VV App Pivots Back to Original Daily Manifest Product
VV App Pivots Back to Original Daily Manifest Product
⏰ When Time Machines Pivot

VV announces a strategic pivot after acknowledging recent development efforts in conversational AI flows were less impactful than intended. The team is returning to their original product, The Daily Manifest, which launched five years ago.
- Originally created by @jalilwahdat
- Currently has 44 active users
- Focus on time as valuable currency
- Platform available at vv.xyz
The team reports significant productivity gains from the previous version and promises more improvements ahead. This shift represents a return to fundamentals and core utility.
long delayed update on vv app we have been largely spinning our wheels doing insane stuff like creating conversational ai flows, generating what (in hindsight) were slop descriptions that actually make the work less impactful full pivot underway to drop dead obvious usefulness
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