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Yo! PhD in graffiti. Belgian product designer. Prev Frontback and other cool apps.

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There are 1,440 minutes in a day. Social media wants as many of them as possible.

We only want one.

Introducing 9PM: A social visual diary.

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@startupoppa Someone is raising money!..

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@samsheffer Have many very happy moments Sam!

(I know a cool app to document trips ;)

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Most builders/investors have no understanding of what good consumer retention looks like, or how exceptional 25%+ D30 is.

If you vibe code a social app, expect a nice red ZERO%.

Even a16z’s own benchmarks classify 20% D30 OK, 25% Good, 30% Great.

I once showed 56% W4 retention in an early cohort and it was dismissed as not good enough. What?!

[Deedy @deedydas]

Meta Muse's retention is out, and it's almost as good as ChatGPT!

It's higher than ChatGPT at D7 (>30%) and just lower at D14 (22%). Not quite in the elite D14 tier of WA (67%) YT (59%) Insta (54%) or TikTok/Snap (37%), though.

Muse is one of the highest retaining AI products!

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@Jlafortetech @faionur They’ve 4 products with 1B+ MAU, they might know a thing or two about users.

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@ashleymayer @greatchatpod @helen_min Can't wait, the tweet was spot on.

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@samiracle Is there one to cancel subscriptions? We need that.

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Take more.
Share more.
Remember more.

That’s probably the simplest reason we’re building 9PM.

[Ashley Mayer @ashleymayer]

My version of this: keep a journal!!

Even if you're in the Marc Andreessen "no introspection" camp, just write down what's happening. You think you'll remember all the important, interesting, dramatic things, but it's amazing how blurry memories get with time.

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@Beanyo5555 @stiltbands Huh

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@Jibran_05 Building good stuff J!

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@startupoppa @jack Another simple yet strong advice from @jack is “show, don’t tell”

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A week ago, our little app was just @_a_lex_is, me, and a few close friends.

Today there’s a 9PM across 3/4 of the world’s time zones. That’s wild.

People are begging for innovation in social. We hear it, and we see it in the data.

More importantly, we finally have a real base of people using it, leaving, coming back, and telling us what they love.

Now we can really build with impact.

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We got https://t.co/6WOKKLmQCO for $20.19. Not sure I’m mad about this.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

There is always a .com you can get for $5k that's better the tryblurgh.‌ai you're currently using. The reason you don't see it is (a) lack of imagination and (b) because you're attached to Blurgh, which you shouldn't be, because it's not that great anyway.

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@Darkside Thanks D, I hope you had a great weekend.

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It’s my birthday ;) Again!?

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@CollinCornwell Thank you Collin. We need to hangout!

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This week I started doing something that feels amazing:

I just call my friends.

Try it :)

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@startupoppa You can pour capital and a small team to work 100% on retention