Kevin Rose
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Yeah, I think there is so many domains where that makes a lot of sense.
And Toby's obviously just a freaking genius and so brilliant.
What I do that's slightly different, and I'd be all for that type of thing, but is I build for myself.
I think we're entering into this era of personal software, right?
Like if there's a workout app that you don't like because the buttons placement doesn't do it for you or doesn't track one key core metric, like you just build your own.
And like that's going to be the norm in β if it isn't already, it's going to be the norm in like six months from now.
And then the question is how many people are there like you that also care about said thing?
And so when I'm building this particular slice of the news or the industry and we haven't even gotten into the understanding of who's touching things because I think one of the things that β
that has done really well in tech meme is that social touch of like, you know, when Marc Andreessen touches something with a tweet or, you know, how much more credibility and weight does that add to it even more so than Bloomberg or Wall Street Journal or Business Insider writing about something, right?
So that's yet another thing that needs to be baked in here as well.
But then, you know, if I enjoy it, the nice thing about this whole thing is this was, you know, maybe $300 in AI credits or something, you know, to go build this whole thing.
and I could stand this up, cash the crap out of it, meaning so that it's performant, and just put it out there, and everyone would be like, okay, if I'm also into the geeky things that Kevin is, I will use this too.
And that might be 1,000 people, might be 100,000 people.
No one knows, but also at the same time, that's okay.
If you have 500 people that really love
what you've created, I get a lot of value and joy out of that.
And it's like, we, we think in numbers now on the internet in terms of, you know, millions and billions of people.
But in reality, if you like went outside your house and there were 500 people standing, like cheering you on, you'd be like, I'm the biggest rock star in the freaking world.
Right?
So we lose this perspective of what it means, what success means.