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Overall, a great take. I don't fully agree with the perception of Neynar trying to right the course – this judgment feels clouded by the fact they personally worked with him (a protocol-first approach would have had an open discussion, and when they had something like this, in the form of an FIP – they disregarded all objections that were based on grounds of neutrality, security, and equal footing for implementation and shipped it anyway), but I can understand where he's coming from. I'd also disagree that there's any willingness to work with the hypersnap team – it took them lying about the current state of client integrations with hypersnap on the last dev call and me coming immediately with receipts for them to back down and agree to at least work on a testnet approach, however, this was words, and their actions have been literally none. They have not reached out to us to set this up, and frankly, I don't believe they will. I'm not going to work with a team that only moves the needle towards neutrality when they're caught in a lie – they have to actually push forward on this themselves. There's also an undercurrent that others simply aren't aware of. We've worked together before farcaster, at least, some members of the neynar leadership have, at Coinbase. This obstructionist behavior couched in cooperative words is something I'm very familiar with, it's why I was prepared to have receipts at the ready. I hate corporate politics and have zero room for it. No matter what though, I will at least affirm, regardless of what Neynar does: I'm committed to seeing farcaster succeed. I wouldn't have been willing to put time into this by joining Merkle in the prior days, and continued even after they went into a quiet period or after they dissolved.
Good morning, everyone! I want to start today by wishing a happy birthday to one of my best friends in this space. Someone with a kind heart and a truly great friend. Happy Birthday, my friend! 🎉🎂 Wishing you all the best, happiness, success, and everything you deserve❤️🎈
good morning everyone, today is my birthday. 28 this is my first birthday spent abroad. i never used to celebrate it back in turkey either, i don't know why, i just don't like it. but here, there's still a small sadness inside me. i like being alone on my birthdays. actually i generally like being alone. i know there are a lot of people around me who love me and support me. this is more about my character. last year was so up and down, so hard, that sometimes i feel like i've gone back to zero. but i know that's not true, experiences i've gained are priceless. around this time last year, we launched inflynce's (my first startup) marketing feature live on farcaster. we grew organically, with no one's support and won base onchain summer award. i worked day and night. i was obsessed with mindshare algorithm. even while sleeping, i was thinking about how to make it better. then we got selected for base batch 002 and i flew to argentina. 18.5 hours of travel, jetlag that hit me to core. i met so many valuable people there, but things didn't go as we hoped, we couldn't raise. then global news that followed hit our work directly. we watched for a few months, demand was dropping, costs were rising. on april 6th, we decided to shut down. outside of inflynce, my main income came from consulting: product, growth, user acquisition. i worked with more than 10 projects. some were web2, working with them is really hard, hierarchy is so rigid that even a simple decision takes weeks. one project came through a friend. they wanted a scoring system similar to inflynce, but based on onchain data. we agreed. i turned boss's abstract ideas into a real project: papers, market research, runway calculations, onchain details of algorithm. i got paid for a long time, no lie. then in february, without knowing that month's salary wouldn't come and that "friend" would suddenly ghost me, i had already moved to asia. my first stop was thailand, i had some friends here, i thought starting from a familiar place would feel better and safe. i still don't have a clear idea of what happened. i don't like working with immature people, people with no work ethic. i don't want to generalize, but truth is, very few people have real work ethic. this situation broke all my plans. i started looking for work, but right around then, layoffs blamed on "ai" had already begun. finding a job was nearly impossible. i had to do something. my money was running low. i found some staked tokens i'd forgotten about in my wallet and got by with that. after staying in thailand for a month, i moved to vietnam. da nang gave me so much peace that i started discovering myself. i saw how stressed i was, how much western anxiety i carried. i realized i couldn't tolerate slowness. i had a friend group there. tuesdays and thursdays we played pickleball, every two weeks we went hiking. in vietnam i rented a motorbike and rode around rice fields of hoi an for an hour. at one point i stopped, looked around and cried, hard, for no reason. i still don't know why, but it felt really good. after vietnam, i went back to thailand because i found a cheap place. when my visa runs out, in a month, i'm planning to go back to vietnam and stay for a long while. during this process i applied to more than 80 jobs. most were rejections, rest no response at all. i showed my cv to a recruiter friend, he suggested small fixes and said: "problem isn't your resume, market is just really bad right now.". then i told people close to me i was looking for work and found a client through that. not everything is how it looks on social media. most nomads aren't living "happily ever after." waking up to unknown every morning isn't for everyone. things might not go as you plan. this year became year i started discovering myself. things i've realized since moving to asia: - i'm a materialist person - i don't know how to stop - i can't slow down - i grew up in chaos - many of the people i called friends turned out to be talking to me only for their own benefit - i'm constantly doing things for other people - i put so much effort into making others happy - i can't stay in the moment - i constantly carry tomorrow's anxiety - i'm not aware of what i already have - i don't thank myself for things i've accomplished - i'm cruel to myself what i expect from myself this year: - to slow down - to prioritize myself - to value what i have - to stay in the moment and let it flow if you've read this far, thank you. i just wanted to share what i've been going through. and my job search is still ongoing. if you're looking for someone in product management, product marketing, or growth -or know someone who is- feel free to dm me. time passes quickly. what's left behind are the moments we collect. let's enjoy it (:
The amount of alpha I got in this thread was astonishing. Farcaster cozy corners are unmatched.
ran into an AWS issue during this scheduled maintenance that kept the Neynar APIs down for longer than expected. everything should be back to normal now, let us know if anything isn't behaving. https://farcaster.xyz/manan/0x6cb9fcd8
seems like all the lego blocks exist for e.g. a token-governed self-funding fully autonomous software entity, but nobody is putting them together. very bearish!
I’m saddened to see these products sunset but I’m very proud of the team and all they’ve accomplished. They took a shot at making a channels first client, built an amazing set of channel moderation and engagement tools, and launched tons of experiments with the community including channel tokens. I will 1000% support anything they do next and can’t wait for the next adventure.
Farcaster might just be a network sustained by stubbornness. https://open.substack.com/pub/nickysap/p/the-deadlock-keeping-farcaster-alive?r=3rdngu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
gm folks - my partner @riderway.eth and I are looking for contract work. combined 30+ yr experience in crypto/software. built /cobuild /flows and a few other solid products over the last few years. if you know anyone that needs a protocol, a kickass AI platform, or anything in between built, my DMs are open!