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The best designers have an obsessive hunger to iterate and drive metrics.
Looking for an exceptional person to work closely with me on something truly exciting!
Baran retweeted
Super cool to see how positive the feedback on our new Product Preview Life is.
It’s exciting to see people extending their social graph with AI friends and building real relationships with them
There can never be two social apps that look the same
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We are hiring React Native engineers
If you care deeply about craft, product, and building the future of consumer social AI, join us
You’ll be working closely with @fabiankamberi and me
DMs are open
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We’re open-sourcing React Native Godot this Sunday.
After a year of testing, polishing, and making it scalable across all the different Android devices.
Over the next few days, we’ll share all the different features we’ve built and best practices on how to use them.
We built much of Pengu’s core functionality on top of this library, and it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for us.
I can’t wait to see what you’ll all build with it!
We built this onboarding flow in React Native that feels better than most native apps
Here’s how we did it:
① Patched react-native-screens for a custom transition
② Button and stepper are rendered on top of the stack
③ Synced button state across screens via context
The button and header are positioned absolutely above the stack. When a screen focuses, it updates the shared button state (text, disabled state) via context
The hardest part is keeping the keyboard open during screen transitions. We solved it with hidden TextInputs that get focused programmatically before navigating
The result: one button flows across every screen and surfs the keyboard
Baran retweeted
Some thoughts,
Greatness is the only eternal feeling; everything else is meaningless.
Being obsessed with something is one of the greatest gifts. Manic obsession, however, is the ultimate gift.
Urgency is magical; every atom of your body must drive you forward.
Born to compete, existing to win.
Humility paired with insatiable hunger breeds good judgment. Good judgment uncovers great opportunities. Leveraging those leads to once-in-a-lifetime results.
For our new product, we built a chat in React Native that feels like iMessage
Here's how we did it:
① Fabric Swift View
② UICollectionView
③ SwiftUI cells via UIHostingConfiguration
React is responsible for the state - mutations, fetching, infinite loading - all via React Query. The native Fabric view is purely for rendering. React decides what to show, native decides how to show it
The bridge between three frameworks was tricky but worth it. UICollectionView animations come for free and scroll performance is native-smooth
No blank spaces and no FPS drops - all powered by the New Architecture
Who wants to see the code?
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We believe your next favorite human...isn’t. Today we’re Born: announcing a $15M Series A to reimagine AI friends.
Here's our story:
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We burned $14M, were weeks away from bankruptcy. Today we have $25M ARR and are announcing a $58M Series A.
All in a span of 1.5 years.
Here's the story:
come build from 0 → 1 alongside me
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We're hiring a 3D Designer to work with us on crafting a new AI character that's more than just a chatbot. I don’t care which universities you’ve attended; I just want to see your best work. 📩 [email protected]
Join a small, super-elite team. You will have all the resources needed to build a generational product people will use for years.
We've done it before with Pengu — and we're just getting started building the leading company for virtual characters.
we spent the christmas holidays building this little app
from idea to #1 in 14 days
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looking for a product designer in (or open to moving to) Berlin for a friend’s company
design-driven, excellent team, and one of europe’s fastest-growing startups
dm if interested
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Pengu has become the biggest AI character app with its own IP in the US. At SLAY, we are creating virtual friends that live and evolve like humans—starting with Pengu.
Like a pet or a child, your character lives on its own in a digital world, meets other users' Pengus, and creates relationships, forms beliefs, and develops thoughts. All these exciting moments are visualized in 3D.
Our product is already making life better for millions of couples, friends, and parents—and we’re just getting started.
I'm selling PhotoStudio, my AI headshot generator app. In just a few months, it has achieved impressive results:
- 179k impressions
- 93k product page views
- 52k downloads
- $XX,000 in revenue
At it’s best, PhotoStudio is the best AI headshot generator out there. I have tested almost every competing product, and none deliver results like PhotoStudio. Others often struggle with the telltale "AI look," where the eyes and skin look noticeably artificial. Check out this tweet to see real results xitter.cf/barany6m/status/174871…
↓ Details ↓
The app is built in React Native and is currently available on the App Store only. A Play Store release should be relatively straightforward.
The backend is powered by Firebase, with ML models stored on Huggingface and analytics tracked via Mixpanel.