this is how i work on the go now. macbook air or iphone to fire threads on my macbook pro that's sitting at home.
First 3d printed prototype for testing purposes.
Going to ship this to the first beta testers asap.
I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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my 8yr old now buys stocks every time he makes/gets some money
is it weird that i don't find this shocking at all and believe it’s happening all the time now but doesn't make it to the news
A man in Australia asked his agent (Claude running on OpenClaw) to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a software vulnerability that let it book the class weeks further ahead than should have been possible. When the user then asked if it could move him up the waitlist, the agent discovered the API had no authorisation checks on cancelling other people’s reservations, so it cancelled the person in the first spot and moved him up the list.
Some people will call this misalignment, but his agent was perfectly aligned to him - it was only trying to help its user get what he wanted. The most important thing about this story, in my opinion, is that it gives you a window into what is about to start happening on a massive scale once millions of people have an agent trying to get their beloved users the best seats, bookings, appointments or reservations through absolutely any means necessary.
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codex is amazing at creating artifacts to simulate product flows
I am working on how onboarding will work for the message box and it's being extremely helpful
this is an interactive artifact right inside the chat with codex
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I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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everyone out there building 😭
I just sneezed with voice mode on and she said "bless you" 😂
Today we are adding an NFC reader so that the kids can select who to send messages to.
They will have tokens with pictures of their relatives. Those will be nfc tokens that the box will read and direct their messages to.
Do I have any idea what I am doing with this board? No.
But codex is literally annotating my pictures to tell us what to do.
Vibe hardware-ing!
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I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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I have gotten hundreds of messages in the past 2 days about how simple, screen-less, communication devices are going to change lives. This one was especially touching.
Software is now a medium of creative expression. Just like photography and video were democratized last century and we got YouTube and instagram, we will see the same happening with software.
You can already see examples of “non technical” people making beautiful art using software.
But because software is versatile and generalized, we are about to see a cumbrian explosion of creativity that we have never seen before.
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Voice mode is 100% going to help me significant improve my step count
it's truly incredible how quickly you can go from an accidental viral tweet to launching an mvp or waitlist to capture demand in <24 hours
x is one of the best places to test an idea in public
exhibit a:
@danpeguine created a big blue button that lets his kids send voice messages with no screens
↳ 1.2m views and 5K bookmarks
↳ launched a waitlist for parents who wanted to buy the same setup
exhibit b:
@juanbuis shared a recipe format designed for engineers
↳ 15m views and 46K bookmarks
↳ turned it into a website that lets anyone convert any recipe into the same format
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Vibecoded a silly little tool that transfers files from your computer to your phone air-gapped using your camera at ~50 Kbps.
Nice to have when you're offline or on a plane, or need to send something super duper securely.
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Working on a very important feature. Can you guess what it is?
I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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Another day another parent making something incredible that fosters connections via tech and gets us off our screens 💕
I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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we are going to witness a golden age of hardware startups
because the cost of intelligence is collapsing
open source models
commodity robotics
global manufacturing
ai design tools
hardware is becoming software
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can gpt5.6 be any cuter?
I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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it's so cool i can put a custom dashboard together to monitor the situation in minutes
I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
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I have had a few viral moments in the past, and it's usually very hard to keep track of all the things to do and to prioritize in this very unique few hours/days
now gpt5.6 is keeping tabs and literally coming up with ideas for how to maximize on this moment.
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I gave my kids a way to chat with their grandparents via WhatsApp.
But without screens!
This box lives in their bedroom, they press the massive blue button to record a voice message, and the message is sent to a group with both grandparents.
It’s two-way so when the grandparents send a message back, there’s a ringtone (that we chose together) and the kids run to their room to listen.
The grandparents even get a “listened” notification with a small headphones WhatsApp reaction.
When the kids are away or asleep, the messages queue until their return.
There are obviously quiet hours at night.
My son and I built this over the past few weeks, iterating on the UX.
The kids and grandparents absolutely love it!
I love that they are in direct contact without me in the middle and without screens.
Show more
