Mason Hall
@0xMasonH
Building @merit_systems, prev investing + eng @a16z. Kardashev-scale accelerationist. Chess enthusiast.
This is the culmination of nearly a year of work from our team. And we are just getting started.
Today, we’re introducing the Terminal. Pay anyone and any project on Github.
When I was at @a16z, I ran hundreds of founder reference calls. I wanted to take a moment to say thank you to every founder who’s made time to talk. I always offered to return the favor any way I could, but it never felt like a trade. Just founders helping other founders.
It's been incredible to work with @VirtualElena again - she's brilliant, and has already been instrumental in helping us tell the @merit_systems story.
1/ Some personal news! I’m joining the absolutely relentless team at @merit_systems to help build a new, enduring financial stack for open source software. When I asked myself what I wanted to do next with my career (and my life) I had a couple of boxes to check: I knew I wanted…
Coppermind is a great name for this (shoutout to the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson)
Here’s the app idea. But first the problem: - Our conversations are scattered across apps - Answers are wall of text. You only care about 1-2 lines - Copy-pasting useful parts is tedious - And good luck finding where you ask what Coppermind is a small...(continues in thread).
What's the cleanest way for a business (crypto or non-crypto) to purchase USDC? I'm familiar with Coinbase's offering, but would be curious to onboard with other platforms and test out their flows. Bake-off time.
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My version of Domain-Driven Development is coming up with a good domain name, buying it, and then maybe doing some development
Was great to meet folks from @Samsung, @RedHat, @Google, @anyscalecompute, and more, and spread the good word about @merit_systems
Went to Denver for the OSS Summit with @0xMasonH. Three big takeaways: - OSS remains the best form of distribution for enduring dev tools. OSS is non-negotiable deep in the stack. - Everyone is excited about the open source infra enabling AI. The tech is so deep and…
Is nextjs actually better for SEO than Vite or is that fake news marketing?
Excited to share Toolkit, a project I built for @theo’s T3 Cloneathon Mix-and-match GitHub data, Notion, Memory, Code Interpreter, and much more through an interactive chat Fully open source and looking for more Toolkit developers! Details below…
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST EVER CLONEATHON Build an open source clone of T3 Chat, win up to $5,000 Deadline is next Wednesday. Good luck and have fun nerds 🫡
This is brutal - apparently they lost the test harness too, which is key to making incremental improvements to the ship
🚨BREAKING: SpaceX Starship 36 blows up during static fire test
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elevator pitch time: sell me your product in 5 words or less 👇
Notes on Creative Transparency. Back in March, Ramp began publishing some very juicy data-driven insights on their card usage. Other companies, like Flexport, Anthropic, and even LMArena are doing the same thing. In this post, I spoke to @arakharazian from Ramp to explore why.
Has anyone had built an experiment with meta-agents? I.e an agent that is responsible for writing prompts for another agent, writing a shared task list, updating the sub-agent’s prompt if it goes askew, reflecting on output, reading and writing to shared memory, adding tool…