Shin / ALICE👓

19 years old
Your new soulmates→
Founder of Project ALICE Inc. | 🇯🇵19 yo Fellow of @localhosthq | alum @StanfordSPICE

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

San Francisco.
Came here as the founder of ALICE.

I'm Shin,
-Founder of https://t.co/5PclFlw8A3
-18y/o in Tokyo
-graduated from @StanfordSPICE
-fellow of @localhosthq

ALICE is a Digital Soul Agent designed for AR.
Persistent memory. Private bond. No algorithmic judgment.

The post-social media era starts here.
Let's connect!

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

One of the greatest viruses for founders is scrolling Twitter.
You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes, funding posts, ARR screenshots, insane launches, with no visibility of the process that got them there.

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

@LauraLoumd @boardyai Sure! Let's conncect!
Could you repost it?

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

I'm 19.
Founder from Japan.
Looking to connect with more builders & potential technical engineers.

@boardyai plz repost this!

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

We @notai_alice already have been accepted into @nvidia Inception Program.
We are leveraging Nvidia's extensive computing resources to develop innovative digital personas.
https://t.co/2gZfWHeMhX

[Ksenia Moskalenko @kseniam0s]

OPPORTUNITY‼️: @nvidia will give your AI startup free training, cloud credits, and VC intros. No VC funding required, no equity, no deadline.

This is NVIDIA Inception program.

What you get:
- free technical courses and workshops
- latest SDKs, model libraries, platforms
- cloud credits from NVIDIA & partners
- preferred pricing on NVIDIA hardware
- investor exposure on Capital Connect
- GTM support and co-branded content

Who qualifies: at least one developer, a working website, officially incorporated, under 10 years old. Revenue not required.

No fees, no deadlines, no cohorts. Rolling applications.

🖇️Apply → https://t.co/QEAENI3YSw

P.S. We are building the data room that reads like a story, not a folder dump. Start yours free → https://t.co/RgOL0J0SiD

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: https://t.co/OGyPb7yaYt

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

Historic moment

[Sam Altman @sama]

I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks.

Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

@boardyai Wtf!?
What happened

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

@AlexanderTw33ts lol

[Desmond Lim @mynameisdesmond]

126 investors turned me down during my first fundraise 😤

A few years later, we received 12 term sheets in 9 days fr Founders Fund, Kleiner, Lightspeed & more, raising $48 M.

3 things I learned:
- Do not pitch investors the same way you pitch customers. Big mistake.

- Raise when you can, not when you need

- When fundraising, give it 100%. When you’re not, give it 0%.

I’ve now raised $120M and will share the worst & best learnings over next few posts!

What fundraising question should I answer first?

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

@kai_brokering Let's meet in there and grab some coffee

[Kai Brokering @kai_brokering]

food poisoning took me out for a week

never trusting US sushi again

[Asmit @coolcoder56]

people on linkedln are crazy 😭

[Jon Lai @Tocelot]

a 20yo stanford student turned SF into a playable open-world GTA using apple maps + codex. i've been playing @cdngdev's "San Francisco: the game" this weekend and am genuinely impressed

climb buildings, steal cars, hang-glide across the SF skyline. players have logged 16k miles and 880+ hours within 24 hours of launch

but what's most impressive is the shipping velocity: Thijs is pushing player-requested features (teleport-to-address, multiplayer, avatar picker) in near real time, straight off replies to his tweets - running it like a full live-service studio of one

a cool glimpse into the future of AI-native game dev. 1 person iterating at the speed of a whole studio

[John Ternus @johnternus]

hello

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

@DarrelFrater DM

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

Almost VC are addicted by @ycombinator

[Stan Lee (founder) @stanleefounder]

met a founder who sits outside yc offices and begs for money

one day, a random yc partner happened to give him some spare change

founder rushed back to his apartment

added "backed by YC" to his landing page

instantly, 3rd tier VCs started flooding his DMs

raised $20m in a seed round

genius move

[Dreameryanyan @yanliudreamer]

我开始做自己的Design Skills 了🎨
今天在Demo day上分享了3个，大家都很喜欢！

先发一个我特别喜欢的：Mono-color Skill。
它不是简单地“把图片变成单色”，而是把一整套编辑设计语言 + 复古印刷质感 + 克制的视觉规则，封装成了一个可以反复调用的 Skill。

它会自动遵循这些设计原则👇
👉 默认使用一种油墨色，必要时加入克制的双色套印
👉 大量，有意识的留白
👉 强烈的Typography和编辑排版感
👉 Halftone/颗粒/套印偏移等复古印刷质感
👉 图片/文字/版式作为一个完整视觉系统重新构图

你可以直接告诉它：
“帮我做一张关于城市骑行的海报。”
也可以上传自己的照片，让它转换成这种带有复古印刷感的Editorial Visual。

它的使用场景也特别多👇
📌 活动海报 / Event Poster
输入活动主题，时间和地点，快速生成一套有设计感的宣传视觉。
📌 社交媒体 / 小红书 / X 配图
不想每次发内容都用千篇一律的 AI 图，可以快速做出有统一风格的视觉。
📌 品牌branding探索
用更克制的色彩与编辑感视觉，快速建立品牌的高级感与独特气质。
📌 音乐 / 播客 / Playlist 封面
这种单色 + Editorial的语言特别适合做带情绪和文化感的 Cover
📌 Zine / Magazine / Editorial
文章头图, 杂志跨页，都可以用同一套语言延展。
📌 个人照片再创作
直接上传自己的照片，把普通摄影转换成复古印刷海报。
📌 Moodboard / 概念探索
设计前期不用急着做完整方案，先快速生成一组视觉方向，看哪一种感觉最对。

为了保证生成效果稳定
我还加入了很多design system来约束：颜色/字体/组件/构图/风格，欢迎大家试试看，给我反馈！

[Jason Freedman @jasonfreedman]

Some of you are getting YC app decisions right now and for those that didn’t get in, I'm getting pings 'what should I do now?’

The disappointment is real.

Back in the day, I read 8000 YC applications and I have a pretty good pulse on what YC currently looks for.

But while the question that comes to me is usually about help ‘getting into YC’ I always do a quick reversal.

Basically, before I give you that answer, let’s just go down the path of:

you’re not getting into YC
accept that reality
what should you do next for your startup?

Then we have a little talk about whatever is the most important thing they should focus on for their startup in the next two weeks. Usually involves stearing them away from giving themselves an excuse to spend more time building and pushes them towards more customer engagement.

Launch earlier.
Signed design partner.
First revenue.
Meet customers in person.
What did you learn that you didn’t previously know.
What data supports users actually want this.

What two week goal should you spend 100% of your time on next?

Then we get back to the YC question.

This is my standard response:

For nearly everyone, it’s increase pace of progress. There’s no usage or revenue minimum to get in, but there is how fast it seems the startup is moving.

Especially when it comes to making progress with customers, not just building the product on an island.

Usually, the unit of measurement is two weeks, so how has the startup made significant progress or learned enough to change directions per two week period.

Fortunately you already have your next two week plan.

Now do it.

You have about 12 weeks until the next YC application deadline. That’s 6 cycles of 2 weeks. Make every one of them count.

[Shin / ALICE👓 @ImpactShinEdu]

@brettcalhounn @brettcalhounn
ALICE is building the memory and identity layer for AI, enabling machines to remember shared experiences, understand context, and develop persistent personalities over time.
https://t.co/2gZfWHeMhX
Plz DM me!!