I just lost $300 using Instinct. Can I please get a refund?@noahrshinn
The replies turned it into a referendum on agentic payments: no dispute rails, no chargebacks, nobody clear on liability. A vocal contingent blamed the prompt, several rival startups pitched their fix, and one person noted the agent explained itself in passive voice.
Two days ago, we had a 12 hour window during which responses were 3-5x slower due to increased load on our platform. We take these issues very seriously and will do our best to make sure it doesn’t happen again as we scale. We’ve resolved the remaining bottlenecks over the last 24 hours and brought more capacity online, which means we have space for more users. If you haven’t tried Instinct yet, you can use my personal invite link to get in: t.co/MimM2zoUni. This will be live until we hit the capacity limit.
Broad approval for owning the slowdown publicly, mixed with a long queue of people whose OTP codes never arrived (UAE, Sri Lanka) and repeated asks about WhatsApp support. A few quote-posters just resold the invite link.
instinct is negotiating my lease for me. definitely feels like AGI…
Here's how to build an Instinct clone 1. Host your persistent agent on @daytonaio 2. Make iMessage integration with @PhotonHQ 3. Give it browser use CLI from @browser_use 4. profit
Mostly builders adding steps, notably keeping logged-in sessions and cookies alive so half the sites don't bounce the agent. Others plugged their own stacks or joked they'd have their browser agent build it.
This morning, Instinct had my coffee order ready and waiting for me to grab on the way to work. Thank you @noahrshinn ! Instinct is truly magical ☕️ #itsthelittlethings #coffeeismylovelanguage #everyminutecounts
The difference between Instinct and most AI tools: Most AI: “Here's how you can do it.” Instinct: “Got it. I'll handle it.” That tiny difference makes it feel completely different to use.
Things Instinct has done for me in the last 3 days: - helped me ideate a bathroom renovation, render it and ordered samples for every item on the list - helped me buy a vintage watch for my nephew. messaged several sellers, vetted and is going to hit buy soon - booked a dentist appointment and navigated Bupa! - working on a number of other tasks (will update here) Why it feels magical: - lots of 'little things' such as emoji reactions, language make it feel more human - can run multiple cron jobs reliably - makes it easy to use annoying websites - seems to have v reliable browser use can't remember the last time I liked a product so much!
Two people asked for invites, one wondered whether renovating a bathroom over iMessage is actually pleasant, and a quote-poster praised the personalization while saying it gives you the thinking rather than the sharpened answer.
The magic you experience these days with instinct and grok @bot comes from reliable browser-use. People automate: -Scam detection -Talking to annoying support agents -Changing settings in annoying websites -Hours of form filling -Social media -Online Shopping -Long tail of websites without APIs -Websites where it's annoying to get an API key -Onboarding -Offboarding -Deep research over thousands of links -Uploading videos to YouTube -Ad Manager -Comparison and negotiation during check out -Finding coupon codes If you want build a magical product around those, do it with browser-use - it works now!
The replies got technical fast, debating browser-use versus Browserbase versus just using the bot directly, with several people trying to work out which layer Instinct actually runs on.
i felt this as i was trying instinct today. very seamlessly done, but i wasn't sure what to automate/ask that i couldn't already with gemini (gmail/cal), gpt, claude. booking trips/ordering a lot of food are often highlighted, but unless the task is hyper narrow, with ~0 room for navigation as core part of ux, i didn't wanna just order whatever tooth paste was recommended. what do you really automate in your personal life with the new wave of "consumer AI" tools that is so mindblowing?
People keep telling me they use all kinds of agents to automate their personal/family lives and I feel like I am missing out. But, honestly I can’t find real use cases in my personal life that I would like to automate.
Lots of quiet agreement from people who also can't find daily automations, including one whose wife likes planning travel herself. Others argued the real unlock is curation and proactivity, or that this is a business tool wearing consumer clothes.
re: instinct the early version is wonderful as is, but i wanna see a different use case that doesn’t overlap with existing frontier labs’ current capability/roadmap. consumer AI holy grail is not really about making a “consumer” version of gpt/claude in my humble opinion. your parents are becoming daily users of gpt, so that is more than “consumer” enough. what will the frontier labs not touch? email/shop/calendar - these are smack in the backbone of their roadmap. and apple is just shining their pistol. ready and capable of coming in later than end game and still dominating because of their ecosystem lock in. i’m a pretty savvy user. if i thought so, most consumers will just stare at it blank and move on to netflix. but including the goat @btaylor, they must have seen something far deeper with instinct that is beyond what we see today. the first version didn’t blow my mind but i still root for instinct and wanna see something magical from them.
@startupoppa: i felt this as i was trying instinct today. very seamlessly done, but i wasn't sure what to automate/ask that i couldn't already with gemini (gmail/cal), gpt, claude. booking trips/ordering a lot of food are often highlighted, but unless the task is hyper narrow, with ~0 room https://t.co/OKf6vn9jep
The Apple line got quoted approvingly more than once, and several replies argued the addressable audience skews heavily toward VCs. A few dismissed personal agents outright; one reply went straight to unfounded nepotism claims.
Less than a week in, and I can’t remember how I worked before @Instinct. Best way to describe it: a ridiculously smart Chief of Staff. Lives in my email + calendar, flags what matters, drafts my replies, catches clashes, learns my style. I review, approve, done.
instinct and grok bot have finally allowed me to be a fully formed adult by doing all the boring shit i hate
Weekly funding report is out XPeng Robotics — $900M+ | First Equity Financing | Humanoid Robotics Instinct — $250M | Series B | Personal AI Assistant Owner — $240M | Funding Round | AI for Local Businesses AI security, fraud prevention and robotics foundation models also attracted major capital, while crypto funding rebounded with 9 blockchain deals raising $211M+. RQD Clearing and Fasset led crypto funding, as capital flowed into clearing, custody, stablecoin banking and institutional infrastructure Follow where smart money is flowing and spot the next promising projects #CryptoFunding #AI #Robotics #VentureCapital #KCEX
No real discussion, just the same funding roundup reposted by KCEX's own regional accounts in Korean, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
what are all of you people using Instinct for (genuine Q for inspiration). ordering my own doordash doesnt take that long
I have one friend who quit tech and told me he’s starting a landline installation company vs. one who told me using instinct caused him to, and I quote: “hide in the bathroom talking to instinct so as not to piss off my girlfriend.”
ok i’ll bite i want an instinct invite
Four separate people offered up spare invites within the hour, which is less a conversation than a supply drop.
fresh raises this week: - Instinct - raised $250M Series B; consumer AI personal assistant - Emerald AI (@EmeraldAi_) - raised $150M Series A; software for power-flexible AI data centers - Rillet (@rillethq) - raised $100M Series C; AI-native ERP for finance teams - Owner (@owner) - raised $240M Series D; platform for independent restaurant operators - Generalist (@GeneralistAI) - raised ~$200M Series B extension; robot foundation models - Stability AI (@StabilityAI) - raised $76M Series B; AI products for professional creatives - Deep Cogito (@DeepCogito) - raised $43M Series A; self-improving AI model infrastructure - Keenable (@KeenableAI) - raised $26M seed; web indexing for AI agents - Agentrys - raised $24.5M seed; agentic chip design automation - Metriport (@metriport) - raised $26M Series A; open-source healthcare data infrastructure - CivilGrid - raised $26M Series A; civil design for underground infrastructure - Lambda (@LambdaAPI) - raised $926M term loan B (debt); AI cloud GPU compute rentals - Runable - raised $21M Series A; AI agents for small-business growth - Newcode - raised $13.5M Series A; configurable AI tooling for law firms - Digs - raised $25.3M Series A; AI homebuilding digital records - Yardstik - raised $30M Series B; workforce fraud monitoring and credentials
the hard part of agentic commerce isn’t getting an agent to initiate a transaction…it’s figuring out who’s on the hook when the agent does what it was authorized to do, but not what the user meant. who holds the dispute liability? Daniel? Instinct? @FlyFrontier? as of now, it seems like no one knows for sure. ♂️
@daniel_li02: I just lost $300 using Instinct. Can I please get a refund?@noahrshinn https://t.co/Snqnmkiuzo
have been seeing loads of really cool use cases of @bot and Instinct would it be helpful to people if i compiled them and shared lists of use cases?
the amount of people asking for a mobile app with Instinct is interesting —> we always believed texting was a feature, not the product. That’s why @tryorbits has:
Wild. I just had my t.co/LDa31465jf agent talk to my Hermes agent through the Ringdown. They had a discussion about my Japan trip itinerary. Screenshot showing my chat with Instinct. t.co/kQ5QATXeOO
@trevin: Been playing with an idea of how to let agents have a conversation without you copy-and-pasting between sessions. Say hello to The Ringdown ⬇️ https://t.co/RXJdu7HiIv No accounts. We don't log what they send, and the room's gone in 30 minutes. It's been fun for lots of use
Hey instinct, please hike 6kms up for me and take these pics?
btw, bluebubbles dot app is a completely free and open source repo to let you stand up your own iMessage agent without instinct, poke, etc. it's easy t.co/ASbD2WvO9Y
@slopdotwtf right but who has the best imessage api that we can use for cold outbound is it just build a phone farm or what
Instinct has been so helpful lately. I have an online fantasy football draft tonight, but I’m double-booked, so Instinct is going to draft for me and talk smack in the chat. Will report back
my agent will buy whoever gives me an instinct invite coffee
Looks like Instinct has access to a cloud computer with a browser, it’s able to use that and even send screenshot on WA based on its findings. Interesting and humanizing UX.
i’ve really been loving using Instinct. what i like most about it's that it makes the idea of a personal ai agent feel accessible to people who have never heard of openclaw, hermes, etc. i’ve been using it for a few days, and here are some of the things it has done for me: - helped me create a customised book of NYT crosswords from 1994 onwards for a friend. it logged into my subscription, retrieved the crosswords + solutions, and turned them into a pdf with a custom cover and a birthday crossword - sweeps my work inboxes every morning and sends me my actionables - sends me a daily digest of all the newsletters i’m subscribed to - helps with restaurants reservations, courts, etc. + flight check-ins - reminded me to renew my health insurance, filled out the declaration for me (surprisingly v accurate), and signed it with my digital signs none of these things are particularly crazy. a lot could have done by other agents or grok bot but that’s exactly what makes Instinct interesting to me. the interface makes interacting with an agent feel almost as natural as talking to another person, especially with the wa + imessage layer. i can just send it a voice note and it works. without any kind of setup required which is the case in almost all the agents and tbh its quite overwhelming if you’re a non tech person. the emojis are one of the nicest little ux details i’ve come across in an ai product so far. it gives you a sense of what it’s doing without making you stare at an agent running in a terminal. that, to me, is the interesting bit because, rather than making agents more capable, it’s making them feel more usable. h/t to the team.
Instinct helped me rebook my flight that was cancelled because of an airline strike. And suggested legal recourse to get more money back for the additional costs. Good bot!
Instinct really needs Agnost AI because losing $300 is one hell of a silent agent failure t.co/8w90sMCXFS
@daniel_li02: I just lost $300 using Instinct. Can I please get a refund?@noahrshinn https://t.co/Snqnmkiuzo