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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

bookmark this post - the BBC will create their own social media platform - potentially over AT Proto - and it will be credibly neutal, accountable, democratic and awesome

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Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world · 08/07/2025

From The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data. App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Listening to this episode all I could think was - my *gosh* they sound amazing - I would SO love to work alongside them @goblinoats.com @grjte.sh Blessed moment

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'll be representing @tonklabs.bsky.social's work supporting creative technologists at this roundtable in Shoreditch, London, next week. Come through! And thanks for hosting Restless Egg

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Vibe coding is here to stay – it’s a new way smart people talk to their computers. Edition #2 lands late July. Want to get on the list for next time? Comment & I'll DM you. Huge thanks to Entrepreneurs First for the space 🙏

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Vibe Coders LDN was 🔥 20 lightning demos over healthy poké in Hoxton – games, LinkedIn hacks, workflow agents, “second brains” & more – all vibe-coded by founders, devs, dropouts, VCs. One legend built a game from scratch _during_ the show.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 18/06/2025

now I use ChatGPT whenever I need to get an em-dash to copy-paste

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Q: Big vision? A: To break the old internet economic model of walled gardens, enshittification and platform fatigue. Self-sovereign data + AI is foundational for extraordinary user experiences.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Q: Tonk vs MCP - what’s different? A: MCP feeds context into LLMs. Tonk is a stack enabling LLM-driven apps with seamless local-first storage, offline capability & real-time sync.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Q: Isn't Tonk an applied cryptography startup? A: Tonk plans to use advanced cryptography (ZK, MCP) for decentralized data interoperability - peer-to-peer, no walled gardens.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Start hacking today → tonk-labs.github.io/tonk/ Need help or want to chat ideas? DM via Telegram or WhatsApp.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Tonk’s in active alpha - expect rough spots. We’re closely iterating with indie hackers - your feedback genuinely shapes the roadmap. Coming soon: hosting simplification, easier security, decentralized sharing.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Prefer GUIs? Meet TonkbookLM, our early-stage graphical UI inspired by Google’s NotebookLM - just way more customizable. Demo here → www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywt...

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Introducing: TonkbookLM

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Built-in perks: • Local-first: data stays private & offline-ready • Real-time collab: seamless multi-user updates • Zero DB hassle: no migration/caching headaches

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What vibe coders already build with Tonk: • Personal CRMs • Financial dashboards • Productivity agents • AI summarizers & coaches • Custom note-sharing tools

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Simple workflow using the CLI: 1. Worker pipes calendar & email into Store. 2. Build an agent to summarize your daily plan. 3. Need tasks? Add a tasks Worker. 4. Upgrade agent to auto-prioritize your day.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Tonk uses three simple components: • Workers: Pull your data (email, calendar, tasks, APIs) • Store: Private, local-first data hub • Apps & Agents: Custom tools built over your data Easy, modular, flexible.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Why build Tonk? Because creating personalized, data-driven tools usually means tedious data-pulling and backend pains (storage, sync, privacy). That friction kills fast experimentation.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We’ve quietly built Tonk, an alpha-stage CLI tool that makes it simple to build custom dashboards, apps, and AI agents using your own data—minus the backend headaches. Quick intro 🧵👇

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"How can users tweak the existing tools they’ve installed, rather than just making new siloed applications? How can AI-generated tools compose with one another to build up larger workflows over shared data?"

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

4. In light of 3, no prizes for guessing the product @tonklabs.bsky.social will launch next week at the Vibe Coders London meetup. See you there! event: lu.ma/pqcugpgy

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's all well and good spinning up websites with Lovable or workflow automations with @cursor.com.web.brid.gy but data export, state management, server config, user security - these are all still a nightmare.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

3. The hardest bit is still integrating these vibe coding tools into your own personal data and sharing them with the world.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

2. It's genuinely easier, more convenient and more fun to set up your own custom second brain - a patchwork of bespoke dashboards, visualisers, CRMs and interactive journals - than using commodity software produced by companies in Silicon Valley - to think more clearly and get more done.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

What happens when the next billion people have direct, easy access to building their own software and socialising over their own networks?

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

1. A new and growing generation of people beyond the tech elite are enjoying a squishy, malleable relationship with their computer. Think "Bible translated from Latin into English" levels of social transformation.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ok, so vibe coding is officially going from viral to mainstream. So many people have sent me this FT article today. I sit down every day with vibe coders - in startups, enterprise or just tinkering in their garage - here's what I notice:

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited longterm for the finegrained composability and interoperability that comes from multiplayer operating systems Walled gardens and enshittification is so 2010s This room is unbelievably cracked Local First Conf Berlin 2025

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

if you're someone like that then please keep doing amazing work. It's a good era to create!

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

the upshot is that we're entering a golden age for multi-hyphenate creatives - the individuals who want to surf across many worlds and skills, building bridges and generating insights uniquely available to the world-surfers

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

- then they get insights on the importance of consistent stroke contrast, the pitfalls of over-stylization, subtle spacing rules - that traditionally took years to pick up from mentors and peers

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

takes years of graft! but AI massively streamlines access to that tacit knowledge example: ambitious teenager prompts chatGPT with - "I'm designing my first typeface. What are common rookie mistakes that experienced font designers notice immediately?" -

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

the kind of tacit knoweldge that goes above-and-beyond books and Wikipedia and public courses. in the olden days gaining those insights meant moving to hubs like San Francisco or Paris, breaking in to insider events, navigating complex networks, finding mentors and building influential connections.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In the old days, picking up insider nuances, like decoding unspoken feedback when investors pass on you, understanding the daily role of an "assistant director", spotting subtle but crucial details in freelance contracts - depended on being physically and socially close to experienced people

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

example: suppose you're an ambitious 17-year-old with dreams of launching a startup, directing your first short film, or crafting typefaces.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

if you're ambitious but haven't grown up around, or don't have social access to, outstanding people in your chosen field, it's so tough to grasp the subtle "language" & unspoken rules of that community

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

reflection: an underrated, nonskeuomorphic use-case for AI is what I think of as "world-familiarisation" or "world navigation" "world" in the sense of a social world - the fashion world, the art world, the tech world, the politics world

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's a gathering for creative people building personal, experimental, small-scale software with LLMs. It’s not just for engineers - it's for anyone discovering weird & wonderful ways that AI helps them build tools to think more clearly, move faster & skip corporate platforms.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

👾 Londoners 👾 I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI. 🗓️ June 11 📍 Hoxton 🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks 🧠 ~25 curated spots

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

> A streamlined architecture that unbundles data from apps, so you can evolve data into new tools whenever inspiration strikes. > The starting point for a cryptographic data-sharing network that connects unique digital worlds without losing our organic diversity.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The product people are using today (May 2025) > A command-line interface to instantly bring vibe-coders' ideas to life - reducing server setups, database configs and other backend headaches. A service where working with data feels as intuitive as molding putty.

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The network effect > more data flowing through interoperable data protocols → more useful apps → more adoption → we get a new internet

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Harry Kingdon @harrykingdon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The interoperability era (2026+ ?) > Fragmented data demands reconnection. Cryptography emerges as a key driver of interoperable collaboration without losing idiosyncratic control.

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