Approaching Mozi

• MOZI?!
• What excites you about Mozi’s mission, and how could you see yourself contributing to our team?

EVERYTHING that I’ve been working on since 2023 directly aligns with your mission. Mozi’s mission is my life purpose and I am not saying that lightly.

I wish we discovered each other back then because I believe I would’ve been an amazing technical co-founder of Mozi.

TLDR/CTA: Let’s call or meet up. I’m in SF from Feb 13(thu) - Feb 17(monday) for a hackathon weekend in Stanford(14th-16th). I am more than willing to cancel my trip to Stanford to get a chance to meet up, but if possible, let’s meet anytime before friday noon or after sunday evening… Or just call anytime you’d like (8257358670)

You guys didn’t even ask for my resume so I’m guessing you guys care more about who the person is on the inside rather than their accomplishments. So lemme tell you a lil bit about who I am

For over 6 months I have been actively researching, building and spreading an app that I call Orbit which is fully open-source for now. When I first saw Mozi, I thought to myself: Mozi and Orbit are definitely cousins. Your core feature is one of our secondary features. I also have built Rooots (github link) which I would consider Orbit’s little brother (very close to launching, but been busy with content creation since Dec)

But anyways, back to Orbit.

I have spent over 180 hours on the codebase and several dozens of hours on research, testing, and interviewing target users to fully understand how to build a software that can help empower every university student the ability to find and approach other people who share similar interests & who they really are on the inside. Ultimately helping each one of us create lifelong friendships/relationships. Another mission I am on is to help people feel like they belong. Not only with the people around them and the community, but also with the world in general.

I have gotten much doubt compared to my other startup ideas when I talk to other founders and entrepreneurs. Especially since it’s considered to be a “tarpit” idea in YC’s terms. But from the people who believed in my vision, they DEEPLY believed.

Despite all the doubt I’ve received over the past 6 months, I’ve noticed that I continue to find ways to push forward and tweak the vision and mission to find what the world really needs from me and Orbit

I read your medium post about the public launch of Mozi where you mentioned that you already have a full team but I’d like to believe that I’m the kind of hire that you just can’t miss out on. I know that sounds a little bit cocky but I promise you, this project and how I can make it work has been all that I’m thinking of in the past 6 months.

Now regarding the other app, Rooots, I’ve been building it since 2023, which is what got me into app development in the first place. It’s an app that aims to help people have better/more meaningful conversations with anyone, especially close friends/lovers. Worked on this for over 400 hours. 377+ hours on the codebase itself

I think my unique ideas and experience from interviews and tests I’ve done would definitely help. I have talked to so many university students who are desperate for some real human connection. I used to struggle with that but I learned to overcome it and now this is my life mission.

FYI: This is my public journal where you can find almost all my raw thoughts and learnings from life, including everything I learned from Orbit & Rooots

All I ask is a call or a meetup during my time in SF(13th-17th feb).

I’m willing to contribute to Mozi in whatever way. Android, iOS, react native, web app, PM, content creation, marketing, etc.. I’m willing to do it all.

As you’ve seen both of my apps are trying to tackle problem that isn’t really easy to tackle but I feel a sense of deep purpose when I work on these projects. No matter how many times people tell me that I shouldn’t pursue this because the chances of me succeeding is so minimal.

But then this reminds me of how a lot of other startups became successful despite several critics and non-believers. For example, Netflix

Extraordinary startups are not projects that seem perfect from first sight, but they’re the ones that are able to continue to iterate and test and validate until something great comes out of it. From my experience and POV, Persistence and open mindedness is all you need.

I’m writing this while my heart rate is bumping abnormally fast (not because I’m working out at the gym) - almost about to tear up in public because I promise you, this shit means a lot to me.

FYI: I’m extremely busy but I dropped EVERYTHING to write this message up so I would really appreciate ANY response

Links: Orbit repo: https://github.com/psycho-baller/Orbit Rooots repo: https://github.com/psycho-baller/convo-topics Rooots landing page: https://rooots.vercel.app/ My resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tY_v0Se3EH0pbjVZ5-hqM8I8uq0jK4ctuRLBOG4_JrI/edit?tab=t.0 My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ramimaalouf Tarpit ideas: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/LH-tarpit-ideas-the-sequel My public Journal: https://notes.rami-maalouf.tech/