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Brian Li ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‘พ

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Brian Li ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‘พ
@bli.eth
Running a founders-only chat tomorrow on early stage crypto fundraising with @berk at 1 pm EDT. Gonna go over what has changed in the markets recently, especially as venture capital accrues towards liquid tokens. Pull up if youโ€™re raising or thinking about it! https://lu.ma/hmr0eqy7
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Bay to Breakers sponsored by Windsurf Editor instead of a shoe brand, about as SF as it getsโ€ฆ
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Earlier this year, Leopold Ashenbrennerโ€™s podcast with Dwarkesh on the race for Superintelligence sent me into a bit of a pessimistic spiralโ€ฆ For anyone else concerned about the risks of AGI, Iโ€™ve found the โ€œThe New Mapโ€ and โ€œChip Warโ€ to be immensely helpful for understanding what will constrain AI.
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Building /frens and finally recovering enough energy to cast again, been working on the following: - Improving slippage errors - Fixing chart data rendering for low cap tokens - Enhanced data for tokens Currently busy fighting with Apple's build servers to get our next release out...
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@bli.eth
Realized I took a call with @dwr.eth while wearing a Lens shirt ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ need more Farcaster gear so Iโ€™m not always wearing the same Farcon shirtโ€ฆ
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Brian Li ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿ‘พ
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Bug bashing week for me at /frens: - Fixing token price charts with better data - Adding data for market caps and FDVs - Speeding up token screens by 50% Deeply appreciating our users for bearing with us through technical challenges โค๏ธ
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For any fellow early stage crypto founders, I'm hosting a Fundraising 101 session with @berk tomorrow morning! Pls drop by for both strategies and shared commiseration https://events.xyz/557a55
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Underrated: founder friends who are willing to call you out for not shipping fast enough. Itโ€™s easy to tell someone theyโ€™re doing a great job to avoid conflict โ€” itโ€™s hard to care enough to tell them theyโ€™re fucking things up. Some of the most helpful chats Iโ€™ve had are with friends who have chewed out my team for promising to release something and failing to follow through.
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Got sick this week, a friendly reminder to take care of your health! (Which of course no one will listen to... I wouldn't.) But managed to get out statuses for issues we're currently tracking at /frens so users can be informed. Not knowing what's happening is a scary truth of most crypto products so hoping this helps everyone know that our team is on it!
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This week was a p0 kind of week at /frens, I'm pretty sure I aged a year... - Showing better error messages for scam tokens - Fixing Farcaster login - Fixing flashing messages on chats - Enabling trading for tokens under Token 2022 Program
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After nearly a decade of infrastructure investment, building consumer crypto apps should be easy. Yet, my team still spends more than half of our engineering time just on infrastructure. Some of the complex problems we tackle include: โ›“๏ธ Cross-chain transaction indexing and standardization ๐Ÿง  Enriching transaction data with pricing and social context from multiple APIs ๐Ÿ’ป Evaluating and rolling out new integrations, such as prediction markets and intents We are looking for a cracked backend engineer to join us at /frens and help us build the infrastructure that powers magical user experiences!
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One of the biggest mistakes I've seen first time founders make is not sending monthly investor updates. It's easy to make excuses like "too busy" or "no major changes", but the truth is those emails help you hold yourself accountable. It doesn't matter if the update says you're struggling or pivoting or low on runwayโ€”that just gives investors the context to help you earlier instead of when it's too late. Once someone has invested, you should never be afraid of sending them regular company updates!
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So uh did anyone else see the F.B.I. memecoin ($NexFundAI) to study pump-and-dumps and assume that it was created by Farcaster Builders of Indiaโ€ฆ
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Spent the weekend talking to dozens of founders at YC alumni reunions and realized that weโ€™re in the middle of an inflection for hard-tech companies. (10% of the recent batch of 240 startups are in hard-tech) Sharing some thoughts on why this is happening below โฌ‡๏ธ
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About as SF as you can get, a Waymo gets wedged up against a bus and a bunch of YC founders try to lift it to move it
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YC reunions are magical, listening to Senator Kyrsten Sinema discussing tech policy and ideas for getting startups access to federal contracts ๐Ÿš€
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Building /frens, shipped fewer visible features this week and spent some more time on performance: - Improved transaction speed by 20% - Added filtering and social features for tokens
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Few people have done more to support early stage crypto founders and create a sense of community than @jayme, congrats on the announcement! Launchcaster will continue your mission at @orangedao ๐Ÿš€
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Spent most of the week at FC Dev Day but got in a few onboarding fixes at /frens: - Improved loading indicators and error handling on Farcaster auth - Faster profile picture uploads
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Building /frens, this week Iโ€™ve been focused on data enrichment: - Syncing transactions from external wallets - Enriching swaps data with token pricing data
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