jake xia

making the world a smaller place @buildyourcorner

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@jxnlco @covacut Oh my god this is a dream

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@tylerangert beta blockers have changed my life

[eliza @elizalian]

hosting an exclusive panel for those building in consumer ai or are looking to join the best consumer ai teams. come out. we want to meet you!

@NateTepper TrueShort ($2.4M annualized revenue)
@faionur Status (1M downloads 19 days)
@rjvir NGL (300M downloads)

moderated by @kirbyman01 !!

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@elizalian @JessLozanoS @NateTepper @kalesha we can all thank nano banana for this 🙏

[jake xia @jakexia27]

imagine resy alerts but always-on for the hardest to get reservations you've been dying to get

[freia @freialobo]

@elizalian @jakexia27 this feature so good

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@guard_if 3rd

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@aishdoingthings Astute observations

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@kathrynjc7 congrats <3

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@alexhaobao meow zedong

[jake xia @jakexia27]

I owe everything to my high school English teachers

[jake xia @jakexia27]

we actually built corner entirely to avoid lines. (1) so you know where the hot places are *before* they have lines and (2) to find alternatives to place that already have lines.

[corner @buildyourcorner]

all we had was a snack trolley and a dream. gave out over 500 qr codes and fliers in the busiest nyc neighborhoods. turns out when you meet people where they're at (hungry and waiting on line), they're willing to hear you out.

[jake xia @jakexia27]

shoutout to @chubbyapples for the sick onboarding video

[César Álvarez @cesaralvarezll]

If you want to build a great onboarding for your app.

Check out how @elizalian & @jakexia27 did it for Corner 👇

Onboarding:
- Killer intro video with music
- Asks for a review right after the video ends
- Builds your profile based on your tastes
- Showcases cool places
- Generates a personalized map

If you want to succeed, you need to create an experience, not just onboarding.

Start building yours today with Anything

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@cowjuh Literally every time this happens, it's my first thought.

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@QuentinWiley @elizalian @buildyourcorner 🤫

[jake xia @jakexia27]

the first time we met @elizalian said "I want to build an app to help people get off their phone". I felt that in my soul. and here we are.

the only computer I had growing up was an iPad and I dreamed of being on the appstore one day. and here we are.

small win but I am so proud of our whole team <3

[eliza @elizalian]

1.86m apps on the U.S. app store. only 365 app of the day's a year.

@buildyourcorner is the first app @jakexia27 and i ever built and we will die on this hill:

we are the first generation to have *more of other people's memories* than our own. take a second to think about that.

when our users are 90, we want them to look back on their corner profiles and remember all of the adventures they've been on and how much of the world they explored. not how much they scrolled.

a small win for the team today. winning apple's design award has always been one of our side quests. one step closer!

[eliza @elizalian]

random thought 1 year ago: "one day people are going to link their corners on hinge to plan dates"

[jake xia @jakexia27]

lets just call any cron job an agent why don't we?

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@Jibran_05 @yusuff_hamza This is awesome! I've been browsing lightreel but I don't see any carousel formats. Is there going to be support for that?

[aishwarya🍎 @aishdoingthings]

we’d rather execute than talk but we were told to post more:

last summer when IPAM lost federal funding mid-cycle, we flew to LA and moved $ same-day so they could make payroll

it isn’t a billion dollars but enough to keep Terence Tao’s team going until the system caught up

https://t.co/Lt7BzDXN5d

[jake xia @jakexia27]

@harpriiya @a16z @speedrun congrats Harpriya 👏 I am so excited for you