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rapping @mayk_it_app /// prev: founder @patentdrop (acq) & @HaikuJAM (acq)

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Make an AI Drake song about anything 🤖🎵 1. Type a prompt 2. GPT-3 writes a song in Drake's style 3. AI Drake performs it in < 1 min Try it here:
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why people are buying nfts:
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Different types of 1:1 conversations visualised: (thread)
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SPAC me daddy New song minted as a NFT on @ourzora feat @chamath : ↳
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Creator journeys in web 2.0 vs web 3.0:
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Instagram Live has seen @torylanez pull in 200k concurrent viewers and @jamesblake pull 30k, but it offers no tools for monetisation. In a post-pandemic world without touring, many of our favourite artists need to find new revenue sources. Some ideas on how IG Live could help👇
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4 years
PATENT DROP 📥 Summaries of the newest patents from big tech companies. Get a peek into what new features or new products they're thinking about before they're released.
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3 years
Why I’m bullish on profile banners as a NFT asset class:
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The idea that one individual can have many incarnations, many avatars, each with different personality traits, is deeply embedded in Hinduism. The next wave of the internet will see us questioning the idea of 1 individual = 1 identity. We’ll expand who we are, not narrow it.
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Introducing Popstarz - an app that turns bad singers into popstars using AI. With a selfie and a voice sample, we help you imagine what your popstar life could’ve been. Here’s Sam Altman ( @sama ) if he pursued singing instead of AGI:
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4 years
In the last 7 days, I've had 52 conversations with strangers I've met on Twitter. Now I have 52 new friends! I'm so unbelievably inspired - to think, to write and to build. Thank you, world!
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3 years
join a pirate ship, not a rocketship
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2 years
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I went down a little curiosity rabbit hole today. Thinking about product offerings for niche communities: (Thread)
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We shouldn't have to apply for jobs. Jobs should have to apply for us.
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Wondering how it'd feel to have a thought, type it out, choose the identity you want to attach it to (or create one), and then hit send. One individual, many identities, each with their own reputation, interests and audience.
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3 years
My source of NFT alpha is Indian college students who are making life changing amounts of money while bunking class.
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5 years
@LeftAtLondon I'm a percussionist
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Airbnb's new patent application last week: - Hosts will be able to scan their entire accommodation to create a 3D map of the listing - As they do this, a list of all the amenities will be collected using object detection - Want to build more trust in the marketplace
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I'm going to start sending myself an automated weekly newsletter of new patents from big tech companies. I'm curious about getting a peek into what these companies are thinking about in terms of new features or new products, before they're released. Anyone else interested?
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we’ve been married for 1 year!!
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I'd love to have an idea pod of 5-10 people who are constantly generating product ideas (good and bad) and figuring out ways to test them quickly and cheaply.
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2 years
::: new song ::: pump my bags like jack dorsey
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The CEO of an $18 billion dollar revenue company just joined PatentDrop
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@singareddynm s/o to Yousaf fighting that good fight
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🎶🤖🎙️ We’ve been playing around with auto-generating AI Drake songs based on a text prompt. Reply to this tweet with a text prompt and I'll reply with your song in < 5 mins.
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3 years
The punkscapes I love and why: 1. Feels like a classical landscape painting in a future world
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4 years
The Hustle told its 1m+ readers about PatentDrop today and now my inbox is blowing up 📥🔥 Get a weekly summary of 3 new interesting patent applications ->
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An idea I’ve been thinking about for Clubhouse - real time audio + visual feedback from the audience: - Gives the audience power - Signals to a moderator whether they should intervene - Helps speakers gauge temperature of the room - Creates audio atmosphere Listen + watch 👇
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Some big news today - Patent Drop is getting acquired! @patentdrop is joining The Daily Upside ( @TheDailyUpside ), a newsletter-first media company whose core product goes out to 900k readers daily.
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3 years
ima start a morning puja room in clubhouse and there's nothing you can do to st
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9 years
Butterflies flutter Across borders, leaving Man And Woman behind @Tate #Haiku Andy, Neer & Diana @Haiku_JAM http://t.co/2liJAJqOZ4
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Hit 9k newsletter subscribers for Patent Drop
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4 years
How would zoom conversations change if you could see speaking time by participant? - admins interjecting to maintain conversational balance? - pressure to be concise if you're talking more than others - data for conversation post-mortems: what's the ROI for each speaker?
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2 years
You should never be afraid of leaving your job with nothing to do. Talented people with too much time on their hands is powerful.
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6 years
The issue with men like Kavanaugh is that they feel outrage at the process of being held accountable. That is entitlement. #KavanaughHearings
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3 years
A freestyle about my fluf in @FLUF_World made in @AppMayk
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It’s not a revolution if you replace old gatekeepers with new ones
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2 years
ok i'm logging off, getting married in a few days, wish me luck
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9 year anniversary since my dad died from cancer. Here’s a video of him (lhs) singing with his friend soon after his first chemo. At the end of the video, he looks at me and smiles, and I wish I could be there again.
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A funnel for idea manifestation:
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twitter & music nfts: - if someone owns a music nft, it auto plays when you land on their profile - like old myspace profiles except only with songs that you own - music nfts suddenly have utility, status & signal taste
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4 years
In an ideal world, I'd currently be in a mountain monastery in Japan, lost in the woods, thinking about what's next.
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Create a WhatsApp newsletter and monetise the fact that you have higher read rates than an email newsletter.
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random advice: if you find someone you deeply love, marry early as someone who was deeply sceptical of the purpose for marriage, there’s definitely a shift to “we’re building a life together and we’re a team” I put it off because I felt like I had to be in a stable position
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the pumpametti song @pumpametti
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I'm starting a newsletter! Most startup commentary is market-down. I want to look at companies from the product-up. Every week, I'll take one early-stage company and breakdown its product through the lens of people, emotions & community. Subscribe 👇
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Someone reached out to buy Patent Drop for the first time.
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I'm getting into the habit of taking one long shot per day related to what I'm working on. - 2 days ago: I cold emailed Tobi from Shopify - Yesterday: I cold-emailed the head of the Biden Digital campaign Neither replied, but worth a shot 😏
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Shared reality --> Fractured Reality --> Divergent Realities
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I think it’d be cool to have a DAO where we buy up expensive London mansions, put it up for rent and distribute the rent payments to token owners. Democratise being a landlord.
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In the UK, while growing up, I was an ethnic minority in a poor, deprived area. Then in university and work, I worked my way to be seen as 'Elite' and Privileged'. Now I’m in India, I’m a Hindu Brahmin Male, NRI. Identity is confusing.
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After I stepped back from HaikuJAM, I spent 6 months doing things for free - taking calls with anyone who wanted to speak to me, helping people out on problems they were thinking about, tweeting out ideas, working on random products. Suddenly everything is changing, randomly.
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@zerohedge Catch us if you can
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Something unconventional I've done over the last year is just reach out to people doing interesting things with long, instinctive gut thoughts related to something they've been writing or thinking about. I think cold messaging with a long, thoughtful message is underrated.
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2 years
we just got the keys to our first house!
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10,000 subscribers for Patent Drop! Launched it 1 year ago with no plan. Just have fun and do things!
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My last evening in Mumbai. I'll go for a walk around Pali Hill. Stop by Carter Road. Sit by the sea for an hour, listening to the chatter around me. Maybe it will rain - I probably would have forgotten my umbrella anyway.
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We hit 4K
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Patent Drop hit 3k subscribers today, 2 months after launch. Shoutout to @TheHustle for featuring the newsletter again today and helping me smash the milestone!
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my goal is to make it possible for an unpopular 13 year old to make a song on their phone, without ever interfacing with a complicated studio interface and for that song to become a huge hit. barbarians at the gates.
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Here on Twitter to make 10 friends I can pick up the phone with and jam on ideas together.
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ARK Invest joined Patent Drop
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My first startup got acquired and the main product is shutting down, but here’s how people are reacting to the news. No greater feeling that building something that people love. We’ll all keep building new worlds - more magical, more loving.
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The metaverse will accelerate the vibe economy.
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I just wanna be in a room with 3 of the smartest, most creative, and most empathetic people I know, making stuff.
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a song about razzlekhan
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I've been thinking a lot about finding high-leverage activities where the input : output ratio is outsized. Patent Drop is one of those things: ~ 3 hours every week, $20k annualised rev, and expanded my network in ways I didn't expect. Want to find more of these in 2021.
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📥 NEW PATENT DROP: - Snap is bringing events into its app (s/o @wongmjane ) - Microsoft is looking to assign employees a score based on how well they collaborate with others - Visa is building a global predictions platform
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Heartbroken to have lost my cousin to covid yesterday. He leaves behind his wife and 3 kids. The situation in India is really bad. Please stay safe.
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👋 200k
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Patent Drop hit 3k subscribers today, 2 months after launch. Shoutout to @TheHustle for featuring the newsletter again today and helping me smash the milestone!
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I take mental note of the companies that rejected me for a job but are subscribing to my newsletters, following my thoughts on twitter, and whose employees ask to pick my brain. I'm petty like that.
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gm - from punkscape #8856
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the final form of the internet is: - everything is remixable - remixing is permissionless - attribution is automatic - splits are instant
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I think there's an interesting future in decentralised workplaces that isn't work-from-home. Local workspaces in every neighbourhood where people can come together and work. How can anyone who has a living room, owns a garage, or own any sort of property, become a WeWork?
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Someone I had a crush on 10 years ago randomly joined a waitlist for a new product I'm building. lol
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First time founders obsess about product. Second time founders obsess about memes.
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Tesla joined Patent Drop
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Some personal life news: today is my last day at @HaikuJAM . After 5 years of building this wonderful product, I'm taking some time to learn more about myself, the world and my place in it.
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what we've been building at mayk: - gen-z easily making songs on their phone - one-tap minting it as a music NFT on OpenSea - one-tap uploading to Spotify & Apple Music - automatic splits to producers & collaborators
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#3 . Flow These conversations are the most fun and interesting. Every word that you say is a potential node of inspiration for the other person to explore. The more you give of yourself, the more pathways there are to explore.
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Some cool updates: - PATENT DROP has as many subscribers in 2 days than my product newsletter received in 8 months - a product I've been building in the influencer monetisation space is being tested live tomorrow with a creator who has 4m TikTok followers
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I'd love to see Indian entrepreneurs obsessing about building for the world. Nothing wrong with building just for India, but soft-power is created when you transcend borders. I see no reason why there can't be an Indian consumer product built in India, by Indians, for the world
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Grand Theft Auto could create the best metaverse experience
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When I was 15, I started rapping in front of a webcam anonymously and uploading it onto MySpace. Eventually, I got connected to a producer at Warner Bros, and he encouraged me to start recording. My songs were featured on the biggest blogs & even a DeLaSoul mixtape. What a trip.
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Just closed a sponsor wanting to advertise in Patent Drop for the next 6 months.
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The biggest gift you can give to the world is helping people believe in themselves.
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pizza song 4 @RarePizzas
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goodbye 28, more to do 29
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AI Music Covers 🤖🎶 Obama singing Taylor Swift
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in the last 3 weeks: - we built an ai music covers account - got 50m+ views on tiktok - got a cover reposted by Calvin Harris - Charlie Puth commented on a cover - a ton of media attention - banned by TikTok lol Things are about to get wild in the music space.
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Berlin for the first time!
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my mum started reading my newsletter recently lol
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@fbnewsroom @azeem How many views were accumulated before removal? How long did it take to remove the pieces after upload? How many pieces have not been removed? Why was some content not removed at upload?
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The number of conversations people have started with me when wearing this badge on my backpack. Especially at the airport.
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