Ryan Brodie

Founder & CEO at @Onin · Co-Founder & ex-CTO at @muzz_app (YC S17) · Angel Investor

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

Today's nearly three years in the making.

Finally, learn what makes @Onin so special at https://t.co/J9bhJ71ku1 and join the waitlist to be one of the first to use it in January 🗓💬🔒

[OurCal @onin]

Our website is live🥳 Finally, we’re unveiling Onin. Here’s a taste 👇

📆  A calendar for your personal and social life
💬  Messaging to organise event chatter
🔒  End-to-end encrypted events and chats

See the app and join the waitlist ⬇️📱🔥

https://t.co/ifiG0fIOOJ

[Jeremy Hindle @Mentioum]

Heya @KanishkaNarayan, I got out of general anaesthetic surgery this afternoon and had the rare opportunity to read some news while whacked out on codeine. What else would one do in those circumstances but end up reading about TFLs new 'Oyster' supplier and felt compelled to write this to you.

Here's a perfect example of what could have been a massive opportunity for the UK and if it is happening (can't change) what should ('could' if you want me to be nice) happen next:

@TfL has decided to grant its payments system (Oyster) to a Spanish company (Indra)

The contract is worth £524M initially and £800M+ potentially.

This was previously outsourced to a US company called Cubic which racked up and estimated £1bn over its years of usage... (~£100M a year)

THIS should be being built internally and in the UK. This is not that hard. TFL could hire deployment staff and engineers can build this whether internally or at a UK sovereign company. Many UK founders have built scalable solutions which handle *far* more transactions per second than TFL requires. I think people grossly underestimate transaction volumes built by people in the UK. I can send you a list of you like over email.

It's not a talent problem, it's a vision and commitment problem. It's not expensive... even just to try! This was and is a revenue *opportunity* for TFL to grow!

TFL has one of the best, if not THE best undergrounds in the world, with some of the best data in the world. Outsourcing is a joke. *WE* should be powering everyone else's contactless public transport ticketing systems. Have you seen how bad some other countries have it!?!

I wanted to share this example with you given our dinner late last year.

I know people who would be excited to build this... Yet they never even knew the opportunity was being sold to another country at great loss to the taxpayer AND to our tech sovereignty. If you want people to build cool tech for Government and in the UK... Tell them they can, pay them well and let them have access to proprietary and valuable sovereign data which belongs to the UK! It's exciting and will attract great talent! Hard problems get good people excited!

We should be building systems like this ourselves. Not on the cheap like the congestion and ULEZ systems (which are a joke btw - if it costs a lot to build/maintain god help me please!). Properly, with proper salaries befitting the potential tax payer savings and international revenue opportunity available to the UK!

Don't get me started on who was picked instead.

cc. @MayorofLondon

Also cc @alexfmac since he talks a lot of sense when it comes to Public remuneration for talented people.

Also - another potential idea if the Gov can't stomach the salaries (they should). You could offer tax breaks for those who work on Sovereign tech or at Sovereign tech companies. Limit them to basic rate tax, write off their student loans early, be generous other ways to attract talent. Want amazing, capable, qualified exiting founders to come work on hard government problems. Put their Entrepreneurs relief back how it was for their exit subject to them working on gov for several years (though I think it should be put back for all venture backed founders).

[Fabian Kamberi @fabiankamberi]

We believe your next favorite human...isn’t. Today we’re Born: announcing a $15M Series A to reimagine AI friends.

Here's our story:

[Rob Van Den Bergh @bob_bergh]

Proud to today announce the Fluent investment raise of $7.5M to make business data accessible to everyone, not just those that know SQL.

Whether it is a question about a particular client, a new feature launched or the financial performance of a division, with Fluent you can ask data questions directly and get insights instantly.

Thanks to @TechCrunch and @mikebutcher for covering our raise.

[Fluent @fluenthqdata]

Excited to be announcing our $7.5M fundraise with @HoxtonVentures, @hkanji and @ClarkValberg!

[OurCal @onin]

It’s launch day! 🚀

Earlier this year we launched Onin, the privacy-first social calendar app for friends.

Today we're launching OurCal, the privacy-first shared calendar app helping couples, families, and groups share calendars privately🔐

Available now on iOS and Android 👉 https://t.co/DdNU8D30s5

Read the full scoop 👉 https://t.co/8cQXLLBt8w

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

Every one of these features the @onin community asked for ♥️

Keep adding ideas and voting! ��️ https://t.co/bHAcXYockB

[OurCal @onin]

IT’S ABOUT TIME 📣 ✨

Onin just launched on Android 🤖 👏

With this release comes all new features 🎁 🥹

🪄 Onin adds simple invite links and chats to all your calendar events
🤝 It works with all your existing calendars like Apple, Google, Outlook +
🔗 This lets you add anyone to an event with just a link (no emails 🥱)
💬 Plan together in an encrypted group chat on the calendar event

Read the scoop and get the app 👉

https://t.co/gsuZqgsGd2

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

I had the pleasure of attending #WWDC23 and I’m feeling super inspired to continue building @Onin for the Apple ecosystem

It felt like the perfect time to reflect on our progress since the launch 🗞️🚀

https://t.co/CMHd3oFz9P

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

@joeprkns Have had this on repeat since it dropped 😮‍💨

https://t.co/qgI8iknBEZ

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

@joeprkns Exactly, compounding productivity is the history of the human race

[OurCal @onin]

Building in public #004: Our new landing page is live 🎁  It introduces @onin — the calendar for friends — with more simplicity and feature-focus than seen before ❤️  Thanks for the support✌️➡️ https://t.co/kMWGlFlTdy

[OurCal @onin]

Building In Public 002: The highlight of last week had to be when @HarryStebbings asked for Onin — he just didn’t know it. It’s moments like this that fire us up 🔥

#buildinpublic #ios #business

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

@almostcmb DM me for @onin early access! 🔒 🗓 💬

[Joe Perkins @joeprkns]

@HarryStebbings You should speak with @brod_ie - building exactly this with @onin

[OurCal @onin]

@ProductHunt 🔒🗓💬

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

Let's go! ⏳

[OurCal @onin]

Tomorrow, we’re inviting the first 100 people to try Onin 💯📱 Your new calendar, for personal and social. Jump on the waitlist (now 840 people strong 🔥) and refer your friends to get to the top ⬆️ PS we're releasing to iOS first, with Android coming soon 🛠

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

@Tesla @ryanshawtech You’ll be interested in this too I’m sure

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

MagSafe open sourced as next-gen Qi standard is incredibly good news

2023 will be the year Apple opens up.

Next: 📱 USB-C iPhones, 🛍️ third party iOS app stores, and 🤞 iOS default calendar app pref

https://t.co/PDw0pN3SZZ

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

This also means MagSafe will be coming to @Tesla’s too…

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

Turning grief into good, now that’s angelic.

https://t.co/wxJtHibjKD

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

An emotional 🧵 this.

I’ve written 8 angel cheques in under 2 years but @GAngel_Network always felt different.

[Ryan Brodie @brod_ie]

Last week, just 20 days before Christmas, @GAngel_Network joined @Octopus_Group_.

Working with Sam on this has truly been an honour and I couldn’t be happier and prouder for him and the team.