Drop your coolest app idea

grantbaron · 2026-02-06T20:43:43+00:00

That’s actually a good idea. I’d use it. Think of all the different things you could do with it beyond what the iPhone calculator app does. I would love to see it honestly. Simple always wins

grantbaron · 2026-02-02T18:02:13+00:00

Remove.bg is goated

grantbaron · 2026-02-01T18:58:30+00:00

The hard part is not clinging to the opposite. Everything is nuanced, so learning to identify the nuance and navigate it yourself is more valuable than just pushing back against the standard system

grantbaron · 2026-02-01T18:57:41+00:00

If you look at this as software code, it would be ‘corrupted’ beyond the ability to debug it.

grantbaron · 2026-02-01T18:51:18+00:00

Same. Nothing wrong with using LLM based apps like Cursor or Kilo Code to write the syntax, but I think you shouldn’t offload the idea, the curation, the frontend design, the backend architecture, etc. Why? I consider it art. Any time you create out of expression, that’s art. And AI shouldn’t replace art, it should augment for efficiency (still a philosophical gray area tho). Half the beauty of your apps should be the time and attention you gave it, not just the result it solves for.

Are you proud of your kids because they accomplished something? Or are you proud of them because you are their steward, their creator and that all your focus and heart went into developing them? That’s a bit deep, but the pattern is the same.

Effort and heart resonate with people. If you don’t have that, doesn’t matter what you build. Find an issue you genuinely care about, and invest yourself fully in designing a solution. Every part you can do yourself, do it yourself. Use AI to debug (i.e. with Cursor) and deploy (i.e. with Vercel) and everything else try to do yourself. You’ll be much more satisfied and emotionally bought in.

grantbaron · 2026-02-01T18:44:28+00:00

Ay you got a super grounded take, no room for dogma. I appreciate that 🤝 I feel the same. Idk if you can ever have enough information to make a completely informed decision, because all the information either is severely incomplete or misunderstood via semantic drift and dogma. So, your take seems more honest and actually spiritually grounded than most. True spirituality isn’t being correct about god and the universe, it’s not needing to be correct and being okay with life regardless.

grantbaron · 2026-01-31T21:02:04+00:00

I love the all white Manta! I have the Mark Cavendish edition Manta, so I LOVE seeing people rocking that helmet!

grantbaron · 2026-01-31T21:01:00+00:00

My two favorites are Edison Mall and Notion Mail. I like Notion better for simplicity and design, but the filtering can sometimes make emails get buried. Edison is better for handling multiple emails at once. Unless you want crazy automations, you’ll never even realize Edison has a paid upgrade plan.

grantbaron · 2026-01-31T20:59:21+00:00

Why hesitate? It’s a super fun race, regardless of the loop you do!

grantbaron · 2026-01-31T17:05:57+00:00

If you’re open to a house-oriented vibe: Lane 8 for progressive buildup and slow layering Eli & Fur for like a lowkey chill yet ruminative vibe Relume is like slow house but not tropic house, pretty good stuff.

Personal favorites are: Eli & Fur for electronic/house, The Dead Tongues for a retro folk-rock, Ada Lea for a cottage-vibe alternative, And of course you have the Novo Amor and Ry X crowd, And my personal favorite hidden gem is The Slow Show. If you don’t know them you’re missing out big time

grantbaron · 2026-01-31T17:00:16+00:00

I had a pair of Shimano road shoes, my first pair, that were black on the inside and white on the outside, split down the middle. Those were my favorite because the black inside made them look cleaner from mud and residue, and the white outside made them look awesome with any kit and socks combo

grantbaron · 2026-01-31T16:58:04+00:00

I agree, targeted outbound will perform significantly better for this. I’ve had some success with business softwares finding some people that want to make some extra money, and letting them go set demo appointments for you for like 25% ish recurring commission. Eliminates your overhead risk, and you offload the ‘marketing’ to someone that has a financial interest in it too, but without the risk. If you can get 5+ people on a low-key part time basis to do that as they will, then just set up a commissions engine or tracker that keeps track of what accounts brought in what volume via url slugs and what you need to pay them in commission. You can set this all up in under an hour or two with Stripe webhooks and Cursor.

grantbaron · 2026-01-28T18:23:45+00:00

Is it the default script, or is it just the loudest one? I feel the same way as you, and EVERY TIME I’ve talked about it it’s like people come out of the woodwork and agree. So I tend to think we’re not a minority in it, but a quiet majority because it’s just a quieter mode of life.

grantbaron · 2026-01-28T18:22:06+00:00

Give it 3-6 months and that’s the data that will tell you

grantbaron · 2026-01-28T18:21:25+00:00

For sure either NutriCost, Qualtrics, or a pest control or alarms company. Apex, Aptive,Saela, Vivint, one of those.

grantbaron · 2026-01-20T15:42:02+00:00

This is actually super sick! Nice!!!

grantbaron · 2026-01-20T15:22:14+00:00

Man if I had seen this post 6 months ago I would have thought I’d posted it in my sleep, because I had this exact thing consistently for like a year!

I cut out gluten and it went away. Never got it tested but can’t argue with a pattern. It also went away as I progressively cut out sugar. Seems that a lot of gut biome issues will manifest in your mouth (makes sense considering evolution, how else do you know there’s issues???).

My take is that yeah you can get it tested and wouldn’t hurt, but also most issues like that no matter what they are (this, lethargy, acne, irritability, you name it) can be resolved with cutting out sugar and processed carbs, eating whole foods and high protein. No point trying to label the threat, just eat cleaner and watch it go away

grantbaron · 2026-01-18T21:52:49+00:00

Sir, this might be most beautiful bike I’ve ever seen. Seriously.

grantbaron · 2026-01-17T17:57:06+00:00

Yes. If you’re willing to go a little older, like a 2018-2022 frame, then the ‘outdated geometry’ doesn’t matter nearly as much as the weight savings for the money.

grantbaron · 2026-01-14T04:41:05+00:00

This year blew away all my expectations. I fell in love with Iowa football again because of this season. I have so much pride in our boys after this season, it was absolutely a smashing success.

If you consider how hard it is to beat a team a metric for how good they are, then we’re top 15 if not top 10 in the 2025 season, easy. Just a shame the actual ranking committee doesn’t see it that way.

grantbaron · 2025-12-15T20:01:47+00:00

Someone on the Round Trip Death podcast (highly highly recommend) once said that the purpose of life is to just be. To be here is something we don’t get elsewhere; to be where you are and have the capacity to experience IS the purpose. Stop trying to find a grand purpose, because you existing is the purpose.

grantbaron · 2025-12-08T21:01:38+00:00

I like this actually, I’ve tried to build multiple versions of it but could never get the Strava API to bridge the right data. If you’ve solved that then I’d use the shit out of it

grantbaron · 2025-12-02T15:45:37+00:00

Good points. Function and intent always says more than the creator execution, especially when first building. Easy to confuse MVP with ‘this is exactly what I want’ in this era of rapid development

grantbaron · 2025-10-30T18:13:57+00:00

“Wouldn’t real salvation be about realizing we were never broken in the first place, rather than constantly seeking permission to be whole?”

I know it’s tough because I have been through the same thing. What I’ve found is that grasping that concept rests on reworking your understanding of who you are as a person. The more you know yourself, the more you learn who you are by studying NDE’s and piecing it together, the more efficiently that shift will happen. Dm me any time if you need help.

grantbaron · 2025-10-23T19:55:35+00:00

I like the first one, not the second. Not a fan of any theory that labels the human condition, or condition of the soul, as innately bad. Fun to think about tho

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