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our product @ditto_dates just hit 210k college signups yesterday, 1% of the entire us college population so we surveyed them to learn about how gen z actually feel about ai, here's the results: 30% think data centers waste water 40% think ai will steal their jobs 25% think ai only generates slop based on stolen data it takes more than squeezing muse into instagram for gen z to truly adopt ai native products

We built a @Muse that sets up dates for you. 185k college students are already using it. Step 1: Text @ditto_dates your type. Step 2: Your agent simulates dates, finds a match, books the time and place, and starts a group chat with you two. Step 3: You just show up. Our goal is to help people spend more time with each other than with their phones. Less swiping, more real IRL moments. The world's first agent that finds you love.

everyone has a roy lee take right now. here's mine, from the one time he had zero reason to help me and did anyway last summer, right after the $15m from a16z, @im_roy_lee was the hottest founder in the world we at @ditto_dates had a few months of runway left. live at 3 schools. nobody in VC knew we existed. raising was also brutal in summer cuz every gp was on a yacht in italy as a consumer founder, i knew the only way out was to go viral. so I content farmed every day. roy liked a few posts, but we'd never talked as summer wound down, i knew my time was running out. i had one shot left @elsaprofitable and i went all in on a $3k launch video that gamified ditto's experience as a social assistant that sets up dates with your type. the plot: an abg finds a 6'2 hot nerd who brings her flowers, through ditto i hit post and prayed it will take off, cuz if this didn't work, we were cooked a few hours in, it was on a viral trajectory, but it needed one more push. so i dmed roy for a repost, fully expecting to get ghosted. i had never spoken to this man in my life a few hours later, right as i was losing hope, i got a notification roy tagged me. but he didn't just reposted he wrote a long, thoughtful review of the space, the product, and even offered to invest then he dmed me. gave me guidance on post formatting, what to post next, how to keep the momentum going. when he found out I was planning to raise, he even broke down his own cap table and introed me to investors the post went ahead and got 500k views, from the attention and momentum, we closed a round, work our way to 200k users, and ditto is now taking colleges by storm i know too many ppl who raise a few milly or get into yc and start ghosting others. roy was a 21 yo who just raised $15M and was the most talked-about founder, and he spent his time helping a founder he'd never met not justifying everything he did. just wanted to show a side of him people didn't see, because he did the same for me

Ditto office warming party this Friday See you there, invite only @ditto_dates – at San Francisco, CA