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Fountain 1.5 is live 🌎
Our new home feed delivers a discovery experience that feels more curated, more dynamic and more relevant.
See trending notes that include references to podcasts and music from people you follow or anybody on Nostr.
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Nick Malster retweeted
We're hosting an evening of live music with @AntidoteBTC on Thursday 30 April 2026.
The show will be streamed live on Fountain as well as supporting Nostr and podcast apps from 14:30 ET / 19:30 UK.
Sign up here to get notified 🔔
fountain.fm/live
Nick Malster retweeted
Most podcast monetization advice is built for the top 1%.
More downloads → more ads → more revenue.
Sounds nice. Doesn’t work for most.
Here’s what actually does.
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Nick Malster retweeted
It's April 14, which means it's time for my annual cover of Aphex Twin's Avril 14
Nick Malster retweeted
Most startup shows fund hype. This one funds signal.
150+ founders building on Bitcoin
A total prize pool of $850k
Judged by @adam3us, @willywoo, @jackmallers
You can now watch season one of @cypher_tank on Fountain👇
Nick Malster retweeted
Friday 22 May
Bury St Edmunds
Pizza day
Have you got your tickets yet?
A day of meet-ups followed by an evening event with pizza, bar, pop-up market and a great lineup of speakers.
Tickets currently only £39!
This is not to be missed.
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Nick Malster retweeted
Announcing: FOUNTAIN LIVE
We've partnered with @AntidoteBTC for a night of live music in London - powered by Lightning.
Join us in person or tune in live to support the artists in real time.
📍 The Old Blue Last
📅 Thursday 30 April 2026
Tickets: luma.com/ysna282n
Nick Malster retweeted
Podcasters, would you rather:
A) 10,000 listeners who skip your ads
B) 1,000 listeners who pay you directly
Most podcast hosts can help you with one.
Fountain can help you the other.
You chose B.... right?
Nick Malster retweeted
Too many podcasters are optimizing for audience size over audience quality.
An audience listens.
A community acts.
I've been testing @stitchbygoogle.
Based on my results, designers shouldn't be worrying about losing their jobs (yet).
Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Google’s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow.
🎨Create with a smarter design agent: Describe a new business concept or app vision and see it take shape on an AI-native canvas.
⚡️ Iterate quickly: Stitch screens together into interactive prototypes and manage your brand with a portable design system.
🎤 Collaborate with voice: Use hands-free voice interactions to update layouts and explore new variations in real-time.
Try it now (Age 18+ only. Currently available in English and in countries where Gemini is supported.) → stitch.withgoogle.com
This is the best introduction to OpenClaw I’ve seen since it launched.
If you want to automate mundane or highly complex tasks for your business or your personal life, you need OpenClaw.
@AlexFinn breaks it down so simply that really anyone can do it.
Nick Malster retweeted
Ep45 with @nickmalster from @fountain_app.
PLEASE use Fountain to listen (although it is available elsewhere).
fountain.fm/episode/gqSH6ML5…
YouTube:
youtu.be/x06wt6nxTaI
The canary in the coal mine
we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.
first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.
i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.
a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.
we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.
to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.
to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.
jack
Aging Sam Altman looks great, but the text to voice generation sounds like a 96kbps Limewire rip.
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