me: a non-technical founder also me: spending 3 hours in @cursor_ai playing around with animations when i should be doing growth. oops.

something’s stirring…highest download jump in weeks 👀

had an expo bug today. just switched to claude opus (yolo) in @cursor_ai, asked it to debug + plan + fix. it worked in mins. what a time to be alive...

From Google to building Peek @SherryYanJiang joins Fail in Public this Friday to unpack her journey: → Scaling Google Pay → Pivoting from crypto challenges with Bluejay Finance → Building Peek, an AI finance tool for the next wave 8500 builders. 1 banger space. 🗓️ Friday 25 July – 12:30PM Paris 🎙️ don’t miss it. Space in the comments

day 29 of daily sherryaps: balancing two businesses isn’t crazy when i am super passionate about both. the real constraint is just time, not energy as that feels almost infinite.

startup twilight zone: not pre-PMF innocent, not post-PMF euphoric.

every ai-powered wrapped story in starts as a janky figjam, duct-taped together with chicken scratch and chaos scribbles.

fundraising forces you to pick: be honest (it’s messy), or be impressive (it's magic). rarely both.

our team at has been deep in the guts of the app the past 2 months - rewiring infra, boosting reliability, and laying the groundwork for ai-native storytelling here’s what we shipped under the hood 🧵 💸 transactions got a smarter upgrade - new pipeline for Plaid txns - AI-categorization - recurring payment detection - rule-based defaults 🔁 increased reliability of syncing - more reliable Plaid/Snaptrade connections - task retry logic + error handling - visible sync progress 🤖 improved AI features - smoother streaming responses - better agent tool orchestration - fixed lots of tool call errors - prompt/context engineering overhaul (still ongoing) ⚡️increase speed - 10x faster metrics queries - chunked price history fetch to kill timeouts - caching updates 📲 frontend smoothness - major perf boost via FlashList - scrollable charts, pull-to-refresh, loading skeletons - onboarding more seamless but now… we’re shifting gears. we’ve laid the pipes. now time to push the narrative UX. next 2 months = - more AI storytelling - deeper onboarding insights - habit nudges - stuff people FEEL LET'S GOOO 🚀

there's a quiet shift happening in how we design software. we're moving from UX to AX (agentic experience). traditional UX is screen-centric. you tap a button, product reacts, job done. every session starts from zero. designers pre-plan every path with hard-coded flows. users fill out forms and dropdowns because the product remembers nothing about you. success = fewer clicks and faster flows. trust = "interface looks clean so it must work." agentic experience is relationship-centric. the agent keeps track of ongoing goals, nudges next steps, improves over time. you're never starting over. the system plans its own path - it senses, infers, chooses actions the designer didn't script. context is learned, not asked. preferences, patterns, even team norms are remembered. success = earned trust and compounding value. metrics shift to retention, satisfaction with decisions, how much autonomy you hand over. trust = the agent shows its work early, then tapers as confidence grows, like a human teammate. most apps will eventually work this way. your email client will learn your writing style and priorities. your design tool will remember your brand guidelines and suggest layouts. your CRM will track relationship patterns and recommend next moves. the best products will anticipate needs, remember context, and get better with every interaction. shoutout to @meetLCA for this visual and hit them up if you need help designing these AX experiences (they lead the charge) we're moving from tools you use to partners you work with. the companies building ax instead of ux will own the next decade. users will stop tolerating dumb software that makes them repeat themselves. once you experience true AX, traditional UX feels broken. there's no going back.