Rushi Shah

your group chat is the real social network it's where everything hilarious, and everything true, actually happens but without someone to keep it together, plans die, & friends drift so we built Alfi: the first chat app with social skills the group chat era starts now!

We're taking agentic group chats to a whole new level. Introducing Bill Splits in Alfi. snap. split. done. the dinner happened in the group chat. the trip was planned in the group chat. so why are we all opening a second app to split the bill?

@LizRabban sweet, just messaged you to learn more

@irushishah All cals. Googles and two outlooks. I finally found a decent way to do it!! Maybe I can test and see if it works in my flow but I would need it to “read” all cals.

every calendar app was built for work alfi just shipped one built for your friends google calendar sync is live! tell your group chat you want to hang. alfi finds the time, books the table, drops it on everyone’s calendar more meetups. less “we should get dinner” try it 👇

@LizRabban hi liz, google calendar for now since that was the most popular request. are you just using fantastical to manage your cal?

@irushishah Only google cal? What about app like fantastical will it link to that?

you’ve got to try alfi by text.ai greg! we were part of YC last year and have been building the next gen social experience that utilizes AI to help bring friends and family closer together. starting from the group chat. no followers. no slop. alfi helps you make plans. adapts to your gc, makes images, manages calendar, and even bill splits with a gen z personality. all via natural language.

It feels pretty obvious at this point that someone’s going to make billions building a social app that’s just for friends, no AI slop, no brainrot, calm design, chronological feed and no concept of followers

available on ios & android: text.ai/app

@RonConway @garrytan praying for your speedy recovery ron. sending you a whole lot of love and light 🙏❤️

I want to share some difficult news. I was recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and I want you to hear it directly from me. Treatment is starting immediately and will include multiple strategies over the course of about a year. While I will be stepping back from some of my usual activities, I will continue to support SV Angel founders, who I love with a passion. SV Angel remains unchanged. Topher has made all of our investment decisions for the better part of the last decade, and Ronny joined as Managing Partner in 2024. They bring experience from nearly every major technology cycle in Silicon Valley and are now focused on partnering with founders building the future of AI. SV Angel has a deep, experienced team that remains fully focused on supporting exceptional founders. With a more focused and balanced schedule, I can prioritize treatments while helping SV Angel founders at inflection points like we always do! I’ve chosen not to share the specific type of cancer since I don't want speculation about my prognosis. I appreciate your understanding and respect for this. I am optimistic about my prognosis. I am fortunate to have the best/amazing team of UCSF doctors in San Francisco, and as you know, I never back down from a fight. Thank you for your support, it means a great deal to me.

@PraharPatel55 now that’s a collectible 😏

Bringing the fun back in your chats.

see what your group chat would look like as actions figures 🔥 all magically created from a single msg try it on alfi!

if you haven’t, try it out today: text.ai

500K people trust us. 25M+msgs. a teenager showed me his home while giving feedback. his roof was just wood chips. 18 yrs old, experiencing ai for the first time, with our product. that's why we're building this. social ai that brings people closer together, everywhere.

When talking with startups, if the first question that comes to your mind is, “Why can’t Meta, OpenAI, etc. do this?” then your imagination game is weak.

made with @textdotai 😆

Airbnb CEO @bchesky says more AI founders should be starting consumer businesses. "I'm on the board of Y Combinator. 87% of companies are enterprise companies per batch." "Enterprise is awesome... but the biggest prize is consumer. That is what's going to reach daily life for billions of people." "Think about all the little parts of daily life that are kind of annoying. Pay attention to whoever's in your life and ask: 'How could their daily life be a little bit easier?'"

AI will facilitate friendships between people and technology this is a deeply fascinating area that is not discussed enough it’s going to catch everyone by surprise!

The most important question for builders today is not building Web 2.0 faster The most important highest alpha thing to focus on is what can be built given now you have direct access to LATENT SPACE Intelligence is on tap. What can be done now that could never be done before?

the social layer of the future won't be a feed it'll be a small, trusted group of people, and the AI that helps them stay together

@JonRoth the early days of clubhouse were incredibly fun. i remember paul doing this. lots of fun learnings. used to host the tech after party with garry that went live right after the good time show with aarthi and sriram. good times

@irushishah this is how clubhouse scaled BTW. Paul would watch people go through onboarding and be the first person they encounter in a room when they landed on the app

one the best way i realized to connect with users is allow a way for them to message me directly ive learned to converse in 3 separate languages it’s almost like im your first friend on the app 😂 doing things that don’t scale is actually incredibly fun & insanely powerful