📍American Sardine Bar. What a f’n delicious gem on the way back to PHL(🛫). Also, aluminum webbed chairs are so nostalgic we need those everywhere again 🇺🇸 Once again, @buildyourcorner comes in the clutch

voted most likely to take off with gen alpha by ppl who are not gen alpha. we will take it.

I have being "gen z app" pilled. With apps like @_poolday_ and @buildyourcorner The UI is fun and in terms of complexity, they could be simpler. One is a "screenshots on steroids" and the other is a "google maps made gen z" I like this kind of apps 😊 I want more.

I'm in San Francisco this week and got the chance to drop by @ForerunnerVC Humans in the Loop showcase for Consumer AI founders! my takeaways: 1️⃣ AI is becoming a collaborator that works with you in real-time. Apps are evolving beyond chat into interactive workspaces where users collaborate with AI agents and watch outputs take shape in real time – from travel itineraries to polished brand assets. User Interfaces are becoming more dynamic, proactive, and ambient as agents adapt to your intent and help you achieve your goals. 2️⃣ Every app is vying to be the source-of-truth context layer for AI. Apps are all racing to turn unstructured user content/behavior into context that powers smarter, more personalized experiences. For @buildyourcorner, that means transforming restaurant reviews and photos into rich interest graphs for better recommendations than Yelp. For Alta , it means digitizing your messy wardrobe so it can help you plan outfits and discover new looks. For Indexed Labs, this means ingesting your overflowing email inbox and busy calendar to organize your life. 3️⃣ Text Messages are becoming the new go-to distribution channel for consumer apps. The hardest problem in consumer is getting users to download a new app. Every extra step adds friction, and friction kills adoption. That's why more startups are embedding themselves into existing apps & workflows instead of trying to invent new behaviors. For example, companies like @interaction use iMessage as their primary distribution channel because it's already where users spend their time chatting. At the end, OpenAI's Nick Turley advised all founders to ask themselves: "How does my product get better as models get better?" It's a GOATED question. But I still believe the top priority is solving real, important customer problems that meaningfully improve peoples' lives. If you can do that -- going really deep and doing it exceptionally well -- then your product's value will only compound as AI model capabilities continue improving!!!

I don't go anywhere so I don't get to use @buildyourcorner like I want but they still have the best ui/ux in the world.

Needed to find something fast but still delicious after a work trip in Cleveland. As always, @buildyourcorner comes in clutch. 📍Il Rione 🇮🇹🔥🤌🏽

an easy hack to avoid summer interns when going out

all we had was a snack trolley and a dream. gave out over 500 qr codes and fliers in the busiest nyc neighborhoods. turns out when you meet people where they're at (hungry and waiting on line), they're willing to hear you out.

Places are increasingly made popular by influencers, TikTok, and Instagram. The result: insane lines for spots that are often good, but rarely worth that much hype. So curation matters more than ever. You need trusted filters that help you find actual quality and cut through the noise. A few I trust: - Beli - @buildyourcorner - @pi_fyi

the floodgates are open... aka DMs are live on corner. who knew a map could bring more people together than dating apps?

@buildyourcorner and I are both extremely pumped for the weekend roundup

1.86m apps on the U.S. app store. only 365 app of the day's a year. @buildyourcorner is the first app @jakexia27 and i ever built and we will die on this hill: we are the first generation to have *more of other people's memories* than our own. take a second to think about that. when our users are 90, we want them to look back on their corner profiles and remember all of the adventures they've been on and how much of the world they explored. not how much they scrolled. a small win for the team today. winning apple's design award has always been one of our side quests. one step closer!

couldn’t sleep last night, went to update my apple maps list w recent spots but ui now sucks, so tried out @buildyourcorner and accidentally locked in and now i’m #5 all time in toronto and #2 globally this week

IRL is going to crush AI over the next 5 years. In the last 3 months, $750M in capital was deployed on "anti-AI" bets. Big players are doubling down on their investments in events, experiences and in-person connection. Here's what I'm seeing: @cornerapp, a social map app for Gen Z, has grown to 60K users helping people curate and share places to meet IRL—"Google Maps but social." Everyone ik in NYC loves them. @partiful, @poshvip_, and @LumaHQ have raised a combined $60M and are exploding. Partiful hit 500K MAU, Posh hit 6 million registered users, and Luma has over 2 million users signing up for events. Harvard alum @aidaxbaradari just launched @be_inaudible, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings and keep IRL conversations private. @mcuban made a massive bet, investing in Burwoodland, a NYC-based live-events company behind IRL experiences in the US, Canada, and Europe. Former COO and CPO of Hinge officially launched Rodeo to help people spend more time IRL with friends. @a16z keeps doubling down on IRL via investments and a16z Build — a dinner series and community for founders / operators figuring out their next move. @nazzari, @katiekirsch, @eriktorenberg. Billion-dollar companies are paying $$$ for community and events leads: - @AnthropicAI: Events Lead - $320k - @Substack: Events Lead - $190k - @VaynerMedia: Head of Experiential - $250k - @Spotify: Global Experiential & Content - $175k - @BiltRewards: Director of Events & Experiences - $150k Investors are pouring billions of dollars into AI. But smart money is quietly deploying millions into IRL at the same time. a16z backs both OpenAI and Partiful. ElevenLabs and Substack. The nuance is - it's not AI vs. IRL. It's that the more we live online, the more premium real-life connection becomes. They're not competing investments. They're a hedge on each other.

new year, new corner!! excited to share some new features we just dropped in the app. download it now and give it a try :)

Once again, @buildyourcorner comes through! On a work trip to SF and my colleague hadn't been here before (shocking). He wanted oysters and first app I went to find a spot was Corner. 📍That led us to Popi's Oysterette in Marina District. Ridiculous raw and grilled oysters and the grilled crab pasta was 🔥🤌

i’m usually quite critical of new social media meets maps apps but @buildyourcorner is a welcomed exception

It would be such a shame

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