What the signals say. fishboneny's feed is the same shared noise pool as the other events ventures (Thiel, cardiologist, Taleb) plus two signals that actually land. First, simonecanciello's guest-recorded shared memory album at $20k/month, 7.5M views — the validated events product, same as for instasoiree/eventbuoy. Second, maggiexgao's nycstoops.com — a free tool consolidating 10M lines of NYC public data (rent stabilization, bedbugs, complaints) for renters. For a NY-local events venture, nycstoops is the more interesting signal: it proves a single author can build a high-utility NY-local data surface fast, and fishboneny's "NY events + Cruise Passport" positioning is a local-data play in disguise. Baidu Unlimited-OCR and the vibe-coded 3D globe round out the format tools.
The $20k/mo guest-album app competes on the memory-product axis. nycstoops is the adjacent NY-local-data competitor — it's free and good, which means any fishboneny paid local-data layer has to offer something nycstoops structurally can't (booking, itinerary, the cruise-specific transactional path). The prior Stack report already flagged that fishboneny publishes prices ($299–$899 Cruise Passport) with no transactional path — that leak is the live vulnerability.