Iris ten Teije

Infra for Adaptive Software @getdiffer | prev co-founder @mava_app (acquired) | built a digital bank (acquired)

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

@NoamTenne https://t.co/yE4RnFPcrR

[Masha Bucher @mashadrokova]

Best founders I backed had no hobbies. Only one obsession — the company.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

What does the art you like say about you?

Based on a 2011 study of 91,692 people.

Accurate? Y/N?

https://t.co/Hxy4ep4yW8

[Martin Zokov @m_zokov]

headed towards personal software eh?

how about social software

imagine an instagram feed but with interactive content

i think that's where we're headed and it's what @iristenteije and @NoamTenne are building with @getdiffer

it's a whole new dimension of content and it'll be super cool to see where this goes!

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

Chronically online? Speak in memes?

We should talk.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

@signulll @IniAbiodun Yes but people need to stop thinking about software as full on “apps”.

For self-expression I’d imagine it to be closer to something that’s simple yet interactive like more toward below

[I-20 Eric ✝️ @I20Eric]

I told ChatGPT, "Design this room based on what you know about me"

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

Joining @SMatsiutsia HCI paper club later this week. Struggling with attention span to read papers.

Funnily, the paper is related to that exact thing: the “gulf” between what you want to do and what an interface lets you do.

To cross it, you can adapt yourself to the interface, or reshape the interface to fit you.

So I reshaped it, into software.

Software > text. Software as content.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

@rachelnabors Product or design and it's to show my support as it's beautiful, useful, novel.

Something funny.

"Wow this is so relatable"

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

@being_on_line How sexy is ok for cocktail dress code

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

Chat thinks these are acceptable outfits for a “cocktail dress” dress code event

☠️

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

After crypto, I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to creative+extravagant corporate event productions.

Still some surprises ❤️

Live choir at the Tate.

@Wise

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

We don't use Figma. Every design exploration (there are... many) is a live prototype in code. We also build our own tools to play around with designs. And our design engineer job posting happened to be in the same repo.

Welcome to the chaos 😆

Red flag or green flag?

[Differ @getdiffer]

Become the world’s first Diffluencer.

We’re paying up to 20 creative coders to make small, interactive things on Differ: memes, toys, jokes, charts you can play and remix.

DM for details.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

this post-ironic Halloween thing has gone too far 🥲

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

This week at MozFest has felt like the antithesis of what Los is describing, and what I've definitely been feeling a lot too.

Been refreshing to be surrounded by people who are genuinely curious, creative and mission-driven. Building out of conviction rather than optimizing for what's fashionable.

I half expected it to be overly idealistic, but positively surprised by how pragmatic everyone is about turning their ideas into reality 💕

[los (appstar) @downloadlos]

Starting startups has become just like academia.

When YC puts out list of companies they want to see built, it just further encourages the cycle of crap companies being made.

Resources aren’t going to the most passionate, but to the people most willing to play the game.

Those that are good at the game are the most cut throat, because their lives aren’t really enjoyable.

They haven’t optimized for passion, they've optimized for a perceived path to personal success, not a change in the world they want to see.

Which is why a lot of these founders u meet lowkey suck as people, cause they aren’t real, they aren’t building anything real.

If you're making something real, you throw them off. If you’re illegible they ignore you

Their search is for people who are legible, steps on the ladder that they can climb to get acquihired by some other fake ai company.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

merch I’ll actually wear ❤️

thanks @mozilla

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

Finding omniscient beings in Barcelona.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

Software as Content NYC 🗽

Software made the way we make videos & memes.

We saw software made for a wedding, out of a rocket obsession, just to be beautiful, for others to create with, to jam with on a handpan, and more.

[Iris ten Teije @iristenteije]

What I tell people: “I am so spontaneous and adventurous and love new experiences”

Reality: