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Adam Zvada

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curious human being who loves to build
and think about the future

Singular / NFTScoring

NFT Exchange for Market Makers

2021 - 2023

YC-backed startup with +500k users. Reached $89k MRR before the NFT market crashed.

GoDeliver

GoDeliver

B2B Hyper-local delivery platform

2020 - 2021

Operated in Czechia, Switzerland, and Germany. Reached $2k MRR. Hard business to onboard customers.

Fuzee

Fuzee

City planning app combining all modes of transport

2018 - 2020

B2C app with 10k+ users. Partnered with car manufacturer SKODA.

Cognitic

Cognitic

Data Science & AI Studio

2018 - 2021

Bulding AI solutions for clients. Funded my startups Fuzee & GoDeliver.

arc — the browser you enjoy using

Arc has replaced my Google Chrome. The biggest difference is the sidebar. Arc is all about the details which you will love.

https://arc.net/
arc.net

chatgpt — duh!

chatgpt makes me a better individual!

https://chat.openai.com/
chat.openai.com

cron — better calendar

cron is a calendar that feels faster, minimalistic with intuitive features. overall a great product.

https://cron.com
cron.com

cursor — the IDE you need

Cursor is an IDE built for pair programming with AI. The team forked VS Code and baked AI capabilities right into the IDE. Once you try Cursor, you'll never want to return to the old ways.

https://whoop.com/
whoop.com

the hard thing about hard things

great book about business struggles and how to think about high-growth companies

https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205
www.amazon.com

latent space — ai engineer podcast

Hosted by Swyx and Alessio, this awesome podcast is filled with industry insights and great thoughts abt the future of the AI space.

https://www.latent.space/podcast
www.latent.space

mixpanel — the place where I track user retention

Mixpanel is my go-to software for user analytics. It allows you to create charts that show how users interact with your app. I usually import the user analytics from Segment and analyze everything in Mixpanel.

https://mixpanel.com/
mixpanel.com

mobbin — design research

Mobbin is great for UX & UI research. You can browse other app designs to get inspiration without the need to download them. If you've got to design onboarding screens, get inspiration from others who have already thought about it.

https://mobbin.com/
mobbin.com

modal — backend for your AI apps

One could say that Modal is just a serverless backend, but that's not true; it's the backend for your AI apps. If you build AI apps, you need inference on OS models or spanning AI agents. Modal makes the job much easier.

https://modal.com
modal.com

the almanack of naval ravikant

list of naval's tweets with explanations. simple yet powerful ideas.

https://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happiness/dp/1544514220
www.amazon.com

onesec — kill the habit of opening social apps

onesec drastically reduces the usage and habit of opening social media apps. every time you try to open this app, you're presented with a 10-second block screen, making you think twice about whether you really want to open the app or if it's just a habit. it helped me to reduce my IG use to a minimum.

https://one-sec.app
one-sec.app

perplexity — how google search should actually work

ai search that actually works, not like the slow bing search in chatgpt or the over-hallucinated bard. great product imho.

https://www.perplexity.ai/
www.perplexity.ai

segment — track user analytics from multiple sources

Segment is great but pricey. You can track the user's journey from multiple sources like apps and websites. This helps you understand the user conversion funnel.

https://segment.com/
segment.com

sensortower — see apps revenue

sensortower gives us insights in app revenue/downloads. i use the free version, and the trick is in the search; in the results, you get the monthly downloads and revenue for the searched app.

https://app.sensortower.com/
app.sensortower.com

similarweb — see website traffic

similarweb lets you see traffic of any website. great for validaticating ideas and seeing how much traffic others products are getting. i primarily use the SimilarWeb extension; it gives me website visits in a second with no friction.

https://app.sensortower.com/
app.sensortower.com

steer — fix typos and improve writing in a sec

if you're like me and writing doesn't come naturally, you get easily distracted, steer is a app for you. just select the text, hit cmd + d, and the text gets rephrased or fixed. this was my side project, built because I needed it and use it every day.

https://getsteer.ai
getsteer.ai

taylor swift — songs that energize me

who doesn't like Taylor, right? come on, Kanye...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02
open.spotify.com

awesome explanation of gpt

Learn how GPT is actually built by the one and only Andrej Karpathy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY&t=5515s&ab_channel=AndrejKarpathy
www.youtube.com

whoop — maximize strain on your body

Whoop is a fitness wearable that helps you understand how your body recovers, so you can maximize your performance. For myself, in order to maximize my work productivity, I need to reach my strain target for my body.

https://whoop.com/
whoop.com
Adam Zvada