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royce branning

1 year

1 year ago sat down for some tacos with a dude I’d never met We talked about phone addiction Started a company to fix it Got into @ycombinator Saved people over 500k hours of time And came back a year later for more tacos.

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royce branning

@rbfasho

2 years

Took our first driverless ride last night with @Cruise Craziest part was how normal it felt.

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@rbfasho

1 year

We ran a "Phone Check" at a @ycombinator event last night for ~150 founders in San Francisco. Here's how it went:

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@rbfasho

3 months

Me paying the price to like this tweet

Soren Iverson

@soren_iverson

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Oh look it’s real

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@rbfasho

2 years

It’s absolutely DUMPING in downtown San Francisco. Took shelter in Chipotle just in time ☔️ #californiastorm

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@rbfasho

1 year

@_oliver_hill @profbobadilla every QR code menu company rn

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@rbfasho

11 months

SF startups fleeing downtown and posting up in the neighborhoods is giving rise to some great neighborhood names: - Cerebral Valley - The TAMHandle - PMF Heights What am I missing?

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royce branning

@rbfasho

1 year

In college, I was heading into the biggest interview of my life, there would be 10 interviewers in the room. Before I went in a mentor of mine said: "Royce, it is a rare privilege in life to get to share about something you care about with a room full of people."

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@rbfasho

1 year

@chrisboettcher9 treat your screen time like your diet: twitter = carbs podcasts = protein tik tok = processed sugar

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@rbfasho

1 year

The tone Garry has set for @ycombinator has been one of the pleasant surprises of the batch for me. The message has been loud and clear since his kickoff address at batch retreat: Care about your users. Then show how much you care by listening to them and working *insanely*

Garry Tan

@garrytan

1 year

Come see inside the most powerful startup community in the world. Learn how we help people go fast. YC one of the most reliable places to learn how to find product-market-fit. My debut on the YC channel here 👇

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royce branning

@rbfasho

3 months

Got to show off the new pushup to scroll functionality live @ycombinator office yesterday The man himself @garrytan doing some pushups to scroll on the big screen No place on earth like this community

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@rbfasho

7 months

A growing army is taking control of their phone use On New Years Day clearspace hit #70 in the top 100 productivity apps in the US HNY & scroll safely all

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royce branning

@rbfasho

2 years

@startingfromnix NYC is adult college LA is adult disneyland SF is the most consequential city of our time…and kind of a mess

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@rbfasho

10 months

Layering audiobooks on top of instrumentals is one of my favorite life hacks. Today's audio cocktail: Ferriss on a Theme

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@rbfasho

1 year

A lot of people online resonated with the "Phone Check" we ran in March at the @ycombinator happy hour. So we submitted the idea to SF @techweek_ 200 people signed up in 3 days. Here’s how it went.

We hosted a “No-Phone Social” for SF #TechWeek. Here’s how it worked.

(the full story has moved to the official clearspace blog)

blog.getclearspace.com

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@rbfasho

3 months

gen z will be the last generation addicted to smartphones

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@buffys

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what opinion will you defend like this?

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@rbfasho

1 year

@climatepaige beginning of sprint: talk middle of sprint: invent complexity end of sprint: stay up all night

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@rbfasho

3 months

The #1 secret to a tech bro glow up ⬇️

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

3 months

YC W23's @getclearspace is an iPhone app that makes your phone less addicting. Tell it what apps/websites you want to use less, and it will require you to do something (like exercise) to unlock them.

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royce branning

@rbfasho

10 months

1 year ago I fought @_oliver_hill for arm positioning in a WeWork booth to tell @ycombinator something we had noticed: Everyone hates their phones. They didn't believe us at first...

Clearspace (YC W23) Application Video (Accepted)

Clearspace joined the Y Combinator W23 batch to solve compulsive phone usage at scale.The Clearspace iPhone App (https://clear-space.app.link/yc-application)...

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@rbfasho

1 year

The gym sauna is one of the last remaining places safe from the scroll

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@rbfasho

1 year

clearspace just hit #1 on product hunt show support for our launch here: video by @michaelmcroskey @getclearspace

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royce branning

@rbfasho

8 months

Coolest parts of founder life: Meeting the strangers that help you turn idea into reality. We started working with @soren_iverson in our final week of the @ycombinator W23 batch. We started brainstorming unhinged screen time ideas but immediately realized we had found an

Soren Iverson

@soren_iverson

8 months

🚨 Non-satirical design alert 🚨 I'm now an advisor to the ClearSpace team! Details in thread 🧵

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@rbfasho

11 months

Every founder I’ve talked to at @ycombinator that has “made it” has said same thing: “Appreciate the early days” So we put dispo cameras in every room. Let’s us capture the good ole days without violating the office low-phone policy. Gives instant nostalgia.

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@rbfasho

1 year

Stoked to have found amazing partners in @ycombinator to come alongside us to inject intentionality into technology usage 🙌

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

1 year

Welcome to YC W23, @rbfasho , @_oliver_hill , and @getclearspace ! clearspace is tackling technology addiction head-on. The clearspace iPhone app prevents compulsive phone usage for thousands of users, empowering them to live healthier digital lives.

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@rbfasho

1 year

@jjesschan had this problem, built an app to fix it: @getclearspace my wife and cofounder get texted if I go over my daily social media budget

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@rbfasho

1 year

"Did you see @getclearspace was just on a billboard in Time Square" is not something I thought I'd hear someone say to me today... Lots of companies talk about "using marketing budget to shine a spotlight on their customers" but @brexHQ just put on a masterclass.

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@rbfasho

1 year

This man successfully completed a 4 year digital detox!!! 5k likes and we’ll get him on the pod to discuss how you can too!

Billy McFarland

@pyrtbilly

1 year

@rbfasho @businessbarista @getclearspace Dude I just got out of jail. No screen time for 4 years. Not happening

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royce branning

@rbfasho

8 months

I asked chatGPT to make a phone that isn’t distracting. For every 10 likes I’ll make it less distracting

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@rbfasho

6 months

An app to fight phone addiction is in the running to be the top app of 2023 We built it to solve our own problem Joined @ycombinator to do it right Launched on Product Hunt ...and haven't looked back Support the resistance: via @ProductHunt

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@rbfasho

1 year

Having a moment on Hacker News is equal parts exciting and nerve racking. It's great exposure, but the HN community doesn't pull punches. Clearspace has spent the day on the front page and it's been support + additive feedback. People are ready to beat phone addiction.

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@rbfasho

29 days

I tore my ACL, MCL & PCL a decade ago So I trained an ai model that makes me do my ATG split squats to unlock social media Bulletproof knees, bulletproof attention Shipping this if and only if @kneesovertoesg responds with advice on my form

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@rbfasho

2 months

i try not to think about competitors too much, but I cannot stop thinking about the aesthetic difference between clearspace and screen time

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@rbfasho

7 months

@nateobrienn HODL

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@rbfasho

1 year

@george__mack i just set up an automation on my phone that blocks social media during "kale hours" texts my wife and cofounder if I bypass

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@rbfasho

1 year

@jappleby I budget my social media uses at the beginning of the week. If I go over my wife and cofounder automatically get texted.

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@rbfasho

1 year

@Jason @ycombinator @getclearspace we make your phone less addicting and we're day 1 @FounderUni so you know we #dothework 😤

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@rbfasho

1 year

12 likes and I post 100 of these on telephone polls tomorrow in NoPa

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@rbfasho

6 months

clearspace on the shortlist for Mobile App of the Year. Super exciting. If you have a sec, please go upvote.

Product Hunt 😸

@ProductHunt

6 months

📱 Time to pick your favorite Mobile App of the year! Which one made it to the first page of your home screen? Let's have a look at our #GoldenKittyAwards nominees 👇🧵

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@rbfasho

5 months

what a time to be default-alive

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@rbfasho

7 months

The truth is I got lucky finding a cofounder But I've been invited 3 times to talk at @ycombinator about how to find one There is really only one thing that matters: The Couch Test

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@rbfasho

7 months

blessed to be muting the @RevenueCat channel on this fine morning

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royce branning

@rbfasho

1 year

During @ycombinator my cofounder shipped payments functionality using @RevenueCat So I bought him a “Revenue Cat in the Hat” hat When I got 250k views on a tweet, he bought me a tweety bird hat. It arrived yesterday. 15 likes and I draw an X through it. #Xeet

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royce branning

@rbfasho

2 years

yes, earthquake in SF. Magnitude 5.1 you came to twitter to confirm, now you've confirmed. don't get lost in a midday doom scroll. #earthquake #sf #screentime #timemanagement

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@rbfasho

8 months

your body is a reflection of what you eat your mind is a reflection of what you watch

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@rbfasho

7 months

Building a startup is hard. There are a lot of days you are confused about what you're doing, and why you're doing it. Today is not one of those days. This is why we do what we do @getclearspace

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@rbfasho

1 year

What a time to be alive

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@rbfasho

11 months

MRRina

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@rbfasho

1 year

Don't ask friends if they are interested in one-off contracting projects. Tell them you'll bribe them to conspire on a project with you. Hit rate: 100%

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@rbfasho

1 year

@viebrent @onbeeper same same, but different

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@rbfasho

7 months

small things done consistently lead to big things

Soren Iverson

@soren_iverson

7 months

We made it. 365 days of an idea a day.

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@rbfasho

1 year

*me for the next 36 hours 🤞

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@rbfasho

8 months

a world without green text group chats... beeper out here doing the Lords work

Eric Migicovsky

@ericmigi

8 months

Proud to share our new app: Beeper Mini - iMessage client for Android - Runs locally on your phone (no cloud server in the middle) - Fully end-to-end encrypted - New design Download it now!

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@rbfasho

1 year

@imPenny2x Built an app to fix my phone addiction. It worked. Now backed by yc Basically building rate limiting social media as a feature instead of a bug :)

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@rbfasho

1 month

Waiting for @Surgeon_General sign off on the latest clearspace update

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@rbfasho

1 year

@Jason building alongside people IRL is one of the great joys of life

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@rbfasho

1 year

Human attention is a finite resource. And the largest companies in the world are fighting for it. @_oliver_hill putting them on notice on the Tom Style Show. Full interview:

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@rbfasho

1 year

@businessbarista I flew across the country to be there for my 2 year old niece’s first steps and missed them because I was scrolling twitter. So I decided to build an intentionality layer into my phone that would stop me from impulse checking apps. @getclearspace was born.

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@rbfasho

10 months

huge win for YC having @koomen join as a group partner unbelievably rare to come across his of combo of goodness and greatness best kind of person to have in your corner

Pete Koomen

@koomen

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YC is a force for good in the world. I’m so grateful to Paul, Jessica, Garry and my fellow GPs for the opportunity to help ensure that it endures. (10/10)

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@rbfasho

1 year

Very cool to see @getclearspace featured in the @washingtonpost Great article by @ReneeYaseen about the non-obvious dispositions of "Digital Natives" towards technology.

Opinion | We know what social media is doing to us. How do we reclaim our focus?

Quitting social media is like quitting smoking. We know we should, but we might need some help.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@rbfasho

2 years

"hold on one moment - we have so many people on this zoom call we appear to be breaking zoom" 12,000 founders in attendance at this mornings @startupschool kickoff 🤯 #ycstartupschool

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@rbfasho

3 months

The opposite of 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐚 is 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐚 It’s the belief that the world is conspiring in your favor… Today I spent the afternoon in @kevin2kelly ’s workshop sifting through the library that birthed the technium. Generosity is generative and I’m officially pronoid.

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@rbfasho

1 year

PSA to YC batch mates and all early stage startup founders: you need puzzle. here’s why 👇

Sasha Orloff

@sashaorloff

1 year

Just made it to #10 on product hunt. West coast, do your thing! Please support us on , or link below if you don't like to scroll....

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@rbfasho

11 months

you built an app to get rid of social media, why are you on twitter? I hear this a lot. Sometimes less generously. I believe social media is a net-positive, but the margin is thinner than it could be:

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7 months

@alexathallow called to be faithful, not to success 👊

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@rbfasho

1 month

We ask every new user: "how did you hear about clearspace" ChatGPT is becoming more common every week

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@rbfasho

2 years

just became the guy that dives on loose balls during pickup at the Y

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9 months

Too much writing without reading is foolish. Too much reading without writing is selfish.

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@rbfasho

1 year

As the phones get closer, an intentionality layer becomes increasingly important. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Viktor Frankl

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@rbfasho

2 years

Let's rock 'n roll @FounderUni

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@rbfasho

1 year

Shoutout to @FounderUni for continuing to be such a powerful resource for our startup journey! Highly encourage early stage founders to take a look, FU provided a ton of helpful structure for @getclearspace early in our journey.

clearspace (YC W23)

@getclearspace

1 year

clearspace was featured in today's episode of @TWiStartups 🙌

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@rbfasho

1 year

@JamesClear processed vs natural sugar craving vs satisfaction

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7 months

Clearspace restricts zoomers from TikTok until they engage with society

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so zoomers basically do nothing but use their phone

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@rbfasho

11 months

Notion Beach, The PresiDAU

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@rbfasho

2 years

before 2022 ends, do this: run 5 miles *** heavy breathing pace *** no headphones *** alone the internal story that emerges around mile 3 that's your why

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@rbfasho

5 months

Say the necessary no That allows you to say the better yes

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@rbfasho

1 year

@snowmaker Richard Feynman had a great method for solving these non-urgent problems in the background: “keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result,

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@rbfasho

10 months

Screentime watching you press remind me in 15 for the 27th time

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@rbfasho

7 months

VCs: send a pitch deck Oliver: send it with a pitched deck?

oliver hill

@_oliver_hill

7 months

mailing the clearspace board to the first user who reaches a 1000 day streak

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@rbfasho

1 year

anyone had a successful product hunt launch or know someone that has? (top 3 of the day/week/month?) looking for advice for clearspace product hunt launch next week 🙌 DM me if willing to talk or know someone that is

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@rbfasho

7 months

I'm replacing scrolling with writing in 2024. Here's a piece I did for @FortuneMagazine about the unfair advantage we have in fighting digital addiction.

Steve Jobs thought devices would become 'a bicycle for the mind'–but their effect on our brains is...

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. It's time to reclaim that space.

fortune.com

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@rbfasho

10 months

📍the Arena

Jason Carman

@jasonjoyride

10 months

If you’re reading this, you waste a lot of time on social media. In episode 9 of S³ I met with @clearspace who have a solution to your phone addiction and a vision for the future of how we interact with technology.

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@rbfasho

1 year

During @ycombinator they tell you to become the "007" versions of yourself. During the batch I was waking up at 6am every morning. Then I fell off. So now I'm having @davidgoggins yell at me to wake up. Thanks for building this @declangessel_ @_dcai

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@rbfasho

9 months

Everyone has a hard time defining PMF, especially from the outside My new definition is when a company's feature introduction is matching your needs as a customer eerily to a tee. This is the 5th time @RevenueCat has pushed an update the literal week we need it #MeowMarketFit

Jacob Eiting — iap/acc

@jeiting

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We finally have proper support for App Store offer codes on RC (sorrrryyyy it took so long) If you are using them and want to help us validate it, email jacob@

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@rbfasho

2 years

🚨 AI coding tools don't get things right all the time 🚨 which means you still get to take credit @trashh_dev #chatGPT #copilot #openAI

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@rbfasho

1 year

@jsngr ok, @getclearspace team ( @zachurey , @_oliver_hill ) got this working. set a daily budget for social media apps on your phone. if you go over, you pay. send a DM me if you want to be added to the beta.

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6 years

There’s plenty of things I miss about Notre Dame/South Bend, the weather in January is not one of those things...

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@rbfasho

2 years

@philkyprianou was thinking about this the other day - by colonizing every other corner in DT SF Starbucks is effectively Amazon prime for coffee with 5 min delivery (walking time) they’re getting me for 7.99 (venti iced + perfect bar) at least 3 days a week. 7.99 • 3 days/wk ~ $96/month

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@rbfasho

2 years

#BuildInPublic means #FailInPublic too *not me getting got by a .sheet on .sheet error in #swiftUI for a cool 2 hours

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@rbfasho

10 months

Going to tell my kids this is the Avengers

Garry Tan

@garrytan

10 months

Neo likes to parade their part time spekers as "mentors" but will they be there 5 years in when you need office hours or help? Our group partners are literally Unicorn whisperers and have started multiple billion dollar startups and have true skin in the game in your success.

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1 year

ScreenTime is a dieting app... that treats all calories the same. Here's how to count digital macros and break your phone addiction:

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1 year

. @elonmusk do you compulsively check twitter when you're trying to get work done? try @getclearspace

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1 year

Have had several people ask…yes we’ll make this happen for your socials.

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1 year

Apple Pay to Unlock

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Merry Christmas and Merry Xmas to all who celebrate!

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@_LindsayCraig @hubermanlab Might be most important question of our day

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7 months

@JamesClear @thogge for the times when I have to have the app on my phone for critical work @getclearspace puts a 15s buffer before opening to eliminate compulsive opens

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@rbfasho

2 years

@scott_bair @biz do you think the photographer said “pose like bullies in a 90s Disney movie” or that was just the energy they were coming with that day

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@rbfasho

1 year

@ronithhh love screen capture as input mechanism 👏 cleanshot's mechanism of docking screenshots could be a helpful reference point for UX

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1 year

@sama hard to wander the desert when all you've known is the promised land

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@rbfasho

4 years

time to #simplifimoney

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@rbfasho

4 months

Want to go fast, go alone. Want to go far, go together. The most tenacious health community online is hosting a screen time challenge on @getclearspace Been thinking what life without a phone addiction could look like? Sign up and find out. Challenge starts at midnight.

Michael Easter

@Michael_Easter

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Join the 2% Screen Time Challenge. It's like Ozempic for screen time. We partnered with @getclearspace . I haven't found a better method for helping people use their phone deliberately. Join the challenge below ⬇️ It starts at midnight tonight.

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