I liked it so much I paid for it #002
All of the posts I tipped on Farcaster, April 8 - 14 2025
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?
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
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
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 loved the soft 🍖 tip when i liked something.
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
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
I mean Degen tips?
Yes. I think Degen was right direction in the end Hard cause it almost got too big for its britches and too gameable Platform based comp a good bootstrap if WC finds PMF https://warpcast.com/keccers.eth/0x898be058
agree on your first 2 points. Beforee Degen shot itself in the foot/ 222 $DEGEN you don't think WC found PMF yet?
put it here and remove the actions button. coin problem solved.
Super Like. $0.25 Done and dusted
I see people tip reply on YouTube videos alllll the time, like not small amounts either
yes a no brainer now appreciate the insane amount of work to make this a good UX w/o an intermediary taking a rake or freezing accounts crypto wallet that is secure, self custodial, and recoverable that doesn’t require remembering a seed phrase integrated into social network where each account maps to exactly 1 wallet with subcent transaction fees with reasonable on ramps the combo of this is weeks old / still being born (e.g. web wallet)
Diamond app on the $DESO chain offers tipping through a thing called diamonds.
Yeeees. I need a quick way to tip I'm sick of typing.. 55 $degen .. everytime and my degen tip actions don't work any more ( paper boy I think)
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 😎
look, I just need 10,000 people to act in unison to make the math work. The reality is that will happen to only 1% of creators. So it’s back to the same problem.
But you don’t need 10k people to act in unison — you need 100. Or 50. And it’s fully positive. People get to feel good about freely giving for something they valued and creator doesn’t have to worry about people losing money via gesture of support
To clarify, I’m all for the positive aspect of this. I know my response might come off otherwise, I just question the reality of it at scale. I guess a way to combat my skepticism is to see a lot of accounts with 5k or less followers see this work for them as you describe.
Isn’t Rewards doing a version of this but abstracting it away and covering the bill?
No, Rewards is platform comp! Creator comp to me usually comes in one of a few forms Direct from fan/patronage Platform rewards Brand deals/ads Selling products to your audience
I def wouldn't mind getting Rewards + all those other things.
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
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 @robot 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🎉
I support this initiative
oh damn wasn’t sure what you meant with the tip fund, very cool!
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