tldr; my cofounder left. where does unlonely go from here? let's start w a brief history, i’ll keep it short: - 3 years ago i became a fan of the live-streaming space - built and started streaming daily on unlonely for 6 months - raised, hired, kept building - tried a lot of things: NFT clips(flop), creator tokens(directionally correct but flopped), 30-min tokens / versus tokens (directionally correct but maybe early). shows like love on leverage, the haunted church were cool ways to generate mindshare and test out features but didn’t scale and were extremely difficult to produce. we slowly let go of members of the team as we returned to ideation mode. around this time last year, i felt a major shift in our North Star towards “its all gambling, nothing else matters”. this led to moving to solana, launching BOO, etc. to quote @shayonsengupta, crypto’s only killer use cases are “creating & trading assets”. nothing else. we built cabal in feb, a mobile group trading app. turn a groupchat into a hedge fund. fun to build and somewhat interesting(not really though imo) — the problem is by the time i finished building it in 3-4 weeks, i had lost too much trading and never wanted to touch a memecoin ever again. we also made @fat_chiggas for fun too. i lost the plot. i don’t really care much for gambling. for a while, i convinced myself that my feelings didn’t matter -- what mattered was what the market was telling me. grace felt differently, some unhealthy dynamics were created that jeopardized our relationship as siblings, so she left. oof. tough blow. what now? well, lets look at the good news: - summer in NYC - 4+ years of runway to build literally whatever i want - thanks to this thing called AI, i don’t need to hire anyone anytime soon and can learn anything about anything - my energy level remains high as fuck, and i see overwhelming amounts of opportunity all around me - minds racing with ideas, though maybe a bit outside of the scope of crypto So there you have it. I’m still here. feels like i’m starting over again, what an incredible spot to be in.