I know the problem, because we built one for low agency users, in rural India, for financial inclusion.

Usability is a problem the AI-discourse is ignoring at its own peril.

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They lost me with just one microcopy - “start earning”. Huge red signal.

Personally it has been a huge unlock and here are some specific use cases.

1.Context engineering for “any task”: my claw agents debate with me, and write me files to be picked up by Claude code or Claude cowork to write code/build presentations.

2. Discovering this page: my personal newsfeed that took me 10 mins to setup. Never had any newsfeed before this which could be personalised like this.

3. Strategy: similar to point 1 above. I set up a “tough-coach” skill. Now all my 1am ideas go through the wringer of why they suck, and what, if anything could be differentiated about them.

4. Many other small-ish things that are important enough for me to spend on them, but not important enough to invest my time.

I run a conversational AI startup in India working mostly in Financial inclusion space - so most of time is spent in meetings (:-/).

With openclaw, the 2-3 hours before I sleep (low energy, high on ideas), convert into pretty productive sessions. No more “this is a great idea, I will do it tomorrow”. Instead “oh this sounded great but my agent just called it shit - what if I modify it a bit, and then let’s see”.

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It used to be a typical SaaS website.

Will try to see if I have any screenshots. I must.

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The section on ISBN was super critical for me personally.

It feels strange to say this, but yes, I have just published a book Available here: https://gumroad.com/l/ghrtr

It is called Buddha to Bezos.

Why the name? Glad you (hopefully) asked :-)

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I have been studying the diff between successful and failed softwares for years now. There are many answers, and it is very easy to draw incorrect conclusions.

> We ran out of money > We were outcompeted > My cofounder left

And so on...

All of these are right, but they are likely symptoms, not the disease.

At some point I started to closely follow other founders. They were the origin. Their products, instead, were first order effects.

As I studied their blogs, interviews etc. a few clear patterns emerged. In hindsight, the patterns were obvious.

(a) The greatest makers were First Principle thinkers all round. (b) They were ultra-cognizant of people's emotions (some of them might not care though)

Similar patterns emerge when we look at greatest innovators, thinkers throughout history. Some great (The Buddha) and some terrible (Columbus).

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Buddha to Bezos is a - comprehensive study of greatest innovators throughout history. - handbook on how to develop the same skills (First Principles, Empathy) - collection of great stories (you'd enjoy reading it) - set of examples on how some innovators applied them.

Take a look here: https://gumroad.com/l/ghrtr

Cheers

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In the former case, I'd prefer Canva. The latter is interesting, but templates did not exactly take off with Trello.

Thankfully, most engineers I know read, edit and mark those items as done in a project / sprint management tool.