today before leaving for SG, I was telling my mum about my new year's resolutions.
she hit me with, "no house no car no job no money no boyfriend, which one are you gonna change this year?"
i now know where i got my savagery from 😭
but my job
@Katsu_Labs
is pretty real 😎
bought a used car today, didn't have cash so the owner opted for usdt instead. sent it over on solana, arrived in 1min easy
this is the pmf we've been dreaming of. just me, a random 50 year old dude in anaheim, and a used toyota
2 years ago i joined crypto VC and i quickly learned the difference between nice and not so nice people
breaking in as a woman was very tough in this closed boys club, especially in asia. i didn't come from the right schools, or the right tradfi circles
i've had the worst
im not a talented builder, but i am a first-time founder, so i'll try to share what has been really bothering me and borderline burning me out:
1. we've been trying to build an actual consumer product, and in our last iteration we were already starting to see signs of web2
I'm seeing a pretty real exhaustion from a fair share of talented crypto founders right now. Some reasons I think this is happening:
a) On-chain users / markets still aren't meaningfully scaling. There is no meaningful user growth, and there is no meaningful increase in on-chain
yea no one in crypto wants to build consumer apps bc then your metrics will actually be public
continue building your infra projects so that you can hide behind narratives while grifter projects rug your ecosystem fund
consumer is hard and i may very well fail but at least i
I don't tweet much about this but
@zilliqa
really is an extremely underrated project. Writing in Scilla is enjoyable as well. Never mind the price action, we're here for the long term. $ZIL
#Zilliqa
i love how singaporean men always ask me if im in it for the passport, bc im malaysian and seen as 'lesser'
tell me you're broke without telling me you're broke
y'all really are the most repulsive kind of people to date
i’ve recently been hurt over and over, by someone whom i had fallen in love with, but settled for being just friends with. upon knowing of my feelings, he has never hesitated to trash my heart and stomp it into pieces - things i’d never say to him, but feelings i hold close to my
today marks my 1 year of leaving corporate
unemployment, to many outside of my close friend circle
i took a leap of faith last year after 3+ years in crypto and after doing a personal runway calculation
the first few months were very scary, i was in constant doubt and agony
when in doubt, believe in serendipity and have fun
8 years ago when i first started college, i couldn't get into the competitive specialisations like cybersecurity and virtual reality - so i picked the one no one wanted: machine learning
when i graduated in 2020 and gpt3 came
i used to have a friend i'd send PG essays to and we'd have the most thought provoking discussions ever
sadly we no longer talk
looking for more PG friends
one day i woke up and realised that no matter what i did i was never gon be pretty enough for this guy
stopped replying his messages, put him in the archives, that was the end of it
every day some giga VC-funded ‘decentralised’ AI chain/network reaches out to ‘incubate’ or ‘absorb’ us into their ‘ecosystem’
no, your shit is barely usable and not even cheaper than our centralised overlords. your $50k grant is not worth my time
other than promising airdrops
.
@MarriottBonvoy
@Marriott
@MarriottIntl
just had the worst night at courtyard marriott fishermans wharf
was thoroughly humiliated by Donnie and Adriano, and Mauricio
Donnie let out a really loud laugh after checking us in and looking at our passports, making us feel really
omfg i have been trying to bridge to arbitrum for the past 10 minutes to buy more hyperliquid spot
all 5 transactions have failed and i cant tell why
this is why solana will win this cycle
lol i remember when i was new in the space with no social capital or friends
literally stood outside of mbs, talked to almost everyone who came out the door
sometimes do things that dont scale is good advice
if u’re a new founder going to token2049
- don’t go to public events or main conf
- try to find locations of private event
stay outside event or MBS and pitch every person getting out of there
or going to speaker lane
- go to less crowded / more exclusive events
- go to
@HustleFundVC
Joyce
@SaisonCapital
$50k - $3M
Pre-seed to Series B
slide into my dms
i mainly look at
#web3
companies - if you are a woman founder in the space especially, i'd love to talk to you!
also web3 infrastructure, music nfts, dev tools
.
@Mika_Raiba
will sune be ready to meet everyone on telegram - text, send pictures, and call her like you would a friend
we are opening up early access sune for our
@solana
fwens, starting with $uwuSOL holders for stakers on
@sanctumso
take a look at our proposal, link below:
i cant even remember whos in or not in sf anymore, but -
im hosting a chill hang at my place before i leave! if we’ve hung out before or just talked on twitter please come thru 🌸
just hit 10k users in 3 weeks
@Raiba_AI
. deciding if we should build on
@solana
,
@base
or
@optimism
. our users already have sol and evm wallets without even being onchain so we’re just looking at the best ecosystem to build in now.
looking to speak to anyone who’d be helpful!
people always think im joking but i do ache being a mom
no one understands
i cant say that during dates bc it will scare the men away
i've been single for 2 years and i go on a plethora of dates every year
but everywhere i turn i yearn for my kids and a loving husband
this
how is singapore so incredibly boring on the weekends? i miss the days of dogwatching and sunbathing with my friends at dolores park, or checking out the many gazillion things happening in the city
oml bring me back to sf already
building
@Raiba_AI
for the past month has been exhilarating
we hit 16k+ users today, ~83% WoW growth
avg time spent ~33 mins, longest ~250 mins
launching points program sune
starting our seed raise, looking to speak to funds and angels interested in the crypto x AI space
today we completely shifted off walletconnect onto the solana SDK - a little terrifying bc im not a very strong engineer but here goes nothing
smol wins
brought my fam on the LA metro. men were screaming at the onboard police. mom kept freaking out and told me she wanted to get off.
no, welcome to america
hey guys - looking for web3 dev houses - please dm me with any good reccomendations! (or if you’re a freelance rust/solidity engineer, would love to speak as well)
reflecting on the year 2021 as it's coming to an end
early this year i decided to take the plunge and leave everything and everyone i knew to move to Singapore alone, in the midst of covid. i left on Feb 11, a date i remember vividly as it was cny eve.
sad to see some people i used to respect in the industry turn into grifters as well
which part of the delusion cycle are we at now bros
get me out of this hell
i used to hate it when people told me to smile more - i thought it was misogynistic, even
but lately, in the spirit of trying to be a better person, i make an effort to smile and greet people i see on the streets
and, especially in sf, people almost always reciprocate, and some
sometimes i lay in bed agonising about product market fit, then i realise
all these 'builders' and 'investors' mansplaining you what pmf is is lying to you and themselves, pmf can't be explained, you'll know you have it when you have it
just ship
onboarded some people onto gripto today at the sf github office
was explaining that to sign up for
@Raiba_AI
early access you need a
@phantom
wallet, and 90% of people got the wallet and got onboarded almost instantly
gripto is so close to onboarding the next million users, i
today i sold the last of my luxury bag collection… documenting it here bc idk when’s the next time i’ll have a luxury bag again (let alone a collection).
i’ve made some pretty questionable financial decisions in the past, but running a company has really forced me to take a
it's been a few days since we launched
@Raiba_AI
- wanted to pen down some thoughts on what I've learned so far trying to launch a great product on an extremely tight budget and timeline in the spirit of
#buildinpublic
tldr; you can read all the product management books in the
a few months ago i considered giving it all up and disappearing from tech/crypto. my friend shook me, looked me in the eye and said;
"your only job from here on out is to make all your failures look like footnotes, and to make your next thing the biggest chapter of your life."
in a few hours, we unveil
@Mika_Raiba
to the world
join us live on
@sanctumso
as we chat about what
@Raiba_AI
is, our v2 on Telegram, and announce $uwuSOL
this is it. Raiba v2.
you don't truly know the meaning of money until you cross the SG - MY borders during peak hours... no one's here for leisure, we're all just tired after a day of work trying to run through the customs without tripping or falling over
5 cities in 3 months, part 1: nyc
this was my first time back in nyc as an adult, and on my own will, therefore many sights and experiences were as if it were my first time there. i subletted a room in stuytown off fb marketplace - living in a stranger's room with strangers in
it's crazy how many consumer apps don't get this: if nothing else, you may be winning over users with great customer service. and no - just having a zendesk widget on your site is not gon cut it. no one asked for my opinion but i just went through a horrible cs process so 🧵👇