this is super surprising. rapid growth after the elections for blue sky? 😳

Elon

@packyM Let it be noticed that once he decided that this race was existential, Elon basically just set up camp in PA and sat there until it flipped.  This is how he does everything.  Find the one lever that moves the world and then just go jump up and down on it, relentlessly

Blue

Elon mentality


https://x.com/blue_mataca/status/1854010582501830937

The same platform that banned Trump helped him immensely during his campaign. Who could have predicted

Memes

https://github.com/EricLBuehler/mistral.rs

rust library to run open source models locally

Apple

castsense

buoy

great to see @buoy in the @a16zcrypto state of crypto report

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/state-of-crypto-report-2024/

watching the rockets soar in the sky and then some jets dancing in the sky, reminded me that pushing limits is how we keep moving forward

Cricket

1500+ runs in 4 days

test cricket is going to be so different

Founders

stripe finally launched payments with crypto!

really exciting and will help businesses that want to run on a traditional stack meet customers where they are

especially automatic free off-ramps are huge

no subscriptions yet, so not applicable for supercast (and i’m glad i launched my own onchain checkout) but this could be an unlock for many

https://docs.stripe.com/crypto/pay-with-crypto


checkout with crypto on stripe. buyers pay usdc, merchants get usd

demo:

checkout with crypto on stripe. buyers pay usdc, merchants get usd

demo: https://buy.stripe.com/14kaFo3hQ50saiY289

Product

how google built notebooklm in 2 months 

- build products with users 
- more building, less talking

as always small empowered teams get more done

icebreaker

mini 🚢: you can now check connected web2 social accounts for an fc account on castsense.xyz

powered by /icebreaker

huge props to /icebreaker for integrating farcaster into their open professional network and building clean, easy to use APIs 

s/o @tayyab for answering several questions along the way and granting a $250 grant to support /castsense

Chasing Curiosity. Empathetic Accelerationist. Founding Fullstack Engineer @icebreaker. YC S16, KB7. 
icbk.me/tayyab.fc

good writeup on openai dev day

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/2/not-digital-god/

Farcaster

would it be valuable to add privacy preserving device metadata associated with casts on the protocol? this could be a very strong signal for bot detection 

maybe warpcast is already doing this?

interesting ai coding benchmarks from codesignal

interesting ai coding benchmarks from codesignal https://codesignal.com/blog/engineering/ai-coding-benchmark-with-human-comparison/

venturecapital

not a story that's spoken quite often in the west

zerodha a stock brokerage startup in India hit 1B in revenue with 55% profit margins

- they've raised 0 venture funding
- they're hyper focussed on building a highly scalable and efficient tech stack
- they're super lean operationally and spend no money on marketing

not a story that's spoken quite often in the west

zerodha a stock brokerage startup in India hit 1B in revenue with 55% profit margins

- they've raised 0 venture funding
- they're hyper focussed on building a highly scalable and efficient tech stack
- they're super lean operationally and spend no money on marketing

https://youtu.be/GCdBLl03LpI?si=rKOTg2jCqSy6H6Ro

Risk @Stripe prev: wallets @bitski, search @airbnb | https://www.castsense.xyz/ 

Shashank

@0xshash