Sep 8, 2026 · 9 min · 11 segments
In this episode, we break down the massive pivot in Intersignal Braid 1.8.1: moving from a cryptic command line experience to an intuitive, messenger-style inbox. We discuss our experiences dogfooding…
David SeamanHost
Yeah, they say a number of successful startups lately have pivoted in terms of their core product.
Like Hugging Face started as a chat app or something and then became a repository for open-weight AI models and recently sold to Nvidia for just shy of $13 billion.
And so with us, we started as a Chrome extension that would tell you how accurate a website or article you were reading was, give you kind of an accuracy read.
And then we just realized you could do so much more with the coding systems out there than build Chrome extensions.
And months later, we have something where I didn't even realize part of the nuance of what we were building is identity around the machine right each computer has an identity you're not logging in with your password it's remembering the computers that are already part of your local network and i don't know of any other software that really does that aside from maybe some bitcoin miners
That evolution is fascinating and building identity around the machine itself is such a powerful move.
It basically creates a secure, decentralized network built on trust between the nodes rather than some central password system.
Yeah, they say a number of successful startups lately have pivoted in terms of their core product.
Like Hugging Face started as a chat app or something and then became a repository for open-weight AI models and recently sold to Nvidia for just shy of $13 billion.
And so with us, we started as a Chrome extension that would tell you how accurate a website or article you were reading was, give you kind of an accuracy read.
And then we just realized you could do so much more with the coding systems out there than build Chrome extensions.
And months later, we have something where I didn't even realize part of the nuance of what we were building is identity around the machine right each computer has an identity you're not logging in with your password it's remembering the computers that are already part of your local network and i don't know of any other software that really does that aside from maybe some bitcoin miners
That evolution is fascinating and building identity around the machine itself is such a powerful move.
It basically creates a secure, decentralized network built on trust between the nodes rather than some central password system.
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