Daniel Ha — obscurelyfamous.com

A stylized illustration of Daniel Ha crossing a steep San Francisco street as fog lifts over hillside homes.

I live in San Francisco and work on , a small fund that invests in startups working on and with agents.

Antigravity

A seed fund with Gadi Borovich, focused on the agentic software stack.
Antigravity Capital
Years ago, I cofounded and was the CEO of . A shockingly large amount of the web had us at the bottom for comments.

Disqus

Pronounced “discuss.” Yeah, I know — but this was web 2.0.

Started with my friend Jason Yan after we both dropped out of UC Davis to do Y Combinator. Grew to millions of users and profitability, then was acquired by Zeta in 2017.
Disqus on Wikipedia
Proud . Grew up in Milpitas and have lived in SF for ~20 years.

Bay Area native

For some reason, Wikipedia says I was born in Anchorage, Alaska.

I've never been to Alaska.
Lifelong (thanks to my dad).

49ers faithful

With my dad at Levi’s in 2019.
I love cars — at one point, almost as much as computers. I was addicted to for a while, but I’m currently on hiatus.

track days

My AP2 S2000, #30, at Thunderhill Raceway in January 2021.

My driving is much better on the track than on the street.
Old lap videos on YouTube
I lifted ‘’ from a throwaway line in Life of Pi, one of my favorite books. I liked the two words next to each other. It’s been my web and ever since.

obscurely famous

“He showed me the yellowed newspaper clippings that made him briefly, obscurely famous.”

Life of Pi, p. xi

email domain

Good domain. Terrible email address. Whenever I say it aloud, I either have to repeat it or spell it out slowly.
My first website was built in 1995 using GeoCities’ HTML Editor. This website was built by Codex (gpt-5.6-sol and gpt-image-2).
Elsewhere: Twitter, LinkedIn.

daniel@obscurelyfamous.com