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I like to build things. Co-Founder @ Hopscotch, Foursquare, Dodgeball, Street FC, Stockade FC
Hey hey -- for the past few months I've been quietly working on something new with Max Sklar and Alejandro Fragoso We started a new company called Hopscotch Labs with the intent of building things that exist at the intersection of "recently possible" and "newly ubiquitous". Our first project is a "Marauders Map for AirPods" called BeeBot. (AI = recently possible, AirPods = newly ubiquitious). It's in private beta now (maybe 150 people testing it?) and you can think of it as a mashup of OG Twitter ("what's happening"), OG Foursquare ("who's where doing what"), Waze (but for walking thru cities), with some AI fairy dust glueing it all together. It's meant to be light and fun and to create joy and serendipity. We're chasing that OG Dodgeball vibe of "software for the streets". You'll like it! We demo'd it for the first time at Betaworks last week (we were part of their "AI + Native Applications" camp) and today we're excited to shared that we just raised a pre-seed round co-led by Alpaca (Aubrie Pagano) and Lightspeed (Michael Mignano), with participation from Betaworks (Jordan Crook) and Next Wave NYC (Dorothy Chang). Sometimes the hardest part of getting something off the ground is just saying it aloud, and so here we go! Now, back to work (and I promise we'll share more about product / story soon). Oh, you can sign up for the BeeBot waitlist here: https://lnkd.in/eKnt_3JJ ... and we're gonna be hiring too. If we've worked together in the past (and you like what we're talking about here!) hit me up!