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Ryan Olson
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Ryan Olson
Retro
@ryanolsonk
Fighting brainrot & misaligned AI feeds Cofounder @retrodotapp Former Director of Engineering @instagram
Snowmass, CO
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Jul 13, 2024
    wow
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Oct 20, 2025
    Replying to @danielrakh
    this tested all the way back in 2016/17 (and I'm sure more times again since then). Didn't fit with our hope of stories consumption being person-first rather than media-first. And was negative on metrics for all the reasons stated.
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Nov 11, 2024
    Our first #1! 🇹🇼
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Oct 8, 2015
    Poking into the top 100 iOS apps to find out what's under the hood: medium.com/@ryanolsonk/li…
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Nov 19, 2024
    There were 23.6 million photos and videos shared to Retro in the past week. So that's pretty exciting!
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Nov 11, 2024
    Replying to @mprkhrst
    Similar but better
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Jan 17, 2016
    Is Apple using Swift? (not really, yet) medium.com/@ryanolsonk/is…
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Nov 20, 2015
    Replying to @steipete
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Nov 12, 2024
    My cofounder @nsharp17 gets a push notification for every new user who joins Retro. He is currently getting more than 2 push notifications per second and still doesn't want me to turn them off 😂
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Aug 13, 2025
    What's up Canada! 🇨🇦
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Jul 10, 2024
    🧐 feel like I've seen this somewhere...
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    AssembleDebug (Shiv)
    @AssembleDebug
    Jul 10, 2024
    Here's our first look at Google Photos' My Week feature ✅ Read and check out more screenshots at (along with some other changes) - androidauthority.com/google-photos-… #Google #Android
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Feb 24, 2015
    Just pushed FLEX v2.0! Network debugging, system log viewing, and lots of other new features. github.com/Flipboard/FLEX… pic.x.com/KD5BaSzJIF
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Oct 28, 2025
    Replying to @strawbhaze
    It's called Retro @retrodotapp
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    Ryan Olson
    Retro
    @ryanolsonk
    Jun 21, 2018
    The first thing I wrote for IGTV 😀
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    David
    @dkrasniy
    Jun 21, 2018
    IGTV is impressive. I think one will get used to vertical video quickly. Also I love the static when loading, genius UX @instagram
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