CTO @withopal 💎 Also @getdaysapp, @simplesimpleco & @getrobotrumble
Manchester, UK
Joined March 2009
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Matt Davenport retweeted
Sometimes a demo is simply to remind the world that your competition has no desire to dream -- and no ability to evolve.
Matt Davenport retweeted
Today we’re celebrating 500,000,000 hours saved with Opal.
Half a billion hours of attention given back.
To sleep.
To focus.
To friends.
To family.
To making things.
To being here for them.
To everyone who’s used Opal to take their time back: thank you.
Matt Davenport retweeted
Today we’re celebrating 500,000,000 hours saved with Opal.
Half a billion hours of attention given back.
Back to focus, people, life, making things, and being here for them.
Matt Davenport retweeted
I would just like to say I disabled Opal for one day and this is the only day I've tweeted a bunch like all year if you need evidence that this is a very useful app for taking back ur time
Matt Davenport retweeted
Kenneth is a branding genius.
Kenneth isn’t building a screentime app, he’s giving you your life back. That distinction is everything.
People don’t buy features. They buy versions of themselves.
Prob one of the strongest consumer app brands i can think of. Best of luck on the launch my friend!
Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention.
1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M.
Personal AGI is coming. The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence.
It will be attention.
Matt Davenport retweeted
my friend works at this company and it's incredible for quitting the internet
I'm doing projects w them later this year to help bring cognitive security to folks !
In my dream world this is in every school
Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention.
1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M.
Personal AGI is coming. The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence.
It will be attention.
Matt Davenport retweeted
Today we're announcing the new Opal to build the operating system for attention.
1 million people already use Opal every single day. We raised $10M.
Personal AGI is coming. The bottleneck won't be access to intelligence.
It will be attention.
Matt Davenport retweeted
In 2022, Opal created the Screen Time category by being the first app to build on Apple’s Screen Time API.
The category is still tiny compared to the need.
Billions of people are struggling with attention, only a few million are using any screen-time app.
This is the beginning.
If you’re building here: don’t chase competitors. Chase truth. Build what you want to exist in the world. You'll have more success that way. That’s the only real moat.
Matt Davenport retweeted
Too many understand quality as polish. It's not the same thing.
If build something good, even if it’s a bit rough. That’s great. But don’t fall into the mindset of “just ship it.”
When “just ship it” is the default, you stop asking if this is actually good for users. You move on too fast and create mess for the users. The potential good experience gets lost in all that mess.
Quality is a muscle. You try to make things good at every step. You keep asking if this is better for the user and you keep improving it. That works a lot better for retention than just shipping something and moving on. Quality is a goal, and it's a way to show you care about the users.
"Just ship it" is you pushing your priorities over the customers priorities. Like in Jony's words, you not giving a shit about the users or their experience, you're giving shit about your needs of making progress. It's another version of shipping your org chart.
At the very same moment as was talking at Figma Config about putting care, craft, and quality to your work, Jony Ive was talking about at the Stripe conference.
Putting that extra care even to small details, even if it's change the functionality or move metrics, it does matter and it's the right thing for us to do.
"I think the spiritual thing is that I believe that when somebody unwrapped that box, and took out that cable and they thought somebody gave a shit about me. I think that's a spiritual thing.
What used to depress me was this sense that solving a functional imperative then we're done. But of course, that's not enough. That's not the characteristic of an evolved society."
youtube.com/watch?v=wLb9g_8r…
