Former Product Hunt chief mines Kindle data with Codex to rediscover his taste
Ben's Bites · rss · 2026-11-05
The author of Ben's Bites, who ran the Product Hunt homepage for two years, reflects on taste. He used Codex to pull his Kindle, Spotify and YouTube history, then asked Opus 5.5 to analyze it — confirming his real interest is the "how": why people made choices others didn't and took alternative paths to success. Drawing on David Senra's "stories sell products" idea, he cites choosing Granola for its founders' values and Kith for its founder's story, while rejecting attention-bait self-promotion (like Wispr Flow's founder). He's pivoting to building interactive sites about tasteful builders, inspired by The Pudding's interactive essays, and turned his book history into a scrollable timeline. Quick bites: ChatGPT Images 2.6 adds GIFs, Notion is 'reinventing itself' as context for agents, and agent experience is the new user experience.
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