Inspiring story about a founder who bootstrapped a $1M revenue run rate business in a very crowded category (personal financial planning) through sheer persistence: projectionlab.com/blog/we-reac...
09.07.2025 15:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@gabor.bsky.social
Built a Twitter alternative called Pebble/T2, wound it down. Now work at an AI lab.
Inspiring story about a founder who bootstrapped a $1M revenue run rate business in a very crowded category (personal financial planning) through sheer persistence: projectionlab.com/blog/we-reac...
09.07.2025 15:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Makes me double check each time that I'm not on the other site.
09.07.2025 03:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Back on here after a little while and can't believe how Twitter-like the nav icons look.
09.07.2025 03:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0But then they started cross-promoting the best content on Instagram and Facebook, driving users back into the Threads app.. Now they are at 115.1M DAU, closing in on Xβs 132M DAU.
I stand corrected.
2 years ago I wouldβve told you that Threads will go the way of Facebook Gaming, Lasso, Hobbi, and other clones that Meta shut down: A month after launch, Threads churned 82% of users.
That 82% was part of my T2 pitch to investors ...
Today I found out that LinkedIn has dark mode.
Settings > Account preferences > Display > Dark mode
At first that's what I thought it was but then on closer look it looked too produced
28.05.2025 04:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Waymos now have art on them β¦ reminds me of Google Doodles.
28.05.2025 04:07 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Had to check back in here after that Adobe story ...
13.04.2025 16:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thinking about writing a post with Sarah, Mike, and Dan (the Pebble/T2 team)"The Trust and Safety Starter Pack."
What's the checklist of T&S features you should build as a new consumer startup to make sure your product doesn't become a cesspool?
Would this be interesting?
βYou ran a classy jointβ aka Pebble/T2
02.11.2023 02:07 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We tried to build a Twitter alternative called Pebble (fka T2). Here's what we learned along the way: medium.com/gabor/from-t...
01.11.2023 21:08 β π 37 π 7 π¬ 11 π 2Hi folks, a year ago I started a Twitter alternative (initially called T2, later called Pebble.is). Tomorrow we will be shutting down. We weren't growing quickly enough to be able to raise money to build it out.
Lots of lessons learned. Will share some of them here in a bit.
Our team is building t2.social, a kinder, version of Bluesky / Twitter / Threads. Check it out and join the waitlist - weβre sending invites daily.
07.07.2023 22:52 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Building t2.social
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