John Zeratsky

@DecisionTree_gg @Jas_Jaski thanks!

@jazer @Jas_Jaski - sounds like a great fit!

🚨 Applications for Character Labs G6 are due in 3 weeks!! The program for this group will be radically different from before, and we think it's going to be much more effective. Can't wait to run it down live with the next group of founders! 👉 If you're at inception/idea stage and interested in working with us, please take a look at character.vc/labs and let me know if you have any questions! Here's what's changing for G6, and why: 1. All-new Sales Sprint and Marketing Sprints. Many founders in our portfolio are now finding and signing customers in weeks, not months — often well before they have a "finished" product ready to sell. We reverse-engineered their techniques and designed new sprints to help every founder start selling uncomfortably fast. 2. All-new Pitch Sprint. Founders in our portfolio have raised from a16z, First Round, Index, Obvious, Bessemer, General Catalyst, and other elite investors. We completely revamped our Pitch Sprint to capture the most important lessons from the founders who've had the most success in fundraising. 3. Demo Day! The biggest change EVER to Character Labs. For the first six groups, we provided bespoke support to each team as they were ready to raise, thinking it was a better experience. I think we were wrong on this one — by encouraging founders to raise at the same time, we can help them more AND provide a better experience to investors (who can meet 15 great founders in one place instead of being inundated by emails from us). Caveat: Our first-ever demo day (for G5) is in a couple of weeks, so we reserve the right to be wrong again and change course :) 👇 Bottom line, we are incredibly excited about these changes and think G6 will be the best ever. But more than that — we are just so eager to meet and work with this next group of founders. Because Character Labs is a special program. Biased of course, but I really think that's true. We believe it's the best way to get started and build momentum in the early days of founding of a startup. If this resonates, we'd love to meet you. Let's talk. If not for Labs, maybe we find another way to work together. If not for G6, maybe another time. But please, check out what's new in the comments, head over to character.vc/labs, and get in touch if you are interested in working together!

@Aronado great!

@jazer sounds cool John, will check it out ..

@BuilderEbony yay!

@jazer My team and I are applying!

@eliwaxm @CharacterCap yes ofc! or just get in touch via the website and we'll review

@jazer @CharacterCap no no, the website makes it clear software, but I like to double check :) Can I dm? interested to know your opinion

This week we launched a new website for @CharacterCap! Inspired by technical documentation, the new site is designed to: 1. be ultra legible to humans and machines 2. straightforwardly answer the most common questions founders have 3. describe our differentiation and unique perspective as investors 4. highlight one of our unique advantages (writing) At a time when many teams are building slick websites quickly with AI, we decided to go the other way: hand-crafted and back to basics. I had a lot of fun with this project. 25 years later, I still love making websites. Thanks to @jakek, @eliblee, and Kristen for all the feedback and support. Go check it out at character.vc and please let me know what you think!

@eliwaxm @CharacterCap well I guess we failed goal #2! 😭 but answering your question, software - sometimes hardware enters the chat later, but software is the heart

@jazer @CharacterCap looks super clean, do you do only software? or hardware/software mix too?

seriously though the portfolio section was very intentional: - most of our portfolio companies do not have recognizable logos, so that would create visual noise - we wanted to feature companies that represent our investment focus - we also wanted to highlight the kinds of funds that have made follow-on investments in our portfolio companies

@averbs @CharacterCap thanks! this isn't dense enough for you? :)

@CraigSmitham Claude, Gemini, and Notion

@jazer What products are you using where you would like to see this?

I'm surprised none of the AI products* have something akin to Superhuman's Snippets - just reusable text strings with some simple placeholders Skills and things feel too heavy Is a "prompt library" too basic a feature for where we are today? * that I use

@pa1ge Right, that's why I want to have my own basic prompt library in app! Crazy this doesn't exist

@jazer Finessing the prompts takes longer than building these days. I like the concept of skills but they usually require heavy editing. Prompt libraries aren’t too basic but they need to be tailored to specific niches in order to be useful.

@mgsiegler known to friends as coco

If you can’t beat em, cobrand em.

@luke_drago_ @oscarmoxon agreed, have always admired this about you guys!

from our branding to our ux to our upcoming releases, @oscarmoxon on our team is just an extraordinary designer.

@IrvinZhan @SubframeApp hot

team is having sooo much fun w/ our Chrome extension (coming soon!) take any page in production, edit it visually in @SubframeApp the import is pixel-perfect and matches your existing tokens / design system. lets me design with real data

proud investor retweet

@narsagna doesn't get much better than that :)

Okay this made my day!

Not an investor, but one of my favorite apps. Forgot what a joy it is to be early on a product that's good and improving rapidly.

@ramit our neighbors in Milwaukee did this

This is so awesome. I want walkable cities like this for MORE Americans, especially our elderly I've lived in walkable cities for most of my adult life. They are amazing. You stay healthier by default, you interact with more people every day, and you can be independent without a car Americans LOVE walkable communities, but after college, the only exposure we typically have is Disneyland and vacationing in European cities To make this happen, we need to build more housing in cities across the country

@elizlaraki every single time i am surprised that it's not lacksadaisical

Think "lackadaisical" has an abnormally high hit rate in Apple's Mac Dictionary? I end up on this screen multiple times a day when hitting command+space and meaning to type "slack" but missing the s... Anyone else?