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Gabor Cselle

@gabor.bsky.social

886 followers 17 following 15 posts

Built a Twitter alternative called Pebble/T2, wound it down. Now work at an AI lab.

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Inspiring story about a founder who bootstrapped a $1M revenue run rate business in a very crowded category (personal financial planning) through sheer persistence: projectionlab.com/blog/we-reac...

projectionlab.com

We reached $1M ARR with zero funding - ProjectionLab

Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Back on here after a little while and can't believe how Twitter-like the nav icons look.

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

2 years ago I would’ve told you that Threads will go the way of Facebook Gaming, Lasso, Hobbi, and other clones that Meta shut down: A month after launch, Threads churned 82% of users. That 82% was part of my T2 pitch to investors ...

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Today I found out that LinkedIn has dark mode. Settings > Account preferences > Display > Dark mode

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Waymos now have art on them … reminds me of Google Doodles.

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Had to check back in here after that Adobe story ...

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Thinking about writing a post with Sarah, Mike, and Dan (the Pebble/T2 team)"The Trust and Safety Starter Pack." What's the checklist of T&S features you should build as a new consumer startup to make sure your product doesn't become a cesspool? Would this be interesting?

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

“You ran a classy joint” aka Pebble/T2

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

We tried to build a Twitter alternative called Pebble (fka T2). Here's what we learned along the way: medium.com/gabor/from-t...

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From T2 to Pebble: The Rise, Challenges, and Lessons of Building a Twitter Alternative

Tl;dr We tried to build a Twitter alternative from scratch, starting a few weeks after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the…

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Hi folks, a year ago I started a Twitter alternative (initially called T2, later called Pebble.is). Tomorrow we will be shutting down. We weren't growing quickly enough to be able to raise money to build it out. Lots of lessons learned. Will share some of them here in a bit.

pebble.is

T2 - the new public square

T2 is the new public square, with a familiar 280 character format.

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Our team is building t2.social, a kinder, version of Bluesky / Twitter / Threads. Check it out and join the waitlist - we’re sending invites daily.

t2.social

T2 - The new public square

T2 is the new public square, with a familiar 280 character format. Join our waitlist to get access to our growing platform.

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Gabor Cselle @gabor.bsky.social · 29/05/2023

Building t2.social

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