PI.FYI by Perfectly Imperfect

This is so Brooklyn myspace vibey, but in a modern, mobile-conscious format.

Hi everyone! I wanted to pop in and share some PI.FYI lore. In 2020, I started a popular recommendation newsletter called Perfectly Imperfect as a side project while I was still an engineer at Facebook. Over the next few years, we built a cult following of 64,000 subscribers with a simple mission of sharing "A Taste of Someone's Taste" while helping people break out of their algorithm. Later on I realized that the newsletter's core concept could be expanded upon with an app that allowed for anyone to share + ask for recommendations. I had all of the skills to build it, so when I was part of a mass lay-off last year, I hit the ground running on PI.FYI. It launched back in late-January with profiles in The Verge, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and NPR. And just a few weeks later we had over 20,000 users and nearly 100,000 recommendations shared. I wanted this place to feel like the internet did when I was growing up. A time before every site looked exactly the same and we all became prey for the toxic ad-driven algorithms of big corporations. I hope you'll give PI.FYI a try and tell us what you're into right now :) P.S shout out to the GOAT @chrismessina for "hunting" us

i forgot exactly when i signed up for the perfectly imperfect newsletter but i really love the content and the vibe 💙✨