John Dagdelen
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johnd.bsky.social
John Dagdelen
@johnd.bsky.social
Building Fluid, the top-rated productivity app for Meta Quest. Studio Founder at Founders Inc. Member Oculus Start. XR and spatial computing. ᯅ
Meta Ray Ban Display from a professional VR Developer's perspective:
September 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
@scottstein.bsky.social was great meeting you today at Connect.
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Test footage from an in-app camera system we’ve been working on.

I can’t wait to say more soon. It’s going to enable so much for our users.
February 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Valve seriously needs to pay attention to what’s going on with XREAL.

From what I can tell, the single highest retention cohort of XREAL users are using them with Steam Deck or other handheld gaming pc.

I suspect higher retention compared to average Steam Deck users too.
December 26, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Big things coming to Fluid this week!
December 17, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by John Dagdelen
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 7:13 AM
VR sames with 500k MAU that are properly monetized with IAP on Quest are doing $15M+/year.
December 9, 2024 at 7:50 AM
@starcenturion.bsky.social are you interested in chatting? I’m looking for some help on our marketing/community side.
December 5, 2024 at 11:48 PM
If you send me an unsolicited Calendar invite for a sales call, you better believe I’m:

- declining
- blocking you at the domain level,
- and making a blood pact with a demon to make your life miserable for the next 20 years.
November 30, 2024 at 12:07 AM
I think this is the #1 piece of advice that all early stage founders need.
You know you should be working on Marketing, not features.

You build new features anyway because (a) it's fun and (b) you know how.

Whereas the business usually needs you to learn marketing and get another customer today.
Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying
Technical founders, step away from the code. Gather insights from non-buyers, rather than just adding more features.
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November 21, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Reason 35 that it sucks to be a Quest dev:

It’s super easy for users to pirate games and Meta doesn’t seem to care.

A large number of your sales will disappear because of this.
November 13, 2024 at 5:43 PM
May 7, 2023 at 7:48 AM