yoichii
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yoichii
@imyoichii
love learning everything, building a few things.










this dude 5x'd his conversion rate by making his onboarding LONGER. like way wayyyy longer! went from 20 screens (3% trial conversion) to a 10-15 minute onboarding flow (15% trial conversion). his app now does $40K/month. the psychology: loss aversion. by the time users hit the paywall, they've already invested 10+ minutes answering questions about themselves. they think "might as well give it a shot." every screen before the paywall is just building the case for why you should pay. an app is nothing more than a sales funnel.

Introducing Tempo: The world’s first AI Head of Growth. AI can now scale a brand faster than any human, see how:




i made an app for no pressure vlogging introducing stitch, the app that turns your daily clips into a mini-vlog (because i can't with the editing) if you've always wanted to make vlogs, but don't wanna deal with the hassle, i got u stitch: mini-vlog journal


Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives. We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT. But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM? So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users. The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in. Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started. On Status, you can be anyone.



Super excited to colead @LuelCompanyAI’s $31.2M seed round. There are certain teams you meet where you know within 5 minutes that you want to partner with them Luel is one of those team. William and Inigo are incredibly ambitious founders who understand the human data bottleneck from the inside out. They've built Luel to create a scalable, reliable supply of that data — something that will be foundational to the next generation of AI.


General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.













