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Brian Li ππΎ
@bli.eth #1338
Building @frens | @orangedao | @a16zcrypto CSS
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One of the biggest mistakes I've seen first time founders make is not sending monthly investor updates. It's easy to make excuses like "too busy" or "no major changes", but the truth is those emails help you hold yourself accountable. It doesn't matter if the update says you're struggling or pivoting or low on runwayβthat just gives investors the context to help you earlier instead of when it's too late. Once someone has invested, you should never be afraid of sending them regular company updates!
So uh did anyone else see the F.B.I. memecoin ($NexFundAI) to study pump-and-dumps and assume that it was created by Farcaster Builders of Indiaβ¦
Spent the weekend talking to dozens of founders at YC alumni reunions and realized that weβre in the middle of an inflection for hard-tech companies. (10% of the recent batch of 240 startups are in hard-tech)
Sharing some thoughts on why this is happening below β¬οΈ
Sharing some thoughts on why this is happening below β¬οΈ
About as SF as you can get, a Waymo gets wedged up against a bus and a bunch of YC founders try to lift it to move it
YC reunions are magical, listening to Senator Kyrsten Sinema discussing tech policy and ideas for getting startups access to federal contracts π
Building /frens, shipped fewer visible features this week and spent some more time on performance:
- Improved transaction speed by 20%
- Added filtering and social features for tokens
- Improved transaction speed by 20%
- Added filtering and social features for tokens
Few people have done more to support early stage crypto founders and create a sense of community than @jayme, congrats on the announcement! Launchcaster will continue your mission at @orangedao π
Spent most of the week at FC Dev Day but got in a few onboarding fixes at /frens:
- Improved loading indicators and error handling on Farcaster auth
- Faster profile picture uploads
- Improved loading indicators and error handling on Farcaster auth
- Faster profile picture uploads
Building /frens, this week Iβve been focused on data enrichment:
- Syncing transactions from external wallets
- Enriching swaps data with token pricing data
- Syncing transactions from external wallets
- Enriching swaps data with token pricing data
Finally back to sharing my work on /frens, not gonna lie sometimes I just need to bury my head in a hole when working on infra...
- Faster onboarding for new users (cut API request time by 30%)
- Automatically generate multichain wallets
- Improved webhooks for onchain events
- Faster onboarding for new users (cut API request time by 30%)
- Automatically generate multichain wallets
- Improved webhooks for onchain events
Who else is betting on the debate tonight? DC me for access to a group chat where we're discussing polymarket bets
Betting on the electoral college margin of victory market on polymarket seems to be a good way to get leverage on the outcome of the debates and election. Many of the +x% positions on Kamala/Trump sides are trading at sub 5 cents right now. What other trades are people taking going into the debates?
https://polymarket.com/event/electoral-college-margin-of-victory-in-the-2024-presidential-election?tid=1725985731758
https://polymarket.com/event/electoral-college-margin-of-victory-in-the-2024-presidential-election?tid=1725985731758
Can anyone explain @opensocial to me? I tried one of the ecosystem products and the feed looks like it's entirely bots and airdrop farmers...
Equifax sucks... Trying to freeze my credit after the SSN data breach. Experian/TransUnion have websites and apps that allowed me to freeze within 5 min. Equifax won't let me create an account without calling them, tried to charge me $10 a month, and has my call on endless hold with the worst AI bot I've ever heard...
this week at /frens
- built multichain social context for tokens
- implemented new transaction indexing infrastructure
- built multichain social context for tokens
- implemented new transaction indexing infrastructure
Big week of shipping at /frens
- Slippage adjuster for trades
- Better edge case handling for failed swaps
- Refreshing balances after a transaction completes
- Slippage adjuster for trades
- Better edge case handling for failed swaps
- Refreshing balances after a transaction completes
might be a few minutes late on this one, but building /frens and shipped the following:
- refactors to better support cross chain tokens
- miniapp versioning and update messages
- refactors to better support cross chain tokens
- miniapp versioning and update messages
building /frens, had a slower week because of muggy NJ weather but landed the following:
- notification controls on chats
- automatic balance refreshing
- notification controls on chats
- automatic balance refreshing
building /frens:
- a new way of previewing tokens
- infra for multi-wallet transaction alerts
- infra for supporting new chains
- a new way of previewing tokens
- infra for multi-wallet transaction alerts
- infra for supporting new chains
Bug bashing and stability week for me at /frens
- Redundancy for token pricing APIs
- Redesigned token search to show balances and context
- Auto-refresh balances after transactions
- Explaining unsupported tokens
- Improving number precision on balances
- Redundancy for token pricing APIs
- Redesigned token search to show balances and context
- Auto-refresh balances after transactions
- Explaining unsupported tokens
- Improving number precision on balances
Back from vacation and back to shipping at /frens!
Got in a refactor that speeds up searching for tokens from 1000ms to about 200ms.
Shoutout to @wijuwiju.eth for helping me out with recs, some learnings below π
Got in a refactor that speeds up searching for tokens from 1000ms to about 200ms.
Shoutout to @wijuwiju.eth for helping me out with recs, some learnings below π
Building /frens, a crypto messaging app.
Spent the week on a caching system for tokens (like erc20s) based around CAIP-19 cross-chain ids. Motivation was to have a standardized unique identifier that had all the data necessary so we wouldnβt have to refactor from the ground up for Solana or Bitcoin.
Spent the week on a caching system for tokens (like erc20s) based around CAIP-19 cross-chain ids. Motivation was to have a standardized unique identifier that had all the data necessary so we wouldnβt have to refactor from the ground up for Solana or Bitcoin.
Thereβs nothing quite like the feeling when a squatterβs ENS registration expires π
I have been reborn as bli.eth
I have been reborn as bli.eth
Claiming my /scoop profile with address: 0x0cD28285f1cA99fA181DD95e7721A8F2f2Af9f21
let the scoop wars begin π¦
let the scoop wars begin π¦
Claiming my /scoop profile with address: 0x0cD28285f1cA99fA181DD95e7721A8F2f2Af9f21
let the scoop wars begin π¦
let the scoop wars begin π¦