Cofounder @mirror_hq ⬤◯ Unlock yourself and every relationship with astrology & personality.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2009
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New Mirror dropped 3 days ago, tons of updates and tweaks - get on there and bring your first dates, your lover and your friends too - to get a deeper understanding of yourself and your relationships - and then dm me what you learn.
Link below
"The best odds are finding an application niche in a highly specialized field with extremely unique and specific data barriers"
Your personality and typology data set is extremely specialized. Thats our moat with @Mirror_hq
My AI investment thesis is that every AI application startup is likely to be crushed by rapid expansion of the foundational model providers.
App functionality will be added to the foundational models' offerings, because the big players aren't slow incumbents (it is wrong to apply the analogy of "fast startup, slow incumbent" here), they are just big. Far more so than with any other prior new technology, there is a massive and fast-moving wave that obsoletes every new app almost as fast as it can be invented. There is almost no time to build a company and scale it.
There are two ways AI application startup founders can make money:
- Make a flash-in-the-pan app that generates a ton of cash and bank the cash (my estimate is that you have about 12-18 months cashflow generation)
- Make a good enough app that you get acquired by one of the big players for sufficient equity
The situation is highly unstable - we don't know if it's going to crash or go to the moon but both scenarios make it very unlikely that any AI application startup will independently become a generational supercompany (baseline odds are low to begin with).
The best odds are finding an application niche in a highly specialized field with extremely unique and specific data barriers, ideally ones relating to real atoms (hardware or world-related) data and not software/finance.
if you like all those hot posters floating around X lately and you're a designer then looks like they are hiring.
We’ve had quite a bit of attention lately.
A lot of incredible people are reaching out and it feels like half the X design community is playing around with our style. The other half is trying to figure out what makes it work.
What we do isn’t technically complex or groundbreaking at all. I think it stands out simply because finance design/branding, especially on the B2B side where we operate, is usually dull and conservative.
In fact, we’re just two self-taught designers creating basically everything you see in our socials. We’ve turned our technical shortcomings into an advantage by learning to do a few simple things really well.
If you want to join me, @haris_chc, and the rest of the small design team at @Quartr_App, send us your portfolio and a message about why you’re excited to join.
We’re looking for quality-obsessed people in UI/UX, motion, and graphic design who want to do their life’s work.
I've given up on Siri.
How can it just not work? Surely they have great product and engineers working on this.
So many times "Hey Siri" and no response. Or ask it to call someone and it starts a note, or as to make a note and it sets a calendar event.
I do not understand.
If you write a substack on human potential, personality, astrology etc. I’d love to know you - anyone in my X field write about this? HMU
If you buy your girlfriend a lot of flowers then here’s a tip - save the glass vases and bring them back when you order your next bouquette.
Saves a little money and keeps your cupboards from overflowing
Key to building product. Do hundreds of small things right. Then one day it just works.
Woke up to a recent bump in Mirror subscriptions - felt really great after the team has been working so hard.
Really proud of my girlfriend opening for Charlotte De Witte last night at Grand Park in Los Angeles - she’s worked so hard to get to this point in her music career.
She’s nekter_la on that other platform if you wanna follow along and like house and techno.
Parents of teens - do you take away phones as discipline?
It’s brutal because then I lose tracking of them and ability to call - curious what parents have found as a good consequences for breaking house rules (like breaking curfew)..
Whoa. Gotta love when your app has a built in viral friend loop. We are seeing friend referrals skyrocket.
I have been waiting for Ethan and Rushab to announce their new company and promise me when I tell you - Ethan is like the Peter Attia of Money and Hiro is going to change how you do your money forever.
Here is a very down to earth video launching what they have been working on
the worst part of all this AI business is its near impossible to talk to a real person.
I would easily pay $100 a month for a service that straight shots me to a person for a flight, hotel, car rental etc.
FYI - one of the best places to look for a design job is over at @designerfund job list - lots of great stuff over there...
jobs.designerfund.com/jobs
Amazing design alert (site and hardware)
No one does it like Teenage Engineering @teenageengin33r
They just dropped a new site and a new synth with the EP–40 Riddim and 1x EP–2350 Ting - SO DOPE!
