Chrys Bader

🌹 𝗪𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 $𝟲𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 Five years ago, @seandadashi and I realized the attention economy was doing more harm than good—keeping kids and adults glued to screens, chasing dopamine. As technologists, we felt a personal responsibility to build something healthier and nourishing. After experimenting with mindful social apps—and taking a wrong turn into NFTs—we returned to our core mission: 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. That mission came to life in @joinrosebud—an AI journal designed with therapists to help people slow down, reflect deeply, and grow. It remembers what matters and reflects it back when you’re ready to hear it. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁‐𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁 • Launched in July 2023 with a lean team and limited capital • Embraced hypothesis-driven development and counted every penny • Reached profitability in 18 months with 100K+ signups 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 • 8,000+ paying customers • 500 million words journaled • 30 million mindful minutes logged • 75% of users report mental health improvements in 30 days 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 Led by @BessemerVP with participation from @Initialized, @sevensevensix, @FuelCapital, @avenirgrowth, @tferriss, and other strategic partners—this $6M round will help us: • Expand our product and engineering team • Accelerate expansion with our new Head of Growth, @growwitharjun • Deepen partnerships with therapists and coaches • Scale our purpose-built memory engine for personal growth "Mental health support shouldn't be bound by time, place, or privilege. Rosebud is leading the charge in combining AI with long-term memory to become a trusted companion in your pocket." – Maha Malik, Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 “When I couldn’t trust my perceptions in my relationship, Rosebud’s memory of my past entries validated my feelings—and helped me trust myself again.” — Rosebud user, domestic violence survivor 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻. We’re humbled by how far we’ve come and energized by what’s ahead. If you’re passionate about mental health tech, we’re hiring in LA! 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 to our family and team: Monte, Ella, Michael, Rebecca, Arjun, Diego, and my wonderful fiancé Alice 💐

@joni_vrbt fleshlight

Name a tech company that has literally zero haters

@BowTiedCyber @openclaw you can also see those that are running and not delivering (potentially wasteful)

@chrysb @openclaw Does it show the tasks that class says it’s running that it may or may not actually be running?

i built an advanced cron inspector for @openclaw you can: - view your cron schedule as a calendar - see avg token use / cost per cron - identify token hungry crons - save costs! it's available now in AlphaClaw, among a ton of other useful features

@BowTiedCyber @openclaw you can see which crons are disabled

@JakeSmGaming @openclaw it will be!

@chrysb @openclaw Calendar view for crons finally makes sense. Why isn't this standard everywhere?

@wholyv x.com/chrysb/status/…

unpopular opinion: OpenClaw is just pure hype. it’s nowhere as good as these Xfluencers tell you.

folks who are calling @openclaw pure hype are telling on themselves openclaw is like the early internet, it's raw, unrefined, and takes a little doing to get things to work, but when you figure it out, it's transformative. here are some real use cases that are having material impact on our $2.5M ARR business: 1. ad creative pipeline. our head of growth @ArjunShukl95550 built an end-to-end creative pipeline to go from ideation to publish adds to meta, greatly increasing our creative iteration speed. it's producing winning creatives. it lives in slack, and anyone on the team can share their ideas and have them enter the pipeline. 2. data analytics agent. another bot lives in our slack that connects to bigquery and lets our team ask any questions of the data, it produces charts and answers questions in real time. no one needs to write SQL anymore. 3. recruiting. i told my agent about a role we're hiring for, and it scoured linkedin and the web, found 30 candidates, portfolio, email addresses, and stack ranked them based on fit with our criteria this is just in the past week. i have twenty more success stories for you i can share another time. you have to understand, this is the shittiest it will ever be. everyone is going to have one or more personal self-improving agents that they use every day, and openclaw is what revealed this future to us. if you can't see this, i encourage you to look harder there will be many competitors (and already are), and the large labs will start to converge on this (they already are) too. openclaw may not win, but it opened pandora's box and uncorked the agentic future.

@0xMartz @openclaw github.com/chrysb/alphacl…

@chrysb @openclaw So fire, do you have a GitHub for it?

@Mho_23 interesting

here's another AI UGC video from our new system our new system is extremely good at details: > handles accurate product placement > realistic voice > stable/controllable movements > infinite length can make them at scale & FAST if you know what you're doing best time to be alive ngl..

@Cypherpunk2140 @openclaw masochist

@chrysb @openclaw This is cool and all, but I’ve gotten quite used to making my eyes bleed by looking at the raw json.

a lot of truth here. you have to understand that agents, like humans, take time to onboard and train. i don't know if there'll ever be a drop-in genius that just figures everything out, because bleeding edge work is always emergent and iterative. this is the shittiest it'll ever be.

@WizLikeWizard skill issue maybe? i built AlphaClaw to make OpenClaw much easier with a ton of visibility into cron, drift, etc. give it a shot. github.com/chrysb/alphacl…

Have been using OpenClaw for ~a month and it kinda sucks? I spend more time battling it to get basic crons fired reliably, remember things, and not repeat itself. Am I doing it wrong or are we just still very early on all of this?

the cli expansion continues

@AlexFinn huh that sounds like bad cron routing. do you never use /new in your threads?

IF YOU'RE ON OPENCLAW DO THIS NOW: I just sped up my OpenClaw by 95% with a single prompt Over the past week my claw has been unbelievably slow. Turns out the output of EVERY cron job gets loaded into context Months of cron outputs sent with every message Do this prompt now: "Check how many session files are in ~/.openclaw/agents/main/sessions/ and how big sessions.json is. If there are thousands of old cron session files bloating it, delete all the old .jsonl files except the main session, then rebuild sessions.json to only reference sessions that still exist on disk." This will delete all the session data around your cron outputs. If you do a ton of cron jobs, this is a tremendous amount of bloat that does not need to be loaded into context and is MAJORLY slowing down your Openclaw If you for some reason want to keep some of this cron session data in memory, then don't have your openclaw delete ALL of them. But for me, I have all the outputs automatically save to a Convex database anyway, so there was no reason to keep it all in context. Instantly sped up my OpenClaw from unusable to lightning quick

@minhsmind @andrewchen exactly!

@andrewchen @chrysb Clawktails?

Openclaw hang in Santa Monica at the a16z offices hosted by me and @chrysb Come join us!

@AndrewWarner @andrewchen @a16z @openclaw everything is public - i run a company called @joinrosebud, and i've been building AlphaClaw as an open-source project (announced it last week)

@chrysb @andrewchen @a16z @openclaw Chrys, I'd love to see more public-facing examples of what you're working on. These little clues on X are intriguing.

co-hosting a happy hour with @andrewchen at @a16z santa monica on april 2nd if you're building real stuff with @openclaw, come hang. founders, engineers, operators who are actually shipping, not just talking about it. rooftop drinks. lobster. no panels. no pitches. request invite here (space is limited): partiful.com/e/YZR1YR2DQbtv…

@yazins couldn’t you auto-detect which template to use based on the inferred meeting context?

Just shipped the biggest update to OpenOats (prev OpenGranola: the open-source meeting copilot for macOS): Meeting Templates + AI Notes ✨ Pick a template before your meeting (1:1, Customer Discovery, Hiring, Stand-Up, Weekly) and after it ends, generate structured notes from the full transcript with one click. Notes stream in real-time as the LLM writes them. Browse past sessions, regenerate with different templates, copy to clipboard. Also fixed a subtle bug where the last ~3 seconds of audio could be lost when stopping a session. Now the app gracefully drains all buffered speech before closing. 4 new files, 1,277 lines added. All open source. github.com/yazinsai/OpenO…

just making sure you're getting opus back up and running @AnthropicAI