{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Still Early","title":"Are building blocks the new end product?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2254,"description":"In this episode:Peter's thesis for the AI era: build building blocks, not end solutionsMemo.sh update: 43 waitlist signups without a launch tweet, and a new workspace instructions featureThe value hacking phase (Mike Maples Jr.) and betting on yourself as customer zeroPhone.inc's new infrastructure: deadline day, three smartphones, and a 50-bullet testing listWhy the phone system should be primitives, and everything around it wide openThe shorts factory experiment: 30-something shorts in an hour and a halfPeter's been heads down on memo.sh. The waitlist is at 43 people, and he hasn't even done the \"hey, this is what I'm building\" tweet yet (just leaving the link in regular tweets, which keeps converting one or two people at a time). He also added a follow-up form after signup with three questions, and almost everyone describes the same problem they hope Memo solves. That's a good sign. Next step is a demo video (the new Osmo Pocket 4 gets its first job), then inviting the first users. He's leaning towards charging them from day one, mostly as a filter.\nHe's thinking about all of this through Mike Maples Jr.'s value hacking framework: a startup is a group of people trying to productize a unique insight, and before you worry about growth, you nail the value. Peter's bet is that he's customer zero for Memo, and that today's AI power users look a lot like tomorrow's normal users.\nThat leads into the big idea of the episode: in the age of AI, you should probably be building building blocks, not end solutions. Everyone can now assemble their own workflows with AI, so nobody wants something too opinionated. They want great, slightly opinionated blocks they can put together themselves. Peter's newest Memo feature doubles down on this: per-workspace instructions for the agents connecting to it, which turns Memo into a flexible storage and search layer people can build things with that he hadn't imagined. Niklas pushes back a bit (he still believes in super opinionated...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jiN5sNwxC3favF-CuribFhPuNYrIJomhSIW6PRT4RAk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYTNj/MDZmN2Y1ZjQxYjEx/MjA1YWIzYzhlNWYy/ZmExYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}