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I'm an R1T owner and I can't even put into words why the truck is just so much better and differentiated. It's not just that it's an EV Truck... my friend has a Lightning and it ha…

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I've owned 3 EVs and Tesla is the lowest quality car I've ever owned. Teslas weigh down the average b/c they're the majority of EVs on the road.

IMO it's generally more of a tooling problem than a methodology problem... like trying to build a skyscraper without power tools. The main challenge with taking notes during meetin…

Great stuff Jake, thanks for sharing. I watched that pricing change very closely as we have a similar progression from solo to multi-player at [ https://grain.co/pricing ] but very…

Most new companies in this space have been using "AI" marketing to pitch a better world of video conferencing and it's been largely a failure. (unless you call getting bought and t…

Thanks Dariel! Time is a crazy thing ;)

The cited article pulled out a catchy headline from an extrinsically motivated context like Telemarketing. Not surprising that people who fail from a rote task get de-motivated and…

completely agree with this. This is why the idea behind Cagan's "Empowered Product Teams" [ https://svpg.com/empowered-product-teams/ ] is so important. Founders are often too blin…

For sure, ideas matter A LOT. But we over-index on product solution ideas by default. I think ideas that matter most for is for founders are the ones around a strong conviction on …

Thanks, I agree that the default path of "be like Steve Jobs" is a trap that I've fallen into enough times to realize that there are more ways to build where you don't have to have…

Thanks Scott. I remember back to our convos in the Grain office from a year back that helped to inspire the structure of this post. Was cool to see you invest in it at Tipe and rea…

We did concierge onboarding and set up shared slack channels with many of our early teams. This made it really easy and expected to ask for more feedback and to have users give it …

Author here. Great feedback and completely agree with your comments. Taking a structure/organized approach to collecting, indexing, and sharing the qualitative data isn't something…

very true. I should have been more clear that I was referring to their whole seamless profile vs landscape thing that I personally thought was silly when I tried Quibi. Seems like …

Wow, that honestly happened much sooner than I thought that it would. Will be really interesting to see if anyone steps up to buy the content... but from what little I watched it w…

Hey HN! Mike here, co-founder & CEO of Grain. As of today, we're removing the waitlist for Grain 1.0 and releasing an all-new Windows app (in addition to our existing Mac app)! Let…

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Frankly this wouldn't make for a great highlight clip. You could make it but nobody would watch it. Grain is best for that punchy quote you want to share mid-moment or for the summ…

Not really b/c 1) Grain is real-time and 2) it's not a screen capture.