I’m Justin Kan, former co-founder of Twitch, co-founder of Fractal, and now co-founder of Rye! AMA!
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I cofounded and recently launched Rye - an eCommerce API that lets developers add new revenue streams for their products by adding eCommerce and checkout into any app or website.
Ask me anything about Rye, entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and crypto.
I'll be answering questions on Friday, the 14th of October!
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Do you have packaged travel deals? If I wanted a list of all 1 week travel deals for a given country etc?
When you were building Twitch, what was a moment where you realized the product was actually working, and how did that change your decision-making speed?
so we let a coding agent generate the summary dashboard and it gave us this very clean latency metric in the final report, but it was actually a hardcoded "placeholder" from a test file and we wasted the whole day debuging against a stat that was never even connected to prod)
Agent generated report with confident metric. Looked completely legit. Spent full day debuging downstream logic. Traced script. Nobody actually measured it. Agent just put hardcoded placeholder)
Justin , I’m building a side project called Monument Patron — an interactive digital book of world monuments where each monument can have one permanent patron attached to its plate.
The model is intentionally simple: one digital location, one patron, one-time payment.
From an acquisition perspective, would a product like this become more interesting if it proves strong revenue early, or would you care more about things like unique positioning, organic traffic, repeat visitors, and brand/community value?
I’m curious what signal would make you think: “this is small now, but potentially worth acquiring later.”