Hey, we’re Xbase.

We’re a small team building the Neuralink for Social Networks.

Today, social media is incentivized to keep users hooked with endless scrolling. The recent shift towards a TikTok-style feed only makes this distraction worse. Instead, our goal is to help individuals get more value out of social networks.

We see ourselves as successful if we achieve the highest “Value provided to the user / Time spent on our products” ratio on Earth.

X (formerly Twitter) is a social network where smart people hang out and comment on stuff. You can see conversations between smart people in any field on any topic for free. X is a goldmine of insights. We went to X to see what smart people said about crypto, but we quickly learned finding good tweets was hard.

The X search results were spammed with posts generated by bots. It had no way to filter the specific topics from people. Since X started as a news platform, its design prioritizes the newest info so old tweets rarely get resurfaced. We found some good tweets and used Notion to organize them, but Notion UX was slow and the search was limited.

So we decided to build a better way to extract value from tweets.

• Built the best X Bookmark Manager.

• We are backed by the best accelerator in S.Korea, Primer.

• We have paying users.

Ultimately, we want to build a search engine for ideas—think Pinterest but for short-form posts. We’ll initially cater to consumers looking for inspiration and insights, then professionals seeking leads, and finally enterprises needing intelligence on social trends and the market.

• As an early member, you will get generous equity (min 2%)

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• No bullshit meetings. We communicate async 99% of the time.

Please email p@hongbeom.com a few sentences about your origin story and a bullet list of some work you’ve done (with URLs) that may be relevant to working on Xbase. Production stuff built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Svelte, React is best.

Hongbeom will reach out if you appear like a good match. An unpaid, few-hour challenge, that resembles the high-level work we do at Xbase.

Hongbeom, founder: UCLA philosophy dropout, Built two apps: Onda—Public Bus Arrival Alarm Scheduler. Featured by App Store multiple times. Glowvy, E-commerce cosmetics app for Vietnamese. Obsessed with building delightful SaaS products.

Deep, full-stack engineer: Builds amazing web apps and awesome backends. Handles everything from scratch to production (including DevOps, SRE, Backend, Fronted). Built a web-app that got 75k requests within 3 days of launch and is self sustainable. Trending dev on GitHub. Maintains multiple open-source repos, one with 3k stars. Loves mechanical keyboards and Linux. Also, phone geek.

Joshua, product designer: With a knack for clean, minimal aesthetics, my background spans from crafting user-friendly interfaces to conceptualizing entire product experiences. I have worked in several environments from agencies to startups. When i’m not designing, catch me playing Soccer or Volleyball, side questing, or capturing unique moments through my camera lens.

Santiago, frontend engineer.

• $85k seed investment from Primer in February 2023
  • Primer is the best startup accelerator in S.Korea. The acceptance rate for our batch was 43:1.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Where is Xbase located?

Xbase is a fully remote team. As a member of our team, you will be invited to work wherever you're happiest and most productive. We are incorporated in Delaware.

How big do you think the market is for this?

We plan to serve knowledge workers who use X every day: startup founders, engineers, news reporters, marketers, lifetime learners, recruiters, salespeople, etc. According to the pitch by Elon Musk, there will be ~150 million users who will pay for the premium X subscription, X Premium by 2028. If we capture 5% of those users, we would make ~$300mil/yo.

What stage is the product at?

We have some paying users and trying to scale the features and marketing side of business.

How is Xbase different from X bookmarks?

X bookmarks are great for saving tweets you want to read later. But that's it. They're not searchable, and you can't sort them by date or other criteria. It's hard to keep track of what you've read and what you haven't. Xbase is an all in one tweet manager so it’s more capable.

Do you support other browsers?

No, we only support Chrome. There are no near-future plans to add multiple browser support.

TLDR:

1. If you are using free version, we don’t store your data.

2. If you are using paid plan, we store your data on our server to sync your data across multiple devices.

3. We do not sell your data.