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I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which friend is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon to a gro…

This app could work as is for an elderly grandmother as once set up (could be set up for her by family), it's just "open app → press single giant Beacon button" which would try to …

please share if it works for you and any feedback you have!

thanks, it is fun! I now spontaneously talk to friends 1-2 hours/week more than I did.

haha, thank you :)

Can you say more about what you mean by a messaging version?

I think it went away because everyone became "online" all the time, but that also meant most communication transitioned to async

laboratory.love — independent lab testing of everyday food products for plastic chemicals (phthalates + bisphenols), with all results published publicly. I got nerd-sniped by Plast…

If you miss a Beacon and that makes you realize you want to chat with a friend, you can just send your own Beacon!

The idea is to just send a beacon whenever you're free and maybe you'll catch friends in the wildly different timezones from time to time. I sometimes send beacons on morning commu…

I made Beacon, a mobile app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon t…

I made Beacon, a tiny iOS app for answering: “which of my friends is free to talk right now?” It’s basically a one-to-many phone call that only one person can answer. Send a beacon…

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I'm working on https://laboratory.love Laboratory.love lets you fund independent plastic chemical lab testing of the specific foods you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets K…

The testing is surprisingly complex! I partner with Light Labs to handle the testing → https://www.lightlabs.com/

I'm working on https://laboratory.love Laboratory.love lets you fund independent plastic chemical lab testing of the specific foods you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets K…

I think Moltbook is best perceived as improv interactive performance art

Interesting pattern to see how many IPO photos on the right are missing an original founder or two.

Currently a one-man side project: https://laboratory.love In 2024, PlasticList found plastic chemicals in 86% of tested foods—including 100% of baby foods they tested. Around the s…

100% this, I built laboratory.love almost entirely with my voice and (now-outdated) Claude models My go-to prompt finisher, which I have mapped to a hotkey due to frequent use, is …

Did you ever use AirChat?

burning man dust is definitely an irritant (alkaline), but salton sea dust seems to contain many additional contaminants (pesticides, metals, biologicals)

Currently building Laboratory.love — a community way to crowdfund independent lab testing of everyday products for plastic chemicals (BPA/BPS/BPF, phthalates). We buy three differe…

For an individual acting on their own, single tests for phthalates and BPA/BPS/BPF normally cost ~$500. Laboratory.love tests three samples from different lots to ensure reliabilit…