Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Snipd — Small Team, Big Vision: Shipping Fast With Autonomy and AI

On today's episode, we're joined by Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Co-Founders at Snipd, the AI-powered podcast app built to help capture and rediscover insights from spoken audio. Kevin and Mikel discuss the origin of Snipd, the challenges of building an AI-native product from scratch, and the role of Flutter in enabling rapid, cross-platform development.

Key Takeaways:

(01:54) Snipd lets users triple-tap to save podcast clips with AI summaries.

(05:53) Snipd utilizes AI to improve capturing podcast insights.

(14:58) Flutter enables fast, cross-platform development and a polished UI experience.

(21:43) Before ChatGPT, the team used self-hosted, fine-tuned AI models.

(26:29) The team sees AI as the new electricity, soon to be standard in everything.

(30:52) Early AI summaries were rough, but clear enough to prove the concept worked.

(36:18) AI supports unfamiliar tasks and new tools.

(41:28) Everyone codes differently  -  AI should fit each workflow.

(48:02) We all underestimate AI's impact  -  even knowing that is a useful reminder.

(51:58) As AI boosts productivity, demand for developers grows, not shrinks.

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Resources Mentioned:

Kevin Smith

Mikel Corcuera

SnipdFlutter

How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman

Hugging Face

ChatGPT

Google Cloud

Perplexity

Legacy Podcast

Lenny's Podcast