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seven months ago i quit crypto.
i'd been in the industry for almost a full decade.
and i'm ashamed to admit it took me this long to notice something about the game i was playing.
there are two kinds of games: games with memory and games without.
in a game with memory, what you did yesterday makes today easier.
in a game without, every day starts from zero.
crypto is a game without memory. i know because measuring that was my job.
i started this account at the bottom of the last bear market with zero followers and grew it to 100k+ in under two years.
i wrote educational pieces and quite a few scam investigations that about 150 million people read.
by any normal measure it worked.
the money was good, and i made connections i could never have made any other way.
but investigating scams teaches you something you can't unlearn.
exposing a scammer has no effect. none.
the people i exposed came back months later with new names and bigger scams.
every market remembers. stocks remember enron;
banks remember 2008.
crypto is the exception. it forgets everything.
it runs on attention, and attention resets every morning.
the scammers were selling it. the influencers were selling it. i was selling it too.
that's what a game without memory does.
nothing bad that happens to you there is permanent, and nothing good you build there is either.
most of what crypto produces is sh*t for exactly that reason (with a few exceptions ofc).
so in december i cancelled six figures of booked promos, closed my company, and quit.
(the r3ach guys unwound every deal without a single complaint. in a market with no memory, i'd like that remembered, GOATs.)
people assumed i'd be back in a month.
instead i spent the last half a year building an app.
i won't say what it is yet, except that it isn't crypto. there's no token. it's a product to improve life of ordinary people, and it's the best thing i've ever made.
a game with memory, finally.
i'm posting this because i'm hiring, and i want to fill them from ct.
ct is what you get when you remove credentials from a labor market: the people who rise have nothing going for them except output. that's exactly who i want.
two roles to start: a creator manager and a creative strategist. part time, remote, anonymous is fine, and i pay properly.
full job listings in the next post.
dms open.
with love, Pix.
i'd been in the industry for almost a full decade.
and i'm ashamed to admit it took me this long to notice something about the game i was playing.
there are two kinds of games: games with memory and games without.
in a game with memory, what you did yesterday makes today easier.
in a game without, every day starts from zero.
crypto is a game without memory. i know because measuring that was my job.
i started this account at the bottom of the last bear market with zero followers and grew it to 100k+ in under two years.
i wrote educational pieces and quite a few scam investigations that about 150 million people read.
by any normal measure it worked.
the money was good, and i made connections i could never have made any other way.
but investigating scams teaches you something you can't unlearn.
exposing a scammer has no effect. none.
the people i exposed came back months later with new names and bigger scams.
every market remembers. stocks remember enron;
banks remember 2008.
crypto is the exception. it forgets everything.
it runs on attention, and attention resets every morning.
the scammers were selling it. the influencers were selling it. i was selling it too.
that's what a game without memory does.
nothing bad that happens to you there is permanent, and nothing good you build there is either.
most of what crypto produces is sh*t for exactly that reason (with a few exceptions ofc).
so in december i cancelled six figures of booked promos, closed my company, and quit.
(the r3ach guys unwound every deal without a single complaint. in a market with no memory, i'd like that remembered, GOATs.)
people assumed i'd be back in a month.
instead i spent the last half a year building an app.
i won't say what it is yet, except that it isn't crypto. there's no token. it's a product to improve life of ordinary people, and it's the best thing i've ever made.
a game with memory, finally.
i'm posting this because i'm hiring, and i want to fill them from ct.
ct is what you get when you remove credentials from a labor market: the people who rise have nothing going for them except output. that's exactly who i want.
two roles to start: a creator manager and a creative strategist. part time, remote, anonymous is fine, and i pay properly.
full job listings in the next post.
dms open.
with love, Pix.
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update: got myself a real roman empire coin
hell yeah
(marcus aurelius btw, to all my stoic friends)
hell yeah
(marcus aurelius btw, to all my stoic friends)
just learned how ancient romans invested their money and it’s insane how little has changed
they basically did three things:
1. they invented venture capital at sea (pecunia traiecticia):
you funded a merchant’s voyage to india. if the ship sank, the debt was wiped and you got back, you earned about 35% in five months.
2. they owned a piece of the empire (societas publicanorum):
rome didn’t collect its own taxes or run its own mines. it auctioned those jobs to private companies, and anyone could buy a stake in one, called a pars.
so a regular roman could own a cut of an entire province’s tax revenue.
polybius wrote that almost everyone in rome was invested, and some historians believe these stakes were traded in the forum, with prices crashing on news of war (sounds familiar?).
3. they ran the first vulture funds:
crassus, the richest man in rome, bought debts nobody could collect for pennies on the dollar.
then he used his political power and private enforcers to collect every cent
the ones who didn’t invest just buried their coins in clay pots.
(that’s why archaeologists still dig up so many roman coins today.)
good reminder not to just sit on your cash
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genuinely jealous of people who lived through decades where nothing happened
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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i swear every week this app has a new end of the world
"stock up on water"
"buy batteries"
"black october"
nothing ever happens
"stock up on water"
"buy batteries"
"black october"
nothing ever happens
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who pays for ads like this?
i've seen at least a dozen in the last week, random photo + vague or no text
this gotta be money laundering or smth, right?
i've seen at least a dozen in the last week, random photo + vague or no text
this gotta be money laundering or smth, right?
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not as I’m halfway moving to cloudflare after Railway fiasco
just can’t catch a break ffs
just can’t catch a break ffs
SITUATION DETECTED: CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” per Reuters.
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just got royally fucked by this
so you're telling me i pay railway every month to keep my secrets safe, and now i have to rotate every single one of them myself
except all deployments are paused, so if i rotate now my app breaks, and if i don't, someone else might have my keys
fml, what's a good alternative to railway?
gotta move before i scale my app any further
so you're telling me i pay railway every month to keep my secrets safe, and now i have to rotate every single one of them myself
except all deployments are paused, so if i rotate now my app breaks, and if i don't, someone else might have my keys
fml, what's a good alternative to railway?
gotta move before i scale my app any further
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called it
calling my shot: i'm winning a trophy at revenuecat's shipaton this year.
the app is finally in its finishing stages.
gtm and marketing strategy fully mapped.
the plan is to launch inside the shipaton window and hopefully find pmf right there, in public.
been chatting with a lot of app founders these past couple of weeks, and the community has been super receptive so far. absolutely love it.
time to see how good of a builder i actually am.
also on the hunt for people cracked at:
- aso
- seo
- ai search
- pinterest ads
if that's you, dms are open, and i'm very willing to pay for your time/service
and if you're just in the app space and wanna hop on a call, lmk. always happy to chat.
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Pix🔎 retweeted
It’s always harder, takes longer, and costs more than you think it will.
And it's still worth it.
And it's still worth it.
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if you're not using reception you're ngmi
absolute must have if you want to make your app a long-term success
absolute must have if you want to make your app a long-term success
Today we're launching Reception.
In app support for iOS apps.
• Turn chat into sales 💸
• Ask happy customers for reviews ✨
• Solve problems: lower churn 📉
• Convince users during onboarding 🙋♂️
• Abandon checkout? Abandon chat 💬
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just learned how ancient romans invested their money and it’s insane how little has changed
they basically did three things:
1. they invented venture capital at sea (pecunia traiecticia):
you funded a merchant’s voyage to india. if the ship sank, the debt was wiped and you got back, you earned about 35% in five months.
2. they owned a piece of the empire (societas publicanorum):
rome didn’t collect its own taxes or run its own mines. it auctioned those jobs to private companies, and anyone could buy a stake in one, called a pars.
so a regular roman could own a cut of an entire province’s tax revenue.
polybius wrote that almost everyone in rome was invested, and some historians believe these stakes were traded in the forum, with prices crashing on news of war (sounds familiar?).
3. they ran the first vulture funds:
crassus, the richest man in rome, bought debts nobody could collect for pennies on the dollar.
then he used his political power and private enforcers to collect every cent
the ones who didn’t invest just buried their coins in clay pots.
(that’s why archaeologists still dig up so many roman coins today.)
good reminder not to just sit on your cash
they basically did three things:
1. they invented venture capital at sea (pecunia traiecticia):
you funded a merchant’s voyage to india. if the ship sank, the debt was wiped and you got back, you earned about 35% in five months.
2. they owned a piece of the empire (societas publicanorum):
rome didn’t collect its own taxes or run its own mines. it auctioned those jobs to private companies, and anyone could buy a stake in one, called a pars.
so a regular roman could own a cut of an entire province’s tax revenue.
polybius wrote that almost everyone in rome was invested, and some historians believe these stakes were traded in the forum, with prices crashing on news of war (sounds familiar?).
3. they ran the first vulture funds:
crassus, the richest man in rome, bought debts nobody could collect for pennies on the dollar.
then he used his political power and private enforcers to collect every cent
the ones who didn’t invest just buried their coins in clay pots.
(that’s why archaeologists still dig up so many roman coins today.)
good reminder not to just sit on your cash
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$8 a week for a tv remote app is insane
my remote broke this weekend, and with multiple tvs i always wanted to have an app for this anyway
so i checked the appstore
and every remote app wants a subscription, with the most predatory pricing as well
pretty sure the whole people forgetting to cancel
so i built my own with claude in like 15 minutes
works on all my tvs, connects automatically, fully local and with zero cost
kind of makes me wonder why those utility apps are not disrupted yet?
my remote broke this weekend, and with multiple tvs i always wanted to have an app for this anyway
so i checked the appstore
and every remote app wants a subscription, with the most predatory pricing as well
pretty sure the whole people forgetting to cancel
so i built my own with claude in like 15 minutes
works on all my tvs, connects automatically, fully local and with zero cost
kind of makes me wonder why those utility apps are not disrupted yet?
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first $1k/day revenue achieved
also got a nice email from @marclou that my app is in top 5 quickest growing, yay (got to #2 actually)
got a few bumps along the way, but more on that later
also got a nice email from @marclou that my app is in top 5 quickest growing, yay (got to #2 actually)
got a few bumps along the way, but more on that later
first $1k revenue achieved
time to scale this baby up
p.s. finally cracked the upper funnel, half of these trials were started in the last 12h
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