Dan Shipper

2 days ago | producthunt.com | Dan Shipper

Hey Product Hunt! 👋We built Cora because we like building but hate emailing, and our inbox was an endless to-do list written by everyone else but ourselves. We initially designed Cora to draft our emails. Then we discovered something obvious but hard to recognize: 80% of our emails don't need responses—or any of our attention at all. They're just distractions. The problem isn't writing emails faster. It's that we're drowning in emails that don't matter.

5 days ago | every.to | Dan Shipper

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Sometimes the only way to solve a hard problem is to surrender. It’s 9 p.m., and you've worn down your whiteboard, emptied your coffee pot, and thrown your Oblique Strategy cards across the room. So you pop a melatonin, crawl into bed, mutter “fuck it” into your pillow, and conk out. If you’re lucky, you jump out of bed at 4:15 a.m. with the answer fully formed in your head.

1 month ago | every.to | Dan Shipper

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. This week has been a doozy: I went to Microsoft Build and interviewed the company's CTO Kevin Scott, we announced our fundraise in the New York Times, Google held its I/O event (more on that from Alex Duffy tomorrow), OpenAI acqui-hired Apple designer Jony Ive, and today I’m at Anthropic’s Code With Claude event. Let me state for the record: I am tired of all of this progress.

1 month ago | every.to | Dan Shipper

🎧 Bonus: A special episode of AI & Iwith OpenAI product team member Alexander Embiricos is now live. Watch on X or YouTube. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Last night I shipped a new feature for Cora, Every’s AI-enabled email assistant. Cora is not a vibe-coded product: Its codebase is a 5,5000-plus commit cathedral of Rails craftsmanship mostly from Kieran Klaassen, Cora’s general manager, our resident DHH.

1 month ago | every.to | Dan Shipper

The transcript of AI & I with Nadia Asparouhova is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.