Tom Riedel

Tom Riedel

Building Mac software for creative order

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Tom Riedel

12d ago

Stoa for Mac - Beautiful media browsing for the folders you already use

Stoa for Mac turns the folders you already use into rich visual galleries — no importing, no library lock-in. Browse photos and videos with adaptive layouts, keyboard-first navigation, comments, reactions, color tags, and pinned media that bring a more personal feel to your private library. Then lean back and let Stoa’s infinite autoscroll gallery turn your media into a flowing visual stream. Pair it with Stoa Saver, a free companion screensaver from our website.
Nika

16d ago

Since the rise of AI, do you feel that your job is at risk? And what about certain professions?

When AI entered the public stage in 2023, I was working as a copywriter. One client gave me a condition:

either I write more articles using AI for the same price
or I lower my rate per article

That was when I realised this job was starting to change significantly. (And I ended up.)

Nika

18d ago

Will we work for AI or will AI work for us?

  1. Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)

  2. At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).

  3. In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.

  • First, AI worked for us.

  • Now we are starting to work for AI.

  • And eventually, will AI work (without us)?

I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?

Nika

18d ago

Why did you lose your Product Hunt streak and what was your record?

@charlie_hb started quite an interesting thread where he outlined on which days people lose their streaks the most often.

He showed some stats regarding days in a week, but I am still lacking the reasons.

The most common ones I have heard were:

We let AI write our code for a week. Here is what actually happened.

Everyone is talking about vibe coding right now. Let AI handle the code while you focus on the vision. It sounds revolutionary. So we tried it.

For one week, our team at Murror used AI coding tools for everything. New features, bug fixes, refactoring. We wanted to see if it could genuinely speed up our development cycle or if the hype was getting ahead of reality.

Your first 50 users will teach you more than your last 5,000 lines of code

When we started building Murror, we did what most technical founders do: we disappeared into code for months.

We built an emotion analysis engine. We refined our NLP pipeline. We designed beautiful dashboards. We were so proud of what we had made.

Nika

2mo ago

Meta is ending its Metaverse project, in which it invested $80,000,000,000.00

This all goes back a bit to the era of NFT, virtual reality, when, during COVID, we went to virtual events, had VR glasses and promised ourselves that we would spend more time in some digital parallel reality online.

Well. So Facebook, with a growing portfolio and a new vision, renamed itself Meta.

That it would be the Metaverse.

Rohan Chaubey

2mo ago

Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps

Apple is reportedly pushing back on AI vibe coding apps like @Replit and @Vibecode App, tools that let users create apps just by typing prompts.

The issue isn t a new rule. Apple is enforcing an old one:

  • Apps must be self-contained

  • They can t download or run new code that changes functionality after review

Nika

2mo ago

How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).