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semiretired

[Pix🔎 @PixBuilds]

seven months ago i quit crypto.

i'd been in the industry for almost a full decade.

and i'm ashamed to admit it took me this long to notice something about the game i was playing.

there are two kinds of games: games with memory and games without.

in a game with memory, what you did yesterday makes today easier.

in a game without, every day starts from zero.

crypto is a game without memory. i know because measuring that was my job.

i started this account at the bottom of the last bear market with zero followers and grew it to 100k+ in under two years.

i wrote educational pieces and quite a few scam investigations that about 150 million people read.

by any normal measure it worked.

the money was good, and i made connections i could never have made any other way.

but investigating scams teaches you something you can't unlearn.

exposing a scammer has no effect. none.

the people i exposed came back months later with new names and bigger scams.

every market remembers. stocks remember enron;

banks remember 2008.

crypto is the exception. it forgets everything.

it runs on attention, and attention resets every morning.

the scammers were selling it. the influencers were selling it. i was selling it too.

that's what a game without memory does.

nothing bad that happens to you there is permanent, and nothing good you build there is either.

most of what crypto produces is sh*t for exactly that reason (with a few exceptions ofc).

so in december i cancelled six figures of booked promos, closed my company, and quit.

(the r3ach guys unwound every deal without a single complaint. in a market with no memory, i'd like that remembered, GOATs.)

people assumed i'd be back in a month.

instead i spent the last half a year building an app.

i won't say what it is yet, except that it isn't crypto. there's no token. it's a product to improve life of ordinary people, and it's the best thing i've ever made.

a game with memory, finally.

i'm posting this because i'm hiring, and i want to fill them from ct.

ct is what you get when you remove credentials from a labor market: the people who rise have nothing going for them except output. that's exactly who i want.

two roles to start: a creator manager and a creative strategist. part time, remote, anonymous is fine, and i pay properly.

full job listings in the next post.

dms open.

with love, Pix.

[Pix🔎 @PixBuilds]

there is no moat

[jack @jack]

there is no moat

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@big_duca yeah, CF is good and I also already burned my ships anyway

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not as I’m halfway moving to cloudflare after Railway fiasco

just can’t catch a break ffs

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION DETECTED: CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said “I think we’re going to have a couple years where every single week it’s going to feel like the sky is falling,” per Reuters.

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@treeonchain find D that has K2 in it as well

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@kelanoo gg

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@carlmonkft by your logic an ai slop designed app with good reviews should win a “DESIGN award” over a good designed app with poor reviews?

also, it was CLEARLY stated in the rules that the viability as a business is not a factor, and ONLY criteria are exactly “nice animations and design”.

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@boldleonidas @inversebrah under appreciated gigabanger

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@Polymarket can’t catch a break today, can we

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@bishara

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just got royally fucked by this

so you're telling me i pay railway every month to keep my secrets safe, and now i have to rotate every single one of them myself

except all deployments are paused, so if i rotate now my app breaks, and if i don't, someone else might have my keys

fml, what's a good alternative to railway?

gotta move before i scale my app any further

[Railway @Railway]

An urgent notice from the Railway team

https://t.co/niUAhTAQJM

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@inversebrah is it better or worse than if they didn’t cuckcode it, but spent a trillion on devs

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@icobeast shields up for my fellow cuckcoders🛡️🛡️🛡️

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@0xfoobar fair, but the whole reason i picked railway was so i wouldn't have to become a devops engineer😭

anything simpler you'd actually trust? mb like a middle ground or smth?

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@crypto_bitlord7 fml

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rotating isn't the hard part, generating new keys takes 5 minutes

the problem is railway paused all deployments, so the new keys can't go live. revoke the old ones now and the app goes down, keep them and they're possibly compromised

and they're not hardcoded lol, they're env vars stored in railway, which is literally the thing that got accessed

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@AndrewAsksHow @_chuckyc

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called it

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calling my shot: i'm winning a trophy at revenuecat's shipaton this year.

the app is finally in its finishing stages.

gtm and marketing strategy fully mapped.

the plan is to launch inside the shipaton window and hopefully find pmf right there, in public.

been chatting with a lot of app founders these past couple of weeks, and the community has been super receptive so far. absolutely love it.

time to see how good of a builder i actually am.

also on the hunt for people cracked at:
- aso
- seo
- ai search
- pinterest ads

if that's you, dms are open, and i'm very willing to pay for your time/service

and if you're just in the app space and wanna hop on a call, lmk. always happy to chat.

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@frederickjames @_chuckyc you’re really making this whole appmaxxing thing stick with me

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@boardyai @_chuckyc didn’t win the first place, but still happy with the result, cause it was out of almost 4k apps