rob cheung
@perceptnet
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co-founder @zocomputer founding eng @substack, founding eng @ fin assistant, early team @venmo
brooklyn
Joined September 2017
The computer is the most flexible tool humanity has invented: whatever you can imagine, if you can describe it precisely enough it runs on a machine. I've spent the last 15 years learning how to describe things precisely to computers, and yet my side projects feel less like a
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"I cancelled my SquareSpace subscription." Meet Anthea, who now uses Zo for her freediving retreats site. The site has personal text automation built in. "My favorite part is that when someone indicates they're interested, I get a text. I don't have to check my email anymore."
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legitimately replaces services AND provides personalization can cancel render, vercel, and potentially poke! congrats to the team :) @0thernet @perceptnet
Today we're introducing Zo, the intelligent cloud computer. With Zo, you get: 1. A unified AI workspace. Add your files, connect your apps, then ask Zo to do work or build projects. 2. A place to build powerful personal apps and automations with all your stuff – maybe it’s a
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at YC they tell you to ship once your product passes the mom test, at @zocomputer we ship when it passes the tiger mom test
@0thernet @zocomputer Mad respect, making AI accessible and genuinely useful for deep research-that’s a different level of mom test.
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notice our launch video was - DIY, not cinematic - very demure, not performative every single startup launch video i see that comes out of SF looks the same. our product is all about DIY software. so it just made sense to make a DIY video. last sunday @perceptnet & i walked
today we're announcing @zocomputer. when we came up with the idea – giving everyone a personal server, powered by AI – it sounded crazy. but now, even my mom has a server of her own. and it's making her life better. she thinks of Zo as her personal assistant. she texts it to
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This is sooo cool They made vibe servering into a product Your own private cloud computer with AI
today we're announcing @zocomputer. when we came up with the idea – giving everyone a personal server, powered by AI – it sounded crazy. but now, even my mom has a server of her own. and it's making her life better. she thinks of Zo as her personal assistant. she texts it to
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"Zo-founders" @0thernet/@perceptnet are some of the most original thinkers and orthogonal builders we've ever met at @LorimerVentures. They believe we should all think bigger than chatbots as an aggregation point for the utility of AI and they're pioneering a COMPLETELY new
today we're announcing @zocomputer. when we came up with the idea – giving everyone a personal server, powered by AI – it sounded crazy. but now, even my mom has a server of her own. and it's making her life better. she thinks of Zo as her personal assistant. she texts it to
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The first wave of products with any platform shift are not native to the platform's capability. It takes a while to figure out how to truly think in a platform native way. Zo is not another AI app. It’s an AI computer. It's a bold idea to reinvent the personal computer. This
today we're announcing @zocomputer. when we came up with the idea – giving everyone a personal server, powered by AI – it sounded crazy. but now, even my mom has a server of her own. and it's making her life better. she thinks of Zo as her personal assistant. she texts it to
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Inspiration here was recently reading @simonw 's talk on personal infrastructure, and of course inspiration from one of the greatest @stephen_wolfram
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8/8 Sites. I've got a number of sites/services running on my Zo. Some private and some public. Zo knows how to expose HTTP or raw TCP services to the internet. I've got an SSH server which I can use to transfer files or even connect to local IDEs like Cursor or Zed. A sort of
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7/8 Civics. Citizenship is hard important work that is often jettisoned because it is hard to find the time to do it properly. There is a very optimistic story about activation energy and civics here: As the headlines slosh around, I have been getting in the habit of asking Zo
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6/8 Genome. Worth calling out separate from above. We absolutely can and should do our own genomics discovery. There are excellent open source resources like (PharmGKB, ClinVar, pyGeno, GEMINI) to help you cross reference with knowledge. Even as an outsider, I was able to find
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5/8 Data. It is seriously cool to have custody over your data from services you use like Google, Amazon, Spotify, Health, Twitter, etc. GDPR rules make this easy. With Zo, it's finally possible feasible to do things with these exports. I now have clean local databases around my
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4/8 Notes. I had Zo import my Apple notes by giving it temporary SSH access to my laptop. It figured out how to find and parse Apple's Notes SQLite DB (weirder than you'd think) and import a version into my Zo. Then I asked it to figure out how to use ollama to embed it all.
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3/8 Reading. I am a digital hoarder. A workflow I use a lot in Zo is to take a URL turn it into a nice markdown in my Articles folder. Reading with AI is great. Both for getting primed for going down interactive rabbit holes. If I'm reading about programming, often I can have
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2/8 In the last few months, I've used computing more effectively than I ever have before. It's the most delightful relationship I've had with technology in a long time. Some examples:
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1/8 Zo is an intelligent server. I think of it like my personal computer, but it's always on and has excellent networking. Because it's just a computer, it's endlessly capable and completely malleable. But maintaining a personal server is unpleasant, even for people in the
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damn if @zocomputer were a chinese company it would have the best name -- 天馬 + 电脑 = 天脑 the heavenly brain
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