Melbourne, Victoria
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We’re doing niche funnels for AI psychosis now
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
I don't like the way opencode prints your whole fkn .zshrc into the convo so it becomes part of the session, functionally no difference between using profile vars and giving it full view of a .env, but I feel like if it were an issue smarter people would have arced up about it
This is just standard tech industry stuff and normies don’t get it
Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and husband used stuffed-animal 'advisory council' for workplace conflicts: report trib.al/56qjBzd
It sucks that a non negligible amount of AI development is motivated by software types being personally aggrieved by not being able to secure a booking at French Laundry, but at least those ones aren’t motivated by bloodlust or whatever
I hate when a brand has a really good product, but they spam me with the *worst* UGC ads featuring annoying people doing hollowed-out memespeak, every one making more less likely to purchase than the last...
I’m so glad we have a long weekend so I can really lock in an consume all the memes from the globe article
When I was a baby consultant everyone’s secret sauce was a ppt plugin from Accenture called QPT (huge pack of power user utilities) and everyone had a “plug” for the install file for it - I was still shit at slides though, didn’t have the artistry for it
It is somehow a key component of this activity that the dancers be wearing masks that are very cursed looking while they flip off walls and things
I’ve been saying a lot of this - I’m a little bit hard of hearing and can’t hear anything from them, we have “additionality” rules for power generation, and the water etc. with respect to West Footscray there are a couple of complaints from residents which do seem unspecious
Every second iOS update completely borks autocorrect to the point where it feels like you’re having a medical event
Ppl have been saying the thing about charging for cabin baggage for years, because people really bloody do try it on, but key part was checked baggage was supposed to be included… without that you’re not solving the problem just making a new arbitrage of which fee is worth it
I’ve noticed that @googlemaps can’t handle the routing for the new Metro Tunnel stations yet, for example when you put in Footscray to Town Hall or State Library is has you back track to middle Footscray then pass back through Footscray on a train to get to the new loop stations