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.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: TechCrunch
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.

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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