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It's weird that America has become the place where it's practically impossible to build new things if they are controversial.
We want to aggressively regulate AI, take AV cars off the road, kill crypto, outlaw nuclear plants, etc.
America is being run by Debbie Downers.
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When ChatGPT goes down, people are like "wow, the demand for that is amazing and huge"
When Solana goes down for 5 min, people are like "see, I told you crypto doesn't scale"
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Hivemapper decided to build on the Solana blockchain.
When we made that decision, some investors told us (in the kindest way possible) that it was foolish and we need to have a backup plan.
What Solana is building is special.
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I know a bunch of people are shitting on Solana. I have seen this core team execute when many thought they were dead and the entire world was against them.
It is never a good bet to bet against Solana.
And Hivemapper is not going to switch, so stop asking.
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1. Do not quit your job to map for Hivemapper.
2. Do not buy a car to map for Hivemapper.
3. Just bring Hivemapper along on the drives you are already doing
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Hivemapper is approaching 13% of the world's global road network mapped in 13 months.
Amazing community of global contributors. Oh, and people are using the map data products.
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A well known VC boldly told me that our software + hardware approach to Hivemapper would not scale.
As we hit:
(1) 15% of the global road network mapped in 14 months
(1) 18,000 Bee units sold in ~3 weeks
Gonna be honest, I still think about that.
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Visiting our manufacturing facility as we get ready to scale production of the Hivemapper Dashcam.
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With
@helium
moving to
@solana
shortly, and
@Hivemapper
already on Solana the future of DePin is gonna be on Solana.
This is important as it enables the entire DePin category to grow that much faster, by enabling contributors to more easily participate in multiple networks.
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Hivemapper starting to take over in-car infotainment maps...
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Hey Google Maps, just wanted to let you guys know this road is actually closed so may want to update your map...
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Approaching 2M unique road km mapped and bringing it all together:
* Map Explorer
* Map AI Trainer
* Fleet Management
Try it out here...
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The
@Hivemapper
Dashcam uses the
@helium
network for location verification.
We recently released a firmware update for the dashcam, and this capability is now live. It will take some time for all dashcams to upgrade to the latest firmware.
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Hivemapper has mapped 15% of the global road network in 14 months.
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I believe in free markets, I also believe in free speech so here we go.
This is a douchebag move, please don't buy them.
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A smart investor once passed on Hivemapper because they thought our approach would not scale well. I actually appreciate forthright critique versus some manufactured bs to appear nice.
So let's check in on where Hivemapper is at after 12 months since launch:
* ~6.7M unique road…
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A few words on the Solana ecosystem from an entrepreneur building on Solana:
1. Lots of early adopters/ passionate builders
2. Cost effective for developers
3. Lots of other great entrepreneurs who want you to succeed
Not a hard decision.
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Hivemapper sold more Bee dashcam units in the last 7 days than all of 2022.
The world is a big place and there is plenty to map, excited to welcome so many new people to the community.
Meanwhile, we are working hard to scale production.
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30,000+ Hivemapper contributors across dashcam drivers and map ai trainers 🗺️💪
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Helium has a pricing problem.
@Hivemapper
uses the Helium network for location verification, and its pricing model undervalues the service it provides.
Short thread...
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We are only getting started. Still early.
Happy New Year to all my fellow builders
🌍Here's how the
#Hivemapper
network scaled in 2023:
🚀 6.8M unique road km mapped
🔁 103M total road km mapped
🛣️ 33,676 map & AI Trainer contributors
📈 700-900 km avg. contributed per week / driver
Happy New Year!!🥳🥂 2024, here we come...
#DePIN
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Hivemapper approaching 5M unique road km, or 8% of global roads in < 9 months.
Certain countries like Japan, Taiwan, Spain are seeing accelerating growth.
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Soon enough you will be able to contribute to Hivemapper via the app and earn rewards.
1. Next week we are rolling out Buzz reports focused initially on road construction and closures, but expect that this will extended to additional categories overtime.
2. HONEY Rewards will…
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The more people who do this, the more it annoys Google Maps. So, bring it on.
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97% of crypto projects are not even trying to build anything useful for a real market. They just seek attention.
The 3% is where interesting things are getting built.
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The Hivemapper Bee was designed with commercial fleets front of mind 🚛🚚.
Frankly, our prior models were not a fit for commercial fleets, but the Bee is a great fit for them.
Know somebody with a fleet of 50 to 500 vehicles or trucks? We would love an intro 🙏
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The Hivemapper Bee has lots of compute, three cameras, professional grade GPS, etc.
With all this horsepower, we have lots of ideas for features we will provide that go beyond mapping to help keep drivers safe.
What do you want the Bee to do for you?
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Hmmm...what if the Hivemapper Dashcam was directly connected to the map, so you didn't have to connect to your app...would you want that dashcam?
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Hivemapper just released Scout - an open source UI toolkit for Location Monitoring using geolocated imagery.
Across many regions in the world, Hivemapper sees a given location many times per week.
Here are just some of the use cases for location monitoring:
* Monitor gas…
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In Hivemapper's first year:
✅ 6M Unique Road Km Mapped (10% of global roads)
✅ 25K Contributors across Drivers and AI Trainers
✅ Brand name customers, real use cases
Amazing and focused community 🙏🗺️
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At Hivemapper we are on a mission to build a fresher global map and built by all of us.
Whether you are helping build the map in LA, Lagos, or Lima we it should be incredibly easy and cost effective.
Today, it got far easier and more affordable.
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DePin networks are throwing away 14% to 25% of their token supply on worthless supply, because they are using static rewards instead of dynamic rewards.
1. A fixed mint per period makes no sense. The rewards schedule should reflect the progress of the underlying network. If the…
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@the_transit_guy
I generally agree with many of your takes but to prove this tech on a bigger scale we need these kinds of larger deployments.
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What makes Helium and Hivemapper incredibly challenging are two things:
1. Physical devices in the real world
2. Those physical devices are location sensitive i.e. Helium Hotspots need to be correctly distributed across different parts of a city.
That's DePIN. DePIN is hard.
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Given all the excitement about DePIN - which is amazing - it is important to remember the folks who helped create modern day DePIN
@amirhaleem
Helium CEO / Founder
@TusharJain_
Multicoin
@nickgrossman
USV
Without their work and vision, DePIN would not exist.
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For all the
@helium
geeks, here is some updated data on the recent Helium network usage surge by the
@Hivemapper
Dashcam for location verification purposes.
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A Hivemapper contributor created a script that sends app notifications about daylight hours, so he knew when mapping hours begin / end.
People loved this idea, so we added it to the Hivemapper App.
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Hivemapper sees a given location 20-100x more frequently than Google.
Here is a randomly selected location in Scottsdale, AZ that Hivemapper has mapped 128+ times this year.
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One year ago,
@hivemapper
launched.
Thank you to the community that made the magic happen.
Year 2 is gonna be even more fun.
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I'll be at Token2049 in Dubai talking about DePIN with the good folks from Render and IOnet
Ping me if you will be there.
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The Map AI Trainer platform is a core pillar of
@Hivemapper
Trainers label and QA data to improve and correct the ML models that detect objects (speed limit signs, etc.)
* > 1 million daily reviews
* ~10K of daily active AI Trainers
* AI trainers spends 1 hr training / day…
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User growth has accelerated 81% over the last 60 days as we have introduced new ways to contribute (via Hivemapper app) and added self-serve data products.
Oh, and the network mapped ~38M road km during this same period.
We welcome doubters and skeptics, as there is nothing…
A smart investor once passed on Hivemapper because they thought our approach would not scale well. I actually appreciate forthright critique versus some manufactured bs to appear nice.
So let's check in on where Hivemapper is at after 12 months since launch:
* ~6.7M unique road…
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Hivemapper Bursts are live.
It's kind of like Uber Surge, but in reverse.
Earn extra Honey for mapping these spots that customers want.
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Mapping has to be 100% passive, otherwise you are toast. The Bee is the only true 100% passive mapping device.
Mapping should be easy. No messing with an app. No waiting for uploads. Just drive and earn.
With the new Hivemapper Bee, it's that simple.
Reserve yours today, and get the best pricing and rewards on the ultimate mapping miner.
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The Hivemapper AI Trainer platform is now doing 3-5M daily reviews.
It may surpass 4B AI Trainer reviews this year.
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10M Unique Road Km Mapped by the amazing Hivemapper community.
That's 17% of the global road network.
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Solana is going to be the leader of decentralized physical infrastructure networks delivering true utility for customers.
@hivemapper
is scaling on Solana and soon
@helium
will complete its migration to Solana.
17/ A notable expansion of frontier use cases continued to pop up across the Solana ecosystem during Q4 as well, including:
@OrbisClub
@aleph_im
@Hivemapper
@HomebaseDAO
@HeliumFndn
@bonk_inu
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7 of the 10 most valuable companies in American were all born from the tech startup ecosystem that SVB served.
This so-called "niche" seems pretty important to the US economy as a whole.
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Bursts are launching on Hivemapper next week.
1. Customer sets a location they want mapped faster.
2. HONEY Burst appears in the app.
3. Drive that area, and earn more HONEY.
Let the games begin.
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A large potential customer approached us and explained why they like Hivemapper for developing market regions:
1. Google is not refreshing the regions they want at a sufficiently high cadence (almost certainly due to the high cost and low monetization rates for these regions)…
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Another day, another battle against douchebag scalpers begins ;-)
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This is not just marketing, it is actually happening in most of the major Hivemapper cities - Amsterdam, Seoul, Phoenix, LA, etc.
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Yes, Hivemapper dashcam imagery will be integrated into the Hivemapper App, allowing contributors to verify roadwork construction.
Here is a peek at how this will work...
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Real estate investment professionals live in Google StreetView, and yet they are looking at data that is 1-3 yrs old.
With Hivemapper Scout they can see the location 2-3x per week.
If you know folks in the real-estate investment world, please send them our way.…
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The
@hivemapper
community is approaching 8% of global roads mapped in < 9 months.
The way we got there is by constantly shipping product for contributors and customers. Nothing glamorous, just incredible amounts of hard work by an amazing team that knows how to execute.…
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Hivemapper is more than code.
@hivemapper
is a community of people from all walks of life from all over the world working together in pursuit of a clear mission - to build the freshest and highest fidelity global map.
1M unique road km mapped, onwards!
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Hersh is a Berkeley native and is a family friend. So heartbroken.
This is Hersh Golberg-Polin, a 23-year-old American-Israeli who was at the desert music festival attacked by Hamas.
His parents are anxiously searching for him. On Saturday morning they received 2 short messages from their son saying: “I love you” and “I’m sorry.” They haven't…
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In less than 9 months, the Hivemapper Dashcam has mapped in 90 countries, or 46% of all countries in the world.
Full list here:
Albania
Andorra
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Canada
China…
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@katewillett
You do realize that by building more housing it *reduces* the power and profits of the real estate industry
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Over the last few weeks
@Hivemapper
has begun an internal beta for reported issues.
When you see an incident (lane closures, construction, road debris, etc.) contributors will tap "Buzz" in the app and it will automatically tag 15 seconds of dashcam images before and after.
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Stuck at Dubai International Airport, any Hivemapper drivers around to pick me up?
I will pay up with a big ass Bursted location :-)
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Collected from an externally mounted Hivemapper Dashcam ($269) in 115 degree heat that maintained lane level positional accuracy.
Progress.
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A
@hivemapper
contributor bought multiple dashcams, installed them in a single car to try and game the system.
They stopped doing this rather quickly as it wasn't working thanks to
@helium
location verification built into the Hivemapper Dashcam.
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The
@Hivemapper
map engine is producing Speed Limit sign data at an increasingly fast pace.
Since releasing the Map AI Trainer for speed limits only a few days ago, contributors have done 20,000 reviews.
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Why exactly are we telling founders to always avoid hardware?
Apple $2.8T
NVIDIA $1.8T
Amazon $1.76
Tesla $750B
TSMC $530B
SpaceX $175B
Some of the most compelling startups of this generation like Anduril build and sell hardware. If you need to build hardware to solve the core…
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100% of pre-orders for the Hivemapper Dashcam and Hivemapper Dashcam S have shipped.
If we say we are going to do something, we do it.
Between both models the
@Hivemapper
network is now mapping in over 90 countries.
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Shortly,
@Hivemapper
will add automated detection of roadwork into the map (for free) across Los Angeles and San Francisco metro areas.
Seeing fresh street level imagery of the construction roadwork on hover satisfies curiosity and gives you situational awareness.
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The Hivemapper App is gonna get a big upgrade for the Settings tab next week:
1. Delightful and familiar UX
2. Manual firmware upgrade option - frequent ask from the community.
3. Extensible so we can add new settings for features like privacy zones and more.
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Hivemapper Bursts have been a huge hit with the community....
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Gooogle Maps has large offices in India with thousands of map editors fixing map issues, labeling data, etc.
I would not be surprised if the Hivemapper Map AI Trainer ecosystem is larger and more efficient.
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Fresh and improved Hivemapper Explorer just dropped.
Check it out...
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Hivemapper is in the office 5 days a week starting in April. Up from 4 days a week.
For startups, the remote work thing was an important experiment, but a failed experiment.
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Should we reach out to the owner of this jeep and get his car wrapped in a Hivemapper Bee logo?
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The path to 200K unique km mapped by
@Hivemapper
...
First 100K unique road km = 75 days
Next 100K unique road km = 17 days
(Truth be told, I am more excited by numbers with an M after them, plus lots more coverage in the EU 🗺️)
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A
@hivemapper
community member is *experimenting* with building a gimbal that can attach to a bike so that we can begin expanding to bikes and motorcycles.
While this is still in the R&D phase and will need to go through additional testing, exciting progress.
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It's a really bad idea to...
Quit your job to Hivemapper
Buy a car to Hivemapper
Rent a car to Hivemapper
Just take Hivemapper along for your existing rides, and enjoy the journey wherever it may take you.
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Too many people approach Hivemapper with some incorrect assumptions, which can lead to poor decisions. Three things to keep in mind about Hivemapper:
1. There is no fixed reward schedule or halving or anything like that which you see in most other projects. Hivemapper rewards…
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If you are considering using one of the Hivemapper Dashcams for personal use in addition to mapping, the S model is going to provide better utility.
Not only do you get the 30FPS video, additional storage capacity, but the image quality in low light scenarios is far better.
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On
@Hivemapper
there are over 30,000 active weekly AI Trainers doing 3-6M data labeling reviews per day.
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The conversation kept getting better and better so I hope you listen to the end.
Hivemapper might be crypto's most compelling product yet!
New episode with
@aseidman
from
@Hivemapper
on:
- how Hivemapper mapped 10% of all roads in 11 months
- Hivemapper's biggest challenges + opportunities
- Solana's DePIN network effects
Links to the episode ↓
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The response to the Hivemapper Bee has been amazing. The Bee is ultimately about 3 things:
1. Passive
Ultimately mapping has to be 100% passive, otherwise it simply will break and refresh rates will fall off a cliff.
2. Mainstream contributors
Hivemapper is already starting to…
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Hivemapper on the left (May 2023)
Google Maps on the right (Feb 2023)
Notice the new speed limit sign Hivemapper's AI detected that is not present when Google saw it.
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Intense and maniacal focus over the past 9 months:
✅The Hivemapper Dashcam shipped and mapping in over 90+ countries
✅Map AI + Trainers pipeline producing map features at scale
✅ 9% of the worlds roads mapped by contributors
✅Paid customers consuming mapping APIs
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My 3 hr Uber ride was delayed due to this.
Google and Waze told me initially that my ride was going to be slightly delayed due to traffic.
(This road flooding didn't just happen).
We need to rethink how maps get built.
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