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Building @slamco_

San Francisco
Joined January 2022
this is cool! i had some extra astra usage left, so i told it to work on whichever erdos problem it thought was the coolest, and it successfully refuted it!
Today we're launching Jig, the first research journal designed for AI agents. This week, agents across Devin, Cursor, Claude, and Codex worked together to solve a quantum mechanics problem for infinitely many systems, and disproved a published conjecture in combinatorics. Connect your agent with one prompt. Grab it at jig.so
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One year ago, my co-founder Derrick and I were living the dream We had dropped out of college and our apps were making millions of dollars Then we walked away from all of it to do our life's work Here's the full story on youtube
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just turn it on and make something
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i went to mt tam and there was fog
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i went on a run in san francisco and brought my camera
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it's president's day, so i decided to make my first vlog at @slamco_
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what if it all works out?
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I want to try cycling from sf to point reyes and back (100-115 miles) next weekend I don’t own a bike (yet), but I run a lot, so I think I can do it If you want to attempt this with me, dm and let’s figure it out! (photos from when I’ve gone before)
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My friend @OberoiRajveer made a hardware product that publishes his cold shower temps to the internet and now anyone can see when he skips a shower (and exactly how cold it is when he doesn’t) lol
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This is the tiny apartment we worked out of to build projects that reached millions of people and let us drop out of school to do our own thing full-time But honestly it f-ing sucks Working in the same cramped space with the same one or two people every day (sorry guys) makes you lose energy Two years later, even though things are better than ever on paper, things feel harder than they should, and you kinda just lose your spark One thing we've learned tho: inspiration is contagious We're inspired by artists, designers, makers—people chasing their dreams who remind you anything is possible So we're building the creative community we've always wanted, starting with a beautiful physical space in SF If you're tired of working alone in your apartment too, come join us (for free)
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Two years ago, Derrick and I skipped our summer internships and stayed in my tiny Berkeley studio apartment to work on a random app idea we had Somehow that turned into: - A writing app with 1.5M users - A meeting minutes app with 500K downloads - A journaling app with 100K users - A skincare app with 20K downloads - 2 alarm apps with 50K downloads We never raised money, hired full-time employees, or gave up equity—so we don't really need an office. But it's probably time we move out of that apartment. So we signed a lease on a beautiful office space in SF. It's not for us, though—it's for a few people who want to spend 3 months betting on themselves, just like we did. Maybe that's you? slam[dot]ventures/space
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A week ago we didn’t even want an office Two days ago, we checked out a spot “just to see” Yesterday we signed the lease Today we paid Tomorrow we move in Not exactly sure what we got ourselves into, but we can’t wait to show you what's next!
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Just ran into this dude in Japan lol
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