David Hurley (hurls)

"Nerds are more clippable; therefore, nerds have more power." https://www.a16z.news/p/why-nerds-are-more-clippable Good breakdown of new media and the power of clippable content. I'm thinking about this for my own work. Treat software as content. Master the art of the short-form demo. Distribution is just as important as the commit.

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Went on a fun sidequest last night and built something pretty cool. To really appreciate it, you'll need some background info first. It starts with this Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/basset_book_reviews/ This is the account for my parents' dog, Ms. Lilly. My Mom managed it for about seven years, posting a photo and a short story every single day. Over that time, she built an incredible community of over 13,000 followers. It became a whole thing. She was even turning down sponsorship deals because she wasn’t interested in the business side; she just loved telling the stories. Since I don’t live at home anymore, I wanted to create something meaningful for my parents this Christmas to celebrate Ms. Lilly’s life. I decided to download all the data and build a dedicated website that acts as a searchable, living library of every post my Mom ever wrote. I used what I've been learning about LLMs and agents to build a search that makes it easy to find all the posts related to topics like "the warden" (my Mom) or one of Ms. Lilly’s famous "biscuit dances." But the coolest part is the chat feature. I built an agent that responds exactly like Ms. Lilly would. It uses the seven years of captions to "learn" her voice, so my parents can actually interact with her. It’s a fun way to honor the amazing work my Mom put into that account. https://mslilly.vercel.app

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YC - make something people want Farcaster - make something people want to trade This a my motto going into 2026.

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"I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto." Brutal read. I get it. Working in the casino is exhausting. FOMO. Analyzing charts. Creator coins, writer coins, VC coins. TGEs. Bots, farmers, and whales. https://x.com/kenchangh/status/1994854381267947640 But remember, no crying in the casino. A system can be a casino and a net benefit to society at the same time. Prediction markets act as gambling sites, yet major media outlets now rely on them as decentralized sources of truth. The gambling incentive is exactly what powers the data accuracy. You don't get the clear signal without the speculative noise. The stock market follows the same logic. It's a rigorous signal for the strength of the economy, yet it also hosts massive speculative trading. The casino aspect doesn't negate the societal benefit. It funds it. The article focuses on the "billion dollars in your head" value prop, but that was never the mass market unlock. The average person doesn't need to smuggle fortunes. They just want a system that works better than the old one. We are still early adopters in crypto. If this were the early days of the internet, we’d be building websites. Today, we are building mini apps. To the outside world, these look like toys. But this is simply the necessary phase of figuring out a new economic model. If the "Casino" is just the funding mechanism, what is the actual value prop is on the other side? Here is a prediction: The end of SaaS. The current subscription model is bloated. We pay monthly fees for access to software we barely use. Crypto changes how value is captured on the internet. In the future, we won't subscribe to apps. We'll pay for intelligence and compute on demand. You pay for what you use, when you use it. Frictionless. That's just one idea. There are others if you know where to look.

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Went on a fun sidequest last night and built something pretty cool. To really appreciate it, you'll need some background info first. It starts with this Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/basset_book_reviews/ This is the account for my parents' dog, Ms. Lilly. My Mom managed it for about seven years, posting a photo and a short story every single day. Over that time, she built an incredible community of over 13,000 followers. It became a whole thing. She was even turning down sponsorship deals because she wasn’t interested in the business side; she just loved telling the stories. Since I don’t live at home anymore, I wanted to create something meaningful for my parents this Christmas to celebrate Ms. Lilly’s life. I decided to download all the data and build a dedicated website that acts as a searchable, living library of every post my Mom ever wrote. I used what I've been learning about LLMs and agents to build a search that makes it easy to find all the posts related to topics like "the warden" (my Mom) or one of Ms. Lilly’s famous "biscuit dances." But the coolest part is the chat feature. I built an agent that responds exactly like Ms. Lilly would. It uses the seven years of captions to "learn" her voice, so my parents can actually interact with her. It’s a fun way to honor the amazing work my Mom put into that account. https://mslilly.vercel.app

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Gonna build something and get into the incubator before the end of the year. Callin my shot now.

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Tell me something that is true, that most people do not think is true.

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