The episode, in writing
by Richard Lovatt · from the episode above, checked against what was said
I'm in Vegas, it's 7.30 in the morning. I was on the plane yesterday and we recorded a podcast because that was really the only thing I could do, and I thought it'd be quite cool to test this out, test the ability of the podcast to resolve background noise and the plane noise and people talking. I was crouched down just talking, and I've just listened back to it now. It's not good. There's a few things I need to clean up with podcasts.
I think it works generally. The fact that you can literally just talk to it and it can talk back to you like humans, that's really good. But I'm noticing that it really doesn't kick in for a while. If I'm a founder, if I'm anyone using it, I'd be semi thinking, what's going on, why it's not working. It kicks in after like four or five seconds and you're like, whoa. At least on the last one I felt like it repeated itself from the one before, so I asked it.
Also, one thing I realised is it seems to be really sensitive, it picks up all the sound. So it starts recording straight away even though it hasn't jumped in and spoken, and it's picking up all the background noise. So what happens is when it goes to edit it to remove silences, that's not actually silence, it's keeping it in. So when I play it back, it's like I'm waiting four or five seconds for it to start. That's that.
By the time I put this video out there it's going to be way past the time of why I was actually in Vegas for. I'm in Vegas for Cole's wedding, Cole's the owner of Next Growth, the main work I do. It's super weird being PST, I got to bed super late, woke up after like four hours, woke up at like 5.30.
Today I don't know what we're going to do, but I'm going to work on the podcast. I'm also going to work on the integration of either Muse or even Grokbot, something like that. Because at the end of the day, when I first started this, I looked into connecting to Gmail, connecting to X, Twitter, a few others, the main ones I wanted to do, but they're all paid and some of them are really expensive. Gmail connecting directly is highly expensive. And I just realised, if you connect your Grok or your Muse or whatever, you don't need to create an integration because they're just logging in as you. So it kind of sidesteps all that.
So having an underway assistant that's in there, because it's already given you context on your day, it's already given you everything to know and understand, and it's kind of clever as well, you can chat to it, you can ask it what have I done, you can talk to it. But having it also outside the website, having it in your day to day, like Slack, where you can add it into your channel and talk to it, or into your WhatsApp and talk to it, I think that's going to be a really good way of making it more seamless in terms of adding it into your day to day.
Because at the end of the day, what stops people using things like this is friction and how far it is outside of their day to day. I know, I'm someone who has a routine of habits, and to get into those habits with a new one is super difficult to do.
But yeah, peace, see ya.