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crypto social product studio. relaunching soon @spotlight

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the plan: - relaunch studio - drop something novel and mindbending - drop something novel and mindbending

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Some people venture to the frontier, only to settle at the outpost. The mixed scent of opportunity and danger is energizing, even if they never realize their ambition. They tell themselves they’re just waiting for the right opening and maybe they are. But while those who play it safe come up empty-handed, they suffer the same social verdict in the eyes of the cultural majority. If you opt out of the dominant framework, you either have something to hide or you just couldn’t cut it – or so the thinking goes. After all, most of us are motivated by profit. And without the moral ornamentation of old worlds, the crudeness of profit is laid bare. ___ Read the rest on X: https://x.com/mjayceee/status/1980343569312251924 👏🙏 Any boost is appreciated

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https://x.com/viaspotlight

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Spotlight studio relaunch is getting closer. Once we relaunch the studio, we'll turn focus to the first drop. Figured out a bunch of things over the last 2 years building in consumer crypto and excited to pull it all together

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some truths about building in crypto social - dropping a project without a token launch dooms it to failure - even with a token launch, attention spans are very short - this structural ephemerality creates some poor incentives we've been building Spotlight - a social product studio - for over a year and have learned some lessons about how to build products in this space we're relaunching the studio shortly with some of these lessons and some new solutions baked in to our approach more soon

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designing a revamp of spotlight's cap structure feeling like john malone

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over the last month or so, i've started to develop a vision for how to structure the studio been building in consumer crypto for close to two years now, on this app and the other one the many experiments we've launched have had varying degrees of success, ranging from dominating the feed for several days to having literally zero users i didn't pay to use it the drops have felt a bit scattershot, with some common themes but no unifying identity or economics fortunately and hopefully, i think i've finally figured out how to consolidate our cap structure and build the #flywheel of our dreams more soon

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what are people’s favorite AI tools for designing websites (not apps)? redesigning the Spotlight website

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@tinyrainboot’s feed is a goddamn treasure https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/Z77dSkB2n8FJ/feeds/0xd92974b21fb6f7ee251b2f76493e81809c2e3173

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another morning waking up to people curating they feeds

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Regrouping on current priorities Excited for new slate of releases

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Just sent out prizes for this, congrats to the winners (tagged below) Some thoughts on Riddle's first exposure to the feed The top responses mostly sound formulaic in the style we've come to expect from LLM answers, but at least half of them have a clear human touch or influence. In some sense, this was a prompting + editing competition as much as an original writing competition. Sounds pretty inline with where we're going as a species On the scoring + rewards front, once we nixed copycat answers and answers from accounts with ~0 followers or original content, the system actually works pretty well At least 8/10 of the winners are authentic accounts! It was a really effective experiment for me in understanding where to take Riddle. Got a lot of good ideas and the vision is evolving Congrats @cronnkite.eth @bubbless @dummie.eth @edia33 @odogwupete @nativefun @dee1na @patoski @dazedaisy @rubyfox

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we're going to nix the copycats from the leaderboard. just not gonna broadcast it that loudly b/c better to let them use a known strategy and catch it easily later

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Respond to the cast to help us fine-tune the agent's model!

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Procoin: State of the Project 🚆 🚆 - Curation: Feeds is absolutely humming. Even in the summer content swoon, our curators are crawling the timeline for the best content and producing highly engaging content feeds - Token: $PRO is steadily climbing. No major moves recently, but a strong base of holders and believers ready for the market to take notice of what we're doing - Miniapp: Features are being added every day. Curators are pulling features and improvements out of us constantly. The hard work is being done - Incentives: We're in the process of figuring out how to construct our mega-incentives program. It needs to encourage sustainable growth behavior across curators, traders, and content consumers - L2: The vision to realize the @Procoin Curation Protocol as a Farcaster L2 is developing before our eyes. We are aggregating content on the base layer for consumption in miniapps and clients. Slowly and surely - Agentic Curators: The system already works with AI agent curators, but we are still researching the best way to build this functionality in a way that encourages high quality curation - Attention Generation: We are working on a new in-feed utility designed to drive attention to Feeds and highlight curatorial work. Generating sustainable attention is always a challenging game and it's a necessity to keep on attacking this problem in creative ways

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