exploring soulbound tokens i think theres something there

the goal is to build a cathedral not a casino

itm is powering a club chess popup at chess forum to support the city of los angeles next week. come play chess, donate $5 for casual play. itm will be donating all revenue from this event.

Onchain is the new online - FID 206 -  cooprecords.xyz

she used itm.studio for ticketing, waitlistlist, guestlist and event content management for her album release party in nyc (also her first live performance in 5 yrs). the core identity module on itm is built on privy. everyone in her 1500+ audience crm on itm was assigned a embedded wallet. all offchain data for her fans is pushed to the wallet, meaning her team can just use the same privy module in her own apps (website, store, etc) and her fans will be recognized as having gone to the nyc event. that wouldn’t be possible without decentralized infra. event level metadata was pushed and archived on arweave so its always there even if itm shuts down (like mirror and paragraph). no tokens, no connect wallet involved. the experience was memorable and well received by her fans. not full degen but baby steps towards adoption.

got a glowing review in paper magazine. never stop building.

it’s critical for mass web3 products to drive real culture. honored for itm to have been the chosen software provider for the album release event for this.

who are the best investors to have a conversation with about crypto products that arent primarily about tokens

Product

we launched itm.studio this week by powering two nyfw experiences for brands. 2000+ people now have wallets without knowing it. we spent $0 to onboarding these brands. this is the future of consumer crypto. would love to chat with folks on where to take it from here.

really into this nft drop from parker ito - 10k pfp collection redeemable for oil paintings

really into this nft drop from parker ito - 10k pfp collection redeemable for oil paintings https://zien.io/drops/parker-ito-net

we built an experience that demonstrates the future of nfts with our wu tang release - $1 initial entry, a dn404 that is instantly tradeable/swappable across dexs and nft marketplaces, encrypted music onchain, a mint based countdown clock, commissioned hassan rahim to do the nft aftwork etc

we built an experience that demonstrates the future of nfts with our wu tang release - $1 initial entry, a dn404 that is instantly tradeable/swappable across dexs and nft marketplaces, encrypted music onchain, a mint based countdown clock, commissioned hassan rahim to do the nft aftwork etc

https://www.thealbum.com/

Frontend

has anyone here switched from deploying their next app on vercel to doing it on a vm like hetzner using kamal? is it true the costs savings are immense?

http://thealbum.com/nyc is happening this weekend

anyone have a rec for a react native dev shop that can do hardware based stuff too (eg. working with nfc)?

expo devs, whats been your go to for managing staging and production  apps. do you have two apps on testflight, or are you just using internal distribution for staging, and keeping testflight up only for production?

magic vs privy for embedded wallets which one and why

Founders

what are peoples thoughts on subscription models for a new saas oriented business in 2024 that uses AI. is a monthly credits system with pay per use annoying or is it the new paradigm?

Introducing ITM Studio with @camdiamond, together we're building software rooted in answering this question. 

Our first product will be an experiences platform for the future, and I'm excited about the underlying tech we've been iterating on in the fields of decentralized identity, personalized AI, and NFC tech

Music

anyone using powersync in a production capacity? if so how do you feel about it?

cofounder itm.studio, a platform for the experience economy. tech at pleasr.org. 

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