Nika

Every morning, I scroll through the new launches to see what people are building, as many others do, and some recurring patterns are simply impossible to ignore.

When your product hits the front page, you have exactly three seconds to convince someone to click.

Just three gatekeepers stand between you and a new user:

I've been thinking a lot about what separates AI products that people actually stick with from those they try once and forget. The pattern I keep noticing is that the ones that win aren't necessarily the most powerful they're the ones that feel like they understand your context.

Think about it: most AI tools today are essentially fancy command lines. You give them an instruction, they spit out a result. But the products gaining real traction are the ones that remember what you care about, adapt to how you work, and meet you where you are emotionally not just functionally.

In a discussion forum with @monatruong_murror , we talked about how AI can help us learn things that aren t naturally familiar to us, like programming.

The biggest challenge was/is:
Getting AI to guide you toward a solution, instead of just giving you the answer.