Do you love @meetgranola for taking meeting notes? Me too! That's why I've spent this weekend building Granola integration into @YouSpotHub. Now, you can grab your Granola personal API key and just paste it into YouSpot. Then, the magic commences. YouSpot will sync your notes, extract entities (like company mentions) from those notes. Link everything together in the context graph and put it all in your Second Brain. Then, you have access to it via chat, MCP and cloud agents. Oh and your daily brief emails will get smarter by factoring in your meeting notes. YouSpot is the AI-native Solo CRM built specifically for one person companies. If you're operating a one person company, running a solo side gig or are a creator building a personal brand, you should check it out. Just go to YouSpot .com -- it's just $10/month and there's a free version too. Thanks.

3 good quotes from my interview with @TomBrady today, applicable to all aspiring GOATS. 1. "I treated practice like the Super Bowl." — On why he was never nervous in the big moment. He'd already run it 100 times before. 2. "You have to make a lot of bad decisions to gain the experience to make good ones." — His whole theory of getting good at anything new. Including AI. 3."We only grow when things are outside our comfort zone." — The GOAT, on why he keeps starting over at things he's bad at. 🐐

A $1.4M domain sold yesterday on a payment plan, with a substantial down payment. It's the fourth name this founder has bought from us. Two thoughts. Payment plans widen the market for great names. There have never been more startups, and never more competition for attention. A strong name is a real edge, but most entrepreneurs can't write a seven-figure check on day one. Discovery matters even at this level. They weren't looking for this specific name. They found it while browsing the marketplace, just like the previous three. Founders tend to brainstorm outward from what their company does, which often leads them toward descriptive names. The best brandable names are open vessels: broad enough to hold a company that doesn't exist yet. Which means many founders never think to search for them. You have to see the name first and recognize yourself in it.

My UNBOUND keynote is now officially in the books. Thought it went pretty well, but haven't watched the game tape yet. If you happened to see it either live or on livestream, would love your feedback. #unbound# #unbound26#

Books @thesamparr recommended at his #Unbound# session, "Be Chalant": "Influence" by Robert Cialdini "The 2-Hour Cocktail Party" by Nick Gray "The Wisdom of the Stoics" by Frances & Henry Hazlitt "Everything gets easier with enthusiasm."

Not even a 5am fire alarm (false alarm, everyone's safe) last night and building evacuation is going to keep me from the #UNBOUND# stage. I've got what I think is a fun presentation to share. See you there at 1:30 (live or on the livestream). p.s. If the alarm had only been a couple of hours earlier, I could have just kept rehearsing and tried out some new material with folks.

Officially on the ground at UNBOUND. Got a chance to kick it with @kippbodnar for the launch of Loop last night and ran into @dharmesh this morning. Go get em!! Let the fun begin! 🚀

The day before I take the keynote stage at #UNBOUND# in Boston, my episode on the Marketing Against The Grain podcast dropped today. This was a fun conversation. We talk about the rise of the solopreneur (1 person companies) and YouSpot (the AI-native CRM for those solopreneurs). Let me know what you think or if you have any questions.

I'm at the HubSpot #UNBOUND# conference in Boston. With 13,000 of my closest friends. I love this community. Can already feel the positive vibes. Tonight: I'm holed up in my hotel room practicing my keynote for tomorrow. It's going to be a long night (like always) but I think you folks will like it.

The ideas are in the AIr. I keep having this weird experience where I think I’ve found something early, then someone else arrives at almost the same idea from a different direction. AI is letting a lot more people explore the edges of an idea quickly enough that we keep colliding in public. I’m starting to pay attention to the ideas that suddenly seem to be everywhere.

Minor nit (and it could just be me) but in @warpdotdev when I use a keyboard shortcut to move to a tab, I wish I could then just use the up arrow key to bring up the previous command in that tab. Right now, I have to click on the tab to put the cursor in there. If I hit a regular key, I can start typing, but up arrow doesn't work until I click.

How I Grow Better With YouSpot: Episode 2 If you've been following along at home, I'm building (along with an awesome team), YouSpot. It's an AI-native Solo CRM for 1 person companies. I'm building the product for myself (I'm Customer Zero) so will be sharing how I use the product for my actual work. YouSpot supports the idea of "Tracker Agents". These are cloud agents that run that will track certain things for you. For example, here's one I use: "Find tweets that mention @dharmesh and have 5 or more likes." Note: You can search for any combination of terms, and apply any kind of filters. I could have said "...that have a positive comment about HubSpot". It's natural language, powered by AI. You could search for industry terms to find trending tweets in your industry. You could track when someone tweets about one of your competitors. You get the idea. Now, here's the really cool thing: As your tracker agent finds things, it automatically adds them to your Second Brain. So, in the future, that context is available in the YouSpot Chat app (or via MCP in ChatGPT or Claude). If you're already using YouSpot, try it out. Just add a "Tracker" type object in your Second Brain. If you're not a YouSpot user yet, you should try it out. It's just $10/month (cancel anytime). Just go to YouSpot .com Let me know what you think or ideas for other trackers you'd like to see. Thanks for your support.