Brent Carlson

Brent Carlson

Maker of Where Am I?, the photo game.
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About

I'm Brent Carlson, founder of Inertia Lab LLC. I've spent 20 years in tech sales at Reddit and Meta before building Where Am I?, a social iOS game where your friends guess the location of your photos. Originally launched in 2011, rebuilt solo in 90 days in 2026 using AI-assisted development. Based in Northern California.

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Maker History

  • Where Am I?
    Where Am I?Photo sharing. Gamified.
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntDecember 26th, 2021

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23d ago

Where Am I? - Photo sharing. Gamified.

Where Am I? turns photo sharing into a guessing game. Post a photo of your location and your friends compete to guess where it was taken. Built nights and weekends by a solo founder. This is v1.0, the foundation of the game, with a lot more coming.
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1mo ago

What's the smallest, dumbest thing that made you completely lose trust in an AI agent mid task?

It doesn't even have to be a big dramatic failures, more the small moments where something clicked and you went from trusting the output by default to double checking everything. For me it was watching an agent confidently rename a function across twelve files, then leave the original function untouched in a thirteenth file it apparently didn't search, with zero indication anything had been missed. It wasn't even a hard case, the file just wasn't in the directory it happened to grep first.
What was your moment? And did it actually change your workflow afterward, or did the trust creep back in after a week like it always seems to for me?

ExploreYC p/yc-company-explorer•

1mo ago

honest one for the founders here (+ updates on the open-source YC data platform) 👇

how do you actually check if your idea's been done before? like - gpt it, google it, ask friends, dig through YC's directory, or just.. cross fingers and build?

asking because i built ExploreYC trying to fix exactly that... through semantic search on over 8.6k startups, but genuinely curious what people reach for before a tool. what's your move?

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