After 4 brain surgeries, I left my 6-figure tech job. Now I’m launching a startup in public

[kaybird]

@613jono Thanks for subscribing! Respond to any of the newsletters if you ever have any feedback for me

 

[athenaniko]

@kaybird Hey this is awesome! Looking forward to following your journey!

 

[kaybird]

@athenaniko Thanks for the support!

 

[chosen2abide]

@kaybird Following. Good luck mate.

 

[kaybird]

@chosen2abide Thanks I appreciate it!

 

[stranger36147]

@kaybird I hope it does well. Listen to your doctors.

 

[abelzner]

@kaybird This is one of the dumbest things I have heard all week. I mean please prove me wrong but with your resume you should go back to work making $200k a year in San Fran. Not spend about 5 minutes coming up with a stupid idea based on a tweet.

I have about 50 red flags from your little sob story but my first question is, how will this be any different than google plus, Facebook, linkedin, etc...? What incentive will people have to use it? And please if you choose to answer this question, please refrain from using my trigger words which include: “value,” “network,” and “social.”

 

[613jono]

@abelzner Downvoters never had medical bills or genuine existential problems in their lives. The whole thread reeks of privilege rooted in a misguided sense of perseverance porn.

 

[qc316]

@abelzner Idk man, that other guy posting on here who is “creating a business to help busy entrepreneurs get buff” is pretty fucking dumb. But this is bad too

 

[leandrocarvalho29]

@qc316 I built a multimillion dollar business off a similar idea. So, is it stupid?

 

[qc316]

@leandrocarvalho29 Was the idea targeting only entrepreneurs? That was the part I found a bit out there.

 

[leandrocarvalho29]

@qc316 True true

 

[jomoore58]

@kaybird I guess DISCORD does that but just for voice. You have to be in that channel and its just like a meeting room. What you are saying is with Video being on. Still a good idea.
All the best.

 

[kaybird]

@jomoore58 Yea discord is a good tool for real-time communication. But there are so many teams these days that operate in different time zones, mostly asynchronously. When my teammate is in Asia and I'm in NYC, it's hard to have a real-time audio or video conversation.

I have ideas on potential solutions, but my focus right now is validating that problem.

 

[alexsonofmatthew]

@kaybird Amazing! Congrats on your ongoing recovery
Idea is great, being onboarded remotely needs to be made better too!

 

[kaybird]

@alexsonofmatthew Thanks so much! I've never gone through a remote onboarding process but I have to imagine it's difficult...

 

[insight28]

@kaybird Hey, you should check out Tandem. We used it at our company earlier this year when lockdowns were a new phenomenon . We somehow stopped using. I personally stopped going to “watercooler” meetings.

 

[kaybird]

@insight28 Oh neat! I've definitely heard of Tandem. So you didn't find it valuable?

 

[insight28]

@kaybird It felt like an overkill. Especially when you already have calendar filled with zoom calls. On top of that people in my own team just slack video call me.