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Zach
@zherring #5062
Founder, designer, & product guy pushing pixels at /basepaint
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We're co-creating a 5 page storybook on /basepaint
and you only have about 45 minutes left to grab Page 1
Rando thought: It'd be fun to build a 6551 "book" to hold these 🤔
Basepaint.xyz/mint
and you only have about 45 minutes left to grab Page 1
Rando thought: It'd be fun to build a 6551 "book" to hold these 🤔
Basepaint.xyz/mint
Cannot recommend the Odd Lots interview with MTG creator enough.
Incredible insights on how killing speculative markets was essential for the long term sustainability of MTG, and how those interested forked: what is considered "valuable" due to rarity are sometimes/often no longer playable in proper MTG games.
Shaped my POV on building crypto games + communities immensely.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/magic-the-gatherings-creator-wants-to-create-an/id1056200096?i=1000635775758
Incredible insights on how killing speculative markets was essential for the long term sustainability of MTG, and how those interested forked: what is considered "valuable" due to rarity are sometimes/often no longer playable in proper MTG games.
Shaped my POV on building crypto games + communities immensely.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/magic-the-gatherings-creator-wants-to-create-an/id1056200096?i=1000635775758
overcomplicated cryptoeconomic solution incoming:
1. register for normal cost
2. look at channel activity
3. less channel activity, specifically from organic power user non-bot whatevers however you rank organic good users == higher price later
squishy harberger tax, charge them more when they aren't using channels the way the ecosystem wants them to be used.
1. register for normal cost
2. look at channel activity
3. less channel activity, specifically from organic power user non-bot whatevers however you rank organic good users == higher price later
squishy harberger tax, charge them more when they aren't using channels the way the ecosystem wants them to be used.
weirdly, interviewing for jobs has made be very bullish on crypto (and Ethereum) again.
spending time doing deep dives on restaking, decentralized prover networks, chain abstraction, and AA/user wallets, everything is where you'd want it to be for an incredible next act.
https://x.com/Shaughnessy119/status/1845120238880207279
spending time doing deep dives on restaking, decentralized prover networks, chain abstraction, and AA/user wallets, everything is where you'd want it to be for an incredible next act.
https://x.com/Shaughnessy119/status/1845120238880207279
I am someone who's struggled to learn to code for years, and I'm now regularly deploying apps, APIs, and smart contracts.
It only happened once I started incorporating GPT into my workflow.
Reading cynics descriptions of LLMs is so disorienting, like a complete failure of imagination
https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/1844787155312259204
It only happened once I started incorporating GPT into my workflow.
Reading cynics descriptions of LLMs is so disorienting, like a complete failure of imagination
https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/1844787155312259204
Trying out Factory.fm, left a review for Foxing's new album
https://factory.fm/log/3Qod9TitfqaGLFHSNYX9A
https://factory.fm/log/3Qod9TitfqaGLFHSNYX9A
The analogy I use:
My kid hands me a drawing. It's priceless.
I try to sell it at a gallery. It's not worth 5c.
Price discovery on intangibles, esp things that have intrinsic value is a negative user experience that will repulse most normies.
Never understood the "bet on your friends" "get paid to like good music" crypto pitches.
My kid hands me a drawing. It's priceless.
I try to sell it at a gallery. It's not worth 5c.
Price discovery on intangibles, esp things that have intrinsic value is a negative user experience that will repulse most normies.
Never understood the "bet on your friends" "get paid to like good music" crypto pitches.
I kept reading this as the UN-chain and was super confused, like "oh, we're putting things back on AWS? cool, cool I guess, of course vitalik hated it"
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1844401388245397987
https://x.com/RyanSAdams/status/1844401388245397987
... https://www.raincards.xyz/about demo might be the coolest onchain demo I've seen this month.
Ramp for USDC. I only wish it had cash-back like Ramp.
Ramp for USDC. I only wish it had cash-back like Ramp.
Lately, Marvel Snap! I wish I had an entire podcast series done in this episode's format, love how Brode thought about prototyping and core gameplay loops. => https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-do-you-make-an-addictive-video
All-time, Internet Historian's essay on No Man's Sky is an incredible redemption arch => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ
NoClip's look at CD Projekt Red great long-view of a game studio w/ humble beginnings. => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZkTk5gLuo&t=1s
All-time, Internet Historian's essay on No Man's Sky is an incredible redemption arch => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ
NoClip's look at CD Projekt Red great long-view of a game studio w/ humble beginnings. => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNZkTk5gLuo&t=1s
/basepaint is a global artist collective with $48,000 MRR.
original hero idea - Baelwarp. He was raised in a cult to open the door to hell, but he didn't wanna. Instead he's a superhero. He can teleport people anywhere in our universe, but the in-between is hell, so, watch out for that.
Basically Portal the video game + Event Horizon the movie wrapped in spandex and a cape.
his horns only show when he uses his powers, it's his clark kent glasses disguise 🫠
Basically Portal the video game + Event Horizon the movie wrapped in spandex and a cape.
his horns only show when he uses his powers, it's his clark kent glasses disguise 🫠
lowkey fascinating to think about why frames took off in a way microapps haven't yet.
My working theory is roughly two points:
1. additional barrier to enter w/ "launch" high enough friction to kill opportunistic discovery
2. additional functional of microapps is mismatch to time/effort commitment of users / time in app.
Put another way: Frame limitation (button and input) was the _perfect_ match for user appetite for novelty in social feed context
My working theory is roughly two points:
1. additional barrier to enter w/ "launch" high enough friction to kill opportunistic discovery
2. additional functional of microapps is mismatch to time/effort commitment of users / time in app.
Put another way: Frame limitation (button and input) was the _perfect_ match for user appetite for novelty in social feed context
+2 canvases worth of revenue has been sent to day Day #419 artists after a week live on @moshicam
https://x.com/moshicamera/status/1842349682447831064
https://x.com/moshicamera/status/1842349682447831064
You know how you'll hear a song in passing and weeks later it finds its way back on rotation and you wonder how you missed it at the start?
I don't wanna admit how many times I've listened to this today.
https://youtu.be/74uuV-bMcEY?si=ctV1KCqgHshIlsTW
I don't wanna admit how many times I've listened to this today.
https://youtu.be/74uuV-bMcEY?si=ctV1KCqgHshIlsTW
we were so hopeful when we painted this lmao
Somehow missed this for a decade+, but it's funny and the video has Adult Swim circa Space Ghost Coast to Coast vibes
https://youtu.be/nPchGo-2DyM?si=Tijv6ikoT6K4j_Yy
https://youtu.be/nPchGo-2DyM?si=Tijv6ikoT6K4j_Yy
Bro, I just had the weirdest interview process, ever.
I let people know I was winding my startup down and offered to have calls with founders about what they were struggling with.
By far, the topic that came up the most was storytelling.
You’re already telling your product’s story. It’s the first prototype you build in your head. It’s a story you tell yourself, then your co-founder, your customers, your investors, etc. The first time anyone interacts with your product is when you tell them about it. It’s important, and spending time polishing it is the difference between success and failure.
And if you are a founder, you have to shape your company’s story at literally every stage. You never outgrow this.
So you might as well get good at it now.
How to tell your product’s story for investors and customers...
1.Know the audience (and what do they want)
2.Pre-PMF? Talk to potential customers
3.Iterate, iterate, iterate
4.Start with joy
More on Paragraph 👇
https://paragraph.xyz/@zherring/0-to-1-storytelling
By far, the topic that came up the most was storytelling.
You’re already telling your product’s story. It’s the first prototype you build in your head. It’s a story you tell yourself, then your co-founder, your customers, your investors, etc. The first time anyone interacts with your product is when you tell them about it. It’s important, and spending time polishing it is the difference between success and failure.
And if you are a founder, you have to shape your company’s story at literally every stage. You never outgrow this.
So you might as well get good at it now.
How to tell your product’s story for investors and customers...
1.Know the audience (and what do they want)
2.Pre-PMF? Talk to potential customers
3.Iterate, iterate, iterate
4.Start with joy
More on Paragraph 👇
https://paragraph.xyz/@zherring/0-to-1-storytelling
Ultimately think this is more accurate than not, “pay for your content training on AI” has a “own your data” energy, doesn't make the economic sense when you get down to how little your eyeballs are valued on social media.
One possible endpoint is human generated content becomes rarer since AI training on AI data starts getting into model failure.
@readmaxread had an interesting end-note in his latest (excellent) s*bst**k "We're in our slop era" that prices high quality words at $0.001 - $0.01.
Wonder if part of OAI's hedge is human words get rarer, might as well lock prices in now?
Also just down occurring to me that Meta might see part of its moat as its access to human content.
One possible endpoint is human generated content becomes rarer since AI training on AI data starts getting into model failure.
@readmaxread had an interesting end-note in his latest (excellent) s*bst**k "We're in our slop era" that prices high quality words at $0.001 - $0.01.
Wonder if part of OAI's hedge is human words get rarer, might as well lock prices in now?
Also just down occurring to me that Meta might see part of its moat as its access to human content.
Man, I wish threads displayed properly on Warpcaster.
finally groking* Eigenlayer this week and I've got from skeptic to "this might be how Ethereum wins."