Lenny's Dots of Wisdom

Lenny's Podcast holds hundreds of hours of hard-won product wisdom — but nobody re-listens to it. Dots of Wisdom distills it into single quotes: short, sharp ideas from the best people in product and growth, served one at a time. Open it with your coffee, read one dot, get back to building.

Modaal generated the native iOS app in about two hours. The real work — twelve hours of it — was selecting and filtering the quotes with Claude, so that only the strongest ideas made it in.

When Lenny announced a contest to build an app on top of his podcast data, I gave myself a challenge: ship it in two days.

The build itself took Modaal about two hours. The other twelve went into the part that actually matters — going through the podcast material with Claude, selecting quotes, filtering out anything generic, and keeping only the lines that make you stop and think. The wisdom is the product; the app is just the box it comes in.

The design was made entirely with Stitch — a nice reminder that the whole thing, code and visuals, was built with AI tools end to end. And the end of story: I won the contest!