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“I remember coming out of YC with you we were YC batchmates in 2008 and um you were the first either the first or among the first to have a uh Square photo with a feed a social feed with a follow graph…”
“and then later you were the co-founder of secret which was sort of like the bridge too far in consumer social sort of like the last it was like the last wave of consumer social that had like really in…”
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“my father, who's also a scientist, is an enormous fan of your waking up app.”
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“metsai.com that's a collaboration with Dr. Alli Houston, he's at Oxford and Georgia Eid, who might be good to have on the show.”
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“I'm not going to switch to emergent labs, but I would say it's in the top 10% of vibe coding apps.”
“And if you are a student, you should go with kind of just like the default built-in note-taking apps like Apple Notes or Google Keep or if you have an Android phone, you might have one builtin.”
“You and I both talked about the way and Henry Shookman a ton. The Way being his app. And Henry's just a great leader, great Zen master, and was accompanied by Valerie, another Zen mastercloud”
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“In the last week, Claude's desktop app has shipped a bunch of features that do a lot of what OpenClaw can do in a more userfriendly way.”
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“And Cash Ali is the co-founder and CEO of Tax GPT. He went through launch and y combinator and he's building an AI tax assistant for everyone starting with accounting and advisory firms.”
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“The genesis of this idea is from a app that Disha and I built in December 23. It was called Sudguru AI. Sadguru is a very famous Indian yogi. >> Okay. >> Uh that app went viral in India and one of the…”
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“I was working on a team called the the batch team and the product we were working on is called Bookface which is basically like Facebook for all the founders who do YC and it has a ton of resources an…”
“We actually collaborated on launching YC's mobile app together if you remember that”
“So I worked on a bunch of backend systems for Instagram stories and Facebook newsfeed both of which are very large consumer like high DAU products.”
“So I worked on a bunch of backend systems for Instagram stories and Facebook newsfeed both of which are very large consumer like high DAU products.”
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“My name is Bryan AKA MindofBun, I'm on the app Musical.ly and I have a following of over 600,000 people. Not only that but I'm one of four Musical.ly reps that live in New York City.”
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“I used to use My Fitness Pal all the time. I was like entering in the food and you could do they had a pretty good database.”
“And instead of leaving it off or on a static screen, I've been using LG Gallery Plus through webOS.”
“I started using this app, Higsfield AI, and they have this AI stylist feature, and you can literally take all of the clothing that you own or clothing that you want to own and see it on yourself in an…”
“Now we have Dispatch which allows you to control your AI agents from your phone.”
“So, that is um I use one called Monologue, but there's a lot out there on the market. Whisper Flow is another popular one and it just allows you to hold a little button on your computer and just yap a…”
“go to the cheapest gym or like download an app like Freletics and and work out, do like push-ups, squats, do that in the cheapest way possible.”
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“There's enough um programs to download that how do you get from the the couch to 5K, 3 miles, how do you do that? And there's loads of instructions, YouTube, whatever”
“I use an app like an AI app that helps on the strength training side that gives you a workout based on your goals and objectives and it's way way cheaper than a human trainer but better than just a du…”
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“I could tell since I started using uh the app created by a startup I funded called Nori. It's an AI healthcare app and it hooked up to my Apple Watch data. And boy [music] those AI reports thought I w…”
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“As far as if you should install iOS 26.5 beta 1 at this point, probably not, unless you're a developer or beta tester testing out a new app, as there's not anything significant just yet.”
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“Love Superhuman but it didn't give me enough of what I needed for this specific challenge”
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“uninstalled the chatgpt app.”
“we have an app called serenade who's building on us on codex these days that is for uh for developers to uh to do voice to to to code in an editor”
“so like I'm running a limitless which listens to uh my voice on calls like this and writes a transcript right”
“If folks have seen what happens in the the DI uh mode in the chbt IOS app for example it's actually doing a little bit”
“They hooked up, they both downloaded Wallet of Satoshi which is an incredible onboarding tool, I don't know how this company does it, but they built something truly simple and instant.”
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