consumer social apps are back

gas
– 1m dau
– $0 raised
– team of 4

ngl
– 50m+ downloads
– $0 raised
– team of 3

bereal
– 50m+ downloads
– $90m raised
– team of 30+

it’s a travesty when talented, ambitious people get stuck playing games with low ceilings

Sharing my past 8 years of startup life - bookmarked via Farcaster & Twitter, then stitched into a Perl story using AI (Alex Intelligence).
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📸 One minute: BeReal from ’15. RIP
🛋 Lounge: Acq.
🔮 Starting Perl with Peter Kim

tech weeks should be even less like conferences and more like restaurant weeks, just organize a bunch of small dinners at nice restaurants with cool people building cool things

that feeling of running in to old friends in new places? i just download a new app and connect my address book — these are the new run-ins

we all wanna be called artists so bad

i hate having to invest a lot of time to learn how to use a new product or get the maximum value from it

hence why dead simple mvps usually resonate more with me than full-featured apps (which I usually only earnestly try if recommended to me)

tech people be like “I respect builders” and then spend all their time trying to build an audience

interesting thing about new consumer products / applications:

with web3, believing is seeing

with AI, seeing is believing

I'm looking for a full-stack engineer to collaborate on a fun consumer social project 😊

If you’re excited to build cool apps or know someone great, DMs are open!

RTs & referrals appreciated 🙏

the “talk show” format is timeless, but access & success are distributed now

the biggest talk shows today are actually podcasts

has anyone checked the Find My app for the people tweeting “SF IS BACK”

nothing but radical transparency from the other bird app

A launch video that rivals Nike ads — if you can’t get inspired by this …