Matt Webb, creator of the Poem/1 clock, discusses his journey from idea to Kickstarter campaign, sharing insights on hardware development challenges, community feedback, and financial considerations. The podcast also explores app development, coding projects, AI assistance in poetry creation, and upcoming exciting events in the guest's schedule.
Developing a successful Kickstarter project involves iterative AI prompt creation for creative output.
Teaching people development should focus on more than just syntax to address app development challenges.
Deep dives
Lisa's Busy Week and Client Projects
Lisa shares about her busy week, focusing on client conversations about internal communications. She mentions hosting a PABO clock meet up and attending a drag king cabaret. Lisa is looking forward to a social weekend and a visit to Boy Box celebrating drag kings.
Matt's Varied Week Ahead
Matt discusses his upcoming week, mentioning a break from proposal preparations. He anticipates a day with peers for future planning, including a drag king cabaret visit and participation in a workshop with Thomson Reuters. Matt plans for final run-throughs of his storytelling talk.
AI Poetry Project on Kickstarter
Matt talks about his Kickstarter project involving an AI-powered clock that presents time through poetry. He explains the iterative process of developing prompts to guide the AI in creating varied and interesting poems. Matt highlights the delicate balance of managing the AI's output to maintain creativity and uniqueness.
Evolution of Chat GPT and App Development
Matt reflects on the evolving nature of OpenAI's Chat GPT models, noting the model's tendency to be lazy at times. He also mentions the accidental creation of an app that gained significant popularity. Matt shares insights on teaching people development without focusing solely on syntax and the challenges of app development.
On this week’s show we are joined by Matt Webb to talk about taking his Poem/1 clock from idea to the bring of manufacture through a Kickstarter exercise.