David Furlong @davidvfurlong Twitter profile

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Posting on Farcaster has earned me thousands of dollars in memecoins, which were airdropped algorithmically to me based on engagement to my casts. Wild.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

I made a one page cheat sheet to start building with Farcaster Frames toda

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Excited for day 1 of @a16zcrypto cryptp startup school

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 months

Announcing... Open Frames Open Frames is a draft specification for Frames that work anywhere. If you're interested in bringing Frames to your ecosystem or app, DM us, we'd love to chat. XMTP is launching Frames support using Open Frames today. Check replies for link

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Someone made a Farcaster Frame to play Doom 🤯

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

I pressed a single, public and free <button/> on the internet and earned this 🤯 Frame mania

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Farcaster Frames mania - every day it doubles

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

Being early & active on Farcaster can be worthwhile; These $points are currently worth over USD $75K. Only 14 people replied to the original post

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

I just crossed 10K followers on the next big social network. Last year I was on twitter with 700 followers with no way to get feedback on what I was creating. Now I can get feedback from hundreds. If you're building in crypto and you don't have a big audience on X, join me on

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

New @farcaster_xyz protocol version just dropped. It's kinda cool. Previously you could only reply to content in the network. Now you can reply directly to: transactions on blockchains, NFTs or even locations. This unlocks some interesting new use cases and interactions

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

kids in 2024 be like

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Farcaster has had a week where a decade has happened. rapid user growth. permissionless channels. $points. network feels different, like a main street that just got busier with a flurry of new

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

9 months

if you’re an early stage crypto VC and not active on farcaster then your competition is going to get in earlier

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

We now have 1500 developers building frames 🤯

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Last day of CSS 🥲 Going to miss you all ❤️ @a16zcrypto @fuul_xyz @primev_xyz @MentaportInc @HelloBlockus @discovexyz @kikiworld_ @EthDotId @ChainPatrol @frenslol @bellosights @web3analytic and more

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Curious what's next for Farcaster Frames? What's possible? 🔮 Here's a 4 min video shared a couple weeks ago w Farcaster to propose extending Casts with Open Graph metadata to enable polls & richer embeds A thread

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

11 months

A year ago: ~15 people worldwide building on @farcaster_xyz Today: Met two other people just in my coworking space independently building on Farcaster 📈 I have 5 Farcaster invites to give away - reply with what you want to build to get an invite

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

IRL meetups have been particularly valuable for cohesion and building new relationships in digital communities Insightful Q&A with @kevinrose and @cdixon at @a16zcrypto CSS.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

This is the year it happens

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

in the green room, getting ready to pitch! Pumped! @a16zcrypto

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Great talk by @blauyourmind at @a16zcrypto CSS. It was eye opening how NFT royalties currently work (they depends on the marketplace respecting them), and how the standards around NFTs and royalties are developing to make sure they are consistently applied.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

It’s been a wild 3 months, culminating with demo day today! Deeply grateful to all the incredible people part of my cohort and the mentors for this unforgettable experience 💜

a16z crypto

@a16zcrypto

1 year

Crypto Startup School (CSS23) Spotlight 🔦 Team: @discovexyz Founder: @davidvfurlong Where is the team from? Berlin, Germany What are you building? Discove is building a Protocol for Social Mini-apps What’s a milestone or update from the project that you’d like to share?

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

This is going to unlock some new Mini-app experiences nobody has seen before on Farcaster

Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

. @varunsrin just announced Farcaster Frames

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Great talk by @eddylazzarin about Protocols and how to think about designing them, at @a16zcrypto crypto startup school

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Excited to host a @farcaster_xyz meetup in Venice Beach next week with @philmohun in the @brtmoments space. Thursday, March 30th 6-9p. Open to all Farcaster community members. +1s welcome. There'll be food, drinks & maybe a surprise 👇Register

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Great talk by @dwr on his learnings while growing the @farcaster_xyz protocol, including some original names and iterations on the protocol that I hadn't previously heard of. at @a16zcrypto CSS

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Great talk by @benscharfstein on UX. Here's my favourite slide from it - love the disambiguation between complex and powerful. From @a16zcrypto crypto startup school

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

9 months

👇 A list of open challenges limiting the UX of apps built on protocols like Farcaster that I’d like builders in the ecosystem to tackle to push the space forward

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Big news for @farcaster_xyz ! Hubs are now permissionless Anyone can now can spin up a hub, connect to Mainnet, get an entire copy of the data, and publish messages to the network. Set up your own hub

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

4 years

@tommycollison Between career fit, culture fit, behavioural fit within team, technical/hard skill fit and logistical fit (remote/salary/location/hours) its a miracle we are able to make great hires at all. Its a multivariate optimization problem with asymmetric info

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

@a16zcrypto Excited to participate in this with @discovexyz and to meet the team in March!

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 months

Excited to see what people build! Honored to be a judge

ETHGlobal

@ETHGlobal

6 months

Introducing Frameworks ✨ The largest @farcaster Frames hackathon. We're excited to see: - 1000+ devs around the world building Frames - Experiments with new Frame types + txs - Improvements to Frame devex and tooling - Mainstream-ready use cases!

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@davidvfurlong

1 year

A room of inspirational people building a better, more open internet, together. Excited for what’s still to come

Jeff Amico

@_jamico

1 year

We just wrapped up the Spring 23 cohort of Crypto Startup School, and we couldn’t be more excited about the future. It’s been a privilege supporting this group as they build and push our industry forward. As we look ahead, we wanted to highlight the 26 amazing teams who joined

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

@ljxie @kylemccollom 🤝

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Turns out people like Mini-apps

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Huge update. Excited for whats coming in this space - connecting people and communities on social networks in novel, better ways

Dan Romero

@dwr

1 year

Introducing Farcaster channels - Channels are feeds of casts organized around a topic - Anyone can cast and read casts in channels - When you cast in a channel, it won't appear in the main feed

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Less than a week since launch, we're seeing a Cambrian Explosion in open source Farcaster Frames & Frames tooling. @base is leading the way with their onchainkit.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

11 months

if you're considering applying, do it.

a16z crypto

@a16zcrypto

11 months

Applications for Crypto Startup School will be closing in 11 days. Here are 3 common questions we've been recieving from applicants: 1) If I haven’t finished building my product or am still thinking about what to build, should I still apply? Yes! We are seeking founders with

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Myspace founder @Chris_DeWolfe sharing some great thoughts on web3 games and his new project @PlaiLabs at @a16zcrypto crypto startup school

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Interesting talk by @aeyakovenko . I particularly liked his explanation on why @solana is making a phone and crypto native app store - could unlock some great mobile first experiences that are currently limited by apple policies

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

So excited for what the world class @frenslol team is building 🚀🚀 🚀 If you want a glimpse of the future, try their app!

a16z crypto

@a16zcrypto

1 year

Crypto Startup School (CSS23) Spotlight 🔦 Team: @frenslol Founders: @jpren , @brianli101 , @jckyeh Where is the team from? 🇺🇸 San Francisco · 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh · 🇨🇦 Toronto What are you building? Frens — WeChat for web3. Message and transact with friends, protocols, and smart

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Follow along the @a16zcrypto crypto startup school batch with this twitter list

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

@camiinthisthang don’t have much experience with lens, but here’s what Farcaster did well 1. focused early on quality of content, avoiding shill 2. built a world class app UX in Warpcast over years 3. Gave people a way to congregate with channels 4. Nerdsniped devs with a new way make websites

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Farcaster isn't just for talking about crypto - there are already 817 channels created by users. I made a simple tool to search and discover Farcaster channels, see replies for the url

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 years

@wa7son huge package ecosystem (in both senses of the word huge)

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@davidvfurlong

8 months

@divine_economy @unlonely_app @jokerace_xyz respect the hell outa you, but @bountycaster is solving the problem for Farcaster native communities better than @jokerace_xyz does today, because their bot actually natively integrates into the network Farcasters are already using and drives distribution. You say you love

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

Every cool product: Here's your Wrapped 2022 Twitter: No Wrapped for you 😢 Decentralized social: Community can create a Wrapped 2022 I made one for - Farcaster Wrapped 2022

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

@a16zcrypto A list of all the Crypto Startup School batch company public announcements so far, a thread

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Doing an AMA on Farcaster starting now

jam 🟣 🐿️jamtogether on Warpcast

Get ready for our AMA with David @df later on 🤗 Most would have heard of @df from being active on Farcaster, and his involvement within the Farcaster Ecosystem, but are you aware of @mod yet? This...

warpcast.com

jam 🐿️jamtogether

@Jamfrens

7 months

Get ready for our AMA with David @davidvfurlong later on 🤗 Most would have heard of David from his involvement within the Farcaster Ecosystem, but are you aware of @modprotocol yet? This is a great opportunity to learn more, so get ready with your questions! 👇🏻

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Will apps built on permissionless social protocols have lasting moats? Here are my thoughts

Will apps built on permissionless social protocols have lasting moats?

There are many strategies social apps can deploy to build a lasting competitive advantage in decentralized social, with some more adversarial than others.

mirror.xyz

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Link

GitHub - davidfurlong/awesome-frames: All the best Farcaster Frames resources in one place

All the best Farcaster Frames resources in one place - davidfurlong/awesome-frames

github.com

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Felt this strongly in my Oxford grad cohort in 2016 and glad I resisted the pull of the london consulting supergravity that seems to affect Oxford grads in particular. Building > Talking

Paul Graham

@paulg

7 months

Met a British startup founder today who'd studied engineering at Oxford. He said the majority of his fellow students had since gone into finance or consulting. In effect there is a brain drain *within* the UK, as engineers emigrate to fields where they don't build anything.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

5 months

Listen in to hear our story, and where I see frames headed

WAGMI Ventures

@wagmi_vc

5 months

🎧 Ep #106 | @davidvfurlong (Openframes & framesjs) Really great convo: David unpacks why they're building framesjs, talks about principled pivots, describes the importance of this current moment in decentralized social, & much more.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

@ishverduzco sharing some alpha on growing a social presence at @a16zcrypto CSS

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Pokemon in a Farcaster Frame

David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Someone made a Farcaster Frame to play Doom 🤯

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

🚀 What are the Secrets to User-Driven Growth in web3? You could try talking about it everywhere—on Twitter, in person, you name it. But that's slow, and people are skeptical of self-promotion. So, how does it work? 🧵

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Maybe these modules should be cross protocol… could call it Mod protocol 🤔😂

Hey

@heydotxyz

7 months

We are very excited about the innovation in content sharing! Hey Portals 🪟 is transforming the way we engage with content by interactive micro-apps. Leveraging @facebook 's OpenGraph, it's not just sharing; it's an immersive experience. Learn more on how to integrate:

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 months

Farcaster just hit 5000 channels 🤯

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Farcaster is now free to sign up to via Warpcast in many countries!

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

@jaymehoffman @a16zcrypto demo day is on wednesday ❤️❤️❤️

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

5 years

@blakeir @Plaid @stripe @Marqeta @twilio @okta @dwolla @truepill_rx Comes to mind: - @algolia search and @getstream_io messaging / feeds

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

@YassineLanda @ishverduzco you created a monster 😂

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

Exciting news for Europe’s tech ecosystem

cdixon.eth

@cdixon

1 year

Big news to share: @a16z is expanding to the UK 🇬🇧 We plan to open our first international office in London later this year, and will host the next Crypto Startup School there in 2024. Why the UK? 👇

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David Furlong

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1 year

More on it here:

FIP-2: Flexible targets for messages · farcasterxyz protocol · Discussion #71

FIP-2: Flexible targets for messages Title: Flexible targets for messages Type: Implementation FIP Author: Paul Fletcher-Hill (gh: @pfletcherhill , fc: @pfh) UPDATE 1: The original FIP was separate...

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 years

Im a big fan of @asana , and some attention to detail like the copy pasting multiple tasks UX is amazing! The app wide search function seems to use exact matches which is fine, but when you have diacritics (accents) it kinda falls down and doesnt match very well.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 months

@sdw bad take. it‘s only once per user & leads to more browser competition which is good for users & the web

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

3 years

@balajis Two Minute Papers

Two Minute Papers

What a time to be alive!

www.youtube.com

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

5 years

@AdamSinger I think you’ll find vegan food to be more expensive than non vegan food ;)

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

"...this one really affects the future of the internet; we need to decide, do we want an internet that's like Disneyland where something like 5 companies own it, or do we want an internet that is open and decentralized and innovative." - @cdixon

Web3 and how we got here | Chris Dixon

Founder and General Partner Chris Dixon shares an origin story of the internet as we know it, from first protocols to monolithic social networks, and the pot...

www.youtube.com

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

11 months

@albiverse there's a bot called "@ mintit"; reply to any post to mint it

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

@divine_economy $POINTS is not a dao and there's no $POINTS treasury. 75% of remaining $POINTS were burned on @unlonely_app progress is happening, entirely driven by holders giving bounties: , Needs to be easy to use & distribute within Farcaster

Kyle McCollom on Warpcast

BOUNTY: Design a token logo for $POINTS. Inspiration: https://dribbble.com/search/points Benchmarks: https://www.coingecko.com/ Amount: 30,000 $POINTS Deadline: 12/20/23 To qualify: Post your...

warpcast.com

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

@camiinthisthang and many more details sweated that I can’t list all here. A focus on the user experience, a very high bar for execution and a healthy decentralization pragmaticism

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Every couple hours a new internet primitive that we will see for years is born in the /frames channel

Dan Romero

@dwr

7 months

If you want to see developers building on the frontier in consumer crypto, check out the /frames channel on Farcaster.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

6 years

Someone feed me so I don’t need to move #hookmeuptothematrixalready

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@davidvfurlong

4 years

@petersuhm @arvidkahl

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

I made an NFT hat 🧢 to bridge digital identities and avatars to IRL events. Also the hat can play funny gifs. You can make your own by following my build guide . It uses a @Raspberry_Pi , a touch screen & is controlled by phone. vid from @brtmoments event

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

@LinusEkenstam Similar service I found useful by @rameerez

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

Thanks @vercel for letting me know of @discovexyz 's recent growth 😂

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

A reminder there's a @farcaster_xyz meetup tomorrow, 6-9pm in Venice Beach.

Farcaster Venice Meetup · Luma

Join us for the Farcaster Venice Meetup on July 27, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT at the vibrant NFT gallery, Bright Moments, located at 46 Market St,…

lu.ma

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

3 years

@thatguyBG @paulg @lpolovets @sama I like what @JoggoHQ is doing as well with using bookmarking to seed curation

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

10 months

@albiverse location tagged content on decentralized social protocols will make it much easier for anyone to create new location based/map first apps without having to bootstrap network effects themselves

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

@divine_economy @unlonely_app @jokerace_xyz @bountycaster

David Furlong (hiring devs) on Warpcast

@bountybot 69 $points for jokerace to build a farcaster bot to create and participate in jokeraces. cc @davidphelps

warpcast.com

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

2 years

Farcaster x Noggles Free open edition NFT mint on Zora Ends in 6 days

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

1 year

@benscharfstein Twitter; feature is moving usernames and tweets onto a permissionless protocol

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

@abishekinguout warpcast 🤷‍♂️ there are some cool new ones; supercast & linkcaster

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

Felt this strongly in my Oxford graduating class, and glad I resisted the Oxford => London consultant gravity well

Paul Graham

@paulg

7 months

Met a British startup founder today who'd studied engineering at Oxford. He said the majority of his fellow students had since gone into finance or consulting. In effect there is a brain drain *within* the UK, as engineers emigrate to fields where they don't build anything.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

5 years

@thecodinglove I feel like we.areScrewed() is probably a better abstraction

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

5 years

@lpolovets Most “good accelerators” in europe will take this percentage and < 30k cash

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

7 months

@grahammcbain tried to tag cassie but couldn’t find her twitter

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

5 years

So many awesome SaaS tools are unfortunately priced towards - targeting big companies - the US market - power users unfortunately this makes some of the most useful tools for solving problems of growth, product, eng as a startup priced out of most non US startup’s budgets.

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David Furlong

@davidvfurlong

8 months

@wojtekwtf the other two people between us; perhaps try trending more next time @wojtekwtf 😂

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@davidvfurlong