On today’s episode of @alreadyhereshow, I chatted with @prigoose, a software engineer and cofounder of Fractal who is all in on @zocomputer. What I loved about chatting with Priya is that she is always trying new things but is also rolls with things when they go wrong. She shared the magic about posting her workflow to @shl about converting pdfs to epubs and then @Gumclaw built the feature for all gumroad users. Hope you enjoy! Things you will learn in this episode: 00:35 How Priya became a software engineer and cofounder of Fractal 03:46 How school-walk conversations become completed work 04:48 Why her agent gets read-only email and a capped credit card 06:29 How a 45-minute event report gets finished on the walk home 09:20 The private calling app Priya built for her daughter 11:39 How her PDF-to-EPUB workflow became a Gumroad feature 20:50 What Priya deliberately refuses to delegate to AI 27:15 Why AI makes “home-cooked” apps practical 29:40 Why frustration and emotion are useful context for an agent 33:19 What happened when her agent published casual musings 34:26 Why separate accounts and real permissions beat verbal rules 35:30 How to turn a task you’re avoiding into something fun

I've known @mvanhorn for quite some time it was great to catch up on @alreadyhereshow and talk about /last30days & I love that Matt's approach starts with a problem he personally wants solved. Has his personal agent help him build it and he publishes it to see who else would benefit from it. Quick Highlights: 00:00 — Ship the smallest useful version 02:24 — Search where fast-changing knowledge lives 05:02 — Let contributors challenge your design 17:34 — Turn websites into agent-ready commands 22:58 — Start with a problem you need solved 30:12 — Choose what you’re willing to maintain 34:29 — Judge the output, not every step