Edison Chen

@theclapperapp product builder, early stage Investor

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

Most platforms talk about supporting creators. Then they run ads against their content.

@theclapperapp was built around a different idea: that the people who deserve to be heard are often the ones the algorithm ignores.

The homesteader sharing decades of land knowledge. The hobbyist machinist teaching skills that would otherwise disappear. The everyday person with something real to say to a community that actually wants to hear it.

These creators are not edge cases. They are the creator economy. And in 2026, they are building some of the most loyal, engaged audiences online, without going viral once.

Clapper gives them tools that match that reality. No in-app ads cluttering their content. A fair-use algorithm that does not simply reward whoever posted last or spent the most on promotion. Live streaming, community groups, and Clapper Fam subscriptions that let them earn directly from the people who show up for them.
Being heard should not require being famous first.

That is what Be heard. Be seen. Be valued. means to us. Not a tagline. A design principle.

If you are a creator who has felt invisible on other platforms, or a community that deserves a real home, Clapper was built for you.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

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[Olares @Olares_OS]

DGX Spark owners rejoice! Olares OS is now available on @NVIDIA_AI_PC ’s DGX Spark! It comes with a sophisticated sandbox system + an App Store for containerized AI apps, that fully utilize your GPUs. Run multiple AI agents & local models securely & efficiently on your Spark!

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

Claude is eating the world!

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[austin lau @helloitsaustin]

if you're a performance marketer, here's how I use a custom Claude Cowork plugin to manage Google Ads at @AnthropicAI. it connects to the Google Ads API via MCP, encodes my common paid search workflows into skills, and works on desktop and Dispatch.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

The industry is changing too fast.

[Sora @soraofficialapp]

We’re saying goodbye to the Sora app. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing.

We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

AI ate bits. next it eats atoms. the real frontier is @SpaceX, autonomous fleets, general robotics. chatbots were the tutorial level.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

non-technical founders using @openclaw as their first engineer is the biggest unlock since AWS. you don’t need a CTO to ship v1 anymore, just taste.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

turned down a term sheet for @theclapperapp because the partner called Gen X “a shrinking segment.” 6 months later he asked for an allocation. I said we were full.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

hot take: @RunwayML helps real creators ship faster, Sora helps @OpenAI ship cooler demos, and Kling mostly helps China remind Hollywood they’re not special anymore

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

everyone chased Gen Z watch time. @theclapperapp bet Gen X/Y wallet share. short video didn’t fail, targeting did.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

2-sided marketplaces die from imbalance, not competition. too many creators = spam, too many lurkers = silence. @theclapperapp optimizes for tension, not scale.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

claim: multimodal AI turns creators into directors-of-orchestras, not editors-on-timelines. text→video, auto-edits, scene search. @theclapperapp is hiring for that world.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

crypto in my VC portfolio: 90% illiquid bets in founders, 10% liquid beta in IBIT/ETHU. if I’m underwriting @ethereum anyway, might as well get paid while LPs sleep.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

claim: @bitzfilms will ship weirder, better stories than Hollywood once AI video stops being a demo and starts being a pipeline. they’re already building the pipeline.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

AI video demo: 12s of perfect lighting, lipsync, and vibes. production: 3h of prompts, stitching, denoising, rights clearance, re-render. most decks skip that part. @theclapperapp doesn’t.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

everyone chases teens on TikTok. claim: the next $10B short-video market is 35–60 y/o, owns the house, pays the bills, and is bored on the couch. that’s who @theclapperapp builds for.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

claim: the real frontier of AI isn’t chatbots, it’s @SpaceX launch profiles, robot arms, and autonomous fleets negotiating payments over Stripe’s MPP. the atoms are finally catching up to the bits.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

everyone panicking about “AI escapes sandbox, executes malware.” I kindly disagree that this is new. it’s just computers doing computer things. the real bug is humans pretending @OpenAI or @AnthropicAI are magic walls.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

told a top creator “no” on a revenue share they’d easily get elsewhere. they left. growth dipped. still think @theclapperapp dies faster if we sell the floor that low.

[Edison Chen @edchen_eth]

models are commodities. the moat is the compounding loop between weird proprietary data, owned distribution, and the workflow no one wants to rip out. ask @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, @GoogleDeepMind.