🌹 𝗪𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 $𝟲𝗠 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 Five years ago, @seandadashi and I realized the attention economy was doing more harm than good—keeping kids and adults glued to screens, chasing dopamine. As technologists, we felt a personal responsibility to build something healthier and nourishing. After experimenting with mindful social apps—and taking a wrong turn into NFTs—we returned to our core mission: 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱. That mission came to life in @joinrosebud—an AI journal designed with therapists to help people slow down, reflect deeply, and grow. It remembers what matters and reflects it back when you’re ready to hear it. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁‐𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝘁 • Launched in July 2023 with a lean team and limited capital • Embraced hypothesis-driven development and counted every penny • Reached profitability in 18 months with 100K+ signups 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 • 8,000+ paying customers • 500 million words journaled • 30 million mindful minutes logged • 75% of users report mental health improvements in 30 days 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 Led by @BessemerVP with participation from @Initialized, @sevensevensix, @FuelCapital, @avenirgrowth, @tferriss, and other strategic partners—this $6M round will help us: • Expand our product and engineering team • Accelerate expansion with our new Head of Growth, @growwitharjun • Deepen partnerships with therapists and coaches • Scale our purpose-built memory engine for personal growth "Mental health support shouldn't be bound by time, place, or privilege. Rosebud is leading the charge in combining AI with long-term memory to become a trusted companion in your pocket." – Maha Malik, Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 “When I couldn’t trust my perceptions in my relationship, Rosebud’s memory of my past entries validated my feelings—and helped me trust myself again.” — Rosebud user, domestic violence survivor 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻. We’re humbled by how far we’ve come and energized by what’s ahead. If you’re passionate about mental health tech, we’re hiring in LA! 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 to our family and team: Monte, Ella, Michael, Rebecca, Arjun, Diego, and my wonderful fiancé Alice 💐

in the end we are the assistants to the ai

At least 7 years in the making

Opus 5.5 is a narc now - refused to scrape a site. so i asked it to write instructions for a more enterprising agent, and Astra gladly took the job.

there aren’t enough slots here for me

peak AI marketing: Sonnet 5.5 is 30% cheaper, but the docs show the new tokenizer inflates token counts by ~30%. it literally cancels out. the house always wins 💸

i need a decision API to decide which decision API to use

i (and many) churned from @superwhisper after the last update - awful transcriptions pro-tip: use whisper-local (github), it's free, open-source and runs all local

services like @webflow / @framer are screwed in the past couple weeks I’ve talked to at least a dozen people who used Fable to bring their websites in-house, ourselves included it’s a no brainer

installed deepseek v4 pro flash on my computer referred to me as "small human" in our very first interaction it's happening

Why did my Codex suddenly start yeeting?

someone closing your laptop at home is the new version of picking up the phone when you’re dialed up to AOL

everyone's gonna be watching this tweet from 2021 come sunday!

alphaclaw is now an officially sponsored @render template 🙏 it's where @garrytan runs his agents with gbrain and gstack and alphaclaw users get $50 in @render credits with code RENDER-ALPHACLAW

today i designated @garrytan as the successor to AlphaClaw's @github repo in the event of my death

some recent favorite codexisms: "Still waiting on BigQuery partition replacement. The silence is normal but not especially charming." "The spreadsheet gremlin giveth and taketh away."

when you fan out Codex subagents

drones are pressure washing buildings now

rip

Opus 4.8: "Yeah, that’s exactly how I’d classify it now: worth smoothing, but not worth turning into a yak-shave vortex." what is a yak-shave vortex?

1. you order pizza directly from a store that uses @DoorDash to deliver. 2. the DoorDash driver picks up the food but never delivers it to you. who is accountable?