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Founder of @LumaHQ + @GlowWallet . Running, writing, reading, coding. Easily excited.
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I’m going to set up a desk and work out at a parking spot for a couple hours to show that parking real estate can be used for better purposes.
Wish me luck.
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I have set up at 16th and Market and paid the meter a reasonable $2.75 for one hour.
Stop by and say hi!
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@zebulgar
It’s too much… “this guy is so good that he played League of Legends during the call and that’s a really intense game”
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Parking meter person just drove by. I looked at him. He at me. Then he moved on.
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France produces 70% of its electricity from Nuclear and is planning more reactors.
As a result, air pollution and carbon emissions are way down when compared to France's neighbors.
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About 3 years ago,
@marissamary
messaged me on Twitter about a poker night she was hosting on Luma.
A week ago, we got married in New York! ❤️
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This is the test drive. Planning on moving to Embarcadero / City Hall next Monday or Tuesday.
Respond if you are interested in getting a nearly free desk for a couple hours!
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I wrote about how the Micromobility industry won't evolve like Uber and Lyft.
Prepare for there being a lot of scooter and bike companies, not one monopoly...
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She called her supervisors. They decided not to make a fuss out of it so she biked away.
It’s getting cold. Should have worn jacket or pants. Lol.
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Solana can be hard to wrap your head around but once you do, it's pretty simple!
So I wrote an explainer of how the Solana Programming Model works targeted towards people with some software experience.
Here it is:
And a summary 👇
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I used to think that every innovation needed to be a ~tech~ innovation.
But so many products today are culture innovations.
@SubstackInc
didn't create new tech for paid newsletters. They made it culturally OK to start a paid newsletter.
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Done for today!
Planning on working near City Hall or the Embarcadero on Monday...
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Congrats to
@atherenergy
who raised $50m to build the future of electric mopeds on India!
I visited
@tarunsmehta
and their showroom a week ago. Very impressive.
They're like the Tesla of India. Except their version of a premium price point is only ~$2k
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It's shocking how much better for the world MIT is than the Ivies
- no legacy admissions
- makes lecture content available online for free
- more math + science, less BS
- no law school
(I'm obviously very biased.)
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Multiple people in this thread called out how the typical "Annual / Monthly" flow in SaaS can be confusing so we updated our checkout modal:
Hey
@LumaHQ
— We used to be friends. Now we’re enemies. I fat fingered an annual purchase instead of monthly and your response is “tough luck?”
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I thought I would like living in New York.
I was wrong. I fucking love it!
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As we start to build on Solana, I'm going to write about what I'm learning!
Here's my first post, it's on how Solana NFTs differ from Ethereum NFTs:
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Wow, 1k followers.
I would like to thank everyone from high school who followed me 9 years ago and then immediately quit Twitter.
I'll never lose you.
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Scammers on Solana have been creating sites promising that you enter a raffle.
The scam site tries to fool a wallet by delegating all of your tokens so they can transfer them later.
In
@glowwallet
, we show you what's actually happening before you approve the transaction.
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I would love to see a VC firm that donates a high % of returns to non-profits.
The non-profit VC would attract a ton of funding and get into hot deals.
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I set a goal to run 750 miles this year. Today I hit 750.1 miles ran!
Here's a post-run selfie 😄
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I'm in SF and I woke up with a 100ºF and coughing. I think I may have COVID-19 since I traveled to New Mexico via SFO last weekend.
It's pretty mild and my roommates are helping me out.
I'm planning on self-quarantining in my room for the next 14 days.
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I’ve been a New Yorker for less than a day but I’m pretty sure that everything about New York is better than every other city
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Today we're launching
@nftoken_so
— a simple, cheap NFT standard for Solana.
The best part: it's already live. You can create an NFT in a few seconds and then see it in your Glow wallet.
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VC titles are so confusing. How do I figure out who I should talk to and who is a waste of time?
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Lime is threatening to sue Scooter Map and asked Apple to take SM down. Bullying tactics 😢
If you think riders and gig-workers should have options, sign here:
Thread:
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The best product people like it when you complain about their product
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Last night I said goodbye to San Francisco. It's been a fun 6 years, but I'm excited to move to New York.
I'll be in LA for the next couple weeks then I'm headed to NYC. 😍
via
@LumaHQ
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#wepark
is **not** about affordability in San Francisco.
It's about how we can **better use our public spaces**.
Some affordable cities still have dangerous, unpleasant streets.
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Original idea came from here:
@anniefryman
@brezina
@devonzuegel
@samdaly91
This is an amazing idea!
If you guys do something w/ this, I'd love to help.
I work from home / co-working spaces, so I'm realistically thinking about working out of a parking spot one day this week.
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The next WePark day is happening on Monday in SF near City Hall.
It's basically the easiest protest you can participate in.
And we now have a website:
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I've been thinking about moving into the nonprofit sector since I have experience launching companies that don't make a profit.
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Today, we launched the next iteration of
@LumaHQ
— a community home that brings together events, resources, and a member directory.
We've been working with a beta group of educators, professional groups, and spiritual leaders.
Ch-ch-check it out!
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Chernobyl - 31 people die from initial blast
San Francisco - on pace for 49 deaths from vehicle crashes this year
Can we stop dramatizing nuclear accidents and focus on saving the lives of our friends and family who dare to walk outside?
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The first group WePark event happens tomorrow!!
Table, chairs, WiFi all provided. Come by 😅😁
When: Tomorrow, Monday 12pm - 4pm
Where: SF City Hall Plaza
What: You having a great time in a parking spot
FB Event:
I’m going to set up a desk and work out at a parking spot for a couple hours to show that parking real estate can be used for better purposes.
Wish me luck.
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Today, you can use Scooter Map to find and unlock scooters to ride!
Stop fumbling around with multiple apps and spend more time scootering 🛴🛴
Would love *your* feedback on Product Hunt:
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It feels so good that San Francisco problems are no longer my problem
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In the Luma iOS app you can now browse events on a map.
It’s super easy to find a fun / interesting event nearby.
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I've been working with
@lolitataub
to convert her Substack newsletter into a Luma Community
She's one of the kindest, most energetic people I've met. So I'm really excited to work more with her!
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Thinking of doing a Twitch stream this Saturday while building on Solana.
Like this Tweet if you’d be interested in checking it out 💻
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WePark has gone international!
First group event is happening today in San Francisco near City Hall. Noon to 4pm.
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@dvassallo
@LumaHQ
Daniel I personally responded to you pretty quickly and I thought we were working thru this together?
For reference, the next screen looks like this — we try to explicitly state how much you are paying and that payments are non-refundable.
A bit disappointed you are trying to
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Are you throwing public / semi-public events over Zoom?
I made a little RSVP website generator: paste in your Zoom info and get a nice shareable event webpage.
Comment / DM me and I’ll get you in the beta.
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WePark hit BBC World!
Is it a joke *or* is it serious?
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Solana Pay lets you buy things with Solana instead of using credit card / debit card.
💰 much cheaper tx fees than credit cards
✨ easy loyalty rewards and discounts
🦁 programmatically airdrop your best customers NFTs
Now we just need to get more merchants on board :)
With Glow you can use Solana Pay to buy your favorite products.
Now we just need
@elonmusk
to support Solana...
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I've been training to run faster and today I finally broke 4:50 in the mile!
I ran a 4:48 on the East River in NYC 🏙️.
It's been super fun. For the next thing, I'm going to try and qualify for the NYC Marathon!
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Reunited with my cofounder
@danqing_liu
in New York!
Now looking for a
@LumaHQ
office… What’s the best office neighborhood in Manhattan?
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Just landed in NYC! Ubering to my place now.
I’m going to see how many days I can live here without driving.
In SF, I could do a week or two. In LA, barely a day.
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@anniefryman
@brezina
@devonzuegel
@samdaly91
This is an amazing idea!
If you guys do something w/ this, I'd love to help.
I work from home / co-working spaces, so I'm realistically thinking about working out of a parking spot one day this week.
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It feels like there's a new scooter company every day. How does this happen?
I wrote an overview of how to start a scooter company:
Summary follows here...
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merry christmas!
yesterday i hit 1,000 miles of running for the year! next year we are going for 1,250 🏃
I set a goal to run 750 miles this year. Today I hit 750.1 miles ran!
Here's a post-run selfie 😄
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Solana Pay lets people claim airdrops, buy things in person, and redeem event tickets.
But as with every new thing, it's also a new attack vector.
In
@glowwallet
we simulate and inspect every tx to make sure that we block anything malicious.
Happy scanning!
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I just released a JS SDK that helps you integrate Glow into your Solana dApp.
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Today is the scooter switch over in San Francisco!
Scoot + Skip → Scoot (Bird) + JUMP (Uber) + Lime + Spin
Let the games begin again!
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@levie
This is what we're building with
@zmurl_com
😃
We started this to help a yoga instructor friend who was laid when quarantine started.
We've hosted 1000s of events, but we haven't seen "How enterprise CEOs can stay funny on Twitter"... Want to host it?
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I didn't expect Hailey Bieber to make
@LumaHQ
relevant in one Instagram story, but here we are...
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On my walk home I met Maurice a.k.a Mo Gamer.
He sets up his van in a parking spot with Nintendo 64, GameCube, TV screens and folding chairs.
People in the area can hang outside, play games, and leave a tip.
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I wrote a short internal post on why we prefer named parameters over positional arguments in JS 💻
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Lol this is classic SF. We will move the bolders back and forth and call each other assholes without doing anything about the underlying problem.
Breaking news:
@sfpublicworks
moves Clinton Park boulders back onto sidewalk after they were rolled off last night. The controversial rocks were placed in an effort to block homeless, drug dealers. More coverage soon
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The current Solana NFT spec leads to bugs, vulnerabilities, and slowness.
So I wrote a new spec that is faster, safer, and better for devs.
Post:
Summary in thread:
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Just booked flights to the
@MicromobilityCo
conference in Berlin on October 1st!
Who else is going to be there?
...thinking of organizing another after party
@michalnaka
@chasestubb
@quicklywilliam
@tchu88
@AsherDeMontreal
@benwbear
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Someone has already made $5k with a
@LumaHQ
feature that we still haven't launched.
(It's live in the product, but we just haven't announced it.)
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Thank you
@edwinwee
and
@_TamaraWinter
for including me in Stripe's all-hands video!
Their internal video team has better production quality than most commercials...
And thanks to everyone at Stripe for all the work they do to support
@LumaHQ
🙏🙇♂️
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The wallet experience on MetaMask / Phantom is broken.
Your "Activity" is a list of transactions hashes. Then when you click on one, they just link you out to Etherscan / Solscan...
We're excited to give you more understanding of what's actually going on.
Blockchains are for machines, but wallets should be for humans.
Glow beautifully and clearly renders your transactions, so you always know what's going on.
❤️
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Bird just announced Bird Platform — allowing independent operators to buy branded scooters at cost, an admin website, and access to their charging / ops marketplace.
Then Bird will take 20% fee on each ride.
This is super interesting.
Thoughts:
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We launched
@glowwallet
just one week ago and in our FIRST WEEK we did more net new user growth than Facebook did last week!!
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We're hosting a party in Soho NYC tonight.
If I know you / we've interacted online, DM me for details! 🎄🔥
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26.2 miles!
Yesterday, I got my second dose of the vaccine so today I decided to run my first marathon.
With a Pfizer™️ vaccine you can do anything!
#ad
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Today we opened the beta paid events for
@zmurl_com
!
In just 2 minutes, you can set up an event page with paid tickets for your Zoom event.
DM / comment if you're interested in hosting an event :)
Docs here:
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Lyft e-bike fires -> e-bikes pulled off the streets until they are improved.
A car explodes and nearly shuts down the Bay Bridge -> nothing
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Just did a video interview for
@weparkweparty
with local NBC!
Catch the guy biking by with a shout of support...
Thanks to
@jason_a_scott
for this video!
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@lolitataub
@danqing_liu
and I raised our salary from $0 to ~$95k after raising our $3M seed round.
Too low — not having enough personal money is a distraction
Too high — highest salary at co
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@suyashcjoshi
@jestelle
No! You should only go to a hospital if you really need to. If you can stay home, you should stay home.
At a hospital, you'll be taking up another bed and have a chance to get infected w/ other diseases and to infect others.
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Would love to see a calendar app with this workflow:
- take screenshot of meeting request (text, email)
- open screenshot in calendar
- calendar parses screenshot context and populates event
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@zebulgar
I feel like the crisis ➡️ HBO pipeline is shortening. Soon they are going to start filming the show *before* the crisis and just hope for something crazy to happen.
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We just booked our first $$ in revenue for
@zmurl_com
!
But it's still totally free to use... One of our users just sent us a couple gift cards since their events are going so well 😎
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Scooter economics. Scooter economics.
Depending on who you ask, they are either very good or very, very bad.
There's truth to both sides. Shift a few levers and scooter companies will turn a cash cow into a leaking piggy bank.
I made a fun calculator:
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I’ve had a lot of problems focusing lately. I can barely get through the work day.
Everything changed today now that
@eugenewei
gave us a Dance Party Button.
Now I take 100 micro breaks a day that make the day more fun and more productive.
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hiiii! we're launching the Luma iOS app today.
- create beautiful events
- import your contact book + send SMS invites
- chat with (new) friends in the app
and we have a lot more planned.
app store →
Introducing Luma for iOS!
Create events, send SMS invites, and chat with your friends right from the Luma app.
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2023 was a big running year for me.
I hit 1,600 miles, a 4:48 mile and a 1:20 half marathon!
merry christmas!
yesterday i hit 1,000 miles of running for the year! next year we are going for 1,250 🏃
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With Burning Man canceled, hopefully people pour their energy into improving their neighborhood rather than a magical desert city.
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