I’ve opened the waitlist for plainline.app

It’s a tool that turns text into presentations and makes them easy to edit, without having to deal with a slide canvas.

I’ve briefly explained how it works on the landing page.

The product is about 80% complete. Its scope has grown quite a bit along the way, but I like where it’s heading.

If you often find yourself putting presentations together, join the waitlist.

We invented AI, and now we try to make sure no one suspects we used it. We carefully remove the traces from our writing, avoid sounding too polished, and stop using em dashes. We avoid purple in design, sparkle icons, and even the word AI itself.

I do not think this is because the result is necessarily bad. AI has simply become a signal that little effort went into the work. And if the author did not spend time on it, why should the reader?

You should never get used to mediocre solutions. Anything in a product that feels weak or unfinished should be written down immediately. Otherwise, a week later, it starts to seem acceptable, and the quality bar quietly slips.

That does not mean fixing everything at once. Improvements can be made gradually, based on impact, urgency, and cost.

Kimi K3 is out, and I am genuinely glad that Anthropic and OpenAI have a serious competitor.

According to benchmarks, it comes close to the leaders across many tasks. But it does not have to be the best. It only needs to be good enough that users always have an alternative, and that OpenAI and Anthropic have a reason not to raise prices or make their products worse.

When I first started working at a large company, I heard this phrase: “We want every employee to treat the product as if it were their own.”

I think it is impossible to treat a product as your own if you have never tried to build your own product. It changes how you look at everything. So if you want to better understand product responsibility, I would suggest not reading another article, but building your own project of any size.

The difference becomes clear quickly.