you've got 1,000 followers. why the hell aren't you making money?
ismail, richard, sophia & carlota met at an accelerator a month ago. now we're building the thing small creators always needed.
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who-we-are-and-what-were-doing.mov
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🍕 the accelerator fed us once
// day 31
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ismail cooked so hard on this landing page he burnt the ramen
carlota. 40k followers, still got offered $150
sophia designs whim. this is her market research
richard. mt fuji ✓ team meetings ✗
what-whim-does.txt
whim tells you what a brand deal is actually worth. before you reply.
then it writes the email that asks for it.
carlotas-inbox.png
a real offer carlota got. 11 posts a month, rights forever, paid in store credit. $150. she almost signed it.
git-log.txt
a3f92c1 fix: emails with + signs no longer rejected
8d017be carlota's spreadsheet import actually works
5b44e02 richard: n/a
e9910af rate model v2. still wrong, less wrong
77c1d3a remove the feature nobody asked for
c2a6f4d outreach queue survives a refresh now
1f8b3aa cache brand contacts properly
b60de77 waitlist form. do not break this
90aa41c initial commit, one month late
activity monitor · 4 processes
processcpustatus
ismail98%burning the ramencarlota76%on a call with a brandsophia41%44 unresolved notesrichard0%not responding (tokyo)
uptime: 1 month. sleep: n/a.
roadmap.txt
# whim
✓ survive the accelerator
✓ ship something real
◻ get creators paid properly
◻ figure out money lol
coming soon:
→ [REDACTED]
→ [REDACTED]
→ you'll see :)
DO-NOT-OPEN.mov
seriously, don't.
3am-voicenote.m4a
0:47
"ok so hear me out. what if the number was just... visible"
if it ships, it ships — ismail, 3:47am
sophia's notes on this page: "the red is too much" "the video is crooked" "why is my polaroid grey" we fixed none of it
TODO: make it work ✓ make it fast ✓ make it pretty ☐ get users ☐ sleep ☐
carlota's day rate: not telling you. that's the point 😌
join.chat · you + whim
join the waitlist
three questions. ismail asks them himself.
whim · built by ismail, richard, sophia & carlota · london (yes this is our actual desktop. no we will not tidy it.)