Nick Dazé

You haven't had your best idea yet.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

We've had iCloud support in Familiar from day 1. If you're an iCloud loyalist wanting to work with AI agents, DM me. https://t.co/RKuLXjoOU5

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Jake Busey did it.

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Tom Skerritt (1933-2026)

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

I've never had so much fun designing and coding Settings before. Get your Familiar agent speakin' your language.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

We had a wonderful #LATechWeek event tonight in Manhattan Beach at the @wedbushventures' office. Thank you to @TriNet for sponsoring, @petragriffith for your candor, @mstuttass for your organizational ability, and our founders for their bravery and generosity. @Techweek_

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Non-work, delightful, and stimulating things I've been doing with Opus 5.5: deep research into family ancestry and stress-testing my ideas and beliefs to build a super-custom voter guide. Both have surprised me tremendously.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@danshipper I just did mine. Fascinating. I got a similar (8x) estimate. I kind of believe it. But also, does AI reduce the cost of "working on the wrong thing"? I think probably. Any way you slice it, this is fun.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Genuinely great

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

I'm delighted to introduce Sundrop – a private photo app for parents. https://t.co/8c8dQTjJVb ☀️

Sundrop finds your best photos and turns them into delightful keepsakes.

See your kids side-by-side at the same age. Watch timelapses of them growing up. Relive your family's week. And lots more.

Everything happens on your iPhone; your photos never touch our servers. (We wouldn't trust a company with our photo libraries, either.)

Sundrop has brought a lot of joy to our own families. We hope it does the same for yours!

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

What are you learning? What do you want to know about our process? I'm dying to find out if others are having similar experiences.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

We're a two-man team with 15 years of experience building software together, and @jvedi and my process for building Familiar looks **nothing** like it did even 1 year ago.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Lets us know what you think. Talk soon 👋

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

AI agents should be personal, safe, and easy to use. Their usefulness grows with the data you give it, so you should own your data. They should be aligned with you. That's how we're building Familiar. Check it out, pick a name, and join the waitlist. https://t.co/dNoH4Cuw7T

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

This space is so fun and moving faster than anything I've ever experienced in my life. It's also teaching @jvedi and me completely new ways of working. We've covered a lot of ground for a two-man team that's self-funded, and we're gaining momentum.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@tomosman There were like 300 personal computer companies before the consolidation of the early 1990s

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

@benspringwater Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets.

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

God, I'm tired of agents naming themselves Wren, Scout, or Sage. Maybe I'll do something about it. 😉

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

Can corroborate: our first iteration of https://t.co/dNoH4Cuw7T in early 2026 was $14,400/user/year. Thankfully, we've significantly reduced the cost using several techniques. @jvedi

[Anish Acharya @illscience]

Hearing this week that personal assistants cost $3k-$7k per user per year, depending on scale effects / vertical integration / model selection. Implications/questions:

- Consumer subsidies will be a huge factor; people don’t care about privacy, they want utility and they want it for free.
- Model costs are deflating, but not fast enough for many startups. The dark horse is that Jev may rapidly deflate computer-use costs 100x.
- An interesting counter-position would be building an expensive and narrowly focused agent — perhaps combining proprietary supply (Carbone tables!) with a unique POV (“no one goes there anymore, go to The Grill instead”).
- Social is wide open but hinges on a key design challenge: how can agents increase social cohesion and not feel invasive in a group chat? A working social agent would rightly attract an avalanche of capital and be hard for incumbents to replicate.
- Finally, there are vertical focus areas like financial services where the LTVs outweigh the subsidy needed and are outside the near-term competitive focus of the incumbents. If it were me, I’d focus here — Credit Karma as an agent >> Credit Karma as an app.

Overall, it’s still very, very early, and we may very well be in the MySpace era of social or iPhone 2010. Hang onto your hats and keep building!!

[Nick Dazé @nickdaze]

"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." –Reid Hoffman

Based on my current level of embarrassment, it's about time I showed you something.