Early release of Early Days for the ~builders territory (drops worldwide at noon tomorrow) had a fun conversation with Ted of Feed Filter AI who is working on Making Social Media Great Again! We recorded this about 2 months ago.
E A R L Y D A Y S with @tedthizzy of Feed Filter AI
Summary
In this episode of Early Days, Car sits down with Ted from Feed Filter AI to explore using AI as a tool to enhance user experience on social media by filtering out unwanted content.
They discuss the role of Feed Filter AI in content curation, the challenges of social media today, and the importance of understanding user needs in early-stage products.
Ted shares hard lessons from earlier startups, the importance of shipping with live user feedback, and why he’s building Feed Filter AI as a company for the Bitcoin era, where privacy, ownership, and open networks matter.
We explore
- How to Make Social Media Great Again!
- Where does the moat live? User-owned rules, privacy, compounding models
- What to measure? Junk removed, time saved, retention
- User-controlled filters that run across X and Instagram
- Cutting social noise so users get their attention back
Chapters
- 00:00 Problem framing: noise steals attention, AI gives it back
- 03:11 Context over keywords: how the model reads text, images, memes
- 06:33 UX realities: overwhelm, friction, drop-off—what actually fixes it
- 09:55 Market entry: where Feed Filter wins first, initial wedge
- 12:21 Feedback loop: ship weekly, instrument everything, learn fast
- 16:15 Filtering engine: user rules, aggregation, precision at scale
- 20:55 Roadmap and future app rollout
- 25:05 Founder scars: what previous startups taught Ted that transfers
- 40:30 Surviving the trough: cash, focus, and saying no
- 48:13 Past pivots (incl. health tech): extracting playbooks, not baggage
- 58:07 Post-mortems that matter: what to keep, what to kill
- 01:02:53 Building for the Bitcoin era: privacy, ownership, open networks
Learn more about Feed Filter AI: https://www.feedfilter.com
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