Connor Bowlan

Sometimes the difference between "real" design and design from Dribbble is just appetite and the company's focus on customer experience. Airbnb's last release shows yet again that they care about design.

@frantzfries Also reminds me of their spat with UberMedia all the way back in 2011. Cutting off API access to a competitor trying to leverage their graph, etc. Quite an entertaining little drama in Twitter's history that often goes unmentioned. It's worth looking up, for those unfamiliar.

Substack launches their Twitter-like platform play and Twitter quickly cuts off access to their social graph. Pretty interesting how reactive they were, reminds me of when they banned external links to 🐘

@tibo_maker Those saying "Tibo is just a whiner" are missing the ruthless 5D chess he's playing here He blatantly cloned Hypefury after seeing them build in public, and now is going hard on making them seem like the bad guys to his audience built on questionable tweets Impressively brutal.

I feel disgusted 🤮 Can't believe they took advantage of the situation just hours after the ban ... One of the worst things I have seen from a Founder.

I can't get over how freakin' cool this is from @Wallmasterr

.@Near Intelligence, Inc. & KludeIn I Acquisition Corp. join us for the @NasdaqExchange Opening Bell! 🛎 Near is one of the world's largest sources of intelligence on people, places, and products processing data from over 1.6B unique user IDs across 44+ countries.

@jasonacurry @Bfaviero Impossible, there’s sunlight in this photo

@Bfaviero Ha, or Portland, OR.

Good morning SF!

Sooooo @maybe's transaction data is about to get reeeeeal good, thanks to GPT-4.

@notmetallikat @tibo_maker Not at all, honestly I find the real version of the story to be more impressive. In addition to building the original app, he raised capital from great investors, made an equity deal with a major R&D firm, and got Yh! to give him an outsized PR win. Seems way harder to pull off!

@ConnorBowlan @tibo_maker There’s always one guy jealous out of his mind

This kid made $30M at the age of 17. Sold his first startup to Yahoo, and second startup to Twitter. The story of this genius kid you don't know about 👇

@tibo_maker That all doesn’t mean he’s not inspirational. It’s still a feat at 17 to maneuver into raising VC, and eventually into a huge PR win and major deal. It’s just not the fantasy “maker becomes millionaire overnight” story that we all want to believe can happen.

@tibo_maker Summly was backed by Ashton Kutcher, Brian Chesky, Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry, Betaworks, and more. The app itself was developed by the second largest mobile marketing agency in the UK at the time. Even without SRI, he wouldn’t make $30M from the deal. That’s not how this works.

everyone's timeline rn

There is a tendency for app designers to create layers & subgroups to deal with complexity: Mastodon attempts this with usernames—which have 2 parts. For every part of your app that you fragment, expect to increase your app’s overall probability of failure by 50%.

Evolution of scroll bars.

Frontend: We are an AI startup Backend: API call to gpt-3

Founders should never have to “pay to pitch.” But some predatory VC firms try to scam founders by “offering an investment,” after they have completed their paid course. Today I want to name and shame NewChip and warn others about behavior I have heard about:

This new Bolt logo with the lightning bolt between the L and the T is actually insanely good

Important to highlight that Excel’s row limit brought down Charlie Javice cc: @ryxcommar

@mediaking Matt, clearly you just don’t understand ethical minimalism in entrepreneurship

Gumroad is the ultimate example of startup B.S. 2012: Gumroad raises $8.1M in VC money. 2012-2019: Gumroad fails to achieve hockey stick growth. 2019: Investors take the write-off and sell Gumroad back to the founder for $1.00. (cont.)

@BirkirLeo @rspineanu It's not quite on the same level as American Kingpin, Bad Blood, Smartest Guys in the Room, etc. But it's certainly at the top of whatever the next tier down is. Quite a crazy story, and the author Evan Ratliff does a great job unpacking the complexity of Le Roux's empire.

@rspineanu Worth reading?

With Paul Le Roux being outed for possibly being Satoshi it's time for y'all to read The Mastermind.