On today’s episode, we’re joined by Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Co-Founders at Snipd, the AI-powered podcast app built to help capture and rediscover insights from spoken audio. Kevin and Mikel discuss the origin of Snipd, the challenges of building an AI-native product from scratch, and the role of Flutter in enabling rapid, cross-platform development. 

Key Takeaways:

(01:54 ) Snipd lets users triple-tap to save podcast clips with AI summaries.

(05:53 ) Snipd utilizes AI to improve capturing podcast insights.

(14:58 ) Flutter enables fast, cross-platform development and a polished UI experience.

(21:43 ) Before ChatGPT, the team used self-hosted, fine-tuned AI models.

(26:29 ) The team sees AI as the new electricity, soon to be standard in everything.

(30:52 ) Early AI summaries were rough, but clear enough to prove the concept worked.

(36:18 ) AI supports unfamiliar tasks and new tools.

(41:28 ) Everyone codes differently — AI should fit each workflow.

(48:02 ) We all underestimate AI’s impact — even knowing that is a useful reminder.

(51:58 ) As AI boosts productivity, demand for developers grows, not shrinks.

Snipd promo link: https://link.snipd.com/Cx7S/vgv

With this link you get to try out Snipd’s Premium version for free for 1 month. Their Premium version unlocks additional AI features and more AI usage.

Resources Mentioned:

Kevin Smith

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-smith-673714b4/

Mikel Corcuera

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcorcuera/

Snipd | Website

https://www.snipd.com/

Flutter

https://flutter.dev

How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman

https://playbook.samaltman.com/

Hugging Face

https://huggingface.co/

ChatGPT

https://chatlyai.app/

Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/

Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/

Legacy Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/26I6gYMMbXcgHGiZzithBn?si=06fdc37d6fc6409b

Lenny’s Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/2dR1MUZEHCOnz1LVfNac0j?si=60164a8453cd4cd3

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