We ran a Phone Check at a YCombinator event in San Francisco. Here’s How it Went.
<p>YCombinator keeps telling us to <em>“do things that don’t scale,”</em> and since we are building <a href="https://www.getclearspace.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">software that helps people spend less time on their phones</a>, we decided to do the least scalable thing possible: <strong>take everyone’s phone from them during happy hour</strong>.</p>
<p>Of the ~150 guests in attendance at the event, 37 of them opted to go “phone free” for the evening, and left their phones with us.</p>
<p>Here’s how it worked:</p>
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