@ryinnovate.bsky.social
Founder of Feather, a B2B Conference Networking Solution ~ Building in public ~ Founding board member of Friday Morning Club, promoting art and community in LA
🧵 A few weeks ago marked the halfway point in my MBA. I started at Rady with a goal to bring Feather back. I told myself before I graduated that I'd find a technical co-founder and get one customer. Less than a quarter in, I had done both.
October 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🧵 A few weeks ago marked the halfway point in my MBA. I started at Rady with a goal to bring Feather back. I told myself before I graduated that I'd find a technical co-founder and get one customer. Less than a quarter in, I had done both.
We're launching the second version of our event app. There's a short conversation attendees have with a chatbot to build custom schedules.
We added native STT and TTS for accessibility. We found people using it voice-first gave answers 3–5x as long.
Design for accessibility is design for humans.
We added native STT and TTS for accessibility. We found people using it voice-first gave answers 3–5x as long.
Design for accessibility is design for humans.
Remember the folks that are like "no you don't get it, our website is an APP. It is COMPLEX. We have to use React and it has to weigh 25MB!" are the same people that will tell you modifying a part of a design to be more accessible takes too much time and is too complicated.
September 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We're launching the second version of our event app. There's a short conversation attendees have with a chatbot to build custom schedules.
We added native STT and TTS for accessibility. We found people using it voice-first gave answers 3–5x as long.
Design for accessibility is design for humans.
We added native STT and TTS for accessibility. We found people using it voice-first gave answers 3–5x as long.
Design for accessibility is design for humans.
Caro throwing shade at other biographers for not doing enough research is my absolute favorite part of his works. Like my man just verbally suckered punched Doris Kearns Goodwin as though she's not the preeminent presisidential biographer of the 21st century. What's more, he's right.
September 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Caro throwing shade at other biographers for not doing enough research is my absolute favorite part of his works. Like my man just verbally suckered punched Doris Kearns Goodwin as though she's not the preeminent presisidential biographer of the 21st century. What's more, he's right.
A market bubble is not a product bubble is not a tech bubble.
Heads down and keep building.
Heads down and keep building.
August 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A market bubble is not a product bubble is not a tech bubble.
Heads down and keep building.
Heads down and keep building.
We need Git for group project documents. Halfway through an MBA and the amount of nonsense I go through trying to collate changes from multiple people across multiple doc versions is infuriating.
July 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
We need Git for group project documents. Halfway through an MBA and the amount of nonsense I go through trying to collate changes from multiple people across multiple doc versions is infuriating.
Do you organize conferences/trade shows/networking events?
Do you sponsor these?
I'd love to ask some questions about your experience with this.
Do you sponsor these?
I'd love to ask some questions about your experience with this.
May 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Do you organize conferences/trade shows/networking events?
Do you sponsor these?
I'd love to ask some questions about your experience with this.
Do you sponsor these?
I'd love to ask some questions about your experience with this.
About to take off to NYC for a conference with our first customer!
May 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
About to take off to NYC for a conference with our first customer!
Last week I was let go from Intuit at the end of tax season.
Next week Feather releases our app to a limited beta.
This week I get to convert 40 hours directly into additional product dev work.
Never been happier to receive bad news.
#startup #buildinpublic #whenlifegivesyoulemons
Next week Feather releases our app to a limited beta.
This week I get to convert 40 hours directly into additional product dev work.
Never been happier to receive bad news.
#startup #buildinpublic #whenlifegivesyoulemons
April 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Last week I was let go from Intuit at the end of tax season.
Next week Feather releases our app to a limited beta.
This week I get to convert 40 hours directly into additional product dev work.
Never been happier to receive bad news.
#startup #buildinpublic #whenlifegivesyoulemons
Next week Feather releases our app to a limited beta.
This week I get to convert 40 hours directly into additional product dev work.
Never been happier to receive bad news.
#startup #buildinpublic #whenlifegivesyoulemons
Subaru is leaving so much money on the table by not offering a $300 upgrade to their cup holders to fit Nalgenes.
The target audience is nearly a perfect overlap.
The target audience is nearly a perfect overlap.
April 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Subaru is leaving so much money on the table by not offering a $300 upgrade to their cup holders to fit Nalgenes.
The target audience is nearly a perfect overlap.
The target audience is nearly a perfect overlap.
Remember Google Wave?
February 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Remember Google Wave?
I was promised trade wars would involve lightsabers
February 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I was promised trade wars would involve lightsabers
The best pieces of tech are the ones the founder just said "fine, if no one's going to fix this, I'll do it myself." It's a different vibe—more tenacity that the get-rich founders with billion dollar valuation stars in their eyes, and more worldly level-headesness than the I-have-an-idea guys.
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The best pieces of tech are the ones the founder just said "fine, if no one's going to fix this, I'll do it myself." It's a different vibe—more tenacity that the get-rich founders with billion dollar valuation stars in their eyes, and more worldly level-headesness than the I-have-an-idea guys.
Every late Sunday night working on your startup is another night wishing you could get up to it in the morning.
The "real" job is at its most interesting season of the year, but it's never been less enticing.
The "real" job is at its most interesting season of the year, but it's never been less enticing.
February 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every late Sunday night working on your startup is another night wishing you could get up to it in the morning.
The "real" job is at its most interesting season of the year, but it's never been less enticing.
The "real" job is at its most interesting season of the year, but it's never been less enticing.
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Your regular reminder Delft’s market square was a surface parking lot as recently as 2004.
A razor-thin coalition (19-18 votes) initiated a six-month pilot to help merchants realize cars don’t spend money, people do.
Years later, no one remembers the controversy or regrets the decision. *Sound on*
A razor-thin coalition (19-18 votes) initiated a six-month pilot to help merchants realize cars don’t spend money, people do.
Years later, no one remembers the controversy or regrets the decision. *Sound on*
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Your regular reminder Delft’s market square was a surface parking lot as recently as 2004.
A razor-thin coalition (19-18 votes) initiated a six-month pilot to help merchants realize cars don’t spend money, people do.
Years later, no one remembers the controversy or regrets the decision. *Sound on*
A razor-thin coalition (19-18 votes) initiated a six-month pilot to help merchants realize cars don’t spend money, people do.
Years later, no one remembers the controversy or regrets the decision. *Sound on*
AI optimists tend to poorly weigh countervailing risks caused by and solved by AI—arriving at a previously unachievable solution with AI is meaningless without political and social will to implement it. Without accounting for this, they overweight the neutralizing effect against exogenous threats.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
AI optimists tend to poorly weigh countervailing risks caused by and solved by AI—arriving at a previously unachievable solution with AI is meaningless without political and social will to implement it. Without accounting for this, they overweight the neutralizing effect against exogenous threats.
Imagine not wanting to deal with sweaty nerds complaining about what actually counts as AI so much that you write a whole universe-wide jihad to exclude computers from your foundational scifi text.
Frank Herbert might have been onto something.
Frank Herbert might have been onto something.
January 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Imagine not wanting to deal with sweaty nerds complaining about what actually counts as AI so much that you write a whole universe-wide jihad to exclude computers from your foundational scifi text.
Frank Herbert might have been onto something.
Frank Herbert might have been onto something.
@nfh.bsky.social once complained that everyone was using AI to make the millionth indistinguishable habit tracker app, but I think that was short-sighted of him.
Now everyone is using AI to make the millionth indistinguishable project management app.
Now everyone is using AI to make the millionth indistinguishable project management app.
January 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
@nfh.bsky.social once complained that everyone was using AI to make the millionth indistinguishable habit tracker app, but I think that was short-sighted of him.
Now everyone is using AI to make the millionth indistinguishable project management app.
Now everyone is using AI to make the millionth indistinguishable project management app.
You can have endless meetings with cofounders, you can write thousands of lines of code, you can build every type of forecast, you can empty stacks of markers on whiteboards—there's something that feels so much more real about submitting the incorporation.
January 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
You can have endless meetings with cofounders, you can write thousands of lines of code, you can build every type of forecast, you can empty stacks of markers on whiteboards—there's something that feels so much more real about submitting the incorporation.
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I don't know that I've ever heard a better idea than bagels.
December 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM
I don't know that I've ever heard a better idea than bagels.
My toxic trait is I believe every piece of communication would be better as a flowchart. Customer journey? Flowchart. Change management plan? Flowchart. Unabridged text of the complete works of Leo Tolstoy? Probably a flowchart.
December 23, 2024 at 4:21 AM
My toxic trait is I believe every piece of communication would be better as a flowchart. Customer journey? Flowchart. Change management plan? Flowchart. Unabridged text of the complete works of Leo Tolstoy? Probably a flowchart.
Post-Dragon Heist, my entrepreneurial wizard is starting a service to collect and distribute real-time opinions from across Faerûn.
Calling it Bluescry.
Calling it Bluescry.
December 18, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Post-Dragon Heist, my entrepreneurial wizard is starting a service to collect and distribute real-time opinions from across Faerûn.
Calling it Bluescry.
Calling it Bluescry.
And you don't need to go other this blind. If you know a little about your customer segments, the math isn't hard to greet some approximations on the outcome (that doesn't mean don't test!)
youtu.be/7DNN1MskVEc?...
youtu.be/7DNN1MskVEc?...
December 18, 2024 at 5:23 PM
And you don't need to go other this blind. If you know a little about your customer segments, the math isn't hard to greet some approximations on the outcome (that doesn't mean don't test!)
youtu.be/7DNN1MskVEc?...
youtu.be/7DNN1MskVEc?...
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Just finished our first meeting with our new technical cofounder at Feather! Welcome to the team Julian!
December 17, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Just finished our first meeting with our new technical cofounder at Feather! Welcome to the team Julian!
When you've finished your last business analytics class and can stop using R for data analysis
December 6, 2024 at 8:14 PM
When you've finished your last business analytics class and can stop using R for data analysis