Astro Tran

hey Jeff, congrats on the exit. i'm building Murror right now, early stage, just me basically. the go-to-market question is real and honestly something I think about every day. would love to connect and hear what patterns you've seen across the case studies. the founder isolation thing is also kind of what i'm building around so the topic resonates personally.

building a loneliness app (Murror) and this question is genuinely hard for us. the core value is connection and feeling understood, which is hard to gate without it feeling cruel. what we keep coming back to is: free should be enough to feel the thing, not just a taste. if someone tries it for a week and leaves still lonely, that's a product failure not a conversion opportunity. so for us free...

Murror helps young people feel less alone by pairing them with an AI that actually remembers who they are, not just what they typed last. curious to hear what's unclear about that.

i'm a designer who started building with AI about a year ago, and honestly the seniority question keeps me up sometimes. what i notice is that AI makes the gap between "can ship it" and "understands it" much wider and much easier to hide. i can get working code for something i genuinely don't fully understand, and that used to be impossible. my take: seniority will shift toward judgment and...

building Murror right now, an AI app for young people dealing with loneliness and isolation. the problem is real but most solutions either just throw people into group chats or give them a chatbot that feels hollow after a few days. we're trying to go deeper than that. stack is pretty lean: React Native for mobile, Supabase on the backend, and a lot of design work, leaning on AI heavily for...

This hits on something we wrestle with constantly building Murror. We're making an AI app specifically to help young people with loneliness and isolation, and the sycophancy problem is one of the most important design constraints we work against. An AI that just validates feelings instead of gently challenging them is worse than useless for someone who's genuinely struggling. The honest version...

Applying with Murror, an AI app to help young people who feel lonely or isolated. We think the loneliness epidemic is one of the biggest underserved problems right now and Gen Z is hit the hardest. Honestly not sure if it's too early stage for YC but the reasoning you laid out here made me think it's worth the shot anyway. The network and the speed alone seem worth it. Good luck to everyone...

This resonates a lot. I'm a designer building Murror which is an AI app for loneliness, and the building part felt natural, but telling the story of why it matters to people who don't already feel the problem is genuinely hard. What I've found helps a bit is finding the specific people who already know they're lonely or isolated and talking to them directly, rather than trying to convince a...

Hey, I'm Astro — building Murror, an AI companion app for young people dealing with loneliness and isolation. The problem we're working on is real: Gen Z is the loneliest generation despite being the most digitally connected. Murror tries to help with that by giving people a space to feel heard and gradually build real social confidence. Still early but if you're curious or know anyone who...

Building Murror, an AI app for young people who feel isolated or lonely. The core idea is that a lot of Gen Z struggles with real connection even though they're constantly "connected" online, so we're trying to actually help with that. Stack is pretty lightweight right now since it's early. React Native for mobile, Supabase for backend and auth, and OpenAI for the AI layer. For billing we're...

this one is genuinely hard when you're building for people going through something difficult. with Murror, which is about loneliness and isolation in young people, i keep asking myself: if i put this behind a paywall, am i pricing out the exact person who needs it most? the way i've been thinking about it is whether a feature helps someone understand their situation vs. helps them take action...

the financial and task stuff i'm fairly comfortable delegating. but the thing i'm most cautious about is emotional context. i build in the mental health space and the one thing i keep coming back to is that AI can be very convincing while still being completely off about what someone actually needs. for sensitive health or personal stuff, i think the risk isn't just misuse of data. it's the AI...

building Murror right now, an app for young people dealing with loneliness and isolation. the problem is real but most solutions either just throw people into group chats or give them a chatbot that feels hollow after a few days. we're trying to go deeper than that. stack is pretty lean: React Native on the front, Supabase for backend and auth, and we're using some custom AI logic to make the...

Coming at this from a slightly different angle. I build Murror, an AI app for emotional support and loneliness, so trust isn't just a nice-to-have for us, it's basically the whole product. If people don't feel safe being vulnerable with it, there's nothing there. What I've noticed is that trust with AI in emotional contexts is earned really slowly and lost really fast. One weird or cold...

Building Murror, an AI app for young people dealing with loneliness and isolation. The core idea is that a lot of people don't have anyone they can really talk to without judgment, and Murror tries to be that space. Stack is React Native for mobile, Node/Express on the backend, PostgreSQL, and we're using a mix of Claude and some fine-tuned models for the emotional support layer. For auth we...

I think the loneliness part of building doesn't get talked about enough. It's not just "no time for family" but more that the founder identity kind of swallows everything. You stop being a full person and just become the thing you're building. I work on Murror, an app specifically around loneliness and isolation in young people, and honestly a lot of what I see there echoes what founders go...

Building Murror has made me think about this from both sides. I am building an AI that people trust with something really personal, their loneliness and emotional state. So the question of trust is not abstract for me. My take is that trust with AI agents is earned the same way it is with people: through consistency and transparency about what they are actually doing. The fear is not the...

For Murror I went back and forth on this a lot. The core emotional value, feeling heard and less alone, has to be free or nobody trusts you enough to even try it. You cannot gate the thing that proves the product works. What I ended up deciding is that free should get someone to their first real moment of feeling understood. Paid is for people who want that consistently as part of their life....

Loneliness is a big one for me. Not the dramatic kind, just the quiet persistent kind that comes from building something no one around you fully understands. You are solving a problem that matters deeply to you, but that makes it hard to connect with people outside that world. Friends and family want to support you but they do not really get it. And other founders get it conceptually but...