Joel Cloralt
@joelcloralt.com
Director of Product Smartcar.com. Previously: Netlify, Acorns Dropbox, Microsoft, Yammer. 🇻🇪🇺🇸
Lots of hobbies and not enough attention span
Lots of hobbies and not enough attention span
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Joel Cloralt
@joelcloralt.com
· Nov 27
Hey Bluesky 👋
I’m a Director of Product at Smartcar.com Did you know you can build apps that connect to cars? Now you do.
I’ll be sharing/ranting about all sorts of random things but mostly about technology, mobility, and product management…
…assuming we don’t move to a new social media platform
I’m a Director of Product at Smartcar.com Did you know you can build apps that connect to cars? Now you do.
I’ll be sharing/ranting about all sorts of random things but mostly about technology, mobility, and product management…
…assuming we don’t move to a new social media platform
It will be interesting to see how companies adapt to AI powered browsers. I have seen websites already blocking ChatGPT Atlas. Chrome will eventually add same agentic capabilities... will they block Chrome? if not, it creates anticompetitive practices.
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It will be interesting to see how companies adapt to AI powered browsers. I have seen websites already blocking ChatGPT Atlas. Chrome will eventually add same agentic capabilities... will they block Chrome? if not, it creates anticompetitive practices.
Vibe coding is 50% calling BS on LLMs
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Vibe coding is 50% calling BS on LLMs
Open AI’s Atlas browser is really good at controlling the UI in Agent mode
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Open AI’s Atlas browser is really good at controlling the UI in Agent mode
I think we are now becoming AI response editors. The amount of times I get “you’re right!” From these models after correcting them is astonishing
October 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I think we are now becoming AI response editors. The amount of times I get “you’re right!” From these models after correcting them is astonishing
Is there any other ai code generation tool that comes close to Lovable? Bolt, VS code with copilot, ChatGPT are quite far from what Lovable can do because none of them can really understand context the same way Lovable can which makes all the difference.
July 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Is there any other ai code generation tool that comes close to Lovable? Bolt, VS code with copilot, ChatGPT are quite far from what Lovable can do because none of them can really understand context the same way Lovable can which makes all the difference.
Can AI fix printers? All I want is a printer that prints
July 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Can AI fix printers? All I want is a printer that prints
Taco Tuesdays are going to be even more popular 🌮
June 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Taco Tuesdays are going to be even more popular 🌮
This Rippling <> Deel saga is wild www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Rippling accuses competitor Deel of corporate espionage
The lawsuit is the latest escalation in a rivalry between the two companies, which both profited from pandemic-era hiring trends.
www.hr-brew.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This Rippling <> Deel saga is wild www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Lies, @figma.com, just lies! retrying 2 or 3 times works so it's kind of like "how about now?" :) Copying as PNG is so convenient that I rather try it multiple times than using the export option.
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Lies, @figma.com, just lies! retrying 2 or 3 times works so it's kind of like "how about now?" :) Copying as PNG is so convenient that I rather try it multiple times than using the export option.
The Smartcar report showed that drivers aren't opposed to subscriptions but want more value out of it.
Do you currently pay for your car subscriptions? Do you know about its benefits?
www.thedrive.com/news/76-perc...
Do you currently pay for your car subscriptions? Do you know about its benefits?
www.thedrive.com/news/76-perc...
76 Percent of Drivers Are Saying No to Automakers' Grubby Subscription Services: Study
The study found that while drivers aren't completely opposed to subscriptions, the value just isn't there yet in automakers' connected services push.
www.thedrive.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The Smartcar report showed that drivers aren't opposed to subscriptions but want more value out of it.
Do you currently pay for your car subscriptions? Do you know about its benefits?
www.thedrive.com/news/76-perc...
Do you currently pay for your car subscriptions? Do you know about its benefits?
www.thedrive.com/news/76-perc...
How many software companies end up spinning up a small team that can “move fast” while the rest of the teams continue with business as usual? I’ve seen this happen at multiple companies already.
March 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How many software companies end up spinning up a small team that can “move fast” while the rest of the teams continue with business as usual? I’ve seen this happen at multiple companies already.
Do I get distracted easily? I have 30+ Slack “drafts” messages that I started to write and never hit send 😬
March 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Do I get distracted easily? I have 30+ Slack “drafts” messages that I started to write and never hit send 😬
To this day, no bank and no tool has been able to beat how good Simple was as a bank and budgeting software. That was a great product.
March 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
To this day, no bank and no tool has been able to beat how good Simple was as a bank and budgeting software. That was a great product.
Dream Theater 40th anniversary tour in Portland last Friday Feb 28th. Amazing concert and awesome to see Mike back!
March 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Dream Theater 40th anniversary tour in Portland last Friday Feb 28th. Amazing concert and awesome to see Mike back!
Mobility is a fundamental human right. EV Drivers are now forced to find alternative ways to charge their cars. If they do not own a charger at home, they now need to spend time outside of work to charge. Workers are being punished unnecessarily. “Just get a new car/job” is a privileged solution.
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at all federal government buildings and is also expected to sell off the General Services Administration‘s (GSA) newly bought EVs.
more…
electrek.co
February 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mobility is a fundamental human right. EV Drivers are now forced to find alternative ways to charge their cars. If they do not own a charger at home, they now need to spend time outside of work to charge. Workers are being punished unnecessarily. “Just get a new car/job” is a privileged solution.
So... This is kind of bad? What could go wrong when you YOLO your way into all of these government systems?
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever
A new investigation shows nuclear secrets and government servers are dangerously exposed to nation-state hackers.
cyberintel.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:49 AM
So... This is kind of bad? What could go wrong when you YOLO your way into all of these government systems?
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
One way to get rid of your competitors is to start a beef between them and Kendrick Lamar
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
One way to get rid of your competitors is to start a beef between them and Kendrick Lamar
We surveyed 1K drivers in the US and Europe:
🚗 76% aren't subscribed to their automaker's connected services
🔗 But close to 60% use external car apps
🔐 More than half of drivers would share their vehicle data if they see clear benefits
Smartcar's 2025 State of Connected Car Apps report is here!
🚗 76% aren't subscribed to their automaker's connected services
🔗 But close to 60% use external car apps
🔐 More than half of drivers would share their vehicle data if they see clear benefits
Smartcar's 2025 State of Connected Car Apps report is here!
2025 Connected Car Report
go.smartcar.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
We surveyed 1K drivers in the US and Europe:
🚗 76% aren't subscribed to their automaker's connected services
🔗 But close to 60% use external car apps
🔐 More than half of drivers would share their vehicle data if they see clear benefits
Smartcar's 2025 State of Connected Car Apps report is here!
🚗 76% aren't subscribed to their automaker's connected services
🔗 But close to 60% use external car apps
🔐 More than half of drivers would share their vehicle data if they see clear benefits
Smartcar's 2025 State of Connected Car Apps report is here!
“We don’t see enough and forget almost everything” — Matthew Dicks on writing and Homework For Life™
January 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“We don’t see enough and forget almost everything” — Matthew Dicks on writing and Homework For Life™
Oh no. Why can’t we have nice things?
I wrote about the drama w the "Ladies and gentleman, the weekend" account. The guy who started the whole thing tried to join Bluesky and was shut down for impersonation, even though it's an imposter running the Bluesky account! Now he's forced to quit the whole thing www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cut...
January 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oh no. Why can’t we have nice things?
There’s going to be a lot of “of course that happened” for a while
January 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
There’s going to be a lot of “of course that happened” for a while
Going out of office and deleting Slack and work email from your phone is highly recommended
January 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Going out of office and deleting Slack and work email from your phone is highly recommended
If things didn't go as planned today for you, you're not alone. Someone broke the login page for ChatGPT's Sora on a Friday afternoon.
I'm sorry for whomever is having a hell of a Friday at work.
I'm sorry for whomever is having a hell of a Friday at work.
January 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If things didn't go as planned today for you, you're not alone. Someone broke the login page for ChatGPT's Sora on a Friday afternoon.
I'm sorry for whomever is having a hell of a Friday at work.
I'm sorry for whomever is having a hell of a Friday at work.