Founders

pinata

When Steve and I started orbiter.host, there were two things we wanted to focus on:

1. Playing in a validated market. 
2. Using /pinata for all our IPFS needs. 

We did exactly those things even if point 1 means dealing with heavy competition. I think we have some nice advantages that will grow over time though.

Wordpress feels like a relic that survives only based on inertia at this point. It will take time, but their market share will decline significantly

Wordpress feels like a relic that survives only based on inertia at this point. It will take time, but their market share will decline significantly https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/

ipfs

bringing mini apps to 1B users @base | dylansteck.com

Corbin Burnes out with Tommy John. That’s brutal for the DBacks.

Music

Artist
Designer
Brand Builder
Gamer
Degenerate
Based AF
Fully Onchain

They see our vinyl collection and they get that. My youngest just learned that iTunes was a thing and that’s what prompted the question.

enzo's dad 🇬🇷 in LA 🌴 eng @ fanatics.live ⚾️ alexloukissas.com

Much easier on Apple Music where that happens so much more frequently

My youngest son just said “why would you buy music” and I died a little inside.

This fan caught a baseball and gave it to a young fan. A few innings later, this happened..

https://t.co/e2c75Q7lu3

Wolf of X

Baseball is the best https://x.com/tradingmaxisl/status/1930675078640849278?s=46

Writer. Building @pinatacloud. Working on simple static site hosting https://orbiter.host \ https://polluterofminds.com

Says to me Farcaster-first or even crypto-first is not viable unless you’re selling infra or gambling. Has to be a smaller part of a bigger thing if included at all. This place is for building confidence, validating ideas, test ground not the end state. At a minimum it’s too volatile. What if I had genuinely invested in channels after they first launched? 

Building software a different type of “making it” than being your own media brand but all generally the same thing 

None of this applies if you’re just here to have fun and make friends

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

katherinechampagne.com

That makes sense. Almost like comedians performing in a small club to perfect their act before taking it to larger venues. 

I wonder what the growth path is out of this for Farcaster because Dan and team definitely seem focused on growth.

Agreed. Still probably have to solve for this though right?

@farcaster dev / dad / books, cooks, ski, code ~ there are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Agreed. Still probably have to solve for this though right? 

https://farcaster.xyz/keccers.eth/0x56a03211
https://farcaster.xyz/polluterofminds/0x56eae652

Farcaster-native research: https://paragraph.xyz/@matthewb | prev. Juicebox, Nouns, RAW DAO | casting about coffee, hi-fi, and other rabbit holes

According to this guy, the revenue matters.

Bobby Witt Jr. Superman catch in slow-mo https://t.co/JFX3rfM7eo

Brad Henson Productions

Insane catch by Bobby Witt Jr. https://x.com/BradHensonPro/status/1930803597375148144

aichannel

My big gripe with text to speech has been the ability to control emotion and keep the context of the text when it’s translated to voice. This is impressive!

My big gripe with text to speech has been the ability to control emotion and keep the context of the text when it’s translated to voice. This is impressive! https://elevenlabs.io/v3

That’s a great insight. It’s a marketplace dynamic where only one side of the marketplace is being served.

writing

This is a good, nuanced take and applies beyond fiction. In my MFA program, we had our own outside of school work writing group that we named Sexily Adverbing

This is a good, nuanced take and applies beyond fiction. In my MFA program, we had our own outside of school work writing group that we named Sexily Adverbing https://countercraft.substack.com/p/defending-adverbs-exuberantly-if

Lol AI scrapers don’t read terms and conditions.

Lol AI scrapers don’t read terms and conditions. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-its-terms-to-bar-training-of-ai-models-using-its-content/

Good counterpoint you made already here though https://farcaster.xyz/complexlity/0x4296da36

@blockbot Steward. Frames Builder. Pro Chess-er ♟️


I kinda think this view is the YouTube/TikTok generation view. Whereas most 1-hit wonders were artists with dreams of success and might happily trade in some of the money off a one-hit wonder to have their whole body of work appreciated. Just a gut feeling

Justin Hunter

@polluterofminds