My month long visit to the US is coming to an end. Sina and Heather from zeitgeist.xyz invited me here so that I could start to build a decentralized Hacker News

Today, in Brooklyn, we had the demo day and so here's a thread of my slides (3min talk, recording later). 

Kiwi News! 🧵 https://i.imgur.com/6s5idWV.png

Founder /kiwi-news, a decentralized Hacker News

I'm a writer and freelancer (dev), so ever since landing a viral post in HN, I noticed that potential customers reach out via emails for new jobs (contracting).

Over the last years, whenever I needed to acquire more customers, I published a new post and hence had a pretty steady income. https://i.imgur.com/snLTiYV.jpg

Contrarily, by using Farcaster during my visit, I met tons of cool people (e.g. at ETHDenver). 
And FC's architecture inspired me.

I though: "Using Patricia Merkle Tries for Set Reconciliation? That could allow me to build a credible neutral HN!" https://i.imgur.com/DohbwwO.jpg

And so that's what I've been doing the entire month and here's a demo video on Loom

https://www.loom.com/share/ec8055547ba84f418c4415acd103ccf8

My trip to the 🇺🇸 is now sadly coming to an end :(

BUT I HAD A BLAST HERE! Thank you to all of you that came out to meet, host, or talk to me <3 You are amazing!

I'll continue to work on this project: I have a real need that I'm solving. So stay tuned!

But becoming reliant on HN, I've noticed that their community isn't a great fit as my audience. They hate crypto devs!

And furthermore, their mods are biased too! E.g. when they renamed my spicily titled post "The AI Crowd is Mad" to milque-toast "LLM discourse needs more nuance." https://i.imgur.com/6o0O4PV.png