Van de Vouchy

Hey Raphaël, that image of opening DBeaver and just waiting, then switching to pgAdmin, then Compass, then RedisInsight is exhausting just reading it. Was there a specific day where you had like four different database tools open at once and thought why do I need a different app for each of these?

Hey Dawson, that line about Zendesk being built for a VP of Support, not a founder, really stands out. Was there a specific day where you were drowning in those 50 daily tickets, juggling a VA and a tool that felt way too complicated, and thought why do I need enterprise software just to answer basic questions?

Hey Gyuhwan, 15 years on Linux and then being forced onto a Mac for iOS dev sounds painful. Was there a specific day where you tried VNC or Chrome Remote Desktop, hit the lag or the missing system keys issue again, and just thought okay I need to build something better myself?

Hey Elizabeth, that line about never figuring out how to give pitch feedback at scale is relatable for anyone who gets a lot of asks. Was there a specific week where the requests just piled up and you thought I want to help all these founders but there’s literally no way I can?

Hey Axel, that line about spending weeks on a project and getting back the thing on the right feels a bit off is painfully accurate. Was there a specific client review where you realized they barely looked at the work you actually wanted feedback on?

Hey Shubham, that line about shaming agents for failing to use websites that were never built for them in the first place is a good reframe. Was there a specific site where you watched an agent completely fall apart on something simple and thought wait, this isn’t the agent’s fault, this site just wasn’t built for this?

Hey Mu, that line about AI outputs that work but don’t feel designed is such a good distinction. Was there a specific moment where you looked at something an agent built and thought technically this is fine, but something’s just off?

Hey Matheus, that feeling of reading your script in a way that feels obvious and unnatural is so relatable. Was there a specific presentation where you caught yourself doing it, lost your flow, and thought okay this has to change?

Hey Takahito, that scenario of kicking off a task, switching to YouTube for just a sec, and then realizing 10 minutes later Claude has been waiting for you is too real. Was there a specific time where you came back way too late and realized you’d wasted a ton of time just because you missed the done moment?

Hey Erez, that phrase Privacy Tax is a good way to put it. Was there a specific moment where you were about to save something personal to a cloud-based tool and just stopped?

Hey Paul, that insight about most platforms giving you models but still expecting you to figure out the idea, prompt, and workflow is spot on. Was there a specific trend early on where you saw creators miss the window because by the time they figured out how to make something, the moment had already passed?

Hey J.D., those stats about 41% of skills being dangerous and 22.9% changing code after install are wild. Was there a specific moment where you saw an agent running something sketchy and realized nobody had actually verified what it was doing?

Hey Amanda, that 105 minutes of Docker installs and cert fiddling is painfully accurate. Was there a specific project where you were supposed to be building an agent but spent the whole day just fighting with infrastructure?

Hey Haoyu, that frustration of having no way to check the view before signing a lease is such a real problem. Was there a specific apartment you almost took or actually moved into where the view or sunlight turned out way worse than you expected?

Hey Seungju, that distinction between deterministic agents versus autonomous ones that are slower and less predictable is interesting. Was there a specific task you were trying to automate where an autonomous agent kept doing something slightly different each time and you thought I just need it to do exactly what I showed it, nothing more?

Hey Suryaa, congrats on the launch! Curious what sparked building your own attention engine. Was there a specific limitation you kept hitting with existing inference setups that made you think okay, we need to build this from scratch ourselves?

Hey Akarsh, that list of close the cookie banner, dismiss the popup, skip the overlay is painfully accurate. Was there a specific article where you went through that whole ritual and by the time you found the actual text you just gave up?

Hey Sukrit, that frustration of scraping tools either being slow and fragile or breaking constantly on modern sites is painfully real. Was there a specific project where you watched your scraper break for the tenth time on some JS-heavy page and thought okay, there has to be a completely different approach?

Hey Anmol, that frustration of spending forever in design software just to make a simple fake chat screenshot is so real. Was there a specific marketing video where you caught yourself spending like an hour tweaking a WhatsApp mockup and thought why is this taking so long for something so basic?

Hey Brianna, coming from mortgage families at Freddie, Fannie, and FHA, you must have seen this intake chaos up close for years. Was there a specific loan or moment where you watched the back and forth over missing docs drag on way too long and thought why is this still so broken?