Founder
@gabberdev
- Purpose built, cheapest AI Voice/Text backend for your companion app. I also write, read, lift, race motorcycles, and lead a rock band
Steroids, startups, high achievement and low self esteem, exploding pecs, loneliness, insecurity, alopecia, confusion, and the power of friends, family, gratitude, and perseverance.
I'm 30 today, so I wrote about
Talking to one of the leading AI girlfriend apps to bring voice to their chat
The CEO tried our product and couldn’t believe we were better and cheaper than the two YC companies with VC backing
We’re bootstrapped.
It’s easy to sell to people when you’ve built the best product
Today I’m excited to announce something big.
Rizz AI: An AI that teaches you how to talk to women.
Looking to close our round with a $9M post money valuation.
This will shift the social fabrics of SF. See how much rizz you have today 👇
Virtual conference spaces, classrooms, custom 3D worlds, and ummm...places of worship.
Pretty excited about some of the events we've got coming up, and dare I say revenue?
Make a space for WHATEVER you want
@TheUniverseGG
Metaverse != ghost town full of $50,000 plots of land with jpgs on them.
Metaverse != spend $1000 to have fun.
Metaverse = be your NFTs, engage with your community, immediately have fun for free
I don’t understand people who don’t have time for things. Like I get home from a full day of work and still I have time to work out, edit videos, play guitar, program side projects, run a business, think about the heat death of the universe and how everyone will die, and shower.
My dog died Tuesday and I cried a bunch
Been pushing WAY too hard for 3 months, was sick for over half of it, went through a mini break-up, yet NEVER STOPPED pushing
Tuesday, I felt like I snapped out of a productivity haze
The grindset will kill you without you realizing it
@robkhenderson
Probably the biggest maturity level up I had in my 20s as an extremely high strung person is to almost never trust my instincts
I rely more on wisdom than base instinct, and I gained that wisdom by following my instincts and having terrible outcomes
Been a gnarly week of changes, sales calls, shipping features, and talking to investors
Stoked on the community at
@fdotinc
for encouraging me to stay on the gas
Had a few chats today with some of the guys who have been with me there since day 1 + some new guys
Special place
We're fundraising! And that means we need to practice our pitch.
If you or someone you know is investing in web3, or just wants to hop on a call and scrutinize two guys who sound exactly alike talk about the metaverse or NFTs, let me know!
Movement from 3 popular
#web3
#metaverse
apps:
- Sandbox
- Decentraland (dont mind the lagging, it never subsides)
- Cryptovoxels
These are $10-500MM companies, and only Sandbox looks good. We made a working, scalable movement system in 1 day at a fraction of a percent valuation
A guy from my old fraternity hit me up about getting a job in my field. I told him what worked for me; get kicked out by nationals and make new friends who don’t do Xanax
Today I spoke with an NFT music curator, a venture capitalist who invested in some of the pioneers in the space, a founder building web3 Discord, another founder building AI-powered friends--and it's only 3pm.
Starting a company and doing so through
@fdotinc
has been a wild ride
A lot has been out of my control these last fews months, but one thing I've been sure to do is focus on the things that are.
We're transitioning out of the founding game (market forces + VC landscape), which means it's time for a new beginning!
(1/2)
My mom hits me up asking when I’m gonna buy her the Audi R8. It’s like don’t you want me to save my money? All you did for me was birth me, feed me, shelter me, protect me, sacrifice your time for me, pay for my college, support me, and a bunch of other stuff. Women are crazy
We've been hard at work (shoutout
@dwyer_neil
) getting this all put together. Hoping to get space travel and NFTs in tomorrow, and then start putting together a quest for whitelist spots. If you want to get early access, hop in the Discord and hit me with a "holla!"
#NFT
#web3
There are many incubators, accelerators, hacker houses, etc, but F Inc will always be home
They’ve somehow created the lowest ego/highest humility culture for people to work, be themselves, and feel like they’re part of something
I’ve had chances to leave, but there is no
We built a 15k sq ft Founder Lab at Fort Mason in SF where 100s of emerging tech founders are creating the future.
If you're building in AI, VR, Blockchain, Robotics or Drones and you're at the start of your journey we have space for you!
DM me with what you're building and why
Meant It hit 30k streams
First angel investment received for new company
First month owning a property
Family in town visiting me
The ending of the gnarliest 2 months of my life
Happy Friday, God bless America 🇺🇸
I've had the fortune to start working with another company in my studio batch at
@fdotinc
,
@Zeet_Co
, I played my first live performance last night, and I've been volunteering my time to mentor our employees into new jobs, a veteran I met online, and some family. Stoked on 2023!
Someone asked what I do for work last night, and said I ran a company and didn’t want to talk about it.
They pried and pried, and I finally obliged. “I have a web3 startup”.
I could see the moment they stopped taking me seriously. (1/7)
Can’t wait for Netflix to release “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before but blown it with because I didn’t know how to talk to girls and I also was trying to fit in with my frat bros so I was a douche”
disclaimer: Rizz in this video is not reflective of actual Rizz level. I have Covid—not a Rizz booster
Started w/ GPT-4 Turbo, but every response sounded like a customer service bot
Tried Claude-sonnet, eventually landed on haiku: fraction of OAI cost, feels more authentic,
Sometimes I'm blown away by the product I'm working on.
9 start ups ago, I was configuring infrastructure using yaml files. Today I could do it with an API call. What.
What if I told you that every time a user signs up, you could spin up new infrastructure for them with just an API call?
Don’t believe me? In the last 3 weeks Zeet processed 50,000+ resource-creation API calls 🤯
That’s right, create infra as easily as a Stripe subscription
🧵
Rough day today.
I try and give my friends experiences with my hobbies. Invited two of my good friends mountain biking. One faceplanted (was fine), and the other, 40 feet later, fell and broke his wrist.
Probably smarter ways to spend time with the boys. I am gutted
Our SF lab is right on the water and you can clearly hear the fog horns.
Most people think this is for the boats, but little do they know its actually the sound of founders shipping! 🚢📯🤘
Recruiters on Linkedin will make any social media trend a lesson about the work place. "Yanny vs. Laurel is all about perception, which is why you and your boss may not always be on the same page. Check out this job posting"
Today I quit my job building anti-money laundering software to build a web3 metaverse front-end. Creating a web3 game that doesn't have the web3 barriers to entry. Play for free, earn NFTs, no pyramids or gating.
#web3
#nft
#p2e
#PlayToEarn
I started taking the bus to work after Oakland stole my motorcycle. It goes by a school, so it's usually 80% kids
Today a homeless person boarded and started hurling slurs at everyone. I made eye contact to draw ire from the kids. 10 min of this person saying horrible things to
Friends, family, speed, danger, bodybuilding, hard work, big books, rock n roll, and creating shareholder value
Life is good
Taken from the ride last weekend in Half Moon Bay (it was 65 degrees in July)
We're bought into the vision, customers are bought into the vision, and investors are now starting to buy into the vision one by one.
Feels surreal. We aren't out of the woods yet, but what a trip it's been.
We spent 3 months building features for a large customer at $0 MRR
After one chat with
@0xSamHogan
, we were at $1k MRR from them
He said we should simply ask them to pay a development fee
tl;dr talk to Sam
So we made an obstacle course that might be a little bit ~impossible~.
The 3 people to make it to the top with the fastest times will get a large pizza on me.
Log in and give it a shot:
@emkayedwards
You think that maybe your parents’ had you before they realized they made a bad move getting married, and then they just stuck it out for your sake?
Pictured: JFK telling a young Bill Clinton that being president is a free pass to cheating on his future wife. This moment inspired him to run for president years later.
Amazing day at The Metaverse Summit today in San Jose.
The fact that we not only had a demo, but it was actually the production app, and it worked on a phone browser blew minds.
More bullish than ever that we’ve got something here
Early prototype for our new browser-native web3 metaverse (launching very soon). Become your NFTs, embark on a great quest at the beginning of time, and get on the whitelist for your space in the metaverse.
Very excited to start teasing videos and mechanics.
#web3
#metaverse
@moveincircles
I've dated 2 girls relatively seriously who are anti-natalist, and it was impossible
They were also chronically online (tiktok, twitter, NYT), deeply unhappy, and committed to their independence (this is SF)
I think the latter informs and supercedes the former, but both are bad
Amar really one of those dudes that has it all
Smart, funny, humble, and an all around great dude
Yes, I want to strangle him once a week, but that's how you know he's a real one
Bullish
We're excited to officially welcome Nexavision to the family 🚀
They're changing the way we track and understand basketball.
Drop a 👋 to welcome
@AmarSVS
!
This year I was down about $50k before the market crashed, but now that $50k worth of assets is worth about $30k.
So if you close your eyes and look at it upside down, it's almost like I'm sorta kinda making money. It's call mental gymnastics.
A month ago I hadn't written any real code in probably 2 years. The last 2 weeks I've sunk 50+ hrs into FE/BE, and I'd forgotten how much fun it is just cranking in an IDE.
When you're cold emailing, an 8 hr day feels like 16. When you're developing, a 10 hr days feels like 2.
Producer: Schwarzenegger is blowing up, we need movie ideas for this guy
Guy 1: How about a movie where he’s a kindergarten teacher.
P: wtf guy 1?
Guy 2: what about a movie where he’s a kindergarten teacher, but actually he’s a cop the whole damn time
P: 😮
G1: 😮
America: 😮