thoughts of food
TikTok, the fastest way on Earth to become a food star
“The app offers explosive growth for content creators. Gen Z cooks are taking advantage.” | learn more
Tag: TikTok
on the blockchain
Maren Altman is TikTok’s wildly popular cryptocurrency astrologer
“Her most intriguing videos apply astrology to a particularly daunting realm: cryptocurrency. Anything with a verifiable birthday or creation date has a birth chart that can be read and, according to astrologers, gleaned for predictive information.” | learn more
retail therapy
Shein: the TikTok of ecommerce
I was unimpressed by this company when a Chinese friend showed me their website. I’ve made a complete reversal after reading this. “It reportedly did almost $10 billion in revenue in 2020, and has grown over 100% for each of […]
tech, startups, internet
An email service with 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan
“TLDR; I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on TikTok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world […]
fun facts
A dose of Gen-Z
This newsletter called High Tea, written for and by members of Gen-Z, is a wonderful window into world of today’s newest adults. They seem to love emojis, TikTok and abbreviations of both words and phrases. I would’ve never figured out […]
retail therapy
Amazon sues counterfeiters
Sorry influencers, using Tiktok and Facebook to drive traffic to your counterfeit products on Amazon’s marketplace isn’t going to fly. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
The TikTok war
Ben Thompson at Stratechery digs into the drama around TikTok, it’s Chinese ownership, and the implications for international relations. Meanwhile, as if to gain grassroots support in the US, the platform is giving away free advertising credits to US small businesses. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
TikTok is a privacy nightmare, says guy who reverse-engineered it
“TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
“Below, you’ll find first-hand accounts of how essentially every major consumer app acquired their earliest users, including lessons from Tinder, Uber, Superhuman, TikTok, Product Hunt, Netflix, and many more.” | learn more