ Startup Acquisition #136 on @trust_mrr ✅ AI language learning app sold for $40,000 👏

@marclou

my first proof-of-concept just instantly flagged an 1,800-review "handmade" shop that's actually just reselling $6 necklaces from Alibaba for $75!!!!!!!! this is about to get *nasty*.

@Shpigford

GSkills anyone?

@garrytan

You could spend $235 for the OpenAI programmable keyboard (with knob), or you could spend $18 on Amazon for this programmable keyboard (with knob)

@BenjaminDEKR

iOS 27 liquid glass looks so damn clean.

@linuz90

that poor shop pay button got it hard today

@tobi

I think you have to do something radically different as a landing page or app to even get anyone to use something these days as AI has made every landing page or app look the exact same

@levelsio

It really is remarkable just how good Shure is at making microphones. https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones

@jasonfried

what are best products from ai startups in sf right now actual products that end users use

@thdxr

Knockoff is now live! Filter out the knockoff crap brands on Amazon. Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY and LUENX. https://knockoff.shopping

@Shpigford