For a couple months I've been working on this concept of modular tokens where developers can create mods that extend the functionality of a core token, and then sell them on a smart contract marketplace and get paid every time a creator uses their mod. (creators don't need any code knowledge, since the modders are doing everything for them, they just pick and choose which mods to use in their tokens)
The goal is to make it so that tokens aren't so boring and uniform in their capabilities, while also creating an ecosystem for developers to monetize their innovations.
Last night I released it to the Base Sepolia testnet and scheduled a product hunt release.
I'd love some early feedback on the idea, and any criticisms you might have.
Yea, and I expect that trend to continue.
It's a little forced right now since I've been populating it with some of the biggest names I can think of in the dev world so that there's a bit of a target for aspiration as well as some content on the site.
I imagine that the majority of users that would find this beneficial are between the 1-5 YOE so at least it'll become a pareto within that range eventually.
I keep seeing junior devs or recent grads that are entirely unsure how they stack up against their peers and decided to make something that helps them visualize it.
First off, cool product. I've been seeing you guys all over Twitter recently. (Which also begs the question... did you put $ into creator marketing?)
I'd say PH launch is just what it's always been. One part of your overall launch strategy, and should be used as such. It's still a great tool to use, and even if it gets flooded with bots, it will continue to be. The only ones who notice the bots are the launchers, not really the users. Or at least, not to the same degree.
As someone with small kids (5 and 8), can't say this is a bad thing.
A large majority of content creators that make content for children will do absolutely anything for fame with zero regard to how it affects the people who look up to them.
My kids will then come and regurgitate that stuff to me, and I've had to correct their thought process on things many times at this point.
I think the law should be more granular though. I allow my kids to watch a few types of content:
- People playing with toys (as long as its not obviously promotional)
- Educational videos (draw-with-me, learning videos, etc)
- Play along (sometimes, it depends on the tuber)
I've banned them from watching anything else on youtube at this point.
The primary problem here is that they don't come to me with everything so that I can fix the bad that they learn there.
Some examples: My 8 year old came to me one day and said "let it rain" with the hand motion. I asked her if she knew what it meant, and she said no. I explained it to her, and how it showed disrespect to money. She's been saving her allowance for a while so she understood the concept, luckily. But how many things like this has she learned that she didn't come to me with?
Another example is some song she heard a youtuber singing. It was about making fun of some little boy for having dirty pants or something stupid like that. We sat and had a chat about being kind to people, bullying, and other people's emotions.
Sure, these were good prompts for good parenting, something we might not otherwise have had, but overall I think the outcome of those videos is net negative. There are just too many subtle things that can't be easily corrected that have a large impact on the personalities of the little people we are attempting to raise to be good adults.
I think the harsh reality here is that companies pay the lowest they can for the best they can get. When you're talking about working remote abroad then you either need to be extremely niched/skilled down (machine learning, blockchain, etc), exactly what they are looking for down to the dirt under your nails, or you have to be "the guy" that a company can't do without (known, network respected, etc).
Lots of companies base their salaries on the locations of their workers. They understand how the market has changed and that they can near-shore or off-shore very easily with today's tools (post covid). However, they want happy employees, so giving an above-average wage for their location is just good business.
When you live in a location where the salary from western countries is 300-1000% higher than locally sourced, you better bring your A-game. You will always be the first person that a company looks at and says "are we overpaying for this?". I'm saying this as someone who also works remotely with western countries.
Also, here are some tips for your cv (which was better than most, but still some glaring problems):
- Be specific: Things like "Designed and managed big APIs" sounds like BS (not saying it is, it just sounds that way). Mention which, mention why, mention how.
- Each bullet should matter: "Worked extensively on a big codebase in Laravel and React", okay, so what? You and every other fullstack dev can do that too. Why should anyone hire you over them?
- These were your most powerful lines: "Improved a CSV ingestion service time from 20 hours to 4 minutes" and "I cut Cloud billing from around USD150 daily to around USD5 daily". Do more of that. Tell the reviewer how much GOOD you did for the company. Show off your mastery and wow them. If it doesn't wow, it ow's.
- I would roll some of the previous jobs into one. You have some there that last for 5-8 months, it's not a good look. Roll them up into a single May 2012- Jul 2021 at Company A, Company B, Company C, and then list off of the best things you did there in aggregate.
Sadly, the majority of pay scale is what you can negotiate for. If you're not a good negotiator/salesman then you're gonna have a hard time regardless. It wouldn't hurt to "specify down" and go after one of the highest paying verticals instead of the most average one (fullstack dev).
I have moved away from React to Vue/Svelte over the past 5-6 years, and I am significantly happier as a developer.
In general I believe that the DX on react is subpar when compared with other more modern frameworks, because those frameworks at least attempt to abstract away all of the things that are tedious and cause the majority of React's code clutter.
Few and far in between are the apps that truly need to focus on sheer performance, or have it even matter. And even then, it's unlikely to be a majority focus on the frontend at all.
I think the sad reality there is that it's become "the" format that users expect, and more importantly, it's what's integrated into the majority of peripheral services and tools.
Interesting to see the correlation between size of a company and their fine.
ORANGE spain for instance got a 200,000 EUR fine, but some local physician only got 1,500.
I've been working on this thing since early 2019 in my (limited) free time. I've redesigned it multiple times, and am getting close to launching the MVP.
I'm wondering if the texts on the pre-launch page speak to you, and if this is even exciting?
I've been building it in a bubble for so long that I don't know what it might look like from the outside anymore. Would love any opinions and/or criticisms!
- Drag and drop builder (Works similarly to Unreal Engine blueprints)
- Completely free-form, not template junk. You can do anything you can do in Solidity.
- Export to Solidity
- Import from Solidity
- You can create components and sell them on the marketplace (0 fees, p2p payments)
- You can also code components in Solidity directly!
- Supports any EVM network
- Deploy to multiple networks in 1 click
- Automated audits (general fuzzing and such)
Some cool features that are planned for post-mvp phases:
- Visual testing - See the flow of data and debug
- Audit marketplace for projects and components
- Live collaboration (already somewhat supported)
- AI generation using marketplace components for contracts and tests
- This means it'll work MUCH better (spelled safer) than AI code generators because it isn't generating code, just the connections between pre-audited components written by humans
- Ultimately a no-code UI engine to pair with this "backend" engine, but that's a long ways off (unless a16z wants to knock on my door, then probably the Tuesday after next)
Some context on me: I like pineapple pizza, but, I'm an entrepreneurial dev with 15 years of broad experience from saas to mobile to games, and been a blockchain dev for the last 7 years. Built some pretty successful personal projects including a wallet with 500k-ish users (now ded), consistent hackathon winner, helped launch a few blockchains (not ded) and worked on core blockchain protocol code.
A lot of the motivation for this comes from my time as a wallet builder, as I spoke to hundreds of non-devs who had pretty great ideas but no way to fund or build their ideas themselves. I believe stuff like this (easy no-code builder tools) has the chance to help create a much healthier long-tail of applications built on top of blockchain than our current dynamic. There's a reason WordPress powers half the internet, or Wix and Webflow are dominating right now.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, good or bad. Give it to me straight, doc.
The goal is to make it so that tokens aren't so boring and uniform in their capabilities, while also creating an ecosystem for developers to monetize their innovations.
Last night I released it to the Base Sepolia testnet and scheduled a product hunt release.
I'd love some early feedback on the idea, and any criticisms you might have.
Thanks!