Another classic!! 👏🏻👏🏻
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell
Now that’s interesting! The pipes stuff I mean and makes absolute sense from the little you have shared thus far. I love how you have weaponised “learn to code” against the ghouls who used it more as an insult than anything. That’s the way to go, to fight back by literally “building back better” 😂 Hats off to you for that. Definitely would love to hear more and will dm to setup a call later this week or whenever it’s convenient for both of us.
From the bit I saw about Custodia, you definitely did great work there 🤝🫡 I am sure you will continue to do so even with this project.
You sure know how to put a smile on a brother’s face 😁🫂 As a kid watching this I wanted to either be MacGayver or Magnum 😂 Thank you for this
Thanks for the compliment brother 🤝 I do try to simplify the complex since the average reader is not as technically savvy as you are, but at the end of the day they need to understand it well enough to use it. I am sure I can help with that as well when it comes to your project, to the extent that you need that of course 😁 The irony of it all is i also wish I could code just as easily as I write lol!
Ark are making some good progress and I think they have had some product releases which they successfully tested if memory serves me right. Just that a lot is happening in this space and on multiple fronts so it’s easy to miss a few things here and there. You were at Custodia? The Caitlin Long bank I presume or another Custodia?
Still can’t get enough to this day
Ok will wait on the talk and check it out once it’s ready. As someone who has been a founder before, I totally understand where you are in your journey and where I can I will help with spreading the word whether through posts or even an article or two, but I can only do that after testing out the product or if I genuinely fall in love with the mission but preferably both. So far I like what I am hearing.
Below is a sample I wrote a few years back about Ark, which I found to be quite interesting to me. I’m not guaranteeing thousands of eyeballs or followers but I’m just saying I try my best to promote stuff I like. Looking forward to playing with your stuff as is 🫡
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/how-ark-plans-to-scale-private-bitcoin-payments
The next time you hear the words “global crisis “ think scam.
My Adopting Bitcoin talk is live and available on Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v71t7em-building-sovereign-ai-in-el-salvador.html
Basically, I'd like to transition my business from builder mode to value-creation mode. I need either clients, partnerships, or (a lot of) customers within a month or two.
38 minutes is a lot of time to ask of you and I don't expect a ton of folks to watch it all, so here's the tl;dr.
I am an independent, solo founder building software that competes against Big Tech with technical jujitsu. I identify where Big Tech's strengths (blind spots) are and craft "sly, roundabout ways" that can turn their biggest revenue generators into their largest liabilities, quickly. I'm unable to discuss this strategy publicly at this time, but I am happy to go into more detail on a private, unrecorded call with trusted folks of integrity.
To get more concrete, I've spent the last year and a fair amount of my own cash creating an interoperative API network with artificial intelligence that is capable of creating beautiful apps and foundational changes to the way content is created, consumed, marketed, accessed, stored, and more. I've tweeted about it a lot, and the last ≈7 minutes of the video is a demo of my corporate site and Hash.pink which is the best working example of a site that is driven by several of my proprietary AI tools as well as a showcase of my proprietary collaborative API tooling.
That being said, I don't want to paint it as anything more than an alpha release at this stage. I haven't tested security and privacy in "hardcore" mode yet, although it follows the best practices other sites/apps use. So, I wouldn't trust anything I've made with your medical history or private information just yet. I'd treat it like a younger Drive/Evernote/etc, where you store information you need to access quickly, but you trust your local storage or other options for more sensitive information.
Apart from those light technical details, I'm one of the only developers who is openly and eagerly biased toward traditional family values, forgotten folks in America, homeschoolers, anti-vaxxers, 2nd amendment enthusiasts, J6 prisoners and activists, and others who'd self-identify as MAGA, libertarian, rightwing, as a sovereign individual, or as something else on the "dissident" spectrum that causes you to mistrust the "experts" and mainstream sources.
Since I fit in with several (ok, probably all) of those groups and have faced de-banking and censorship for my political and personal beliefs, I feel the pain acutely. During COVID, the prevailing wisdom from the Left was, "Learn to code, build your own platform." I took their advice and that's what I've done and want to keep doing.
My goal isn't just to FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT, I want to create genuinely useful products that are delightful to use, more performant than competitors, at a lower price whenever possible. I want to encourage the kind of dialog that Charlie Kirk died for to repair the way humans interact with each other, as opposed to the way current sources of information/media get us to fight with each other because otherwise, we'd be fighting them. Of course, they just can't have that!
It's not just "I want" or "I will," I've actually built out several functioning products that you can try out today. Right now. All of them are heavily reliant upon my ecosystem. It rocks, and building without it is like going from listening to audio at 2.5x speed to 0.25 speed.
It is that good to use it. And moving at my unassisted faster-than-average pace without it is agonizing and slow.
So, I'm asking for help now, because we don't have a lot of time if we want to have a fighting chance to combat the dominance that OpenAI, Gemini, etc already enjoy. I need these tools to work because they're impactful to my life as an entrepreneur, designer, developer, and human. If you use them, they'll be similarly impactful for you, and since I'm trying my best to stay small, reachable, and boutique... I'm literally a call or a DM away. I want to stay that way because I am building for YOU and I want to know how I can improve your future.
If I run into a situation where money gets tight in the coming months/year and I have to choose between working a corporate job and taking care of my family or allowing my family to starve, I'm going to sacrifice the mission for my family. That's what men do. But it'll hurt, because I genuinely believe that if I do not do this work, I am not only forsaking the path God has set out for me, but I'd hold myself personally responsible for the more dystopian future that we'll almost certainly wind up in.
I don't (necessarily) want your money, this isn't a GiveSendGo.
Instead, I'm exploring different paths to creating value for my community. I can build apps for businesses or families, or I can get a bunch of users for my current apps, I can raise an investment round, or... lots of options. I'm just not sure which path is best for me, so I am open to advice, suggestions, and introductions to help me decide.
If this Bitcoin price action hadn't unexpectedly eroded 25% of my treasury's purchasing power in the last month, I wouldn't be writing this. But it did, in just the last few days, and after speaking at Adopting and hearing from others who validated the need for my solutions, I feel like now is the time to switch into growth mode. If for nothing else, because we need a little optimism after so many hardships since 2020.
If you value who I'm building for and/or what I'm creating, reach out. My DMs are open, and if you don't have a way to DM, email me: cubby@colonhyphenbracket.pink.
I'm just switching into this mode and feeling pumped, so I am eager to hear ideas, do podcasts, meet with individuals, families, groups, businesses, churches. All of 'em.
Let's change the future together!
What an awesome and inspiring story! 👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you for sharing this and I hope that your story inspires a ton of other builders/investors to join you on this journey or to use the products that you will create. I am yet to check out the talk and the site, so will start there for now before i can even think about how I can be a blessing to you. For now I have reshared this post and I hope it gets a ton more eyeballs. Least I can do at the moment. Will come back with additional comments or questions after checking out your talk and material. Keep up the good work bro 🤝👏🏻💯🫡
You are right about that, attitude determines altitude 🫡🤝 Gm to you too brother and hope you have an awesome day as well! Carpe Diem ☕️😋
“A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.”
Proverbs 17:22
Good morning 😇☕️☀️ #gm
Not so much optimism but a realistic assumption based on how self interested the average person is, coupled with which enemies I think are priority #1 for the powers that be. Will some folks react how you described above? Absolutely, those will be there too, but in my estimation they’ll be a very small minority. In other words we aren’t going to see a crash to 50k because of it. I could be wrong on all fronts. We’ll just wait and see what sort of impact, if any, this will have.