Chris Carella

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Every Scout Game partner campaign teaches us something new. GoodDollar showed us UBI incentives work. Divvi proved impact measurement scales. Celo confirmed ecosystems will pay for quality contributions. The pattern: developers want to build, protocols want to grow. We just connected the dots.

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Chris Carella

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Lots of feels being in NYC. She’s like a main character in your life. Like the girlfriend you still think about.

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Minimal use of phone this week, has enhanced my mood and has me rethinking being terminally online.

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The boy likes the bitcoin

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As an consumer internet entrepreneur, crypto is maybe the easiest industry to earn 6 figures, not from your users, because there aren’t many, but because you are so close to the activities onchain that you can catch a couple of memecoins. It’s maybe the hardest place to exit for > 7+ figures because there are no customers and very few acquirers. There is big money in defi and infra and you love to see teams like Privy crush it. You can also make money if you have (tons) of money ie USDC. You can also catch a wave of speculation like Friend Tech or Pump.

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Many such cases.

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We built Scout Game because grants don't scale and retroactive funding comes too late.

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Maybe not what you think of when you think of New York.

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Most "open source" projects aren't really open. They're public code repositories with closed contributor circles. Real open source is when strangers can show up, contribute meaningfully, and get recognized for it. Everything else is just free-to-view code. You can check out all the repos that accept outside contributors via Scout Game.

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Chris Carella

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NYC grows and change like a person. I’ve seen 3 major changes. Pre-911. Illegal Raves! Hip Hop! Small businesses. Shitty coffee in those blue Greek paper cups. Post-911. A giant mall. Insane wealth. “Raves” are actually just clubs you pay money to get into. You pretend you are edgy but it’s the safest place in the told. Brooklyn was cool actually. Businesses and famous chefs funded by private equity. Incredible coffee. It all sounds uncool but practicality is was the best time to live there. Post-Pandemic. This is just shaking out, so I don’t dare to comment yet. But a major revival. Old things gone. New things in. People too. Housing so expensive it doesn’t make sense, coffee too.

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@meritsystems is amazing. @tipdotmd is amazing. Getting paid to build OSS without corporate control is amazing.

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Once a New Yorker always a New Yorker. Whenever we read news about NY we talk about moving back to Miami or maybe this time to Houston but whenever we visit NY we both know deep inside this is where we will return too.

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Plans for NYC… not much, my wife lived in NYC for more than 10 years, I lived there much longer. My daughter is old enough to get it, so we are just going to chill in our favorite neighborhoods (West Village / Meatpacking) and show her all our favorite places. She was born in NY but doesn’t remember it but tells everyone she meets that she’s a New Yorker (she’s 5). 😂

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Since I haven’t been using my phone (besides the one-off cast), I walked into a bagel place this morning and saw that the Senate passed OBBO on the front page of a newspaper. It felt like transporting through time.

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When you visit the States

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I’m on honest to god vacation this week. Minimal phone. Maximal attention to kids.

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One thing I didn't expect with Scout Game: the community forming around watching developers ship code in real-time. Turns out making open source contributions visible and rewarding creates its own social layer.

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Building Scout Game has been wild. Watching devs discover they can actually get paid for the open source work they're already doing feels like we cracked some code. This is how builder incentives should work.

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Something to try with Claude Code.

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Scout Game was created to acknowledge and reward Open Source Developers. A pure mission from a team that loves Open Source. I was talking to the EF about it and they thought it was cool and said they would be interested in tweeting about it when we launched. Then launch day came and they said, oh there is a token. Sorry we won’t tweet it. And then I never heard from them again. That was when I realize much of the criticism about them was valid.

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