t2 originally launched in late 2022, right after the twitter takeover. the pitch was a smaller, kinder feed, with the basics done well. we onboarded a wonderful early community and raised an angel round.
The hard truth from that era: Bluesky, Mastodon, and eventually Threads were all competing for the same "twitter refugee" wave. there was no obvious middle to occupy.
Fast forward to 2026. I spent most of the last year watching agentic coding tools go from "neat demo" to "i can actually finish weekend projects". The leap surprised me. I decided to test it on something i knew well: t2.
Modernized code base. The X import and AI analysis an compose features I had wanted but ran out of time to build. A monthly bill of <$50 instead of $5000 on the previous stack.