it’s been 13 months since i left my FT job ⏰

for the first 7, i made $0

in the just the last month, lowercase.club brought in over half my (6 fig) salary (!) as a software engineer

from one anxious af founder to another:

bet on yourself

did the new site for KRAZAM !!!

fav project and fav clients i’ve ever worked with 🥹 gonna miss jamming with Shiva on the most cooked ideas to make this a reality

in the process my entire desktop got littered with screenshots of close ups of Ben Burke’s face lmao

🚨 I'm stoked to announce framepad.co is live! 💥

Framepad is the ultimate toolkit to help you build and ship sites more efficiently in Framer.

soon ☺️

GO The Joe Walker Podcast (formerly Jolly Swagman) !!!!! You should all read about and subscribe to Australia's best podcaster one of our rising intellectual titans!

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demos this time were:

Soorria - Prompt racer, an AI coding game

James Hornitzky - Timental, daily tracking app for happiness

Jarvis Wang - index (a curation of ANZ startups) + design portfolio WIP

alisa - Algebro, AI HSC tutor buddy

Tom & Charlie Wyatt -

blurry photos i snapped sneakily @ show n chill last night

ty to all those came again, y'all cute c u in part 3 !!!

Introducing Algebro - an AI Maths tutor for the HSC (aussie SATs 🇦🇺).

The immediate goal is to hit $1k MRR. I’ll be sharing progress & learnings in public.

Currently at 142 sign ups and 4 paying users ($80 MRR).

really excited to launch our first behind genius ventures winter break college essay contest - open until jan 18, 2024.

and yes, you can use chat gpt!

details below:

I haven't put some love into my portfolio for a while...

Now, it's time 🫠

Sike Cannon-Brookes Tong 🇦🇺✈️ Wilson Hou Anubhav Ghosh full rundown of the demo's they were:

Wilson Hou - turning 2d into 2.5d in react three fiber
Fernando 🌺🌌 - made a programming language
Sam Leatherdale - TripWatch, a Sydney transit planner for WearOS
scott fowler - generating fake words that sound real with AI
Max Bo - various

Our drawing hang on Sunday!!! 💗🫶 Maja 🔭

What creative event should we do next month?

(On another note we managed to get Protostar funding from Blackbird Foundation wahoOOOO so look out for sicker, more large scale events in the future 😎)

First time doing creative direction work and I am loving it 🥴

Sneak peek on what will happen later this year 🫣

Hey Sydney friends! 📢 Launching a *monthly AI safety meetup* covering AI risk, cybersecurity, regulation & more. Anyone interested, join us!

📅 FIRST MEETUP: Next Thu, Aug 24th, from 6pm in Sydney CBD

૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა sooooon

Margaritas and making friends with Anubhav Ghosh and anzsd 🫶

If you are a founding engineer, looking for a co-founding role, DMs are open.

I have a gem of an opportunity for you.

Founding engineer definition: basecase.vc/blog/founding-…

🌟Excited to release my personal learnings about the Asian Aus experience after engaging in 20 in-depth, open and honest conversations with Asian Australians of diverse backgrounds, stories and personalities.

Very keen for what's to come with QA ❤️

bit.ly/asianausexp