Justin Hunter

@polluterofminds

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When Steve and I started orbiter.host, there were two things we wanted to focus on: 1. Playing in a validated market. 2. Using /pinata for all our IPFS needs. We did exactly those things even if point 1 means dealing with heavy competition. I think we have some nice advantages that will grow over time though.

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Closing in on 200 sites deployed on Orbiter and 300 users all time. We've blown past 1500 deployments already. Love to see it 💪

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Open source AI crawler analytics designed to help companies improve their presence with LLMs. This is what I have been calling AI Optimization and I think it's really smart. Nice work, @builderszn.eth https://www.essio.ai/

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just tipped my favorite farcasters! thank you @stevedylandev.eth @deodad @iammatthias @metaend.eth @jpfraneto.eth @jrh3k5.eth for being here :)

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SEO on ChatGPT is actually a long-tail result of traditional SEO which Pinata invested in heavily. This positioned us well for AIO (AI Optimization). Here are our referral sources for sign ups.

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What happens when you let the head of product do email marketing.

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This beta test would have netted me $10 if it were real, which would have covered the day's cost. But that's not guaranteed. So cost mitigation is important. Input was almost twice as expensive as output because this game makes heavy use of RAG. If anyone has tips, send them my way. Eventually, I will be releasing this game to all of Farcaster and I want to be smart about it.

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Yesterday's beta test of Parallax cost me $1.23 while using the Haiku model to cut costs and with only about 3-4 active players. It will be important for me to refine this because even though the game has a built-in monetization layer, this will add up quickly.

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I have so many thoughts about this, some of them conflicting enough that I should write a blog post to straighten them out. But at the end of the day, it sounds like Inkitt is exploiting new authors. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-ai-romance-factory/

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Kind of feel like I channeled July with this response.

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Tailscale now valued at $1.5 billion. Great product, great experience. In a better market, they’d be on their way to IPO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-08/toronto-s-tailscale-hits-1-5-billion-valuation-with-new-funding

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My mini app stack: - React Vite, hosted on Orbiter - Backend, if needed, Hono on Cloudflare workers - If I need a longer running process than a serverless function can support, the backend goes on Railway

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I was anti-tailwind for a long time in its early days until I _actually_ used it. I know CSS very well. Tailwind speeds things up. Frustrations emerge because engineering teams have too much process and many don’t allow custom CSS if you are using a framework. Flexibility > process.

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I understand why this person is so grumpy, but this is probably also the type of engineer who thinks AI is not helpful for coding. https://blog.julik.nl/2025/03/a-little-adventure-in-modern-frontend

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You’re not cool unless you’ve memorized Scruff McGruff’s address.

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“Someone at some point had the bright idea of using the Teletext data stream as a way to transmit software for home computers.” https://newslttrs.com/in-the-1980s-we-also-downloaded-software-from-tv/

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This is a private test, but had this been real, the winner would have made $108 and this is on a small test group. Bullish on improving this and releasing it widely.

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Just ran the first private beta test of my AI-powered mini-app game, Parallax. @iammatthias solved the crime first! Lots of bugs to work out and will need some continued beta testing. Hardest thing for me is lack of testnet support with the Wurplet in mini apps. @deodad I'm going to keep testing on mainnet, but that also means asking the beta testers to spend real gas (which I know is cheap, but still)

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Highly recommend bolt.new if you want to quickly prototype an Expo Project. No configuration needed. Just download Expo go and when you’re done prompting you’ll get a QR code to run the app on your device

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Tumblr’s comeback with Gen Z

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