Evan

Building Del, your AI executive companion | prev cofounder @ Shortbread (YC W23)

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Introducing Del, a proactive, 24/7 personal AI assistant, for everyone.

Your personal AI shouldn't be something you operate or open a browser tab to get to. It should feel like you have someone diligently attending to you, catching things you forget, taking care of what you don't have time for.

Del observes and figures out:
- What matters to you currently?
- Who's waiting on you?
- Are you waiting on others?
- What's about to fall through?

Then proactively steps in without you needing to prompt it.

Try it out now for 2 weeks free (link in replies)

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Nobody knows what product will win personal AI, not Google, OpenAI, nor Town, Lindy or Poke.

Proactive personal AI is an emerging market. The enabling technology is only 6 months old atp

Market risk still dominates; the right tasteful synthesis of product philosophy and user intuition will win

Del is a proactive, persistent, relationship-based agent. We're all in on ultra-simple interface, deep functionality.

Check us out https://t.co/dpTKEVJ39p, msg me and I can give you a month free

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@jackthinkz @signulll Give Del a try? We've been building this with this exact thesis while everyone else launched more reactive agents.

Del is the first personal agent with genuine, tasteful proactivity: https://t.co/A3fWYFx765

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@ChrisMasterton @signulll Absolutely, need estimation and intervention timing is harder than execution.

Del is the first personal agent with genuine, tasteful proactivity, and we just launched in beta:

https://t.co/A3fWYFx765

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@zazmic_inc @signulll Hit the nail on the head. Need estimation and timing is harder than execution.

Incidentally, we've been building this while everyone else launched more reactive agents.

Del is the first personal agent with genuine, tasteful proactivity: https://t.co/ZuJdIeP5aa

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@nosilverv Bryan Johnson version of this is retiring the supplement stack and just getting sleep

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@iriszio @415venture Right now it's a recursive feedback loop. Starting simple and then adding complexity.

Many subtle ways, but the most salient one is simply we're building for people who won't ever be setting up their own OpenClaw.

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Claude Code:

> One thing worth noting: Absolutely nothing at all. Have a good day

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Nothing is more painful than watching onboarding go badly

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@RyanOlunix @delassistant Oops we already did 😂

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@RyanOlunix Let’s connect. I made @delassistant

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Every single consumer AI assistant waits for you to prompt it to solve your problems
But the average person can't even see most of their problems, let alone articulate the solution to them
Most people are low agency so consumer AI assistants need to be high agency, proactive.

[Evan @vanders3nn]

My reddit post went viral on r/productivity but the sub has extremely strict rules against linking apps so I can't link to @delassistant . How would you have played this?

[Evan @vanders3nn]

If you hate todoist I built @delassistant for you

[Evan @vanders3nn]

I realized why everyone I know hates Todoist.
Productivity tools are built for unproductive people obsessed with input.
Productive people care about output and just want you to put the tasks in the bag

[Evan @vanders3nn]

The optimal interface for personal AI assistants is actually just a todo list
Think about it, the future of agent work is async-first and closed-loop iterative against a goal
Every item on a todo list is an async task you delegate to your future self to iterate against, now AI

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Clippy was the last mass-consumer proactive AI assistant and it traumatized tech so badly that even now with literally conversationally fluent AI nobody wants to build AI that actually does something for you rather than sit there like furniture or a glorified alarm clock

[Evan @vanders3nn]

@ogbuildsapps @X Let’s do it. Followed

[Evan @vanders3nn]

Software onboarding was about teaching the user the product, agent onboarding is about teaching the product the user

[Evan @vanders3nn]

in my free time i enjoy reversing entropy around the house