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If you missed last week's thread, here are the updates SN users shared from all their latest work projects.
2555 sats \ 1 reply \ @0x32e 18 Jan 2023
I built a semantic search engine for The Kevin Rooke Show: https://maikuro-search.vercel.app
Tech stacks:
  • Nextjs
  • Tailwind
  • OpenAI (embedding API)
  • Pinecone (to store vector data)
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this is dope!
down to chat more about it?
feel free to dm me on twitter
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I have zero technical expertise and work in a completely unrelated field but have successfully orangepilled several people deep in the bear market.
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Impressive. What was your strategy and how did you deal with the pushback?
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Slow and steady. Use lots of real world examples of prices inflating and quality of life dropping. Discuss housing prices and how the fed directly controls market prices through interest rates. Make people realize they have no control over their destiny since they are at the Fedโ€™s mercy, unless they opt out into a money the Fed cannot tinker with. Slow and steady.
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Shipped a new Wavlake. Now have to fix a bunch of stuff ๐Ÿ™‚
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LNbits FAQ page documentation
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Unfortunately for me, less building and more business / startup things. I truly am amazed by @k00b being so versatile in both dev and startups with such a small team. How do you find the time to code? :'(
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The secret is to just rip off the business bandaid, show up for it whenever necessary, then switch back to building as soon as you can. Spend the minimally viable amount of time there.
I eventually learned to batch meetings. They're maybe slightly less productive batched, but way more focus-efficient.
It also helps to admit to people exactly where you are with stuff. "I have no idea what I'm doing ... it's my first time" - I said to every pre-seed investor, to my accountant, to the designers I've contracted. If they are trustworthy, they'll fill you in and help you along. If they try to take advantage of you, cut them out.
It allows you prep minimally - mostly just understanding what someone abusing you in a certain context looks like - then showing up and paying attention.
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How do you solve the whole admin side? creating a company, taxes, payroll, etc?, just paying someone to do all of that?
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Oh there's lot of great tooling now for creating a company (angellist stack, stripe atlas, etc etc) and doing payroll (gusto). I'm paying corporate taxes for the first time and hired an accountant. Although it seems there's no easy solve for bookkeeping/labelling expenses - only I know what I spent the money on. I had a lawyer create an option pool.
Most of this legal business stuff is the worst though. Governments have terrible UX, but its bad enough industries have formed to make it easier.
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Reading through Michael Saylor's first interview with Robert Breedlove on the What Is Money show.
We will be summarizing that 16.8k word piece into just 467 words.
Also working on editing/polishing and posting another summary right now.
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Working on the stability pool and Mynt converter sections of the new Sovryn web app. Published an early preview blog post here to get design feedback.
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Creating content about Bitcoin and uploading it to my Geyser profile.
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Finishing the second half of Mastering the Lightning Network โšก
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Adding text-to-speech and in-app purchases to AI Assistant - ChatGPT3 Android App. Have been having trouble connecting with Google Subscriptions, so have decided to go with consumables instead.
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I just finished a new video about Liquid Network, it will be release in my Youtube Channel next week.
After learning about L-BTC, I couldn't find a good use case from my point of view.
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Testing ground for new OP-codes?
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Dank memes and trying to understand the PaytoIO BY SATOSHKEY.
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I'm working on myself.
Recently started tracking my habits, and it's night and day. When you start measuring things, you can improve a lot, much faster.
Here's the app I'm using if anyone is interested(open source):
Loop Habit Tracker, a mobile app for creating and maintaining long-term positive habits
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Looks nice, will try! My sleeping habits got really bad ...
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this weekend iโ€™ll be building some charts on Stack Sats using the chart.js library to display some of the lightning data iโ€™ve been collecting.
the best part? i donโ€™t even know javascript ๐Ÿ˜‚
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Working on creative projects in the digital space
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Yesterday I implemented slashtags auth and will probably ship that today.
Just finished up implementing slashtags auth. Overall pretty good experience. Took a solid day of work - most of which was spent trying to understand it and then situate it in my code. By comparison it took about a half day to do lnurl-auth.
When you're developing locally, the NAT holepunching is great. The documentation needs work but that's to be expected.
Going to review with fresh eyes tomorrow and deploy, then work on Open Timestamps.
Going to try to get Open Timestamps done today.
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So many auths...
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I know!
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Have you looked into Passkeys/Webauthn at all? It looks really promising but there aren't very clear and consistent ways to implement afaik
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I haven't at all
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Still working on building Hashbranch (https://hashbranch.com) - a marketplace to find quality bitcoin miner hosting companies.
Our mission is to drive growth in the bitcoin mining industry by fostering trust, promoting transparency, and increasing efficiency.
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I'm building a list of events surrounding Quantum Miami (previously TNABC) and the Bitcoin vortex which sandwiches Miami hack week. There has been some interest in a Bitcoin hack house but no definitive deals.
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Was trying to connect https://github.com/fiatjaf/bridgeaddr with LNbits, but for some reason it is not functional. Not sure why.
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Close to landing an end to end working version of lightning gateways. Software to route payments on behalf of Fedimints.
Let's go!
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I've started putting together a demo music CD to hand out at Chillderburg. I really want to include sheet music on the CD, but music software won't do what I need. I've started working with someone to remedy that.
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soo much at times can feel overwhelming but am ready to start setting up a new operation will announce once it is built ! Excited to be opening up the bitcoin ecosystem down here in the great state of Tejas!
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Still working on paper wallet generator. C#, NBitcoin and Xamarin.
Learning...
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I'm in the middle of a lengthy interview process for a think tank job.
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Sadly im stuck at my 9/5 job.
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