
About this episode
This episode is the ultimate design founder story. Dennis shares all of the ups and downs along his journey to build Amie—a new productivity tool that captures your emails, calendar, and to-dos in a single beautiful product. Some of the highlights:
- Where Dennis draws inspiration
- The traits Dennis looked for in early hires
- What Dennis looks for in design candidates
- The backstory behind Amie’s viral website launch
- How Dennis balances his intuition with product feedback
- How Dennis thinks about innovating vs. capitalizing on familiarity
- Things 3 app - https://culturedcode.com/things/
- Stefan - https://twitter.com/_animify the Amie design engineer
- Devin - https://www.cognition-labs.com/introducing-devin—AI coder
- Brian Chesky interview - https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/brian-cheskys-contrarian-approach on Lenny’s Podcast
- The Amo app - https://amo.co/
- Dennis’s custom Amie pants - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEoOIsjW0AUYiTj?format=jpg&name=900x900
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