Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Snipd — Small Team, Big Vision: Shipping Fast With Autonomy and AI

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/vgvWith 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 Smithhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-smith-673714b4/Mikel Corcuerahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mcorcuera/Snipd | Websitehttps://www.snipd.com/Flutterhttps://flutter.devHow to Start a Startup by Sam Altmanhttps://playbook.samaltman.com/Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/ChatGPThttps://chatlyai.app/Google Cloudhttps://cloud.google.com/Perplexityhttps://www.perplexity.ai/Legacy Podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/26I6gYMMbXcgHGiZzithBn?si=06fdc37d6fc6409bLenny’s Podcasthttps://open.spotify.com/show/2dR1MUZEHCOnz1LVfNac0j?si=60164a8453cd4cd3Very Good Ventures designs and builds world-class digital experiences for any screen, with the best tools and engineering approaches for consistent, scalable results. Find out how VGV helps you hit the mark at: https://verygood.ventures/ #Apps #Flutter #AppDevelopment