Mark™

Introducing Mark — a $129 AI bookmark that helps book readers remember everything. 🧵👇 Thread:

My 2025 in review - Launched a hardware product and got 10M views on X - Raised a pre-seed - Moved to China by myself for half a year living out of hotels to build @markhardware - Got my hands on the newest Mark device - Became China Forbes 30u30 - Built strong partnerships with Shenzhen factories - Moved in with the boys - Invited to CES - Went to Maine - Assembled Mark team - Became fluent in Chinese again - Ran USC TroyLabs startup accelerator program

Mark will become a company with one of the strongest design language, think of teenage engineering, Airbnb, Stripe. Mark is going to replace bookmarks, and we’ll do it elegantly. Mark my words

That’s exactly our mission @paulg we’re reshaping the reading experience so you can succeed like the “few”. We joined the cookout and burgers are almost ready. Stay tuned😎

@paulg 100% agree

If kids have mostly stopped reading now, you can gain an advantage over your peers by being one of the few who reads a lot.

We’re alive! For the next few months, we will be building in public with you guys. Would love hear any of your thoughts!

Which feature would make your reading experience better?

Me vs 100 SF tech bros.

Let's meet up.

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@EasonTang23 matter of time

@markhardware stay tuned

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@Henryyinn 🚀

@markhardware the future

@FelipeEgoavil we are too!

@markhardware Yeah, I’m pumped to see this one develop.

@WarnerTeddy keen

@markhardware huge

@kuberdenis 🙏

@markhardware very clean looking letter 👍

@alex_kainikii Yup.

@Coyolxauhqul We have some exciting news soon.

don't get what everyone is so mad about

@adesina_tito Invest in yourself.

@SoniaBaschez Stay tuned.

This product could be cool but they're marketing it wrong. Here's why: - positioning it as an AI "bookmark" likens it to a very expensive paper weight - readers who read physical books are a completely different type of reader—they prefer analog, are less likely to buy tech, and even less likely to buy something that's AI, so who is it for? - the demo who would buy an AI bookmark and read a physical book is very small, they also are anti-Sapiens Here's what I would do: sell it as a book summarizer and notetaker - most people don't want to remember *everything* they just want the highlights - non-fiction books are known for being unnecessarily long, use this product to get the gist of the book - people want a better way of keeping track of their own highlights and notes, here's how our product does it

@taysa_ffxiv Invest in yourself.