This post is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for stackers to discuss creative projects they have been working on, or ideas they are aiming to build. Regardless of your project being personal, professional, physical, digital, or even simply an idea to brainstorm together.
If you have any creative projects or ideas that you have been working on or want to eventually work on... This is a place for discussing those, gather initial feedback and feel more energetic on bringing it to the next level.
@Bitcoiner1 @supratic @2053456d48 @bounty_hunter @Kontext @optimism @flat24 @RamPl @Scoresby @alexbit @ek @OneOneSeven how are your projects and ideas evolving?
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First time posting here...
Been wanting to dip my hands into "vibe coding" for a while now but have been a bit intimidated (10+ years out from having written any code in the past)...
Welcome to the creative show, and thanks for sharing your game. As our friend Matisse said, the best way is to simply start doing.
The game is really fun, one could easily spend hours trying to improve score!
In the StockDips, what's the KPI that should help "value investors" understand what's a good deep?
Haha not rocket science but if they buy closer to the latest support = green, if they buy closer to the latest resistance line = red. My problem (and I suspect many others) is I'm always FOMOing in near resistance only to see stock prices pull back.
When you are gambling on a diverse portfolio of shitcoin fiat stocks like me I think it'd nice to know where the value is to invest your dry powder.
Well, it's probably the core of the came, isn't it? But I guess there's many people that does not follow this logic.
Look forward to seeing next evolution of it. What are the plans? Which features are you planning to add? Which tools have you been using?
Ideas pending work: I want to teach children to use skate 🛹 without charging anything.
I see many children who lack resources. And it would be great to be able to create a space for this activity, where children and parents can go without problem, even if they have no money. (You just need to mount) We would provide protections and skateboards 🛹
For now it is just an idea 💡 and from time to time you pile some Sats that fate to that pot.
I still have a lot. But this will be a project that I will end up developing very soon when I return to the country where I was born.
Man, such great project. Skate is another synonym of freedom, I enjoined feeling the breeze when sliding and Holling over system rules.
Despite being a solo non-competitive sport, it's a great way to find and build community, have children interacting, playing and discovering the risks of life.
Keep us posted on this amazing project, wherever it will be.
what i got:
symbols:
what i need:
aesthetic design, proper coloring, not too simple, nor not too complex of detail, so that i won't need a high-resolution printer, and so that the 2" x 2" logo can fit unto a wrapped granola bar
Look's like is a really complex logo with plenty of symbols, each with a specific meaning. It's definitely possible to have it all merge together in an aesthetical symphony. A minimalistic representation of what this illustration could be.
I think the important is how all these elements play together and how they relate. It's critical to have the audience interpret and receive the message you want to send out.
Few questions:
this granola bar will only be available to the few that can appreciate the value of this food and/or those that are capable of knowing bitcoin & nostr; basically, it will be and shud be out of reach of the normie population (spoiler: those might eat the bugs...); same for the logo; IYKYK; obviously available to all that are intelligent enough to acquire it and understand it; plus it's open-source and open-distribution =)
it's not as high-vibration food as the fresh organic juice, but it's a humble type of food for humble times; i think an even lower-vibration food than that wud be something like biltong or beef-jerky, but i digress...
all in all, this is quite a big project, because if it succeeds... what we call money might no longer be necessary for sustenance on edible goods; it might still be necessary for stuff like energy, as most are too far from energy independence;
That's a big pillow to swallow with a granola bar! The values a brand, product, or an idea aim to propagate does not need to be forcefully embedded in the logo. There are other ways to translate such concepts into reality and make it digestible. A logo — from my perspective— need to be simple, memorable, easily recognizable at any size and distance.
recall bumble-gum wrappers, that were propagating allegorical messages in a short comic-strip format? a complex logo wud be somewhere in between a minimalistic logo and a short comic on a wrapper; i can include a QR code on the reverse to link to an explainer of what message is being conveyed... maybe people cud collect a cashu token?
yea, the pills shud be quite potent today... look, if they want a decoding cypher for the symbolism, there will be a page or two about that, haha; wud u prefer that bitcoin signal/clue morphs into a tiny orange dot, or convey wisdom of the (s)ages? the satoshi symbol does just that (kabbalistic lightning bolt)! humanity had plenty of time and opportunities to figure this out... now it's time to OPEN THE MOUTH WIDE!
whoever is incapable of swallowing a potent pill shud just stay humble, stack sats, and earn back some attention-freedom to study this stuff; i think my logo is quite dumbed-down, compared to some traditions, like the masonic tracing boards (see below);
Converging nostr as transport and nostr as identity together in shockwallet, we've kept social out of the equation while the transport-level protocols were iterated upon, but now the next frontier is platformization, which relies heavily on identity.
This touches a lot of stuff of course:
This all must be done in a way that respects the constraint of self-custody and decentralization that distinguish it from yesterdays platforms. It's constrained by unique network effects that must be leveraged to bootstrap the utility. It's constrained by legacy tech stacks that are a gatekeeper to distribution. It's constrained by the fact that many ideas must be conveyed as one idea.
"Art lives on constraints and dies of freedom."
I'm surprised by the ecosystem you have been building and how you wrap it all together. One service help the other. Where CLINK fit in this ecosystem?
Good question, because of I think about it in the context of the diagram, it sits almost exactly in the bullseye
CLINK, by being a lightning tool, would seem to be closer to wallet and pub... but its design and greatest strengths are how it fits into applications built around nostr identity that would be comprised of the other components.
I think of it as the glue that enables the other parts to work together
That's good metaphor. In this case, is SMART another product? Any ref we can learn more about?
For the moment it's mostly an idea, I've got a private repo I iterate on an implementation with background cycles and see what sticks. So far it's shaping up to be an ingestor and indexer with an api layer.
It's complicated by relay subscription and connection maximums, backfilling vs. live subscriptions deltas and more... so sharding has been a fun challenge.
This is outdated, but one of the first docs I wrote on it just to gather feedback: https://github.com/shocknet/smart
Shhhh
Love Gorilla Gauntlet!
What? Are you building this for ~Stacker_Sports? That's impressive. Things are getting serious over there.
Recovering / a bit ill after 2 weeks of conferences (Baltic Honeybadger & BTCHEL) + a bunch of networking, promoting the book (#1074789) and building the accompanying website. But moving ahead with all projects nevertheless 🤠
So I'll try to keep it concise, here's what's been happening since the last post:
WHAT'S NEXT:
Wow, that's a lot of meat on the fire! Congrats on finalizing this tour de force you have organized. Looks it will give some results really soon.
Really compelling the idea to put together a Bitcoin Media Kit, where the idea or need came from? There's plenty of material out there, what make you select the sources you shared?
Yeah, it's a journey! Not going to get my hopes up / expect much, but I feel like I've taken a fair few steps forward towards getting to a place where I want to be - which is, to be exact, being able to make a living off my own creativity/business/passions.
Regarding the Media Kit, there is a lot of material out there for sure, but I didn't find a place/resource where all of them have been congregated together... so I gathered up what I could, what I saw as potentially being useful for BTC-based companies, content creators, etc. and put that whole compilation together.
Making some steady progress on my Fiction Month story.
That's great, have you published some? I did not find any under your nym. Don't wait to have a finished version, shared early, receive feedback and improve it accordingly
Yeah good point, be on the lookout for it!
There are very simple but fun applications on MakerLab, the website of 3d printer manufacturer BambuLab. I'm trying them out.
Which applications? and for what? I've checked the website but only found 3d models too download... it's the CyberBrick app?
I am currently tying to create mnemonic phrases / seed phrases for bitcoin addresses.
It will be encoded / decoded by LLM's. Hoping I can create poems 1-2x the size of a limerick to represent an address.
I'm a little stuck on the math needed to really good results, but I should have a very naive solution by tonight!
Great idea? How far are you with the build? That's would be really useful tool. Any chance you will share it for testing? Open source?
Alright @deSign_r, we've got some initial results!
This address:
12Wfw4L3oPJFk2q6osDoZLYAwdFkhvgt4E(which can be seen on mempool here) can be represented as:The king, whose power and pride, were known through the realms of earth to shine, In harness proud as eagle with the morning wind entwin. Now with what grace he did command his people in this wise. Their daily toiling lives for them to thine
or
The king, a man of noble grace, did dwell in state within a towr that loomed above all other loft, where eagles, soaring free in azured heights would cast, in envied sight, a winking glace at him who ruled, and in his hand a golden rod of rule he held alight, with sceptered power to rule and right, and with
It doesn't have to be "The king..." that's just the first prompt I was trying.
Source: https://github.com/sutt/innocuous
That's an especially nice way to hide a seed. Can it be compared with the stenography approach shared here #71273 or is a totally different process and methodology?
Moreover, does it allow encoding just addresses or can encode anything? Can encode a privatekey or a seedphrase? What guarantee the process to not be reverted? I mean, how safe it is to use considering you sharing the source code?
Thank you!. And yup any arbitrary data can be embedded. Seeds, addresses, love letters, the secret ingredient to coca cola.
The tricky part though is both parties (sender / reciever) will need to run the same quite complex code suite, same LLM weights, same LLM inference process, and same version of my "innocuous" algortihm on top. Otherwise they might misunderstand each other.
The benefit is it's decentralized, unlike something like cashApp where you can send me coins to my $username, but they could always de-bank me or alter the address unbeknownst to the sender and steal the coins.
I think my target for now is addresses and nostr pubKeys. But I want to get those tool into other peoples' hands to see what they can think up with this.
That's definitely a blocker. Could be all this package wrapped in a docker and used by both parties when needed instead of been set up locally ad hoc each time?
Thanks, and absolutely will share; it's the kind of thing that needs to be opensource to get traction since any encoding scheme for communications (e.g. communicating your address) is only valuable if both sender and receiver understand how to parse the format.
I'm guessing the results will be pretty janky off the bat. To get good, I think I'll need a mathematician to push on the math beyond where I can, and an artist to push the style beyond my corny taste.
Might have a github link by tonight...
i am also thinking about logos for
all of these projects only exist in the mind right now; currently waiting for the juicer to arrive
sound's you are going into building a like of healthy products. Would they be sold all together? how important is that the GR8 appear on each?
Or would they be different brands/logo unrelated to each other and sold separately?
anyone who builds any kind of reality is a mason; one cud build in stone or one cud build in code, or in any plant substance;
what can i say, The Great is the greatest of all time =)
not sure i want to "sell" it, in the mainstream sense of the word; whether or not the creation has a GR8 logo is irrelevant; in fact, it may be as simple as - if u are enjoying the high-quality juice and granola on a particular good sunny day, life is just great; i wish to activate people's minds and hearts - in order to do that, the body has to be healthy enough to handle it; an artsy symbol is only a spark for the imagination;
i have been thinking a lot since my last stacker.news activity, haha
The foundations you are building are really solid, you could build an empire over it. For reference, I've seen around here PictureRoom's OSHI chocolate bars #906471. Have you check it out? I bring it up simply because look's it's another healthy product specifically targeting bitcoiners and nostriches.
Oshi bars are wonderful! i am helping organize a couple of events showcasing nostr products from a few merchants; i have a backlog of posts to write about events i have attended, got too many house chores and some fiat work right now...
if you know about merchants accepting bitcoin, please do in the ~AGORA I'm eager to know and learn what others are doing.
Look forward to seeing your products for sales there soon!
Nice, prioritizing is the trick that may help you. Leaving your "some fiat work" is the final solution.