berni rl/acc

irl/acc | tech x entrepreneurship
🧍‍♀️🧍🧍‍♂️ |🤖 | ⚡₿ | ex @saucelabs

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@andrew_pynch don't jinx it!

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

tech fun fact - we've sent over 1M email and sms messages to facilitate all the great communities we have on the platform

[Rae 🍽️ @raechellambert]

.@TheFP is using @getdnnr to power supper clubs in 40 cities around the world.

But our story with them actually started years ago. When we were building River, our meetup platform, The Free Press signed on to create a white-labeled experience for its community. We made it pretty far together, but ultimately the format—which relied on crowdsourced volunteer hosts—never felt quite right.

Their interest in bringing readers together was real. Our product and business model simply wasn’t right.

That experience helped push us toward a hard pivot.

We still believed deeply in IRL community and in helping organizations bring their audiences together without having to personally plan or host every gathering. So we took what we had learned about white-label community infrastructure and applied it to social dining.

We launched DNNR almost exactly one year ago.

Our first partner was Troy Farkas, creator of Seacoast Stories, a local newsletter here in New Hampshire. Troy hosts one dinner at a time, in one city, for roughly 125 people. It creates meaningful revenue for his business and real connection in his local community.

Then The Free Press came back to us. This time, we pitched a supper club.

They tested it with friends and family in New York, then immediately scaled to 2,000 people across 30 cities. Their first event sold 2,000 seats. Their second is happening tomorrow night, with another 2,000 people gathering across 40 cities around the world.

It has been an incredible full-circle moment.

Olga Moriarty and Alyssa Ajello, who lead community at The Free Press, have been thoughtful, ambitious partners. Their close feedback has made our product dramatically better.

And together, we’ve proven that this model works at very different scales.

🌱 It can power one 125-person dinner club for a local creator.
🌳 It can also power 2,000 members for a global media company.

In both cases, the community comes together, the organization earns revenue, and more money flows to local restaurants.

That is what excites me most about this next era of IRL community: intimate experiences that can scale without losing what makes them meaningful.

I’m incredibly proud of our team and grateful to The Free Press for trusting us with their community.

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

IRL revolution is real 🥳

[The Free Press @TheFP]

On June 18, The Free Press is hosting dinners in 12 cities across three countries.

[Rae 🍽️ @raechellambert]

Free Press Supper Club just dropped in 12 cities (25 neighborhoods!) with more cities being added.

Proudly powered by my startup @getdnnr

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Introducing The Free Press Supper Club: Good food. Smart people. Real conversation. https://t.co/x6gWf9xQ55

[@jason @Jason]

if you're a podcaster, have an email newsletter or any onlinbe community, consider hosting a DNNR --- your community will love you for it and you'll unlock a new revenue stream to make your business sustainable!

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@Jason join the IRL revolution 🫶

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@raechellambert @beehiiv ready to start cookin, please share the COOKBOOK 🙌

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@raechellambert @beehiiv @getdnnr the only thing that matters in post-AGI world is IRL

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@Gregorein slopmaxxing

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

AI flippening isn't when AI takes your job
it's when agents start hiring humans to bypass anti-AI CAPTCHAs
we didn't lose our jobs... we became the CAPTCHA monkeys.

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@theo you mean re-vibed?

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@raechellambert what's the most interesting outcome? IRL winning in the AI era 🤔

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@thesamparr great insights, kudos @TheJeffBenning

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Borys Musielak @ Warsaw @michuk]

Warsaw quietly became the engineering hub of Europe.

The city is home to engineering offices of top global AI and tech companies:

1. OpenAI
2. Mistral AI
3. ElevenLabs
4. Google
5. Snowflake
6. Netflix
7. Affirm 
8. Dropbox 
9. Box 
10. Amazon (AWS)
11. Microsoft
12. Meta
13. IBM
14. Bolt
15. Samsung
16. NVidia
17. Waymo
18. Asana 
19. Palantir
20. Pinterest

Building a leading tech product?
Build in #techwawa

[Rae 🍽️ @raechellambert]

One of our first dinner club customers.

Had 4,500 instagram followers in a small New England town when they announced their first dinner club in July. Has earned $5k+ so far.

Dark green is returning dinner club members.

We orchestrate everything (group matching, restaurant sourcing, reservations, comms) — they just announce.

People love making new friends. Restaurants love midweek bookings. Creators earn money.

Who here wants to send their audience out to dinner?

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

@MikeyPesto @raechellambert congrats!

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

new scaling milestone hit with https://t.co/HBv8iiL0X7 ✅ we've exhausted db connection pool while sending notifications lol

[berni rl/acc @bkobos]

welcome to time when vibecoding has taken down the internet