[pixxel]

Yes steer well clear of this guy. I can’t remember the details as it was long ago but I distinctly remember him being lambasted by the design/dev community.

EDIT: Not to leave HN readers hanging and to back up my comment...

He raised $100,000 on Kickstarter back in 2014 to build a "privacy" focused phone. One month later he took the phone off the table due to "lack of resources". Needless to say the phone never materialised.

https://gigaom.com/2015/01/13/ind-ie-scales-back-focuses-on-...

[rvz]

Even Heartbeat was a stunning failure. I had high hopes for this guy but he had a contradictory exception towards accepting Apple and their stance on 'privacy' at the time.

Both him and his wife are all in on this utopian small-web privacy idea and they detest attending conferences with FAANMG sponsorship. However, his wife recently attended a design conference sponsored by Facebook, Twitter and Google. [0]

He'll probably instantly block you if you brought this up or spin the story.

[0] https://www.framer.com/loupe/2019/