Brycent

I Spent The Day with a $100m Startup that 3D Prints Living Seawalls that Stop Miami From Flooding.

@bygregorr Winter 7?

@brycent w7 batch had 47 teams post day-1 pivots. it's a tradition at this point

Startup founders after getting into Y Combinator...

@ycombinator @AgentPhoneHQ @themeetmodi @manav2modi 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The $2T telecom industry was built for humans. @AgentPhoneHQ is rebuilding it for agents. One API gives every AI agent its own phone number and a trusted identity to reach the real world. Congrats on the launch, @themeetmodi & @manav2modi! ycombinator.com/launches/QNE-a…

@dotwavjordan Is this event legal 😭

New fundraising method unlocked The “dutch round”

@motionbynick Love your content! W

BEFORE it "works" vs AFTER it "works" Behind every million dollar idea is a million haters. There is no exception to this rule. Tune them out and win.

For sure, there are some startups YC invests in that I personally would not write checks for. I'm not a big fan of gambling companies. It doesn't do anything for me. My question is, people have different standards for what they consider morally questionable. Do you mean from a business practice standpoint or from an ideation standpoint?

how much time ya got? TLDR my beef centers around YC’s indifference to morally questionable startups and the fact that their business structure gives them systemic plausible deniability ps i only come in super hot unless im in the cold plunge at the standard

@swagt0shi My guy, what is your beef with YC? You're coming in super hot.

@brycent do a tech review on that!

@omarontape @gauravsbuilding I literally am thinking of making a separate personal IG because I don’t see any of my friends anymore

social media has become performative. your friends rarely show up on your instagram or tiktok feed anymore. their posts are buried behind brainrot, ai slop, and content from strangers engineered to keep you scrolling as long as possible. but why would instagram or tiktok change? they make more money this way. the problem is that social media used to be the place you went to keep up with friends. early instagram was casual. early snapchat was casual. posting wasn’t this whole performance-based ritual where you had to think about likes, comments, timing, aesthetics, and what everyone would think. but slowly, over years, that changed. and algorithmic feeds accelerated it. i’m betting big on one thing: people don’t just want more content. they want less performative ways to stay connected with their friends again. bereal proved this. it had a massive surge because it gave people a simple, fun, low-pressure way to connect with friends every day. it had its flaws. the loop got stale. the novelty wore off. but it proved the demand was real. for the last 9 months, i’ve been building @officialvlogit around that same shift. on vlogit, you create private friend groups, and every day someone in each group gets picked to vlog their day. not for strangers. not for clout. for your friends. a real glimpse into each other’s lives. i’ve been building it in public for 9 months, and that has grown to 250k+ followers and 62k people on the waitlist. i currently have 1600 beta testers, and I am iterating on their feedback every day. we’re launching by the end of may, and there’s still a lot of uncertainty. but the thesis is simple: the next era of social won’t be about more feeds. it’ll be about bringing your friends back online.

I can confirm that AI has made me busier Which forces me to automate more things in my life with AI I'm sure that's both a good and a bad thing.

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@JonahBlake hmu we can break bread lol

@brycent I have brands asking to work with you. From my side. I meant to call you later today

Apparently VC investors also see our content as signal :) Multiple investors reached out to this founder since our post went live. We’re building something special 🥹

@PlusEVPenguin @Amonahan Full transparency: I have no clue if it'll work. It could crash and fail, and I end up resorting to one, but it's worth the experiment.

@brycent @Amonahan makes sense dude, appreciate the detailed response, i'll definitely be following along to see what you do, really enjoy the content

Working on 10 different venture/startup content formats simultaneously and shipping all of them is probs the wildest thing I've ever done. Never will be boxed in doing only one thing. Shortform, Longform, Podcasting, Written, I want to create across the board.

Looking for video editors that can use AI like Seedance to create cartoon-ish version of short-form content. hmu

I've been making content for five to six years, so I have a bit better understanding of how to juggle multiple things. I do agree that, for most people, focusing on one probably makes the most sense because you can put all of your time, energy, and attention into it. I enjoy the challenge of doing multiple things.

@brycent interesting @Amonahan says its better to focus on one thing because most likely the rest will fail and you will get bogged down, what makes you want to juggle so many things at once?

@be_rosebee I hope it was an enjoyable watch :)

This is awesome!

@corporatesigns1 I’ll send it over to them lol

@brycent ZEUS is a logical name for their next machine

I Spent The Day with a $100m Startup that 3D Prints Living Seawalls that Stop Miami From Flooding.