Digital Frontier

Exploring technology, business, and society. A must read for the future-curious: founders, investors, and builders shaping what’s next.

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

a note from the frontier.
https://t.co/0gD4J2iUbB

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

There’s something energising about people who see the world a bit differently and do something about it ♥️

Outliers is full of them.

Startups pushing past taboo, poets co-creating with AI, futures that don’t look like the ones we’re used to.

Order now: https://t.co/cHckKcdNV8

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

Who remembers RSS? The little orange icon from the early 2000s.

In 2025, RSS is weirdly useful again, especially if you’re building tools for LLMs or trying to escape algorithm fatigue.

@MBanerjeePalmer on why dead protocols still have life: https://t.co/NKdTdexPHy

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

Skip the surface-level stuff 🙅‍♀️

We’re writing about tulpamancers summoning imaginary friends, retro tech hacked into new machines, the internet’s strangest subcultures & a whole lot more.

This is the weird, brilliant corner of DF you need to be reading: https://t.co/5BrlhKrSJ7

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

“I lost out on a term sheet once because I refused to artificially inflate our revenue numbers.”

@ninamohanty was on the Anatomy of a Founder podcast recently to tell us all about the honest realities of startup life.

Add it to your podcast rotation 🎧
https://t.co/KhZaqsG2lr

[Maika Isogawa @maikaisogawa]

not every founder pivot is born from failure
sometimes it’s prophecy
☀️ → 🛡️ → ⛓��
@sophstein in @DigitalFrontier | @mywebacy

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

Not everyone has someone who can say “you two should talk”.

Yale classmates @nathaneo_j and @_2woot built Series to give you just that: an AI-powered mutual that lives in your inbox and makes warm intros actually feel warm:
https://t.co/bg1OnmYZwz

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

What started with a crypto will ended with an API used by 30+ B2B partners.

@maikaisogawa’s @mywebacy pivot is a masterclass in following the signal 👇
https://t.co/4v4vOL1JjT

[Nina Mohanty @ninamohanty]

I had such fun speaking to @jennifersiegg for the #AnatomyofaFounder podcast.

I was probably a bit too candid about my experience as the daughter of an entrepreneur - now living the role myself. Tune in - or watch me wave my hands about on Youtube! 🤗

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

We had @ninamohanty on the podcast recently getting candid about growing up in Silicon Valley, watching the startup highs, failures and fallout long before she launched her own.

Now she’s building @bloommoney_co with a different kind of clarity.

Full ep: https://t.co/KhZaqsGAaZ

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

Healthtech is having a funding glow up ✨

👉 AI startups are pulling in 62% of US digital health funding
👉 Those rounds are 83% bigger on average
👉 UK health was the most funded sector in H1

What’s behind the shift? Here’s what you need to know:
https://t.co/KE36DOzayy

[Sophia Epstein ☁️ @sophstein]

designer @hotemogf
coder @charlieholtz
visionary @sariazout
vibe researcher @netcapgirl

[michael litman @mlitman]

My four - two dead, two alive:

Turing - Chief Systems Architect
Einstein - Chief Imagination Officer
@signulll - Chief Taste Officer
@nikitabier - Chief Distribution Officer

[Alys Key @alys_key]

Asked Grok what its answer would be to this and it somehow appointed @sama as CEO of Reddit and @demi_guo_ as CEO of... itself?

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

@alys_key Plot twist: he already works for your company. You just don't know it yet 🥲

[Alys Key @alys_key]

CTO, head of growth, head of sales, head of HR

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

You're building a new AI company.
Your budget is unlimited.
Which four people are you hiring? 👀

Quote repost this with your fantasy roster 🚀🚀🚀

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

Skip the boring stories 🙅‍♀️

We’re writing about brain implants that decode dreams, deepfakes that move markets, bitcoin believers who trace their origin stories to ancient carved stones and so much more.

This is where innovation finds meaning: https://t.co/1iVN39PYru

[Sophia Epstein ☁️ @sophstein]

i asked chatgpt to write a poem based on my latest open tabs newsletter, here it is:

Open Tabs 012 (A Poem)
or: Things I Clicked While Avoiding Real Life
Be an outlier, they said,
so I stopped using Google Maps
and asked a tree for directions.

Digital Frontier just dropped — issue 005,
full of people doing improbable things,
like dreaming with spreadsheets
or building utopias using code and vibes.
I spoke to visionaries
who made the future sound
like a casual brunch plan.
(“We’ll fix the world. Around noon?”)
Now my brain is fluttering,
like an old tab left open,
still playing music from 2003.

While you wait for your copy,
here’s what I’ve been browsing:
— Cass Sunstein on AI (and how not to ruin it).
— The glittering GIFs of Geocities past.
— A Spotify playlist about computers:
“Ctrl + Alt + Repeat.”
— Turn your selfies into GTA scenes.
— Space drugs. (Yes, really.)
— RIP Pocket: now we skim and forget faster.
— Vibeslist: find a café by chatting to a bot
who probably drinks matcha.

— RSS refuses to die (respect).
— ASCII venting machines: finally,
therapy for terminal users.
— And soon, a game where you draw like a human,
and hope the AI doesn’t guess “banana.”
So here’s to the outliers —
the people who colour outside the code,
who leave tabs open not by accident,
but on purpose.

if all those em dashes don’t make you want to subscribe, i don’t know what will...

[Digital Frontier @DigitalFrontier]

“What baffles me is that 50 of the UK’s richest families hold as much wealth as 34 million people.”

@dama_yanthy @bg_ventures calls for founders to tackle income inequality & build solutions that make life more accessible for those on lowest incomes: https://t.co/IpT6a3bJWO