Marko Okhman

founder & ceo @appsspro - app that builds mini apps on @reddit @youtube @telegram @tiktok_us and 10+

ex-@telegram & @ton_blockchain (devrel / head of grants)

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

@appsspro - shareable apps with super-distribution

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

lfg! team is my good friends from SF, guys are shipping like crazy. def check this out!

[Siamak Freydoonnejad @siamakfr]

Excited to launch Sprites 1.0 - the proactive agent that runs your ads end to end, fully autonomously.

1/ Trained on thousands of ads from the fastest-growing companies

2/ Builds a custom playbook for your brand, budget, and goals

3/ Autonomously creates on-brand video and image ads

4/ Full visibility across channels and funnels

5/ You stay in control with approvals

6/ Works in Slack, Claude, and wherever you work

Runs across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, ChatGPT and all major ad platforms to find your buyers wherever they are.

Sprites has already been driving growth for a select group of customers, managing $30M in growth spend.

Today, we're opening it up to everyone with Sprites 1.0.

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

@siamakfr Congrats on the launch! Who's the ideal customer for it right now?

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

I believe in the future of apps that don't need to be installed and are used through platforms people already use in contexts they are already part of.

@boardyai is a one of the greatest examples. I know 100+ people getting value off of it. None of them installed or created an account.

In nearest future - you can build @boardyai-like apps with @appsspro

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

what the hell did i just see? 🤯
i swear it’s like, creepy

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

since it was hard to find some consumer-focused crowd in SF - we went a head and started gather one. and it’s so crazy cool!

sooo many cool people and each is building something most of my friends can relate to and try.

lmk if you’d like to join next one, planning our next big thing!

[Michael Sedique, MS, MBA @euqides]

Thank you to everyone who came to Sushi & Wine with Consumer Founders & VCs 🍣🍷

130+ admitted, plenty more walked in. Rooftop, sushi, wine, @Salesforce Tower views, and a robot breakdancing. Lots of you told us tech week was a miss and this was a blast

People came from @Google, @OpenAI, @Uber, @Roblox, @PlugandPlayTC, @TencentGlobal, & @Meta. We also had founders and builders at early-stage startups, teams backed by @a16z, @draper_u, @SkyDeck_Cal, and @ycombinator, and investors backing great ideas. Newcomers were welcome too!

Some of the startups in the room: @waveful_inc,
@Ironact, @lineaposture, @tryputhouse, @crosstalkfyi, @InvoStation, @OwnApp_, and so many more. I’d love to tag them all, but there are too many great ventures in this mix.

Consumer is a wide space, and this room showed it. Social products, influencers, beauty ventures,, hardware builders, AI leaders, & people making food. They never share a room. This one was built for them to meet & kindle relationships. We don’t see that gap filled anywhere else.

A lot of SF events push an agenda or a narrative the organizers barely understand. We’re one of the only teams hosting consumer tech events in San Francisco, and we deliver. We built this room around people, and everyone who walked in was included.

People left with connections, new friends, new ideas, and new partnerships. It’s the only event where everyone walks out with something. The next one is coming in the next few weeks. Can’t wait to see the new faces and the familiar ones again.

Thank you to the teams from @appsspro, @onairosapp, @vamotalent, @iconaiapp, and IPG for making the night happen. Most of all, thank you to every attendee for making it a night to remember 🙌

Here are some photos from the evening!

For future events, feel free to connect with me, especially if you're a builder or investor in the space!

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

gathering some cool consumer builders an VCs on a cozy rooftop, wine & sushi party

secret: got some people from Zoom, TikTok and Uber RSVPd today 🤯

https://t.co/DvBWyRcAoR

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

Paris is verified, are you?

[Human Internet Project @ahumaninternet]

VERIFIED HUMAN INTERVIEW with Disney & Netflix Star Paris Berelc on Hollywood, AI, and Dating Tech Bros

Disney kid, Netflix lead, now making her own indie film. Who is @parisberelc off camera and how does Hollywood feel about AI?

03:31 "Why do you intimidate every dude?"
08:49 At 12 she told her mom she'd book a Disney show in 2 years
14:03 Does Paris hate AI?
19:18 Is Paris dating an AI founder???
20:23 AK’s dating app inbound: "I'm looking for a sugar mama"
22:20 Aging out of Leonardo DiCaprio's parties
24:07 A tech billionaire, a K-hole and his robot
24:28 Would Paris have Elon's babies?
36:12 Grandma, a curling iron, and a bathtub

We have confirmed, Paris is a verified Human. 🫡

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

SF isn’t too big on consumer/B2C events. We’re throwing a little sushi dinner tomorrow for B2C-only crowd to exchange some insights and struggles.

If you’re b2c - swing by https://t.co/6WgLAgoCM9

make sure to RSVP, super tight on seats (or tag a friend in this thread)

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

Congrats on this one 😍
Happy to be your customer and see how you guys grow!

[Yahia Bakour @mynameisyahia]

We raised $9M to give your agents the internet.

Led by @generalcatalyst, with @orangecollectv and Robinhood Ventures.

Search, scrape, crawl, monitor with one API trusted by 800+ customers.

We’re making it ridiculously easy to build with web data.

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

i love those! also this higgsfield partnership is sick guys! kudos!

[Cayden Ginting @CaydenGinting]

selling blimp ads for free.

403k MAUs
 18m plays
 clavicular, adin ross, neon, jasontheween, stable ronaldo
 2.5m+ follower creator team

the 67speed founders and i are selling the sky.

in-game ads or a blimp on the homepage. every player sees it.

$5k = 3.5m impressions
 $10k = 8m impressions
 $30k = 28m impressions

guaranteed, or 100% refund.

want your own avatar? done. your own game? done.

+ we’re building it live on the stan launchpad show.

so mr beast’s production crew + hundred of thousands in clipping.

every clip shows the game. every stream shows the game. the game shows you. for free.

repost = your @ on a blimp.
 most views on a quote = free $10k package.

shoot me a dm if interested

https://t.co/te2ndwuW4k

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

@CaydenGinting metrics are sick!!!

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

HUUUGE

[daniel_t @danieltian]

first enterprise adoption for imessage. HUGE

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

it only takes one YES

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

very good

[anand iyer @ai]

Too many AI personal assistants, too little time to assess all of them. Nice work here: https://t.co/xy1Fmyunq4

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

@thatguybg @timothylindblom reminds me of something

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

@Ex3NDR count me in

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

I love this one:

“Should we be a sparring partner or a shock absorber?”

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

We often praise people for their consistency; yet variability, versatility, and flexibility are equally valuable. https://t.co/agsx28dpSx

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

is software startups market tough or it’s just a perception? what’s your take

[Marko Okhman @MarkoOkhman]

learning it day by day

“Yet while the evaluation of companies got fuzzier, the process of raising money didn’t. A raise still has mechanics. There is still a right way to prepare, a right way to build materials, a right way to schedule meetings so that investors compete instead of collude, a right way to read a term sheet, and a right way to close. Those mechanics are learnable.”

[Aaron Harris @harris]

Writing a book on fundraising, updating the work I did @ycombinator years ago.

Here's the first chapter. https://t.co/R95ywF8mLE