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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

16 days

The story behind P1

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Inside of Apple Watch vs. Pixel Watch

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

11 months

Cars in China know when traffic lights turn green

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

11 months

Post-car NYC

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1 year

Sony Archives 👌

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

5 months

This experience is amazing Nice job @Starbucks

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

We won an Apple Design Award! Totally surreal. Huge congrats to the whole @onuniverse team on years of relentless work making the internet accessible to everyone!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Beyond excited to share that we’ve raised a $30 million Series B led by Addition, along with GV, Javelin, Box, Adjacent, and more. We’re going to use this capital to BUILD. Here’s the plan for our next chapter at @onuniverse :

Addition Leads Funding for Website Builder Universe; Twitter Shuffles Top Team

Creators are making custom websites in vogue again.After years of watching social networks abruptly tweak their algorithms or make other changes like hiding popularity metrics, influencers are trying...

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

@AliquisNovus Gen 1 Apple Watch

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

How do you teach new folks how to use a product while not getting in the way of them actually USING it? @itsdpark came up with a masterful "picture-in-picture" design that demonstrates core gestures but keeps the grid interactable, and our iOS team nailed the implementation::

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Ok so that went viral! Check out while you’re here! Build a website from your iPhone

‎Universe — AI Website Builder

‎Universe is a website builder that lets you choose a domain and set up shop in minutes. Make anything you want, anywhere in the world—from your phone, iPad, or Mac. The Grid Editor allows you to...

apps.apple.com

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

Incredibly excited to share the news. We're launching native payments support and announcing a $10mm raise from @GVteam and @mgsiegler . The internet is open for business.

Universe

@onuniverse

4 years

Today we take a small step in a big new direction. Introducing payments on Universe, the fastest and easiest way for anyone to start making money online. It works like magic: add a block to your site and instantly accept Apple Pay and credit card payments.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 months

I’m excited to share that I’m now working full time on Infinite Machine with @eddiecohen and an incredible small team of designers and engineers. Our goal at IM is to build the best non-cars on earth, starting with P1, our reimagined electric scooter. Cars don’t work for cities.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

New icon!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

!!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

17 days

😅

Amjad Masad

@amasad

17 days

Contrary to popular belief, MKBHD doesn’t destroy *all* hardware startups, in fact he gave @infinitemachine P1 a good review!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

My mom just called me ecstatic that Dark Sky is working again… looks like they turned the API back on?

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

We’re leveling up the @onuniverse GRID. The team decided to put a camera in front of me and have me talk through it. Excited to hear what you think.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

7 months

Very proud to share Infinite Machine P1, a project I've been working on with my brother @EddieCohen . We wanted to create the ultimate vehicle for navigating a city - a true car alternative. We're taking orders starting today!

Infinite Machine

Infinite Machine exists to make the most compelling non-cars on earth. P1, our first product, is a radical new personal electric vehicle, pairing a cutting edge industrial design with breakthrough...

infinitemachine.com

Infinite Machine

@infinitemachine

7 months

Introducing Infinite Machine P1: The ultimate vehicle for navigating a city.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

11 months

Please don't do this

Universe

@onuniverse

1 year

Something cool the team at @Apple did was take portraits of this year's winners. Here's our CEO @josephcohen . Something rad you can do on iOS is long press an image to lift it from its background. We'll send Universe swag to the follower that puts Joe in the best new setting.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

15 days

This was pretty cool

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

5 years

"Freedom to Associate"

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

We're looking for someone to lead design at @onuniverse . I'm biased, but I think it's a dream job: Invent breakthrough interfaces, shape a brand that represents a radically better internet, and build a new kind of design studio that lives online. 🌐

Design Lead - Work at Universe

Join the Universe team.

workatuniverse.com

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Headed to California for SpaceCamp, our annual @onuniverse offsite. This year we’re going to the legendary Sea Ranch and building 60 tents along the coast! Psyched! 🌊🛸

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

LFG

No-code mobile website builder Universe launches new themes, block features and more | TechCrunch

Mobile website building platform Universe has launched a new update that brings advanced creative controls, enhanced themes, block features and more to

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Met up with @jsngr and gave him an IRL Universe block!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

The software on P1 is going to be next level

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

@itstimwhite First gen Apple Watch:

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Let's go!!

Universe

@onuniverse

3 years

We’re a finalist for the 2021 Apple Design Awards! We couldn’t be more excited. Stay tuned @AppStore !

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 months

News! I’m proud to share that Ryan Poolos ( @EmperiorEric ), my longtime partner and CTO, is taking the reins as our next CEO at Universe. I will be sticking around as Executive Chair to assist Ryan as he leads us in this next chapter. Ryan and I have been working together for

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Thinking out loud: Web3 Universe [WIP - we’re just getting started on this! Send ideas + reach out if you want to work on it!]

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

IM SF

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

7 months

MKBHD 🙂

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7 months

Close your eyes Imagine if the Cybertruck was real Now imagine it turned into a scooter Now open your eyes

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Featured along with @onuniverse in the App Store today!

‎Create Your Website. Anywhere. : App Store Story

‎Learn about Create Your Website. Anywhere. on Mac App Store. Download Universe — AI Website Builder and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

apps.apple.com

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

6 years

We raised our Series A!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Boom. This is one of those changes that will transform what's possible with the GRID. With layering, you can make designs that are near impossible with any tool— including code. Super proud of our team's implementation of it.

Universe

@onuniverse

3 years

Introducing Block Layering. You can now arrange and compose blocks freely on the GRID. Drag text over images. Collage and add texture. Put a ‘sold out’ sign over a drop. We could keep going, but we’re limited by our imaginations. What you create is going to blow us away.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

We're hiring a product designer for a special project at Universe. Hit me up if curious!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Oh how I wish Apple would buy one of the many awesome note/knowledge organizing startups and make the Notes app amazing

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

When Robinhood launched in 2015, I bought 1 share of AMD for $2.22 to test out the app. It’s now trading at $50.13. That’s a 2158% return.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

APP OF THE DAY! ~~ @onuniverse ~~

App Store

@AppStore

4 years

Just about five minutes to get a website up and running? Yes, really 🤯 Get Universe, give your site a name, claim a domain, add your content, and voilà!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

It's here.

Universe

@onuniverse

4 years

Hello World. Meet Universe for Mac. The best app for building websites on iOS is now the best app for building websites, period.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

19 days

Turned 33 this month. My goal for the year is to get a private pilot’s license. Took my first class today!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

Hello World. Meet Universe.

Universe

@onuniverse

1 year

Come down to earth. Build a site on your phone. From anywhere. That's it. No code. There's already a space for squares. For everyone else, there’s Universe.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Perfect day in NY. Sitting on the grass with my coffee. Dog comes by and take a slobbering sip. I feel a quick, intense frustration. A minute passes. I take a sip without thinking. It tasted great.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

6 months

is a love letter to the free, open, and world-wide web. It’s only fitting that our logo is a globe.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

Very proud to be an Apple Design Award finalist, especially in the Inclusivity category. Making powerful technologies accessible to everyone is at the heart of what we do here. Huge kudos to the whole @onuniverse team for relentlessly championing inclusivity in everything we do.

Universe

@onuniverse

1 year

🎉 Honored to be nominated for an Apple Design Award (for the second time!). Inclusivity is at the core of our mission of empowering everyone to build the internet. Looking forward to celebrating all of these great apps at @apple WWDC on June 5th!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

11 months

@superamit “Smart city”

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

, now in your browser

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

Every dude in SF

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

👀 🙏

Joseph Cohen

Joseph Cohen on the 2020 30 Under 30 - Consumer Technology - Website-makers like Wix and Squarespace have been around for 15 years, but Universe thinks

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

We got our first patent at @onuniverse for the GRID! (It turns out that patents come in a fancy booklet with inspiring quotes—neat.)

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

The latest episode of Internet Misfits drops today with the one and only @shantell_martin ! Listen here:

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Drag and drop

Universe

@onuniverse

3 years

#DragAndDROP your way to a successful launch. 🚀

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Covid hack. Made a widget with my vax card and ID, can swipe left from lock screen. Someone should make this a lil app! cc ⁦ @jsngr ⁩

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

5 years

✅ @onuniverse in the keynote :)

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

7 years

The range of sites made on Universe is insane. In the past couple hours: a pool-care service, a Youtube show, a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu brand..

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

16 days

We’re doing a jacket

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

Should we do it?

Harry Stebbings

@HarryStebbings

2 months

$700M on a SAFE… baby we are back.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

11 months

Hung with @nickfloats at the Met and he taught me about NeRFs

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Check this out.

Universe

@onuniverse

2 years

Universe Dept. of Chromatics presents: our new Color Picker. A seriously fun and dynamic art tool with everything you need to build sites dripping in color. Experiment. Get messy. You’re gonna love it.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 months

👀 @laurentdelrey

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

#WWDC2023 anyone here?

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

17 days

Designing (physical) UI

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

6 years

Good timing. 100,000 sites created on Universe 🙂

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

10 days

P1 in Wallpaper!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

8 years

iphone is the greatest consumer product ever - 1bn sold, ASP $690, breakthrough tech, cultural phenomenon.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

We’re seeing a ton of these collage-y single-page sites pop up @onuniverse . Not quite sure what they are but they’re really cool… new school MySpace vibe

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

2,000 day meditation streak!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

Everyone who rides P1 walks away with this glorious shit-eating grin on their face

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

5 years

10 things we believe to be true @onuniverse : [From our offsite last week - WIP]

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

6 years

We made a video recently that gets at the magic of @onuniverse . Have a look!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

Miss this.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

5 years

Pretty fucking cool

Universe

@onuniverse

5 years

We were featured in the latest Apple ad! 🤯

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 month

The future

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

23 days

IM NYC Workshop

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

Excited to share this: product inventory and variant management on Universe. Far simpler than any other e-commerce system we’ve seen. Human, easy, powerful, available to everyone for free.

Universe

@onuniverse

4 years

Introducing product and inventory management on Universe - a powerful and easy-to-use system that's built right into your storefront. You can now easily keep track of stock and add products in different styles and sizes, to create a seamless online shopping experience ✨

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

We’re making a big bet on generative AI, and we’re sharing our progress along the way. LMK what you think!

Universe

@onuniverse

1 year

Hello world. We’re building something new: a designer in your pocket. It’s called GUS, and it marries the power of AI with the platform we’ve been building for years. More from @josephcohen in our new video series:

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Super excited about this. Now you can sell digital things on Universe!

Universe

@onuniverse

3 years

Creators, meet the Download Block. Whatever you make, make it downloadable—and start selling your creations with just a few taps.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

The @onuniverse team is on fire! 57 of us from around the world in today’s all hands!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 years

One thing I've learned working on the grid UI is that if you start with a solid, structurally and conceptually simple foundation, its evolution flows naturally. Like in this case. Pull to add a new row just *makes sense* even though it's an original interaction.

Universe

@onuniverse

4 years

With each update to the grid, we try and focus on making the editing experience feel fluid and natural. This time around we made adding and removing rows feel buttery smooth. First, we added the ability to easily to add rows to the top of a page:

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

Long live the web Free, decentralized, and universal since ‘93

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

5 years

Will be interesting when Russia uses Libra to finance election interference and terrorists use it for remittances.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

I made a podcast. It’s about people who bring radical ideas into the world. Internet Misfits. First episode drops today with Yael Aflalo, founder of the iconic fashion brand @Reformation . Check it out!

Universe

@onuniverse

1 year

<< incoming >> A new podcast from CEO @josephcohen : Internet Misfits, featuring interviews with creators and entrepreneurs who are shaping the future. First-up @Reformation founder Yael Aflalo.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Amazing week with the @onuniverse team

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

10 months

We’re live!!

Universe

@onuniverse

10 months

Meet GUS. An AI who can design websites. GUS lives in your pocket. Well, on your phone. Like any talented designer, GUS is eager to learn what you want to build. GUS makes beautiful sites. And you can personalize them, no code needed. Make your next site with GUS. Now on iOS.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

By far the best way to get around SF

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@josephcohen

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Dustin joining was a "pinch myself" moment. Could not be more excited to have him on our team. Amazing things to come ✨

Dustin Tanner

@dustanner

2 years

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve joined the incredible team @onuniverse ! Here is why I left Apple, chose Universe, and details about my role as Product Design Director:

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

6 years

3 ways to influence culture: make art, build tools, teach persuasively.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

Woohoo!!

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

4 days

If only OpenAI had some hardware to put that assistant into...

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

i spy...

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

Me and @joshm are recording a podcast tonight to talk about the web and its future. Any specific topic requests?

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

11 months

Boom. We're live! Check out what we've been building.

Universe

@onuniverse

11 months

NOW LIVE IN BETA: GUS, our AI designer in your pocket. A whole new way to build your own corner of the internet. Access by invite-only. Drop your email at to get in.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

Universe mission:

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 years

@mgsiegler Instagram jumped the shark. Sad but not surprised. FB continuously turns every one of its properties into an "everything app" and uses its consolidated distribution to shove as much into it as possible.

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

1 year

Stoked to be working with @jsngr and the @diagram team on some exciting stuff to come ✨

Universe

@onuniverse

1 year

Congrats to our friends at @diagram on the announcement of their AI tool for @figma , Genius! We also happen to be partial to the tool stack shown in the dock on their landing page 😉 👀

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

2 months

Where it started

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Joseph Cohen

@josephcohen

3 years

Cameo for @onuniverse on Good Morning America!

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