Douglas Li

Thanks for sharing :). Love the whole journey and especially your note at the end about intention and care. I simply want to build something that helps with my personal life and the friends around me. It's always been this really. Many engineers like big scale and highly performant systems -- e.g. "we process billions of transactions a day" is something that they'd be proud of. When I joined...

I used to build products at Facebook, including extremely core privacy and chat features. Launching is honestly a massive coordination act over anything else -- having a timeline of what's going to happen on the day, what needs to happen before (anything you need to build, fix, but even more importantly your comms plan, where you'll be sharing news, who you'll reach out to for support). On the...

Agreed that UI needs to change. But I'm not bullish on going pure chat. Having to type text can be incredibly inefficient too, and LLMs are so prone to hallucinating intent incorrectly that pure chat interfaces are more likely to get things wrong instead of right. Booking a meeting at the wrong timeslot is annoying at best and unprofessional at worst. You really want ways for the user to...