Don't Die of Heart Disease
During my "hiatus" I've been doing research in a variety of different areas that interest me. After a personal experience with basal c...
The Deal
Founders have little to no diversification. They are all in on one idea, company, and mission. It's an insanely high-risk, high-reward endeavor. As founders become increasingly wary of this level of risk concentration, they begin to think about ways to mitigate it. One idea I've heard repeatedly is the notion that a group of founders can self-assemble and contribute a percentage of their equity in their company to a shared pool. That way, if they fail and one of the other founders in the grou...
Sequoia Wants It Hard
I have seen a lot of young first-time founders play it fast and loose in their fundraising processes the past several years. It’s been frothy times, so I think it brings out a lot of strange behavior. It got me thinking of when I was a young founder and the things I’d do, particularly one specific story that I tell people when I get asked “what not to do” when fundraising. Back in 2010 Steve and I launched GroupMe to much fanfare. It got a lot of attention out the gate because we built it at ...
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I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens.
My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the things I write on occasion.
Call me Unc, but I miss the days of curating my tumblr and tending to my AIM profile. I wanted to bring that feeling back so I created my new home on the internet for myself.
Over the past week I’ve spent ~10 hours vibecoding Things I Like. It ain't pretty and it's slow, but it does the trick for me and some friends and it's fun.
I get my own profile page. I can add all my various online presences across the web to it. I can post the things I like to it. I can categorize them myself or have AI do it and sort them into modules pinned to the top of my things page. I did this to approximate the feeling of an AIM profile where I’d list my favorite sports, friends, bands, etc.
I’ve created a place where I can share the things I like - my taste. And where people can get a sense of who I am and see where else I exist across the web.
I can also follow other people thinging stuff and see what they like. I can like them, rething them, and bookmark them.
What's amazing to me is that in less than a day anyone can rebuild the things they loved about their favorite web applications, especially the ones that got destroyed by algorithms.
Maybe I yearn for the days of yore, but I think there’s a way to bring back truly human to human social experiences online and give people places to truly be themselves again.
If you want a home on the internet to share the things you like you can try
I no longer have a home on the internet. My online identity exists in fragments spread across various platforms, most of which are walled gardens.
My home first existed in AOL and my AIM profile. My friends and I loved them and it’s how we’d express who we were online. Then it shifted to MySpace. Then Facebook. Then Tumblr. Then Twitter. Then Instagram. Then my blog. Also LinkedIn. It’s everywhere. I don’t have a single place I can drive people to. It used to be my blog, but that’s just the things I write on occasion.
Call me Unc, but I miss the days of curating my tumblr and tending to my AIM profile. I wanted to bring that feeling back so I created my new home on the internet for myself.
Over the past week I’ve spent ~10 hours vibecoding Things I Like. It ain't pretty and it's slow, but it does the trick for me and some friends and it's fun.
I get my own profile page. I can add all my various online presences across the web to it. I can post the things I like to it. I can categorize them myself or have AI do it and sort them into modules pinned to the top of my things page. I did this to approximate the feeling of an AIM profile where I’d list my favorite sports, friends, bands, etc.
I’ve created a place where I can share the things I like - my taste. And where people can get a sense of who I am and see where else I exist across the web.
I can also follow other people thinging stuff and see what they like. I can like them, rething them, and bookmark them.
What's amazing to me is that in less than a day anyone can rebuild the things they loved about their favorite web applications, especially the ones that got destroyed by algorithms.
Maybe I yearn for the days of yore, but I think there’s a way to bring back truly human to human social experiences online and give people places to truly be themselves again.
If you want a home on the internet to share the things you like you can try
Don't Die of Heart Disease
During my "hiatus" I've been doing research in a variety of different areas that interest me. After a personal experience with basal c...
The Deal
Founders have little to no diversification. They are all in on one idea, company, and mission. It's an insanely high-risk, high-reward endeavor. As founders become increasingly wary of this level of risk concentration, they begin to think about ways to mitigate it. One idea I've heard repeatedly is the notion that a group of founders can self-assemble and contribute a percentage of their equity in their company to a shared pool. That way, if they fail and one of the other founders in the grou...
Sequoia Wants It Hard
I have seen a lot of young first-time founders play it fast and loose in their fundraising processes the past several years. It’s been frothy times, so I think it brings out a lot of strange behavior. It got me thinking of when I was a young founder and the things I’d do, particularly one specific story that I tell people when I get asked “what not to do” when fundraising. Back in 2010 Steve and I launched GroupMe to much fanfare. It got a lot of attention out the gate because we built it at ...
Share Dialog
@jaredhecht.eth explores fragmented online identities and describes a personal profile that aggregates all web presences, allows posting favorites, AI-driven categorization, and modular organization with follower and bookmark features. The piece argues for a more human, less algorithm-driven web.
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@jaredhecht.eth explores fragmented online identities and describes a personal profile that aggregates all web presences, allows posting favorites, AI-driven categorization, and modular organization with follower and bookmark features. The piece argues for a more human, less algorithm-driven web.