NY(SEA) Tickets, VenueHopper's Tech Stack, May Events (May 2026)
Early bird tickets for NY(SEA) are officially sold out! Plus, Stonny Liu's hacks on increasing credibility through automated texts and the three things he'll never let an agent touch.
Opening Remarks
‼️ NY(SEA) Early bird tickets sold out! Round 1 available now ‼️
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Founder Tech Stack: Stonny Liu, Co-founder and CEO of VenueHopper
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Stonny Liu is Co-founder and CEO of VenueHopper, a platform that connects event planners and individuals with unique venues across New York City. VenueHopper’s intelligent platform is transforming the events industry by handling the full venue booking experience, from discovery to onboarding to event execution, and works closely with hospitality operators to fill private dining rooms, rooftops, and event spaces.
Outreach & Onboarding Automation
Linq Blue — iMessage blue text automation for venues and clients
“Linq Blue has been essential for us. It lets us automate blue text to clients and venues. And the iMessage blue text is way more efficient [than green texts] if you are actually trying to build credibility through an automated text.”
“Even to this day in hospitality, the best way to reach someone is text or call. Even to this day.”
“I think it’s like a thousand dollars a year. And it’s great. We just pump out a lot of texts through there, and people will actually answer us.”
“I used to just have drafted texts ready and then copy and paste onto a phone just to get the blue text.”
Linq Blue routes outbound messages through Twilio but delivers them as iMessage blue texts, a critical distinction in hospitality where green SMS bubbles get ignored. At ~$1,000/year, it’s one of Stonny’s highest-conviction recommendations for any founder doing high-volume outreach.
For more on developer workflows, task management, and the three things he'll never let an agent touch, read our full tech stack with Stonny here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
🗽 (N)YC Alumni + Founder Friends Monthly Happy Hour: Wed, May 13 [TONIGHT]
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, May 20 (members only)
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, May 26 (members only)
🗽 NY(SEA): Tech Week Founder Boat Party: Wed, June 3
🗽 NYCFC Quarterly Dinner: Thurs, June 25 (members only)
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Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Kickoff is hiring a Provider Growth Manager and other roles across growth and engineering.
GhostEye is hiring a Founding GTM.
Cobalt ID is hiring a Chief of Staff and a Staff Software Engineer.
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Founding GTM Engineer, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Invoice Butler is hiring a Founding Engineer.
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