The team at Freedom Factory has been working on a new device that will come out in 2026. This device comes with XMTP built in. A lot of people have a lot of opinions about this device, but I think most are missing the bigger picture. Let me explain...
First
Group chats are broken. Everyone's adding me to them, that's why I hate them.
Group chats today are like getting married on a first date. It's a lifetime commitment that I have no idea if I want to be a part of.
If we
We launched a secure chat app on XMTP this week with World Chat. We also released our own new chat app on XMTP called Convos this week.
On one hand, I'm like I don't need another chat app. I feel ya. On the other hand, I
Every major messaging system still assumes you can trust a username, a voice, or a video.
AI has made that assumption obsolete.
Today, that changes.
World has integrated XMTP to create World Chat, the first messaging network built on proof of human and decentralized, quantum-resistant encryption. For the first time,
Every year, a16z puts out its Big Ideas List. It's 17 things that various a16z crypto partners (plus a few guest contributors) observe about what’s ahead. I was lucky to be included this year. Check out the whole list here and read my Big Idea below.
As
Earlier today, I saw a post from Fred Wilson about his new Seeker Device. I got mine about a month ago and decided it's time to try it out.
I wanted to try something different, so I started with a question...
Could I use this device for digital
"How are you going to protect from spam?" is the first question people ask.
"Are you going to let brands 'pay-to-reach' people on XMTP?" is the second.
I've thought about these questions a lot. Building a network that protects the world'
Here's a rambling of thoughts that I've been thinking about for a while, just observing and listening to how people use the internet...
Prompts are replacing posts.
A prompt makes a video.
A song. An agent.
Soon, an entire app.
Prompts are becoming the new content
Hey friends, I'd love to hear your thoughts—hit reply and say hi! I've been thinking about this for a while: As social networks become algorithm networks, followers lose all their value, and group messaging becomes the new social graph, what changes?
Why the Next Era
Anyone in the world can now send free global payments with a private and secure text message. This is just the beginning of individuals having more control, privacy, and ownership over their assets, identity, and now communication.
I'm thrilled to announce that Coinbase Wallet is now part of
Introducing Machine Yearning, our new podcast
In a world where no one is the expert and where everyone, even if they don’t
want to let on, is scrambling to figure it out — why not come clean and get
real?
That’s the point behind Machine Yearning, our new podcast.
If bots are going to live up to their hype, we have to move beyond the fixed
decision trees and pre-defined scripts.
Last week, Mikhail Larionov [https://www.facebook.com/mikhail99] from Facebook,
wrote a post
[https://medium.com/@vernon99/messenger-bots-decision-trees-vs-webviews-64b36eb0905e#.v3tnihj53]
about decision trees vs web views. He argues
This post is the combination of ideas that can happen today and those that we
would love to see happen tomorrow. We have developed a handful of foundational
concepts that we believe can help any individual or business understand the
potential of messaging.
We hope you enjoy and please send
We are on a mission to bring the best local services to every messaging
platform.
We are excited to announce our latest partnership with Olset
[https://www.olset.com/], the world’s leading personalization engine for booking
hotels. They power some of the largest travel sites in the world and
We are on a mission to bring the best services to every messaging platform.
That’s why today we are excited to announce that we are featuring Resy
reservations on Assist. Discover and book reservations without leaving your
favorite messaging app.
Resy has made one of the best reservation experiences
> We believe that messaging is the new browser and the way results are displayed
will drastically change in this new world.
If this is true, I’ll always remember what Greg Isenberg
[https://twitter.com/gregisenberg] once told me:
> In real estate, it’s all about location, location,
We strive to make using services as simple as sending a text. A major piece of
this is simplifying results to feel manageable and great inside messaging.
We call this the “Top 3.” It’s our best search result for messaging.
If Google thought the right amount of results was
We are excited to announce that you can now hire a courier and get anything
delivered in 100+ U.S. cities.
The Postmates [http://postmates.com] API makes it possible to get anything
delivered from point A to point B. Assist makes it as easy as sending a message
on
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20 years ago businesses were told to get a website. 10 years ago a Facebook
page. 5 years ago an app (but apps are too expensive). The next phase of the
Internet will be bots.
Every business in the world will have a bot. It will allow any customer
The reality of app overload.
Apps dominated the last 5 years. “There’s an app for that” became a real thing.
At some point though, downloading another app and re-entering the same
preferences, became a nuisance and app discovery is a real problem. Apps are
amazing for some things but
