Retro's ex-Instagram founders are chasing a smaller social graph

TechCrunch's latest social-app roundup points to a market splitting into private photos, taste networks and open-web clients.

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Why it matters

The social opportunity has shifted from replacing Instagram outright to carving out behaviors that scaled feeds handle poorly: private photos, taste curation and cross-network identity.

Illustration of Retro's ex-Instagram founders gathered around a small group of phones sharing private, curated photo feeds.

Nathan Sharp and Ryan Olson's Retro is the clearest founder story inside the crop of social apps TechCrunch highlighted on June 6th: two former Instagram team members building against the feed they know best.…

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