Eric Liu

building THE social network @ditto_dates because it's there

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@venturetwins dont forget @ditto_dates. we are one of the biggest on imessage

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@TTrimoreau abg

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@alexsllater ayyy

[Allen Wang @AllenWangzian]

Here’s our application video to @ycombinator s26: agentic body count detector

We built a 4 agent committee to analyze how many body count people think you have based on your appearance

We are pushing the frontier of AI for Biology with the aim to increase birth rate, which is a serious problem human race is facing right now

It comes with a full analysis of your body count as well as ways to increase it and therefore make sure we can have more babies in our society

Try now link in comment

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@jc_he_afk 求邀请码🙋

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@boardyai paparazzi

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@DanielSmidstrup claude can't set you up on a date with an abg❤️

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@boardyai abgs

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@jahcoins3 chat soon!

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

make this summer the summer you would tell your situationship.

check out Ditto's summer internship residency.

not the kind who spend 10 weeks making slides nobody reads.

but the kind who build parts of a network that will benefit billions of people.

we raised $9.2m. and yes, we use it to throw yacht parties so you can go.

you will work directly with me and Allen Wang, alongside ex-Anthropic researchers and ioi medalists.

comment your email below to get your application on top of the list.

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

ppl swipe on dating apps because of fear.

we gave love such a high status in modern life
people now feel guilty if they are not actively pursuing it.

like if you have not had some huge, cinematic, life-defining romance
your life isnt complete

so that fear pushes ppl to keep pursuing
hoping that romance will eventually land

dating apps trained people to believe every empty moment should be optimized.

they made it feel like finding someone should fit neatly into your dead time.
just swipe a little on the train/before bed.

the problem is that this changes the kind of love people end up building toward.
how you look for love shapes what kind of love you are available for.

sometimes the better move is not more swiping.

sometimes it is having a life that is actually worth interrupting.

this is exactly what feels broken to me about most dating products.

they are great at turning fear into engagement.

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@boardyai ditto

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@paulg i’d argue pivoting is founders’ way of exploring new ideas. before making @ditto_dates we pivoted 7 times, and each of those products were very different.

setting a goal or having a vision does not constrain the approaches.

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@hthieblot you fill out a form and expect a date every wednesday. everything is through imessage

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

@hthieblot relationship

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@daniel_tian1 🤩🤩

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

pornhub’s algorithm engineers have the most useless jobs.

the product is trying to learn from users whose first instince is:
plz forget i was ever here.

this is not about porn, its a product thing.

a lot of teams miss this.
they think if the algorithm gets good enough, the product gets better.
not always.

sometimes the user does not want to be understood more deeply.
they want speed and privacy

that is the real job:
not just building a better algorithm.
but understanding how people actually use the product.

instead of building a recommendation model, pornhub should just do a collab with kleenex.
comment below whether you use pornhub in incognito mode

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

https://t.co/dtls0RzLMt

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

the market is going to need a lot more of that person.
we need them too. if this is you, check: https://t.co/JzoPJCT9rK

[Eric Liu @eric6liu]

product designers aren't dead.

the handoff is.

the gap between deciding and building keeps getting smaller.

more of the product gets decided in the last mile now:
in interaction details,
in edge cases,
in tiny calls that never survive translation.

that is why product engineer matters more.

not because design matters less.

because product judgment now has to make it all the way into the build with almost no loss.