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Thomas R.

cosmos.so discover page is just so good

Replying to @thoma

cosmos try to be the new are.na but with a lot of money (maybe investor's money, arena is bootstraped)

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @yamiki @thoma

I never had the feeling that Cosmos had “a lot of money”. The team is like, 3 people?

Nikita Pashinsky
Replying to @jonas.so @yamiki @thoma

Apparently they raised $6M in 2022: crunchbase.com/organization/c…

Cosmos - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
Cosmos is a Pinterest alternative for creatives.
Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

Didn’t know, so that’s fair. Although pretty far from being bootstrapped, a $6M seed going on two years doesn’t exactly scream “excessive and VC-horny team of moneybags” to me either, but maybe my calibration for that is off

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

It’s still far away from to the way Arena rolls. Which for the record I’m a big fan of. But it’s a very particular choice made by that team because of who they are, and what they want to make, and I think it’s ok for other teams to not feel that choice is right for them

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

Arena is the real-world answer to whether design is art, which, no, because if it were there would a lot more artists making products, and Arena are a bunch of artists building a tech product

Jonas Maaløe
Replying to @nkta @yamiki @thoma

(That’s why they kick so much ass)