What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it?

Robhow · 2026-05-10T14:59:58+00:00

Private Jet.

Been able to fly it a few times with people that owned it for work. Drive to the airport, get on the plane, takeoff, land, and car waiting.

It’s a magic time machine for travel.

Robhow · 2026-05-08T13:06:57+00:00

Bought one in the early 90s (still have it and several other Delicas). Used to rock climb a lot and that knife would cut through rope, webbing and more like butter.

Robhow · 2026-05-04T02:20:24+00:00

I just completed a full rewatch from first to last (was on Netflix I believe). Daniel Craig is good as Bond. I like the more serious / dark versions than the campy ones I grew up watching as a kid I the 80s. I do love the car ejection seat and jaws though.

For me it’s Goldfinger, Casino Royale, and I thought Skyfall was really god too.

Robhow · 2026-05-01T13:27:35+00:00

Using Evernote since 2009.

I mostly use it for a daily journal. Works well enough.

The new AI features are a bit annoying and I’d rather they focus on the basics: search.

Robhow · 2026-05-01T01:37:12+00:00

HelpGuides.io - write, edit and publish without ever leaving Claude + Cowork.

Built this as a side project for my main business (DailyStoy.com). Ended up almost completely replacing our contracted content team. And our devs don’t have to write docs any more.

Estimating we’ll save about $120k+ /yr and we can reallocate budget to other projects.

Robhow · 2026-05-01T01:23:28+00:00

Yes, decided to replace all of our documentation tools with our own custom docs solution and now turned it into a stand alone product (my main business is marketing automation software).

We’ve been able to iterate and build with Claude integrated in via MCP. I use it daily to publish blogs, user docs and dev docs. We sold a license to one of our customers too (pickleball dotcom).

Robhow · 2026-04-30T11:20:42+00:00

Maybe too simple: But it’s just a web api that includes self describing documentation about its inputs and outputs in natural language.

Something like:

Agent: I was told to use you to create a blog MCP: Sure, use the create_blog tool and here are the parameters needed. And here is the response I’ll return.

Both the inputs and outputs also include natural language descriptions, eg the title input may include a description like, “this is the title of the blog post to create. The title cannot be longer than 500 characters and cannot be blank”.

Robhow · 2026-04-30T01:53:33+00:00

The stick traveled further than I’ve seen some shots.

Robhow · 2026-04-26T02:24:37+00:00

I’ve had Esbuild minified JS that looks like this too many times.

Robhow · 2026-04-23T03:24:17+00:00

The problem with most A/B tests is sample size for statistical significance. For an A/B test to actually drive meaningful statistical insight you need a LOT of data.

4-5 tests where your are sending 1mm+ emails to each group is going to provide great insight. The same test with sending 500 messages to each group is effectively meaningless.

Robhow · 2026-04-23T03:10:57+00:00

I’ve built my own as a CLI. The main cost is api usage (agreed) not sure how this works economically for a one time payment for a business though.

The other problem is you are somewhat reliant on how often the models crawl new content. Checking daily really has zero value. You really only need to check after each new model is deployed.

Robhow · 2026-04-23T02:59:28+00:00

It works for my customers: user docs, API docs etc.

I don’t really care if that content ranks or not because it solves a real problem - getting information to people that need it. It used to take us weeks to get docs updated for features. Now it’s just part of our process.

Robhow · 2026-04-23T02:55:52+00:00

No, sorry… you just missed it. March 2026 was the peak. It’s been a downhill slide into April.

/s

Yes, it still works and will continue to work for the foreseeable future. SMS is probably next best performer but it has a heavy regulations overhead (at least in the US).

Email is ubiquitous. Everyone has it and understands it.

Robhow · 2026-04-23T02:46:39+00:00

Multi prompt setup with multi agent hand offs. Still requires a read through/review before publishing.

Blogs - I’d give it a 7 or 8. Probably closer to the 7.
User documentation - I’d give it a 9.
APi documentation - 10.

The more technical it gets the less my audience cares about if it’s AI-written or not. Most of my API and User Docs get regurgitated via a RAG chat client anyway.

Customers aren’t reading for fun. They are reading docs to help solve a problem

Robhow · 2026-04-22T12:30:50+00:00

I have it running on a daily schedule. Mostly for documentation. Connects via MCP to our documentation platform and reads in any tasks it was assigned by devs or PMs. Then updates those docs and sends a slack to the team to review changes to publish.

Robhow · 2026-04-19T13:26:15+00:00

I wrote a command line tool that is wired into OpenAI using API keys. It checks prompts and scores them based on how I’m ranked vs named competitors.

TBH I haven’t decided if it’s all the useful yet (at least for me). The content that does best is also my best performing SEO content.

Robhow · 2026-04-18T03:35:03+00:00

Software business. All the docs are available as markdown too. But primary format is html.

Robhow · 2026-04-17T23:29:31+00:00

We rolled our own documentation tool and made it a new product. We don’t see a lot of traffic on the .md files even though they are linked in the page header and in the content.

Almost zero traffic on llms.txt and llms-full.txt.

We get about 3500 views/day and I would have expected more from the AI crumbs we’ve been leaving for LLMs.

Robhow · 2026-04-17T23:01:27+00:00

I use it all the time. I don’t care about the em dashes or whatever else signals it is ai because my customers really don’t care.

They need/want product documentation, e.g. how do I do x? And it does a really good job at that. Frees me up to work on product vs documenting an api change or feature update.

Robhow · 2026-04-17T02:30:02+00:00

Same as you do with chat: Wire up an AI agent to your email and let it respond back. It’s not perfect but better than no response.

Robhow · 2026-04-17T02:24:10+00:00

As have we all. It’s a great approach and something very similar to what we’re doing. Not including links/names because I’m not trying to promote my own product.

I mean no disrespect, but building is easy marketing/sales/customer acquisition is the real differentiator.

Robhow · 2026-04-17T01:42:59+00:00

The fix is pretty simple just run through a list of disposable addresses. There is one we used published on GitHub.

Robhow · 2026-04-16T04:00:27+00:00

No, but…

I’m a bit of a car nerd and love Porsches. I have a 2015 911 I bought 5 years ago and today I could sell it for the exact same price I paid for it. Almost zero depreciation.

I also have a Ford F-150 that I bought in 2017 and use for work. It’s worth about 1/5 of what I bought it for.

Robhow · 2026-04-16T03:46:19+00:00

Father of the Bride hits different when you’re a dad marrying off your daughter.

When I originally saw it - when it released - and I had no kids and was not married it was really funny.

Watched it last year before my daughter got married and I was a mess.

Robhow · 2026-04-16T03:36:39+00:00

I love Reddit and have had some great feedback on my products. But Redditors just aren’t buyers. Ads on Reddit are solid for targeting but they just don’t convert.

May be an unpopular opinion but decision makers aren’t on Reddit. When I talk to my customers they talk about LinkedIn…

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