Any tips I send out that you feel obliged to round trip go into what I am calling Keccers Tip Fund and will be used to pay out more tips. Your generosity enables further generosity from me. Heartfelt gratitude this week to Leeward and Rob whose kindness I am paying forward!
This week I tipped...
Jenna's sword skills
ȷď𝐛𝐛 on Warpcast
endorse! am no Jay but did tai chi sword for years, pretty satisfying https://youtube.com/shorts/QCkezkqXl6A
Mumufengg for her dream of a world where honest work wins
Mumufengg on Warpcast
One day handyman will be the highest paying job
BullishSeller for the computers designed to last through civilizational collapse. Not only is this an awesome project, there's a fantastic repository of links to browse at the bottom.
H&ART BLOCK on Warpcast
theres always https://collapseos.org
Limes backed out an entire hypothetical Hyrox p&l statement from a podcast with the founder.
limes on Warpcast
Made a projected income statement based on this interview with the founder of Hyrox. What expenses am I missing here because no way Hyrox is printing money like this https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/26162cfc-1f0d-4a5b-dee2-193e7e037600/original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9RDeCRvSSI&ab_channel=BusinessofSport
July saw to the core of my soul with this meme about laundry. Real and true.
July on Warpcast
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/aefd5690-b699-4f96-04a8-46a432522a00/original
Crunella wrote this cast I could hear — and genuinely made me laugh out loud.
CRUNNELLA on Warpcast
For some reason, I read the beginning of this with the tune like 🎶I’m looking for a girl in bainance. Do work. On bus. Works where. Bainance. Do work. On bus. I’m looking for a girl in bainance. 🎶
Frdysk shows everyone the proper way to log a run.
frdysk.framedl.eth on Warpcast
M4F Still recovering from that 100m dash sponsored by @ahn.eth Thisgh sk sore 🫠 I'm old https://storage.googleapis.com/moshi-images/images/1a09019fc0302843fa91d4a915f7cb2d4bf39746d4a32ffc.png
Elle's beautiful 404 page led me to a deep dive on her blog, and an even deeper dive into the role of empathy in creative work. Do you have to feel as others do to produce meaningful things?
elle on Warpcast
just added a new level on my homepage: the 404 error page ^-^ u will end up in the forest if u wander into a non-existent url. works with onscreen buttons or keyboard keys new blog about it and other things here: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#escapism
Stencil's clear eyes about our content machines
Stencil Profane on Warpcast
Make compulsive behaviour loops - reward with diminishing dopamine - build captive audience who mistake volume for authority, award curiosity with expectation, enshitify, mistake innovation for using ‘tools to hand’ as solutions for problems forgotten after C round funding. Reward paucity of imagination. Wonder why Entropy flattens it so fast. Live in this bizzaro world of flat land but in super HD https://warpcast.com/keccers.eth/0xcbf31e43
Duane's stat on how people looking for information on how to apply to grad school get it — the answer shocked me.
kingd.eth on Warpcast
When working with Google on a redesign in 2022, research showed that 80% of people seeking to research how to apply for graduate school went to TikTok.
7858's conception of Farcaster as a tree fort for nerds was apt and also a reminder nothing gold can stay.
7858 on Warpcast
Alright I slept on it and it’s still eating at me. This is poison. Is it a step toward 10x’ing DAUs? Almost certainly. I don’t blame Merkle. But this is exactly the kind of mechanism that promotes Current Thingism and tanks the average shelf life of content on a platform. It incentivizes top level casts and replies in the moment’s hottest little bucket over sharing the original thoughts on niche topics that made this place so appealing in the first place. And it was the complete absence of this kind of timeline cruft that made Farcaster feel so preternaturally high signal and productive of non-regretted interactions. This is eulogy for an era that I will remember with great fondness, not a protest or feedback. Happily for all of us, this place is not designed by committee. This is reality, where goods and services cost money. Merkle either slowly bleeds to death providing a magical tree fort for my favorite nerds or it lives long enough to see itself become something more like TikTok. 🫡 https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/09e1bf4f-beff-4ec0-dce7-8bd6702b4c00/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/3b4592a3-158f-407a-81c8-e5f766a50f00/original
Alex for the chart that showed how much better life will be if someone else who isn't me goes to work in the factories.
Alex Loukissas 🍉 on Warpcast
schrödiger’s made in americat https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/ee33e48a-c49d-499f-a798-7e1a185c4900/original
Couldn't resist subsidizing a little of James' Record Store Day haul
James Finnerty on Warpcast
Bringing home some Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/3bdbf8bc-4b54-4198-5193-da47db14cd00/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/27358fa0-3b1d-41ae-3bc3-cbb05c39b900/original
Leeward for taking a definitive stance on if intelligence is correlated with earnings potential
Leeward Bound on Warpcast
"extraction may be inevitable but is it desirable" - and moreover, does being competitively extractive mean you are smart? imho the opposite. the most extractive people i know (and the richest) are all unquestionably the dumbest. when they try to sound smart, it always comes out as "well maybe poor people don't deserve to eat!" and everyone else at the Homeless Charity Gala nods and cheers, because culturally it's widely accepted that anything a rich person says is smart, true, and good.
I love the chef culture on Farcaster so much, and Stefanie's take on Evelyn's recipe brightened my day. You can just tell there was so much thoughtfulness and care put into this.
Stefanie on Warpcast
Let’s cook dinner 🥧 Making Chef Evelyn Yap’s Chicken Pongteh Pot Pie :) @evelynyap17 has an amazing video here with the full process and recipe. Please give it a watch! https://warpcast.com/evelynyap17/0x782ded0e I can’t wait to try more of her recipes! 💜 https://warpcast.com/evelynyap17/0x782ded0e
We are so lucky to have gotten Justin over on the Far Side, and this screenshot of a literal mailbox for e-mail made my eyes green with jealousy. I would kill to have this interface instead of a red dot. I think I would take things more seriously.
justin ouellette on Warpcast
General Magic MagiCap https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/2ad75a22-3156-4171-34d9-0805c6836300/original
A token of good luck and well-wishes for Ryan's Beatrix Potter-inspired book. I'd love to color this in with my niece one day.
Blind Chronicles on Warpcast
Excited to share my next adventure. I decided that watching my wife and co worker's coloring that I would take my Geo Critters series and create a coloring book series. Tomorrow I'm going to create a video and narrate the story associated to this book and creating a coloring book for sale in my art style. Mixed with AI but still me. Don't ever let anything hold you back from chasing your dreams. Believe in yourselves and never give up. Push forward! https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/8f8592b3-5c56-4e0c-ad2b-7446c1d08a00/original https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/8eb02990-d3e3-4cc1-3e79-2d19421fcb00/original
That's all she wrote folks — tips issued today, April 15th, will be included in next week's recap. Thank you so much for everything, from the belly laughs to moments of true introspection. See you on the timeline!
If you have a post with 10,000 viewers 1% of them tip .50 that’s $50 direct to creator with none of the bad feelings of speculation involved for either party We have all the building blocks for this today but don’t do it because …. ? Too hard to socialize the behavior? Profit motive — trading leads to many more txn for the chains and platforms? Content is actually valueless and no one will ever pay?
I been sayin’ https://warpcast.com/matthewb/0x35c0ddc0
We have to work against the platform owners here in some way to do this but I am fully on board (as you know) 🤭 I need to update my crypto tracker but I’ve tipped out at least $300 YTD 💪 Imagine if everyone did like us
I loved the soft 🍖 tip when i liked something.
Please do Tuesday Tips like this ^ instead of like 👇
Yes https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002?referrer=0xA2fE1d4145443EbC027F15C9F7ca27f7e9FD5F33
I don't think I have developed opinion on this but I've received several $ payments since I joined They would be good money for some folks ... but I think you mean western like money, right
there was a feature to send warps from a cast, could see the same feature come back with USDC as the currency
There are a lot of good ui/ux ideas for this in my replies too 😎
I think most users are too harried to tip in real time. Two more decisions to make while scrolling: (i) do I want to tip, (ii) how much? And then they need to make sure their wallet has sufficient funds to send the tip. I think the solution is rewards automation
"creator rewards" automation, but run at the creator/consumer/curator level, not the platform level
Coming this week
could you wanna make a cast action that does this, as a trial of how many ppl would actually opt in and do this regularly? it would be three clicks instead of two (and some setup), but still prolly a good experiment to run
@jc4p had a cool idea for one where if it notices you’re liking on someone a lot, toss em a teeny coin or smth I’m open to anything
It’s not a VC-scale business and therefore the best software builders ignore it.
But that is far from the only source of revenue for a social business Forget Zora On here WC already is monetizable by - swaps - storage - new user accounts - advertising (like airdrop program) - token (the investors here surely have fat warrants, will mint off of retail chuds when that drops) no need to bilk us here
$50 per 1k is 0.05 CPM if a typical online person views 1000 things in a day that would mean they’d need to spends $18,250 per year
But you don’t have to tip all 1000 things you see? Half it? Hell, even 1/4 of that would be good given how little 10k views is
what content producers earn must equal what content consumers spend it could be that price IS sustainable if people view less than i initially estimated or if not all content is eligible and/or if the platforms subsidize money in = money out
also my math is wrong $5 CPM --> $1,825 / yr
People are actively experimenting with .25 and .10 I think your mental model of people tipping 1k pieces of content a day is wrong, just as much as my example overshot pricing
The problem is the amount of viewers
10k not a lot to get in the grand scheme of things
Yeah with time , it’s achievable
didn’t we have the warp button at some point? i wonder how that did in terms of numbers either way, i agree. i always enjoyed tipping warps, usdc, anything. a native button to send $0.25 would be fun.
1% hit rate is probably ISANELY HIGH tbh. You look at some of the largest creators on youtube or twitch, which have cultures of giving, and maybe 0.01-0.1% sub or give even once. The content generally doesn't bring value to the people with the money.
Well then we need to be honest about that and stop trying then. Why are we beating a dead horse
It's easier to sell dreams than realize them.
hmmmm it’s a little different there for a couple of reasons, one is that twitch and YouTube are long form streaming content in horizontal view at a computer happy to share my POV more
I think you could make the same argument for shorts on youtube, or reels on instagram. The content is consumed and then discarded. I am open to hearing what might be off course since you almost def. have more exposure to this than me
I liked it so much I paid for it: April 8-14 2025 We've got interfaces, Record Store day, beautiful meals, Beatrix Potter inspired books, computers for civilizational collapse, sword skills, dreams of a better world and clear eyed looks at what the world really is. Special thank you to @leewardbound and @robrecht for roundtripping my tips to them. All round tripped tips get paid forward. All tips from today will be recapped next week. With gratitude 🫶 https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002
I also got my Paragraph back. Pull-ups VERY SOON
Yayyy🎉
oh damn wasn’t sure what you meant with the tip fund, very cool!
I support this initiative
am i too redacted to understand how to go back to the main piece after opening a cast instead of closing and reopening the entire thing
No. This is sort of a known flaw with mini apps. There is no back button nor best practice for a back button pattern. https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002 https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002 https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002 https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002 https://paragraph.com/@keccers/i-liked-it-so-much-i-paid-for-it-002 A bunch of links hopefully a punt to browser makes this better
“my piece already got 600 views!” >69 of them were triumph thank u, links much better lol
next level casting*writing mad respect! ⚔️
Love how intentional this list always is. Do you keep a running log of what stands out each week?
Yes via the notes I sent along with each tip!
That’s cool
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