Hamed

father • founder • finance professional •
building products around AI to solve real problems

[Hamed @HamedTweets]

remember when you'd log in and it was just your friends? like actually your friends. not influencers, not "people you may know," not a stranger's political opinion algorithmically selected to make you angry enough to keep scrolling.

the whole thing used to be what are my people up to. now it's what does the machine want me to look at for 40 more minutes. the friends are still in there somewhere, buried under six ads.

and the weird part is we all know. everyone i talk to knows. we open the app, feel worse, close it, open it again 20 minutes later. it stopped being social years ago. it's a slot machine with a comments section.

the thing i actually miss isn't posting. i don't want to post. i want to know my brother went for a run this morning. i want to see that my friend landed in tokyo. i want the group i went to college with to have a place that isn't a whatsapp thread of 400 unread messages about nothing.

none of that needs an algorithmic feed. none of that needs strangers. none of it needs to be content.

i've been building something with a few friends for the last while trying to get back to that. small groups, your actual people, and instead of posts it's just... your life, quietly shared with the ones you chose. steps, trips, habits, where you are if you want them to know, nothing if you don't. no algorithm. no discover tab. no strangers. no ads, ever.

called it Circles. pre-launch, ios first...probably. if any of this resonates the waitlist is https://t.co/NHp10YoJIV . and if it doesn't genuinely, i hope you find whatever gets you off the slot machine. life is too short. peace.

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Social media is weird because your friends have no idea what you did today but hundreds of strangers do.

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And the hot takes are just as bad fyi thank you 🙏

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Unpopular Opinion : these types of posts are getting annoying, because they are in fact not that unpopular.

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Some screenshots on what I’m making with https://t.co/sZd7Qq8W9e

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SaaS is hard

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Canada doesn’t need to become Silicon Valley. It needs to stop treating ambition like a suspicious financial transaction.

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@oykun That mouse is the worst mouse ever

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Another day another open source model release

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A small business with loyal customers and healthy margins is more impressive than a startup with 40 employees and a very inspirational runway chart.

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Is codex actually get a reset on Monday is that set in stone

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Social media stopped being about connecting with friends and families years ago

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Back again

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Rare advice: learn to recognize fake urgency. Some people use deadlines to transfer their lack of planning directly into your nervous system.

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How do you monetize a social media platform without advertisements or subscription plans?

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@CristianRus4 @elonmusk I was jus thinking this 😂

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Everyone wants an autonomous agent until it autonomously chooses a design system.

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claude code cross sessions will be more convenient than handoff.md's

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social media was stolen from us and replaced with slot machines filled with ads and extreme content

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Your investment thesis should include what would prove you wrong. Otherwise it’s not a thesis. It’s a hostage situation.