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Royce Branning
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- My friends seeing and commenting on my screen time every day is the most productive force in my life DM if you want early access
- 1 year ago sat down for some tacos with a dude I’d never met We talked about phone addiction Started a company to fix it Got into @ycombinator Saved people over 500k hours of time And came back a year later for more tacos.
- We took @ycombinator’s advice very literally when they said talk to users and put a "call a founder" button in our app As we continue to grow I get the question more often "Don't the calls get annoying?"... No. Not even a little bit. This morning I got to start my monday with
00:00- We ran a "Phone Check" at a @ycombinator event last night for ~150 founders in San Francisco. Here's how it went: tinyurl.com/yd5zbjs8
- Me paying the price to like this tweet
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00:16Oh look it’s real - It’s absolutely DUMPING in downtown San Francisco. Took shelter in Chipotle just in time ☔️ #californiastorm
00:00 - SF startups fleeing downtown and posting up in the neighborhoods is giving rise to some great neighborhood names: - Cerebral Valley - The TAMHandle - PMF Heights What am I missing?
- Clearspace, the Screen Time app that: • makes you do pushups to earn phone time • shares your screen time with friends • lets you track screen time data for longer than 3 weeks (apples limit) Is charting at #36 on the App Store Which means it might just be 1 viral pop
- In college, I was heading into the biggest interview of my life, there would be 10 interviewers in the room. Before I went in a mentor of mine said: "Royce, it is a rare privilege in life to get to share about something you care about with a room full of people."
- Replying to @chrisboettcher9treat your screen time like your diet: twitter = carbs podcasts = protein tik tok = processed sugar












