“What's the killer app? Another reservation at a Cheesecake Factory or TGI Fridays? We need to see the VisiCalc of Muse.” Jason Lemkin · The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

What do you mean, does it matter? Sorry.

Yeah.

Is it not being your discovery mechanism to shopping? Like a WeChat, a super app? You know, Zuck has spoken about taking portions of transactions as being the business model as well.

The model's good, but what are his examples? Scheduling his daughter's carpool. Is that really what a trillionaire needs to do with a general? He can't even come up with a good use case of Muse for himself. He's making up consumery things. I had to schedule ballet lessons from my daughter. I mean, great, but you need to run this thing eight hours a day, I think, like Claude Code or Codex to really matter. And so if we're in it eight hours a day, like a super app, it's cool. If it's a random task, I'm just waiting to see what the killer app is. And I've run, and Muse is really fun. Like, it's so beautiful. The beauty is it gives you all the ideas. It has an idea tab and it tells you all the things to do. I've done most of them and they're great. I just don't know if it's killer.

I don't know if it needs to be. And I know that sounds stupid, but no, but I use Instinct in a similar power user way. I think latency is a real problem with Instinct, by the way, which might not be with Matt. I wait for responses. Minutes. It's like the first days of Chat GPT. It's a real problem. But I don't know if it needs to be. It does all of my bookings, travel, restaurants. It does all of my shopping. It's very good. It does all of my calendar invites. I know there's no killer app, but it's just incrementally better than everything else. I don't know, but there's lots of little bits, not good enough.