Honey I’m homeeee
After trying on different hats at
@browsercompany
&
@joinstationf
since leaving zenly, I recently joined
@amoamoamo
to get back to what I love most: consumer social!
So excited to be working with these talented humans again and for all that’s still to come 🩷
rented this insane airbnb in the mourne mountains with my 2 best friends to quarantine in and we have sheep in our garden and crazy velour furniture lol
Weird time to be sharing “some personal news”, but today was my (remote) first day as part of the
@zenlyapp
team.
I’ll be moving to Paris as soon as it’s safe to do so, but until then you’ll find me (on Zenly!) isolating in Northern Ireland. 💛🍦
I hate that my age group jumped ship to IG just as Snapchat was getting interesting... all bc we wanted the audience rather than the relationship.
Operation Get Late Gen Z Back On Snapchat begins *today* 👻
still in awe of the fact you can get on a train in paris and 2 hours later you’re in london ,,, and it goes under the SEA ?? long trains short space travel
this was the last release note i wrote before leaving the zenly team earlier this summer
it was a love letter from zenly to our 10s of millions of users. but also to the tireless team in paris working to create a category-defining consumer app
today is a very, very sad day 😔
got breakthrough covid, had to cancel all my holiday plans, and now im aggressively burning all of my designer candles to check i still have my sense of smell
this feels like a low point in hot girl summer
If you do one thing today, consider checking out the Open Source Ventilator project on
@ProductHunt
❤️
@ConallLaverty
& a team of volunteers are working day and night to develop a low-cost and open-source ventilator to help save lives.
I spent today immersed in the depths of
@eriktorenberg
's mega-thread on careers. The Twitter threading feature sucks, so (with permission from Erik) I pulled it all into a formatted g doc. Enjoy 🤗🤗🤗
do something you love, move to paris, drink red wine, eat burritos, buy another pair of sneakers, facetime your family, cycle to work in the snow, help people, tell people you love them
that’s it. the secret to happiness. i don’t make the rules 🤠
i will forever be in awe of designers
like you send them a brief which is just really ugly random things pulled together with incorrect margins/spacing/corners
and then you open figma and it’s just magically turned into the most visually pleasing thing you’ve ever seen
I don’t know whether to be offended or impressed that no one realized my latest post for
@betaworksVC
was *actually written by AI*.
As
@Borthwick
put it, it was strangely comprehensible “word salad”.
I'm trying to write something about living in NYC bc it was the most insanely ridiculous year of my life but where do I even start?
Is it an ode to Joe's pizza? A how-to on avoiding rodents? A dating manual? A map to all the cute doges in w'burg? A guide to apartment hunting?
Ok. Just landed in SF. It is my first time *ever* being in California and in tech u/distopia
I am VERY excited
stay tuned for a thread of me realising stuff
Hi Twitter, I wrote about my experiment in character-building aka moving to NYC.
Featuring my 4-soon-to-be-5 apartment moves, battling the US credit score system, going bankrupt in Wholefoods, trying to make friends, being lonely and dating. 🗽🙃👇
i feel like everyone is getting married or raising a series h and I’m just happy when i remember to switch to bonsoir instead of bonjour in the evening you know
Welcome to Zenly World 😎
I wrote about putting an ice cream truck on the map for
@zenlyapp
users in Japan and making it go viral.
(Featuring the work of our all-star intern
@SebMnzz
🌟)
Final round interview with Partner at big consulting firm:
"You seem very driven, I worry that you would have a hard time making friends."
I turned down their job offer.
ok some good stuff coming out of the replies to this:
- people kinda pissed about this
- it is totally reasonable for founders to not want to just open their app immediately to the masses (gotta test)
- problem is more the clout-chasing culture that has grown around access
Starting a new app. It’s like CoStar but each morning it tells you which shape of pasta you should cook for dinner. And which shape of pasta your favourite celebs are eating. DM for beta access.