I know, I know. I’ve been talking a lot about Graze and how excited I am but the work they’re doing with Bluesky. But just to prove I’m not offer my rocker — about Graze at least — I wanted to share a lengthy write up on TechCrunch describing what this Portland startup is doing.
“I’ve been doing tech startups for 30 years and this is actually the craziest early-stage growth curve I’ve ever seen,” says Graze co-founder and CEO Peat Bakke, speaking to the tool’s adoption. “We went from zero — literally no traffic — to serving hundreds of thousands of unique people every day, tens of millions of content impressions. It’s nuts. It’s totally nuts. And it’s all word of mouth.”
Bakke is joined by co-founder Devin Gaffney, whose background is in social media and network analysis. The two began working together around 12 years ago on Little Bird, a social data analysis startup that relied on parsing Twitter’s full feed, also known as the “Firehose,” to extract insights that could be useful to businesses.
Now, they’re working with the new generation’s firehose: the “Jetstream” offered by the open and decentralized social network Bluesky, which includes all the public posts from its now over 30.3 million users as well as future apps building on the underlying AT Protocol (or atproto, for short).
To read more, visit TechCrunch for “Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention.”
- Fun fact #1: Portland startup Little Bird, a PIE alum, gets a mention.
- Fun fact #2: Both the cofounder and CEO of Little Bird, Marshall Kirkpatrick, and I used to work the author of the post, Sarah Perez, back at ReadWriteWeb
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