🪽 speed is the new competitive advantage - some tools and tips

i recently shared a post on linkedin that resonated with a few people. it begins with this eric schmidt stating how impressed he is at how fast devs are prototyping during hackathons. i’m no dev… but i wanted to put his quote to the test.

so i made a small montage of different tools and automations i’ve been playing with.

first off, here’s the video

i’ll write out how these can all be plugged together later. for now i promised the list of tools to whoever interacted with the post (annoying comment farming i know, but it helps with reach)

ok so let’s go…

the tools used in the video

→ prototyping: bolt.new (alternatively, try out windsurf, lovable or replit)

→ landing page/website creation: relume (need design templates, go here: galileo) (alternatively framer, prettier but less integrations)

→ customer onboarding: guidde (genius)

→ quick video testimonials or ads (some big brands are using this): creatify

→ customer interviews: this customgpt is great (alternatively, pay for m1-project or syntheticusers)

some others i didn’t get a chance to include in the video
(all tried, tested and vetted in my community)

→ need to link everything together into a workflow but have no patience? n8n, relevance ai or make

→ prototype a new user onboarding flow in seconds: uizard

→ don’t want to use other people’s avatars? build your voice clone with elevenlabs (takes 4 mins) and then your video avatar with heygen (or argil). still a bit uncanney valley, but just be open/honest about the fact that it’s your avatar, and give this a year to look 100% real

→ don’t want to use an ai avatar, just cut up your youtube videos into short format content in seconds with opus

→ create visuals rapidly from text: napkin (genius but we need a few more styles)

→ compare llm outputs: quality, price, speed with artificialanalysis, depending on use case with prollm or battle them side by side with lmarena

→ create a sales presentation: gamma

→ this one is just fun… prompt images and see the changes as you go blinkshot

ok that’s it…

a million tools i know. most important is what you’re applying this to, or else it’s just a hammer looking for a nail

here’s a handy prioritisation framework (it’s simple, it’s just ease and impact)

hope this was useful!

happy tinkering!

david

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