'Scaling friendship': AI screening, a public onboarding form, all-manual outreach
amplifiedamp · x · 2026-08-20
More detail on the author's AI friend-making pipeline: it scans Twitter followers' websites to surface potential friends, paired with a public form in multiple versions (from short to a full onboarding-interview-style questionnaire) to record details and connect people. He stresses all outreach is done manually, and the form is explicitly not a friendship application—befriending him still requires a cold email explaining who you are, an approach that has already earned him two friends.
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