.@qrcoindotfun Website is finally live!
it's a NOUNs styled daily auction where anyone can bid to control which website the QR points for 24 hours.
a cool fun project i got to work on with @0FJAKE
Some people around you are already living in the future.
You might have sat next to one at a café. Seen one looking a little too calm during a meeting. Or noticed someone who never seems to reach for their phone (anymore!).
Our team is in San Francisco right now, along with some of our early pilot users. So keep an eye out.
Think you’ve spotted one of us? DM us what you saw. If you’re right, we’ve got a spot saved for you for early access.
Aina Private Pilot is live.
We can’t wait to show you what the future of interfaces looks like. Very soon.
On July 16, we announced our $5.5M seed for Aina after nearly a year of building in stealth. It was built around a thesis we've been working toward since July last year.
“Keyboards and phone touchscreens were designed for the era of Browsing. We'd think of what we need, unlock a device, navigate, find an app, type or tap, and execute the task.
With AI and agents, we just say or write what we want, and it gets done. The browsing step disappears entirely.
Soon, AI assistants will deepen their understanding of our context, calendars, and activities. They'll become proactive and suggest what we need, and all we'll do is say yes. Much of our day-to-day will be handled this way.
We call this the era of Approvals."
The world of software has changed. The hardware interface hasn't. We are still using an interface designed for Browsing when Browsing isn’t needed.
Today, with Agents like Muse, Instinct, and Dot changing how we manage daily tasks, it’s becoming evident that our interaction with computers has significantly changed, and we are heading towards the age of approvals. We need a better way to interact with assistants/computers than pulling out our phones and texting.
That was the idea behind the video we made for our funding announcement, which reached 1.8M views, leading to thousands of signups for Aina’s Pilot.
Aina’s Pilot is live, the first few units have been shipped, and we will keep sharing more on our Thesis and the product decisions that led us here as we get closer to announcing what we have been building.
Almost there!
Today, I'm breaking down the positioning of Robinhood UK.
In this video, I explore how Robinhood UK positions itself, how it compares vs competitors, and what their customers say about them.
Disclaimer: I don’t work at Robinhood (yet).
If you’re in the UK and use Robinhood or another investment app, I’d love to 30 minutes of your time to understand how you use these apps.
If you work at Robinhood UK, I'd love to join your product marketing team.
Couldn't agree more. We've been building toward this thesis for over a year. When we move from Instructing to Approving for everyday agentic actions, where we just say yes, we'll need a better interface than phone screens.
P.S. Glad to have you in the Pilot :)
Shipping soon.
While booking a flight using an agent is cool, it's something we do once or twice a month. Lasting devices and agents won't be built for complex tasks we do once a month. They'll be built to make everyday tasks effortless. Long-term adoption comes from behavior change, and behavior change needs everyday usage.
We are hiring 🚀
If you love building and breaking the limits of iOS, downloading betas before everybody else and preordering the latest iPhone, this one's for you!
Looking for a senior iOS Engineer (5-8 years of experience) to join our team. DM if interested.
📍Bengaluru (In-person)
The more powerful an interface becomes, the more use cases it accumulates, and educating people on those use cases becomes the next big task. It's strange that people aren't more annoyed by this lack of focus on education about new features. Most just blame themselves for not watching a 30 min video on how to use their own iPhone or Mac.
We use around 20% of our smartphone's capability because there's almost no education tailored to what each person actually does. Something that's a lot easier to solve now. Context can nudge someone toward the feature that matters to them, at the moment it matters, instead of leaving it buried in a menu.
Second, that 80% stays hard to reach on purpose. Simple features get prioritized because the market doesn't demand more, and with no real competition, sales targets get hit anyway. There's no pressure to surface the rest.
Onboarded our first seller on @freshwaterso last night. they woke up to
> all items listed and vaulted
> 3 sold
> ₹24,300 in gross revenue
> already packed and shipped
liquidity and distribution layer for collectibles
Some of Aina’s story is already hiding in its identity.
Its name means mirror, which led us to reflection, chrome, geometry, and an identity that changes with its surroundings.
There is still a lot about Aina we can’t reveal, but this is a closer look at some of the identity decisions behind it.
More soon.
A finished product can look deceptively simple. But what goes into it are the nuances of manufacturing: PCBs being fabricated, components being placed and soldered, assemblies coming together layer by layer, and an enormous amount of machinery, precision, process, and coordination that you would never guess from the finished product.
We’re building alongside manufacturing partners whose worlds revolve around end mills, molds, carbide inserts, and details measured in microns.
This is what’s #BehindTheBuild.
working on hardware problems with the smartest people
learned about PCB assembly, box build and manufacturing at scale with our partners @AinaInterface factory
if you are building in hardware come hangout with us, dm me for invite
Rox has been powering Global 2000 enterprises with $5T+ in combined market cap.
Today, we’re putting it in everyone’s hands.
Over the last 2 years, companies like @MongoDB, @togethercompute, and @Xbow shifted investment from legacy CRM and SaaS to Revenue Agents.
But most teams have been locked out.
They lacked in-house technical talent or FDEs required to set up the revenue-specific context, harnesses, and agent systems needed to run Revenue Agents in production.
Today, we launched Rox Teams to remove that barrier.
With Rox Teams, businesses of every shape, size, and vertical can activate Revenue Agents on their own.
Set up in minutes. No FDEs required.
https://t.co/DfzpGtKZJD
& Nolaned this hilarious explainer video 👇