State of Play
Host Tommy Geoco discovers what fuels the internet's most interesting designers and builders.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Why I trashed the Figma episode
I'm running low on money and just scrapped an entire episode.
This week I made an executive decision: postpone the Figma episode. We're getting worse, not better. I launched a UX tools bundle at 5am, …
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[Full Interview] Why this designer CLONED himself with Cursor - Ryo Lu
Ryo Lu went from Notion's founding designer to cloning himself with AI at Cursor. This is the full conversation.
From building anime fansites at 11 to architecting Notion's core systems to creating hi…
How this startup's 30-day death date unlocked a world record
This founder set an expiration ate for his company… and then hit $40M ARR.
Eric Simons (the builder behind Bolt.new) turned “we’re shutting down” into the world’s largest hackathon.
In this episode, w…
![[Full Interview] How he built the future for 1M freelancers - Ben Huffman](https://img.transistor.fm/YOPsFN2Htyz2qNP6d9fa9B8BR0XJwrF8jE9HCfizX-w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZDA1/YzEyMzU0Y2VkNmMw/NzQxMDYwN2QwMGJi/NTQ1ZS5wbmc.jpg)
[Full Interview] How he built the future for 1M freelancers - Ben Huffman
Ben Huffman built a freelance platform with NO fees. Every investor told him it was the stupidest idea they’d ever heard.
Now Contra has 1M users and a $120M run rate.
We talk about living in the pain …
Why this designer cloned himself with Cursor
Ryo Lu built his own operating system. In a browser. For fun.
Cursor's Head of Design reveals why he evolved from being a "sponge" (absorbing everyone's input) and started building playgrounds instead…
How he built the future for 1M freelancers
Ben Huffman built a company everyone called stupid. Until more than 1M people were using it.
In this episode of State of Play, the Contra's design founder shares how he went from college dropout to bu…