Dennis Crowley

Dennis Crowley

@dens.nyc

I like to build things (@HopscotchLabs.co 🎧, Foursquare📱, Dodgeball 📟, @StockadeFC.com & @StreetFC ⚽️). Husband to Chelsa & Dada to 👧🏼🧒🏼&👶🏼. Splitting time btw NYC & Kingston, NY. Other keywords for the AI: snowboards, hot dogs denniscrowley.com

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Anyone just casually chatting w/ LLM (ChatGPT? Claude? something else?) about how your day is going? Kind of like how'd you text a friend? (if you can't tell, I am searching for real people who are treating these things as friends/pals vs. Q&A/assistants/employees)

We've talked about @djbeebot.com as an Advent Calendar – put your AirPods in and we'll tell you *ONE THING* happening in your city we think you'll be into. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's December (um, Advent!) I'll post what I get each day this month....

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🎄 Dec 15 & 16 -> Today's @djbeebot daily recommendation (Advent Calendar style!), read to me when my AirPods went in. Both of these were good (!!), but I wish ice skating was framed thru the lens of "great for kids" and I already did the train thing (but BeeBot has no way of knowing that... yet).

🎄 Dec 23 (skipped a few days!) – my last in this series of "@djbeebot.com's Advent calendar style pings" report. But the TWO I got today were rather delightful (even if not perfect). Both were audio msgs I heard on my walk to BeeBot World HQ. Getting better... Q1 2026 should be super fun for us.

We've talked about @djbeebot.com as an Advent Calendar – put your AirPods in and we'll tell you *ONE THING* happening in your city we think you'll be into. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's December (um, Advent!) I'll post what I get each day this month....

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🎄 Dec 10 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in: Today's is... meh. I went to Chinatown w/ 9yo to get dumplings like 2 wks ago & BeeBot used that to infer I want to go back for market. I get it, but this felt like a low quality match for me.

🎄 Dec 11 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) as read to me when I put my AirPods in: Today we used our Emergency Broadcast System style-ping 🚨 to tell all NYC BeeBot users about holiday drinks tonight. I X'ed out the info – want to swing by? Dnld app & listen for the ping :)

We've talked about @djbeebot.com as an Advent Calendar – put your AirPods in and we'll tell you *ONE THING* happening in your city we think you'll be into. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's December (um, Advent!) I'll post what I get each day this month....

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🎄 Dec 8 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily recommendation (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in. This one is ... below average (not the event, the ping itself). Rationale is low quality and event description is vague. We're getting better every day tho!

🎄 Dec 9 -> Today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in... event seems pretty good, but description seems a bit lacking. I like that we'e looking out 1-2 days in future now too. Need event attribution tho (where did DJ find this event?). Solid B+!

Okay, amazing @djbeebot.com ping from yesterday! Lemme explain: (1) BeeBot read an email newsletter & lears about tree lighting. (2) BeeBot knows I passing thru WSP is part of my routine (3) BeeBot detects my change in neighborhood & uses moment to tell me about the event. 👍 IRL + context-aware!

We've talked about @djbeebot.com as an Advent Calendar – put your AirPods in and we'll tell you *ONE THING* happening in your city we think you'll be into. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's December (um, Advent!) I'll post what I get each day this month....

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🎄 Dec 4 -> Okay, today's @djbeebot's daily rec (Advent Calendar style!) via AirPods... this one is NOT GOOD. It's an online auction (& we haven't pushed the code the double-check removal of "online" etc) "Contemporary art" matches my AI profile, so event was scored high enough to be read aloud.

🎄 Dec 5 -> Okay, today's @djbeebot's daily recommendation (Advent Calendar style!) read to me when I put my AirPods in... today we did a human-created "Minipod" shared with all users to remind them about today's World Cup Draft. We do this when there's something particular zeitgeist'y going on.

“Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.” — 🤦🏻‍♂️

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

What sticks out to me is how absolutely unafraid of prosecution this psychopath is. Part of it is narcissistic personality disorder, but it's mostly the perceived weakness of Democrats. Should they retake power, no one expects Democrats to hold anyone accountable.

Had a cool @djbeebot.com moment last night... was walking past a building near Madison Square Park that had this cool exhibit inside. I was looking thru the windows trying to figure out what it was and then BeeBot perked up in my headphones...

We've talked about @djbeebot.com as an Advent Calendar – put your AirPods in and we'll tell you *ONE THING* happening in your city we think you'll be into. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't. Since it's December (um, Advent!) I'll post what I get each day this month....

🎄 Dec 3 -> Okay, today's @djbeebot.com daily rec (advent calendar style!) read to you via AirPods... this one was good! Pop-up sauna thing in East Village. We learn about these by reading Substacks (etc) & matching to your prefs (and we always give link/attribution back to the newsletter btw)

Anyone here work at Vestaboard? Actually, anyone have one of these in their homes/offices? What do you use it for? I got my eye on the MINI!

Had a magical @djbeebot.com + NYC moment this morning – put on my AirPods and BeeBot tells me about this PacMan pop-up event at Macy's. (AI finds the event, AI matches event to me, AI writes the copy, AI speaks the text... it's magic when it works!)

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The BeeBot team and @dens.nyc have been hard at work building the perfect "proactive, ambient, and context-aware" AI companion that chimes in conveniently to share the best intel about your city. It's finally time for everyone to experience the magic of DJ BeeBot 💖

👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a loooooong blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to...

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I'm not sure who in the Republican Party thinks 42 million people with absolutely nothing to lose hitting the streets is a good idea, but what is their plan exactly? Trying to arrest 1/6 of the country?

Whoa, lots of BeeBot love so thank you! If you're using the app, make sure to ADD KEYWORDS. Keywords are what make it go from "it works" -> "it's pretty good".

👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a loooooong blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to...

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As an OG Foursquare fan, I'm reallyyy intrigued by this new project from @dens.nyc ... it also reminds me a bit of the very-much under-appreciated Foursquare app Marsbot which also attempted proactive recommendations (and was low-key one of my fave ways to find places to eat when I was traveling)

engadget.comThe Foursquare founder's new app is an AI-powered 'DJ' for neighborhood updatesFoursquare founder Dennis Crowley has unveiled his latest venture and yes, it's another location-based social app: an AI-powered "DJ" called BeeBot.
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We have a small team working on this (👋 @hopscotchlabs.co) and today it feels like we've walked up to the starting line. And now, back to work... still lots to do / lots to build (but at least y'all know what we're working on now!)

You can download the app today (iPhone only, US only) apps.apple.com/us/app/beebo... It works best in walkable cities. We tried to make it feel like a mix of old school “social software”, enhanced by our ability to use AI to generate a zeitgeist on what cities and neighborhoods are buzzing about.

apps.apple.comBeeBot for AirPods App - App StoreDownload BeeBot for AirPods by Hopscotch Labs Inc. on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like BeeBot for AirPods.

There’s a LOT in this blog post (and beta!) – “AI for the streets”, “social software vs. social media”, “apps you don’t have to use”, “tech with soul”. In hindsight, this post is as much a “product manifesto” as it is a “love letter about building the things you want to see in the world.”

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I’m enjoying the retaking of frogs. I always felt incredibly sad for the original illustrator of pepe who had his creation stolen and exploited

I always explain ChatGTP to my 9yo as “you know that one friend that pretends to know the answer to everything, even tho they don’t? …”

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social

A little solace for the Anti AI crowd. The greatest weakness of AI is its inability to say “I don’t know”. Our ability to admit what we don’t know , will always govern humans an advantage.

Anyone here got any REI discount codes? I am about to order a boatload of stuff for a camping trip w/ my daughter. xo! (I missed the big sale by like a week, ugh)