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a place for builders who ship

Now that we've launched @pinetree, I want to start "building in public" more and sharing our experiences, both good and bad (don't worry, no walk and talks from this pseudoanon yet)

First off, it was really great launching at FarCon. Wanted to echo our earlier statements about how supportive this community has been, it's been a shot in the arm for us 💜

We had a hard deadline to ship the MVP by May 1, as a forcing function for us to move fast

The good news: we shipped and y'all liked the product!
The bad news: there were several issues with auth, mobile views, and other bugs across the app

As @deodad wisely reassured us, we picked the lesser evil by launching early and starting to onboard users. But I care about building a great product, and tbqh it was painful shipping something that felt incomplete in many ways (and had bugs)

Now, after getting back from FarCon (and taking a week to regrow our brain cells), @giu and I are focused on the following work, in order of priority:
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🚢 This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Add TEE data to wallet RPC providers https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x6e98a787
- Add data for stealth address support https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xc14d8294
- Large cleanups around hardware vs software wallet representation https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xad4226a3
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Building /indexing, the next data stack

This week we:

- found a way to break a 200tb RAID device; all is well 🫡
- pushed some updates to our docs; more guides coming soon!
- cut over to snapchain for existing indexing -> paves the path for more upgrades soon(ish)
this week with @vibesengineering.eth
• shipped no-code notification UX
• introduce a $10 plan
• fix a ton of bugs
• built a fundraising mini app to go to Farcon ✨

mini apps linked below ⬇️
🚢 This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- CI & precommit hook now enforce lint/formatting rules
- Check in Cursor rules (previously .gitignore'd, now this ensures they are consistent across contributors)
- Further un-MUI-fication work by @luc.eth
This week the /ponder team shipped:
- major backend architecture improvements
- backfilled all missing votes / payouts
- more agent fixes
- notification stability improvements
- create flow fixes
- QOL improvements throughout the app
This week i shipped on /warpcast :

- extended mini app metadata
- mini app search
- improved embeds for mini app URLs on other platforms
🚢 This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Set up redirect to make up for /fleek turning down its free tier https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0x8b621f8b
- Lots of awesome new hardware wallet attributes by @niard! https://warpcast.com/niard/0xda046399
- ✅ Green CI https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xc87c59fb
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Building /indexing, infra for the distributed world

Last week was mostly R&D:
- Began planning a Neighborhood for token data -> more on that in coming weeks
- Deeper SQLite work for universal queues
- Cleanup work for asset tracking across Aptos, Sui, and Solana

Happy Easter 🐰
This week the /ponder team shipped:
- major security patches + full refunds after an api exploit
- notification preferences
- featured prediction notifications
- top winners on prediction results
- agent fixes (@ponder is alive and well once again)
- swap tokens to USDC for external wallets
- lots of stability improvements to external wallet votes
- began major migration to new backend structure
This week I shipped on /warpcast

- new features and analytics data in the developer tools

I've been cooking something else that should ship early next week :)

https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0x3c864f53
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Building /indexing, distributed infra for open data

This week we:
- Found a 15x improvement in what we lovingly call "The Void"
- Continued ^ our march towards bare metal -> eventual on-prem
- Onboarded /sui
- Explored ephemeral, distributed stream architecture with early adopters (for cases like Base's "flash blocks", MegaETH's "mini blocks", Cast Protocol's gossip'd stream, etc)
This week I shipped on /warpcast :

- redesigned dev tools
- mini app analytics
- mini app launch URL improvements + embed


https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0x0975e7bc
https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0x033bfd03
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🚢 This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Finish up PR review adding Ambire wallet (but display bugs remain)
- Added Walletbeat to Electric Capital project taxonomy https://warpcast.com/polymutex.eth/0xf61002f8
- Digest then fall in love with @vitalik.eth's privacy roadmap https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x81c6995c
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Late cast but this week the /ponder team shipped:
- brand new leaderboard
- major ai agent upgrades and fixes
- revamped profile streaks
- shareable in-feed profiles
- withdraw eth from your ponder wallet
- swap tokens to usdc
- cap entry fees at $10
- bug fixes and improvements
Building /indexing, distributed infra for open data

This week we:

- Onboarded more chains including MegaETH Testnet
- Shipped a new marketing site for self-service: neighborhood.indexing.co
- Began our cache migration from cloud to bare metal (harder, better, faster, stronger)
- Joined Avalanche in England to kick off Codebase

🐇🚂

https://warpcast.com/runninyeti.eth/0xe7b8fcdd
The spirit of /the-arena lives on.
🚢 This shipweek on /walletbeat:
- Two rounds of review on PR adding @ambirewallet. (❤️)
- More cleanups.
building /frens, this week we shipped a much faster app
This week I shipped on /warpcast:

- Ability to unregister and transfer mini apps on dev tools.
- Improvements to mini app embed cache management.
- Small changes to DC APIs
- A few misc bug fixes


https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0x087a0a02

https://warpcast.com/gabrielayuso.eth/0xc867096b
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i'm building /icebreaker with @web3pm & team – helping the best people connect with the best companies in web3

this week
🧊 Added job search filters as badges under search (shown)
🧊 Started displaying job descriptions natively (shown)
🧊 Updated many verifications to our own OAuth + post-zkTLS for LinkedIn
🧊 Added support for LinkedIn to Hiring Managers on Jobs
🐛 Many many bug fixes
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/e6f93ee3-a4c1-4b38-d736-6e718c536a00/original
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/2bc82bec-58e3-483e-325a-2d5669f8cd00/original
exploring decentralizing control of /the-arena to the 13 surviving players of Season 4