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Michael Gingras (lilfrog)

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“But when services shift from commodity to premium product, they introduce friction. Rent-seeking models pile on cost and scrutiny, which kills exploration before it starts.” With crypto dev I feel like pain most acutely with indexing + RPC providers. I set up an indexer for a base sepolia project and just calling eth_getBlockByNumber constantly to support the indexer exceeds alchemy free plan and the next tier is 200 dollars. The exploration is killed before it starts. I can’t afford to pay 200 a month just to host a dumb little app that I don’t yet know anyone will care about https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1P3cnIP6DFP46ZPMDSDQbYar3e9i8fTrnjltw7a2V3Cs/mobilebasic
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One for @jstn’s interfaces channel Video game UIs are under-appreciated imo https://interfaceingame.com/
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The artwork coming out of basepaint recently is incredible. Such an amazing project
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Warren buffet was a real one for his IC important certificate idea — pretty crypto flavored idea imo, programmable money would make a program like that feasible without as much coordination effort
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how it feels to be terminally online
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beep beep I love onchain art
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I've been thinking about this more Dan's product led protocol development feels related. "Users don’t use protocols, they use apps. Build the first app that is high quality enough to attract qDAU" --> loot did not have this (although that was sort of the point I guess) "if you build it, they will come”. Can’t expect others to spend the time and effort to build high quality products if you’re not willing to do it yourself." --> I wouldn't say Dom was unwilling to build a product on top of loot, but it goes to show that without the initial catalyst of a compelling experience it's for an "extensible, build anything" system to win https://danromero.org/product-led-protocols.html
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I want to believe this is true but am not 100% convinced. Loot had an incredible energy to it and many auxiliary experiences were indeed built on top of loot. Perhaps AI and vibe coding of today could have made the loot experiences 100x more plentiful but 1. Would they have been good? 100x means lack of cohesion, but also 100x more shots on goal which is a positive 2. I’m not yet sure if it’s possible to build just the base of an extensible system and expect it to turn into something people love vs creating something people love then making it extensible so people can continue to love the thing they already love in new ways. This is a depressing thought though because it means loot can never work
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from Sam Lessin's newsletter -- does anyone know what "Jet-A" is? The last piece about sponsoring athletes sounds nouns / gnars coded but I legit can't find anything on the token itself
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thinkin about this from @4156 I can't remember a time when the revenue was ever saved are we doomed to be stuck at the scale of skateparks? Is this bad?
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https://x.com/cpaik/status/1905234084642640004
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style transfer is cool until everyone knows how to do it, then it will be distinctly uncool. I don't make the rules
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Big shift on this new image model thing seems to be that you don’t need to be good at prompting anymore. “Make it like this” works well now
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has anyone figured out how to get base paymaster to work? the docs are outdated unfortunately and I'm struggling hard :-(
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5gram just hit 100 nouns 🤯
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It's killing me how crypto flavored this idea is, need to write more on this in a bit (crypto flavored in the sense that open, permissionless access to data created under a shared standard is great and powerful) https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/1810442615264796864
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Anyone want to beta test my new thing?
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just setting up my nom
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I see this and am instantly exhausted by the thought of needing to care about warming tik tok accounts to market better I get why you’d do it but man, just feels so insanely pointless to spend life doing something like this idk https://x.com/0xSVG/status/1903585573358751941
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https://forum.superfluid.org/ using discourse as your governance forum is criminal -- someone get these guys on Agora asap
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