On today's episode, we're joined by Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Co-Founders at Snipd, the AI-powered podcast app built to help capture and rediscover insights from spoken audio. Kevin and Mikel discuss the origin of Snipd, the challenges of building an AI-native product from scratch, and the role of Flutter in enabling rapid, cross-platform development.
Key Takeaways:
(01:54) Snipd lets users triple-tap to save podcast clips with AI summaries.
(05:53) Snipd utilizes AI to improve capturing podcast insights.
(14:58) Flutter enables fast, cross-platform development and a polished UI experience.
(21:43) Before ChatGPT, the team used self-hosted, fine-tuned AI models.
(26:29) The team sees AI as the new electricity, soon to be standard in everything.
(30:52) Early AI summaries were rough, but clear enough to prove the concept worked.
(36:18) AI supports unfamiliar tasks and new tools.
(41:28) Everyone codes differently - AI should fit each workflow.
(48:02) We all underestimate AI's impact - even knowing that is a useful reminder.
(51:58) As AI boosts productivity, demand for developers grows, not shrinks.
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Resources Mentioned:
Kevin Smith
Mikel Corcuera
SnipdFlutter
How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman
Hugging Face
ChatGPT
Google Cloud
Perplexity
Legacy Podcast
Lenny's Podcast
