Nik Shevchenko
@kodjima33
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thought to action. https://t.co/uOfVtySdwc
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2018
I'm giving $50k to whoever builds the best AI-wearable Mentor. Announcing Omi Mentor Hackathon. Learn more and sign up:
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You can now create AI replica from any X profile . I replicated @elonmusk and asked what drugs he is on . Try yourself: In the future, every person you know will have a fully synced AI persona in omi
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You can now turn any glasses into AI smart glasses for just $20. At today's hackathon we built Open Glass AI. It will then record your life and remember people names, count calories, live translate, and much more. Ant it's fully open source. Link 👇
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Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost. At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:.- Works 24+ hours on a single charge.- Costs ~$20.-
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Thousands of people asked us to opensource Whomane - an AI wearable with a camera. We will be sued but today we are publishing all the code, schema, and designs. Also added a case and created a live demo you can try NOW with just one click
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I got a 40 page cease and desist from @Humane but that didn’t stop us. At @southpkcommons x @OpenAI we built WHOMANE, an open source AI Pin with a camera
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Founder tip: before launching, put a "submit investor interest" button on your site. You'll never need money again
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Open source Friend just got funded 2nd time - thank you to our investors!. I promise:.- We won't spend even $1 on a domain name.- We will stay committed to open-source.- We will build products that help humanity and not destroy it.
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You can finally buy the cheapest open source AI wearable for $39. 30 days ago we launched FRIEND. 15 minutes ago it was launched on Kickstarter to make the device accessible to you. And it has already reached 80%+ of the goal. This is how it works: ( 🧵)
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Instead of buying domains, we are giving money to the open-source community. There are now $30k+ of bounties in the OS Friend and you can get it. Do a few tasks and we will fly you out to San Francisco:
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To celebrate launch I'm giving away 100 Friend AI necklaces to my followers. Like and Comment on this post tagging 2 friends to enter. Make sure you’re FOLLOWING so I can dm you if you win! Winners will be announced in 7 days
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We just shipped. Promised. Delivered. 7 hours. GitHub url in first comment
Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost. At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:.- Works 24+ hours on a single charge.- Costs ~$20.-
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How it started How it’s going . Want to build hardware with us in SF? Apply below
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Testing Friend Dev Kit 2. Now with:.- on-board memory of 8GB (few days of work without phone) .- Speaker (talk to your device).- Programmable button
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It’s my 25th birthday, so I am giving away 1,000 Friend AI necklaces to my followers! .Retweet this post and star our Github page to enter!.Make sure you’re following so I can dm you when you win! Winners will be announced in 7 days!
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@MKBHD Many people suggested us to fight . IM OFFICIALLY INVITING @AviSchiffmann TO FIGHT WITH ME. DO YOU TAKE THE OFFER?
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Introducing Omi Apps - like GPTs but better:.💰 $10M committed to developer payouts.🎧 Gigabytes of real-time audio to play with.💸 First $10k dropping TODAY. Time to build your own app. Join online apps hackathon and come to SF for free
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Thousands of people used Whomane Pin and many asked to put it in Smartglasses . At #DreamXR hackathon we built Beta Royban. This is how it works:
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In 48 hours: .- 200k+ users.- 10M+ chat messages.- 7M views.- 4 interview requests.- 9 investing offers.
You can now create AI replica from any X profile . I replicated @elonmusk and asked what drugs he is on . Try yourself: In the future, every person you know will have a fully synced AI persona in omi
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Every person I meet in real life is added to my Notion CRM:
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Want to learn how to build hardware and can come to SF? .Comment with "+"
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hasn’t launched yet, we will launch on January 8th, 2025. It will be the most beautiful device out there that will change your life. If you don't buy it, I will step down as a CEO. If you’re a journalist or influencer and want early access before the
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Big news today.1. Friend necklace is merged with - now called Omi and works together.2. We open-sourced all files for Friend 2 (dev kit).3. Exceeded our domain budget by 0.8$ - please forgive . - need your⭐️
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San Francisco culture is lame - everyone goes to bed at 10 pm. Instead of sleep, we hosted a hacKING night, where to enter - you drink Red Bull or you leave home. Rules: If you stay till 3am and demo, we crown you with a sword and real crown. Here is how it went: (a🧵)
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Was in @Meta offices last week. Can’t tell you what we’ve agreed yet but it’s gonna be lit.
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After 3 emails to @kickstarter to pause the campaign, someone bought thousands of units . Now we have to build this till the end of our days 💀
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We won first place! 🥇 🏆.Appreciate the judges:. @DynamicWebPaige @JonathanRoss321 @cerebral_valley @Meta @asangani7 @chuanli11 @altryne.@BraveSampson @ckaiwu @mlchiang.@rydcunningham @bcristei @JDMorgan.@ClementDelangue @seldo @GroqInc @LambdaAPI @OctoAICloud @ollama .And more.
You can now turn any glasses into AI smart glasses for just $20. At today's hackathon we built Open Glass AI. It will then record your life and remember people names, count calories, live translate, and much more. Ant it's fully open source. Link 👇
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Developers, get a devkit today. No need to wait 3+ months to start building on omi. Devkit and new omi work very similar with the same app. Voice will still be primary way of interaction for a few years until we change it. Link in comments. Let's build the future together
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FRIEND became the largest opensource AI wearable community in the world. To support the builders, we are launching an App Marketplace. You can now build your own app and it will work with the device. Submit the app, get promoted in our socials, and join a waitlist to get FRIEND
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Major announcements:.- We got featured by @kickstarter.- We are starting a company to ship faster @based_hardware .- We got the first investor 🥳.- You can now become our @github sponsor. More:
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our goal is to fully read the mind. it's hard and ambitious vision, which is why we are starting with the simplest and most useful usecase: device activation. Instead of saying "hey omi" or clicking on the button, omi will be able to detect when you are speaking to it, once the
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Thousands of designs by the community will make omi the most beautiful device in the world
Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’
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We invited 150+ Neuro builders to showcase what’s possible with BCI tech. This was the largest Neuro Hackathon I’ve seen, organized with @neurosity and @TelepathTech . Live product demos. No bullshit. Here are the best projects:
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We just raised a round, growing faster than ever and hiring founding engineers. We work hard (SF) and give lots of stock + cash. Comment under this post with your GitHub and top-1- achievement => will reach out in 24h. or tag your friends
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I want to confess: we launched FRIEND with poor audio quality and no Android app. Today, the amazing community made it 10X better: @Ex3NDR @eng1n88r @BentlyBro_AGPT @AkshayNarisetti . Together, we introduce FRIEND 2.0 =>
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Added assembling instruction and updated case design
Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost. At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:.- Works 24+ hours on a single charge.- Costs ~$20.-
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Create your own plugins and integrations for AI wearables in <2 minutes. Meet plugins marketplace: customize your AI wearable for thousands of use cases: .🧑⚕️ Doctor-patient summary.🗨️ Speech coach.📖 Lecture summary for students and more. Instruction to submit plugins below 👇
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I couldn't understand why we got 300k site views last week. Now I see why
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“I have no desire to be supportive, I’m here to win”.If you were also blocked by @AviSchiffmann - join open source and let’s build together!
Thousands of people asked us to opensource Whomane - an AI wearable with a camera. We will be sued but today we are publishing all the code, schema, and designs. Also added a case and created a live demo you can try NOW with just one click
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Here are 5 Ai wearables you can’t buy right now and this is what we are doing about it:
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I'm very excited to announce a Based Hardware Residency in SF on June 1st, 2024. Residents will have access to workbenches, hardware equipment (3D-printers, tools, etc.), and mentorship. Great opportunity to fly to SF and build with the best. Just fill in the form 👇
Want to learn how to build hardware and can come to SF? .Comment with "+"
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🏆 Congratulations to first place from the #Llama3Hackathon this weekend: Open Glass AI!. More details and open source code ➡️ It’s inspiring to see such innovative work from the open source community, built with Meta Llama 3!.
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🚀 Excited to announce Sama AI - the first proactive AI mentor that is ready to use on your iPhone or as a wearable!. 📱Designed to improve your life by recording and providing feedback on your daily conversations. 🧠Gives you perfect memory and offers proactive insights into
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We are looking for a hardware/design cofounder. Everything achieved at @based_hardware was done with 0 hardware experience in 3 months. Time to get to the next level. Looking for a cofounder, who:.- Built any hardware.- Sold 10k+ units OR raised 1m$+ OR had $1m+ revenue. More👇
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I spend 0 minutes managing my calendar. My necklace does it automatically.
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Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸. USA is the best country in the world. Moving to San Francisco changed my life. Here is how you can also get to San Francisco for free 👉
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This weekend we gave 100+ Friend AI necklaces and 30+ openglasses to hackers and asked them to build smth cool. Here are the coolest projects: (a 🧵)
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Did you know that you can earn $5,000 while contributing to open source? . Many don't know that so we at @based_hardware want to fix this problem - introducing bounties. You can earn $5k today by helping dev community - there are 7 tasks available. Link to bounties in (🧵)
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omi in 9 months:.> 300k+ users.> 6k builders in discord.> 250+ apps.> 3 hardware iterations.> meta partnership.> 50M+ views.
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If you start a consumer hardware company, be prepared for 99% of your followers to be Chinese women.
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You can now use the Friend AI app with 10+ beautiful smartglasses. We've partnered with @vueglasses to bring AI closer to you. You can buy Vue Glasses in 100+ countries and they will work with Friend AI app out of the box:
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Never thought I'd say this but will be visiting Miami 20-26 of April. Ping me if you are here!
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We’ve achieved 220%+ of the goal in 3 hours - crazy!
You can finally buy the cheapest open source AI wearable for $39. 30 days ago we launched FRIEND. 15 minutes ago it was launched on Kickstarter to make the device accessible to you. And it has already reached 80%+ of the goal. This is how it works: ( 🧵)
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We gave 700+ hackers an always-listening capability with omi and 1 month to show what's possible. Here are the best apps they built (🧵):.
Introducing Omi Apps - like GPTs but better:.💰 $10M committed to developer payouts.🎧 Gigabytes of real-time audio to play with.💸 First $10k dropping TODAY. Time to build your own app. Join online apps hackathon and come to SF for free
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Testing how CCTIP works before airdropping $1000 USDT next time. Subscribe to my Twitter @kodjima33 not to miss the chance to earn it. @cctip_io airdrop 5 TRC20-USDT 500.
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Give us 24 hours to finish the hackathon and prepare everything! We will publish the repository at this URL
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My main rule is: never ask anything, just bring value. But if you want to help and don't know how: our #1 priority is to improve the audio quality. For C++ / arduino/hardware experts, the file's URL is in the 1st comment.
We just shipped. Promised. Delivered. 7 hours. GitHub url in first comment
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When launching Friend, we didn't realize 99% of people don't have 3d printers. Hundreds of developers reached out to buy the assembled AI wearable. We will assemble and send hundreds of units for $39. Join the Waitlist. Link below. First units shipped next month
Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost. At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:.- Works 24+ hours on a single charge.- Costs ~$20.-
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Our workshops get so much attention that we decided to make it a weekly event. Introducing Based Workshops. Now, every Saturday, our doors are open for anyone to come, hang out, build their hardware wearables, or work on their own thing. Link 👇
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Goodbye, @based_hardware, hello @omidotme. Made by legendary designer Joe Tsao who designed for @openai @kanyewest @GooglePixel_US @AirCoNYC @newcomputer @oemcare @MercedesBenz
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Meet your Friend on @ProductHunt today. To celebrate the launch, giving 5 devices to 5 random supporters! . - Upvote.- Leave a comment. Results on Monday.
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Other Ai wearable projects got ashamed and hired bots to spam! So cringe! . We didn’t even publish Github yet 😂
Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost. At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:.- Works 24+ hours on a single charge.- Costs ~$20.-
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Just closed a great investor for omi. More updates soon 🚀.
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There is ~0 BCI/Neuro events in SF. LETS FIX THIS on a BCI hackathon this weekend. We will have up to 50 BCI headsets available but very limited spots
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✅ All devices have been shipped. Now, to the new beginnings!.
You can finally buy the cheapest open source AI wearable for $39. 30 days ago we launched FRIEND. 15 minutes ago it was launched on Kickstarter to make the device accessible to you. And it has already reached 80%+ of the goal. This is how it works: ( 🧵)
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It’s not surprising that most of the founders raise big Seed and never get to Series-A. After raising too much money, the most natural reaction is “I’ve succeeded” which leads to losing hunger and slowed growth. Bootstrap. Raise less than your competitors but deliver more. Stay.
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I hope someone like Sam will replace macOS - worst OS ever.
You can now have an AI agent in your mobile operating system. Here are 3 things it can do:. 1. Hook into system-level triggers like notifications. 2. Use any app that's already installed on the device. 3. Read data and gather context across sandboxed applications
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You can now create omi apps in 30 seconds with prompts. With access to notifications, real-time transcript and audio. Watch how I submit a "no drinking" app in <5 minutes
Introducing Omi Apps - like GPTs but better:.💰 $10M committed to developer payouts.🎧 Gigabytes of real-time audio to play with.💸 First $10k dropping TODAY. Time to build your own app. Join online apps hackathon and come to SF for free
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Opened Indian food restaurant and this is my profit on day 1. Thank you twitter haters!
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