Besides @SamAsante teasing me about @TypeaheadAI, we just came up with a dope experiment on X for something we built. If you’re trying to manage multiple Macs at home or remotely, you’ll love this one.

#Taratala# warehouse roof collapse: #KolkataPolice# files suo moto #FIR#, 2 arrested, 4 detained for questioning 1) Kamal Samanta, structural engineer 2) Syed Md Gulzar, building supervisor 6-member #SIT# formed to probe the case under the supervision of DC, Detective Department

I almost never build software because I personally want it. Historically, I’ve preferred starting with customers. Before investing months in a product, I want to understand the struggle and see what people are already trying to do. Part of that bias was practical. Software was expensive to build. Beam started differently. We build Mac apps, so development and QA happen across a bunch of machines. We kept running into moments when something we needed was open on another one, sometimes for only a few minutes. The usual answer was Screen Sharing. You climb into the other computer, find what you need, do the work, then climb back out. @SamAsante built the first version around a simpler idea. If a window was running on that Mac, it should be able to live on this one. That became Beam. Building the first version was cheap enough that the product itself could become the research. We put it in front of people. I asked people on X about their weird multi-Mac setups. More than 100 people replied and 42 filled out a baseline form. They described use cases we hadn’t considered and gave us better language for the product than we had ourselves. We used a Grok Bot to research the same behavior across X. It found more people already living with the problem and surfaced places where our assumptions were wrong. The next step is bringing those early users together in a small X group chat. They’ll get Beam free while we learn how it fits into the setups they already have. I still believe customers eventually matter more than your own intuition. They outnumber you. The difference now is sequencing. Scratch your own itch. Ship it. Then find out how many other people are scratching the same place.