Pete Lacey

@pete.behold.team

co-founder @ behold.cam - made for animals

I've been forced to use Webflow for the first time in a year – and I felt like punching a wall. Amazing how far other workflows can progress in such a short time that the "standard" from a few years back feels like 20 year old tech.

VC’s posting on LinkedIn be like “We’re proud to empower such household names like CLICKFARP, Be-BoopAI, Siquinster, DollyPimpot, TEABOONE.AI, ThumpButtler and FLONGIO”

The style of negative feedback you get when building B2C or B2B products is shockingly different. B2B: "Your product doesn't worked as I hoped, please make it better. Kind regards, A. Person." B2C: "your a real piece of shit this is stupid how are you so stupid omg TRASH hope u die"

I had to open a Facebook account to run some business ads; the suggested feed was the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long time - endless posts about kicking foreigners out of Denmark. I believe Denmark is better than that, but it was a lot to take in. Meta optimising for hate, perhaps?

I really love software, I really love software design, but I find it interesting over the years how just I've just slowly switched to OS defaults. Apple Mail, Notes, Reminders, Notes, Calendar. Perhaps I'm just tired of all the VC backed tools of the past getting bloated, confused, then sunsetted.

A part of me regrets not going all in on Behold five years ago when I first ruminated the idea, but a bigger part of me is glad I didn’t. I’ve managed to get so much further in a year thanks to AI tools; stuff that would have made me throw in the towel in the past just takes days now.