v0 Tutorial from the CPO: AI Prototype Like a Pro

Tom Okino, you are the CPO of Versell, one of the hottest companies in AI and the makers of V0ero, which everybody I know is talking about for AI prototyping. How big is v0? What numbers can you share with us? Yeah, v0 has been used by about 2 million people since last year and we're growing really, really fast. Even if you're not an engineer, even if you're non-technical, the era of personal software is absolutely upon us and this has been the most exciting thing for me. I really don't think about the

competition. I think about our customers and delivering as much value as I can and I also think about my own use case. What are the other AI things you're using as a CPO in your day-to-day that help you? Why should I watch this episode? In this episode, we're going to talk about v0 as a tool, how to use it to transform not just the way you do your job, and then we'll talk about how the team that builds v0 built it, how they use it themselves, as well as more generally um Vercel's strategy for and approach to

product development. An AI startup valued at $3.25 billion. In today's episode, we're going to walk through a live demo of their hit product v0, which is one of the leading AI prototyping tools on the market. We're going to talk about how Vercel builds product, how v0 uses v0, and the future of product management in the era of AI prototyping. So, if you're a product manager, designer, or engineer, or even just someone founder using AI prototyping tools, there's a lot to learn. So, let's get started.

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v0 now? Can you share in terms of users or revenue how much you've grown? Yeah, nearly 2 million people have used v0 since we launched last year. Uh we're growing fast. It's sort of exponential here and the uptake has been really really exciting to watch. uh of those people that have used v0, many of them are deploying what they've built. Uh we've had over two and a half

million deployments to Verscell from v0. So building things that are out there and in use, not just prototypes, which is I think the most common use case I've been talking a lot about, but actual apps, it's pretty amazing. So can we show people how v0 works and how you can build apps? Yeah, absolutely. And I'd love to show some of the stuff that I've built for myself that I use on a daily or weekly basis. Uh let me share a screen here. So uh where do you want to start? So I love LinkedIn, of course. It's how I

built basically this soloreneur business. But what if I wanted a better version of LinkedIn's newsfeed? I see a better I'm curious. Uh let's actually enhance the prompt here and see if we can create something that uh you know is a lot better. So the first thing I did is I just said look my prompt was silly but maybe you can embellish it a little bit. Uh and now we're going to let v0

cook. Uh let's see. It's coming up with a plan. Uh it's got a project structure. I actually love looking at the thinking. So while it's actually like authoring all of the code, I'm like reading in let me see the plan. Uh we need some layout navigation a feed with different post types. Okay, we're going to have post interaction components, user profile card, and detail view. So, the whole plan here, great. I didn't have to put any of the plan together, and now it's cooking over here on the side. So, we'll watch it write some code. It's basically