Product Building, AI, and the Trust Thermocline

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Happy Sunday!

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a short week this week, but in the midst of holiday prep we published a few great essays.

Let’s dive in!

My Philosophy of Product Building

Nathan Baschez / Divinations

How do you get from idea to a great MVP of your product?

Nathan has done that to great success many times in his career—from Product Hunt, to Lex. In this post he breaks down his product-building philosophy into a series of steps that can help anyone take what's in their head and bring it to the world.

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6 New Theories About AI

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

Generative AI is moving fast and there are a ton of pressing questions about the space. Evan writes this week with 6 mini-theories explaining what comes next including:

Why many AI startups might look more like consulting shops than SaaS companies
Why data-generating use-cases will create power for AI companies
Why AI apps compete on go-to-market—not on underlying tech

If you care about following the space, this essay is a must-read.

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Breaching the Trust Thermocline Is the Biggest Hidden Risk in Business

Gareth Edwards

Why do some companies face a crisis where suddenly everything seems to go wrong?

It's because wired into products and services is a “trust thermocline”—a critical point which, once crossed, leads otherwise healthy businesses and products suddenly collapse.

In this essay digital strategist Gareth Edwards examines trust, how it is lost in digital businesses, and, crucially, how to keep it.

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🤖 3 AI Tools You Might Like

New day, new cool AI tool to try. We're fascinated by how quickly AI is moving, and we want to make sure you're updated on it.

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So we invited Ben Tossell of the newsletter Ben's Bites to share three AI tools you may not have heard of:

High-resolution text-to-3D content creation—It can create high-quality 3D textured mesh models from input text prompts and utilizes a coarse-to-fine strategy that leverages both low-and high-resolution diffusion priors for learning the 3D representation of the target content.
Create your own AI-generated avatar model, without code—You've probably seen all of the new AI avatar projects released in the last few weeks. Hey lets you train these models yourself—without code.
A magical design tool for Figma powered by AI—You can use this tool to make icons, images and text in your Figma designs. No more lorem ipsum, no more Unsplash, no more going somewhere else to come back and populate in Figma.

Bonus: If you're interested in learning how to prompt in StableDiffusion, Buildspace wrote a guide: Prompt Engineering 101.

Did you like the new AI section? Let us know in the comments and feedback so we know to do more of it!

And make sure to check out Ben's Bites for a daily dose of what's happening in AI.

That's all for this week!