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5 years
I don't drink alcoholic beverages by choice and really wish there were better options to casually meet up with people after work/events/etc that doesn't include a bar. I've survived on mocktails, strolls in the park or gelato-runs, but would love to see a culture shift
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7 months
Texting "hi" and waiting for the other person to respond before you provide further context should be illegal
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4 years
Excited to share my newest product, Waitlist: A simple, clean, referall-based API to power your next launch. (Primarily made to get @BobbyThakkar to launch this Fall). We're now live on Product Hunt! Let us know what you think 🚀
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3 years
Stripe is re-announcing one click checkout (?) but also lead the recent Fast round (?) not sure what my question is (?) I guess the market is large enough (?)
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4 years
All I want for Christmas is GPT-3 access 🥺
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3 years
“Have you considered a technical co-founder?”
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SF is stunning
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4 years
Always stressed when someone says "you're an intern, this is the perfect time to ask dumb questions". Do you think I'll stop asking dumb questions when I'm not an intern anymore?
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2 years
Back in 2019, I interviewed with @Replit and was rejected. The interview experience was great and the feedback was even better. I've now shipped code every week for a year. Some quick thoughts and how it related to the feedback: 1/x
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4 years
Today is my last day as a PM intern at Cloudflare. If we’re close, you’ve probably heard me ramble about my work with Bots, sneakers, etc. In short, I’ve had an amazing summer. As I close the day off, I wanted to share some notes on my experience for aspiring PM interns (1/16)
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4 years
12 yr old brilliant kid: "Big in spac's" and asking Chamath to discuss investment strategies on his youtube channel 21 yr old me: "Hi @patrickc do you want to grab pizza?"
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bani
5 years
Serena: [Loses one match] Person: Maybe the solution is to stop fighting for equality What the _fresh hell_ is this question
@ArlanWasHere
Arlan 👊🏾
5 years
Go OFF @serenawilliams !! ✊🏾
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2 years
Just entered the US for the first time on my O1 visa 🇺🇸 Grateful to be building in this country. A million thanks to @jtriest @bsilvers @zatlyn @ketau @pitdesi @cory @elianaberger13 @ziadahmed and many others who supported. Means the world
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1 year
GTM? You mean “putting a QR code on my back with a link to the co everywhere I go”?
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bani
3 years
Riding this wave for as long as I can 🏄🏻‍♀️ If your co is looking for a waitlisting OR in-app referral system (both pre and post launch) please reach out! Wanna help u succeed 💫
@alexisohanian
Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲
3 years
What's the app that lets you launch a waitlist for your app (and has that nice gameification built in to let people jump ahead based on people they invite?)
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
Me, at 1:30 am, looking at calendar invites from east coast folks at 8 am
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1 month
In SF for the next two weeks — open to food recs and let’s meet up if we haven’t yet 👋
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4 years
Been off Twitter for a while to read and watch movies during the holidays, but can't avoid sharing this stat today. Happy New Year! :')
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4 years
Launching on PH was incredible. I appreciate that people were understanding, supportive and provided feedback. I'm new to the full-stack world and I know that Waitlist has a long way to go. Though, I'm excited to make it better. Thank you for supporting and being excited for it!
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@banisgh
bani
3 years
who's building Docsend for Notion?
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bani
4 years
Christmas came early 🥳
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4 years
All I want for Christmas is GPT-3 access 🥺
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bani
4 years
LinkedIn is a bot scraping heaven thanks to "comment below with your email"
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@banisgh
bani
5 years
If you're in VC and a younger person is asking you for an informal interview/coffee: Take the meeting seriously and learn more about the trends and interesting apps/products that they are currently using. You _are_ doing them a small favor, but so are they
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bani
4 years
Been thinking about how I can signal that I appreciate meeting people on Twitter and want to meet more. I've had some amazing convos with people I intially felt "weird" just randomly saying hi to. For now, I'm adding a ☕️ in my handle to signal "please say hi and let's chat!"
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
Waitlist API is now live @ -- a new neobank based in Saudi Arabia! 🔥 It's been wild working with people from Brazil, Germany, Saudi, and more that I would otherwise never have met. Tangent lesson: We need to scale custom functionalities 🙃
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4 years
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@itunpredictable
sisyphus bar and grill
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Describe your ethnicity in two pictures:
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3 years
wth is redux
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10 months
🥲
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bani
2 years
Excited to share what I’ve been building for the past few months: A no-code tool to streamline your paperwork workflows. We’re helping small → big cos save time and manual work with their paperwork needs from start to finish.
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3 years
I think I submitted the last paper of my undergrad yesterday — it’s suddenly moving so fast 👀
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
Just found out that @Casey invested in both Haus and Public(dot)com 👀
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@banisgh
bani
3 years
Can someone tell the Wix devs to clean up their console.logs
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
A student on Jumpstart sharing their rejection email from @Cloudflare : @eastdakota has written the longest, most genuine email with resources, virtual mentorship sessions w/CF employees, free CF tools and info about their fund for potential student founders. So much respect..
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bani
3 years
Rlly want to hang out on CH and chat about random misc nothingness do people do that still?
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2 years
god I love being in tech
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bani
1 year
the dream: post IPO and still working in the codebase
@terronk
Lee Edwards
1 year
Stay technical, fam.
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4 years
Lol
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3 years
Honestly customer service is my fav part of this whole thing y'all are so nice :')
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bani
4 years
"While I am the first woman, I will not be the last." A powerful moment for women and daughters watching on TV right now.
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bani
3 years
Do I know any devs looking for a side project? Might have something for you (paid) -- DM me
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4 years
Meetings and calls on Discord are _so_ delightful.
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4 years
Recent email: "FWIW would love to pay for this on a monthly basis since this is solving a problem we're seeing on our end" :') We're currently working on making sure it's a product worth paying for -- more robust, with fewer bugs and multiple options! 🚀
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bani
4 years
We're SO excited to have @itsmnjn onboard at @WaitlistAPI !! He came to the interview with prior research on the AdTech space, competitiors, things we need to improve and actionable insights on how we can do that. Playing to win makes a big big difference 🔥
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eric
4 years
Some great news! 🥳 I honestly can't believe it. Five days ago I decided to open up Twitter on a whim and saw @banisgh 's hiring tweet. Fast forward 'till now and... I am very happy to announce that I will be joining @WaitlistAPI as their Founding Engineer 🛠💻
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1 year
monthly reminder to use @getwaitlist for your waitlists. as a frequent user myself -- now for @shopwithlimited -- it's been a breeze to track referrals here's a lil throwback from the first launch:
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bani
2 years
Passed the 100 users mark a few days back with @componentHQ . Nothing beats seeing actual usage after weeks of building🤗 Next goal: Talk 1-1 with more users
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3 years
git pull origin main main main main main main not master main main main not maaaster
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4 years
Thinkboi realizing there’s a world outside of tech...
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4 years
Lessons from writing tests: 1. Stick to pytest 2. Don't build your own test suite, copy a tutorial instead 3. Stick to pytest 4. Don't build your own test suite, copy a tutorial instead 5. Stick to pytest 6. Don't build your own test suite, copy a tutorial instead
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3 years
Feature request for iMessage: Verification messages in a separate tab
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3 years
Another *magical* day in SF
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4 years
Had a great launch day, but the true peak was getting a invite from @KishanBagaria (thank uuu) 🤩. I've needed this for way too long.
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@banisgh
bani
3 years
you know it's a crypto bull cycle when your old and broken solidity+web3.js template is starred on github
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bani
4 years
Today has been a full day of helping individual users integrate @WaitlistAPI . Great way to figure out 100 ways your product needs to heckckking improve asfhj ASAP
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bani
4 years
Sure you’ve travelled with kids, but have you ever travelled with your monitor 👀
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bani
5 years
😝 hehe. I work with some incredibly motivated and ambitious friends/students at @JUVConsulting . We are 0% venture backed with real impact, a growing team, and recurring revenue. On an equally happy note: Will be at @Next_Gen_Summit on Saturday and Sunday. Y’all genz’s hmu
@JUVConsulting
JUV Consulting (Archived)
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meet our chief technology officer, @banisgh ! bani leads our technological efforts, using her expertise to help reach our objectives. she's an incredible developer who's won prizes from @Samsung @GoldmanSachs + more. we couldn't be more thankful to have her on our team!
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5 years
Me explaining to the other intern why he should stop using Bing as his primary search engine
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bani
1 year
In today’s episode of doing things that don’t scale: Going shopping with users to show them how your app works
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bani
17 days
announcing my blog, "likely wrong", about building software first post: user interviews considered harmful
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bani
3 years
Wild to experience users going from "just users" to "owners" of a product you're building. They start answering support questions, doing AMAs on behalf of your product and bringing friends. I can't imagine working on anything else.
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bani
2 years
Never gotten to 12th before wow
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bani
3 years
Can’t say enough good things about Brandon — he helped out with our redesign at WaitlistAPI and has an incredible talent for product/design If you’re hiring, this is ur guy👇🏽
@brndnwll
Brandon Handoko
3 years
Finally got around to finishing my personal site! Quick trip through my experiences:
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bani
4 years
Twitter is seriously the best. Got plenty of help thanks to @itsyashdani , @NirantK and @snigdhar0y ! To other people who want access: Email Greg Brockman with your use case and the email you used to sign up for the waitlist.
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4 years
omg hi @austin_rief !!
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4 years
7 am class in logic and theoretical AI was not a good idea 🙃
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8 months
When you've built products that no one ended up using, you appreciate products with active usage even more
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
Nothing beats the feeling of walking up Polk st while cheering at cars with Biden Harris banners 😌
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bani
4 years
Looking to sell a project before Christmas that I worked on pre-Waitlist and don't have time to finish. ~75% done, fintech, super-simple pricing strategy fit for additional, passive revenue stream. Will take an experienced dev week/two weeks to finish. DM for info 📬
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
Need a waitlist for Squarespace or Wix -- look no further! @RyanOuyang_ has done a A+ job on this one
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Waitlist
4 years
We're rolling out Wix and Squarespace widgets now! Want to test it? Shoot us a DM at @WaitlistAPI and we'll give you access first!
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bani
4 years
Used AWS recently and the developer experience for beginners is horrifying. My motivation was to learn, knowing it's an industry standard. Doesn't feel like it's built with a beginner persona in mind (perhaps on purpose?), nor with the customer-obsessed Amazon mindset.
@juliannaelamb
Julianna Lamb
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why is there no average user experience with developer companies? either they crush it or I can't figure out how to update a single setting. you're either a stripe or an aws.
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bani
3 months
Bookmarked this tweet in 2023 and am finally retweeting with what we’ve made at
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Lachy Groom
1 year
can someone please create an agent that responds to these emails with what was actually in the order
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bani
10 months
some days I clack away at the keyboard from 8am to 2am with no stops at all and that's terrifying. in an alternative universe, I would have been an unstoppable investment banker
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bani
2 years
8/x In retrospect, Faris saw many of the things I now completely agree with. Programming is genuinely fun when you're better at the things noted above. Thanks for the genuine feedback @masadfrost . Best I ever got in this domain and certainly inspired me to keep going:
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bani
4 years
Ooh. This is a great spec template! Potential addition that I learned at Cloudflare: Having a section devoted to non-goals, more specifically (1) out of scope and (2) persistent non-goals. Clarifying both separately has raised important a-ha moments while being remote.
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3 years
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@banisgh
bani
4 years
On that note: I'm looking for people with a strong backend foundation (+ some frontend knowledge) to come onboard and help me out. The current stack is Postgres, Python (SQLAlchemy), and AWS. It will not be full-time. Please DM me if you want to learn more!
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bani
4 years
Launching on PH was incredible. I appreciate that people were understanding, supportive and provided feedback. I'm new to the full-stack world and I know that Waitlist has a long way to go. Though, I'm excited to make it better. Thank you for supporting and being excited for it!
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bani
3 years
Gen Z cos helping other Gen Z cos thrive is *chefs kiss*
@dalexfrost
Daniel Frost
3 years
@WaitlistAPI @banisgh This is amazing @banisgh , can’t wait for @joindive to integrate @WaitlistAPI ‼️
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bani
1 year
Time’s person of the year in 2023 should be open source developers. The world relies heavily on this group without even knowing
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bani
4 years
I'm monitoring logs and seeing the template API key being used. Make sure to generate your own! If you're having other issues, send a note to bani @getwaitlist .com I did the full-stack solo as a new dev, so there is a large room for improvement. Excited to make this better 🚀
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bani
8 months
Just launched: @shopwithlimited now archives e-commerce emails in your Gmail inbox and shows them in the Limited app instead. DM me or comment to try! Below: Emails with the "Gmail" tag were removed from my personal inbox🥹
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bani
3 years
justify-between has saved me many, many hours
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bani
3 years
"eng @ meta" sounds pretty sick. just me? ok fine.
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bani
3 years
i'm shameless in english, but can barely ask for help in norwegian
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@banisgh
bani
5 years
@rrhoover @kineuphorics Thanks, Ryan! Will check them out now that I’ve been recommended this multiple times. Though, I’m really on the hunt for alternative spaces and an actual culture shift, not beverages.
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@banisgh
bani
6 years
Thanks for being a great mentor and motivator at @VHacks2018 , @charlieisaacs ! You rock!
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bani
4 years
I make my own matcha latte now and it's 10x better than the average coffee shop matcha (10x cheaper too!!!)
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bani
3 years
Excited to see friends winning this week!! 💫 @joaojonk & team just raised for Zapt, a social e-commerce platform for LatAm, after completing YC 💫 @RyanOuyang_ & team just launched , a protocol for signatures on NFTs
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bani
4 years
I genuinely have the best crew (!!!) ily @brndnwll @BobbyThakkar and tytyty 🥰
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bani
5 years
@guruchahal I LOVE THIS IDEA SO MUCH.
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bani
5 years
Shoutout to @MohapatraHemant for doing this with me! I still remember the excitement when younger me was able to meet a mentor-figure who was equally as interested in my everyday life as I was in his
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bani
5 years
Game-changing perk: Granting your employees a yearly stipend for purchasing books. I'd choose this over unnecessary company merch any day.
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bani
3 years
Don’t call your coworker/contractor/friend/x “my developer”
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bani
1 year
“This has got to be the best feature Apple has ever made” — Twitter edition
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1 year
In my recent quest to do random things: I started fencing and convinced two of my friends to join. First W of 2023
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bani
5 years
Yesterday, I got a free coffee at the local coffee shop. No particular reason why. Today, I was rushing down Midtown, sneezed loudly and this man screams “bless you” from a remarkable distance. I love love love love NYC!
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bani
4 years
I actually broke the website multiple times during the launch due to some CORS header thing haha. Software is haaaard and I have immense respect for anyone working with it
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bani
4 years
Seeing an incident from the inside is... Different
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3 years
@eshita @alexisohanian @WaitlistAPI This thread genuinely made my whole year
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