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Update: Finding a wife on Hinge in NY costs $8,700
She just said yes. We are engaged.
I spent $8,700 on first dates after moving to NY a year and a half ago. Here is what I learned.
50 first dates, 10 second dates, 1 girlfriend (we've been together for 4 months now). All from Hinge. An average of $174 per date.
Looking back I could have done a better job at filtering. Goal was always a long term relationship. Best filter was a call before the date (highly recommend that actually). Can save both of you a lot of time. And sets the expectations right.
All women were between 25-32. I'm 30 years old. You can definitely find the love of your life on the apps. I spent most of my time in the office so its very hard for me to meet women irl. I'm also not really a bars/club guy.
I was looking for a very specific person. Similar cultural/religious background. Just get Hinge pro or whatever its called. Makes it easier to filter and gives you a boost.
Kinda hard to say but true. If you are a man below 50% in looks/status or whatever you want to call it you are going to have a hard time. there are just more men than women on the apps (see the report). Set your expectations accordingly.
The height thing is true. I'm 6'1 so it was not a problem for me. But heard this complaint from every single guy under 6 feet.
Also dating is expensive. Especially in NY. Maybe just do drinks or something. I always did dinners and insisted on paying for them (maybe an egyptian thing).
Out of the 50 first dates, I probably liked 20. 10 liked me back. One girl I dated for 3 months but it turned out it was not a long term match. Great girl though!
I was very lucky I guess but I never had an awkward experience (definitely more risky for a girl). Actually had some really interesting conversations even if we both knew this would not be a romantic match.
kinda weird to say but online dating is a funnel. you have to meet people to figure out what you like and what you dont like.
took me around 50 tries to find my current girlfriend. you can see the full report in the tweet below.
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Launching on @Arc today
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I started a startup in Germany 🇩🇪 in 2020. These are all the INSANE things I've encountered.
I kid you not the first thing we got from the government was the equivalent of the IRS asking us to estimate our revenue for that year.
We didn't even have a tax number at that point! We were bootstrapping. We are not opening up a fucking bakery. There is no revenue!!
The second letter we got was an invoice from the IHK (Industrie- und Handelskammer). To this day I couldn't tell you what they do. They sent us their magazine every 3 months though which is nice I guess.
The third letter was for the "Rundfunkgebühr", which is the TV license. I swear, all of this is true.
There is a fundamental lack of ambition in Germany. You can succeed but not too much. Too much success is greed. Too much success is evil.
The sad part is I don't even see a way out of this. I wish there would be something I could do about it. But there isn't. People would hate you for even trying (look at Elon).
Every ambitious person that I know already left or is thinking about leaving. I live in NY now and the difference is insane. The US still attracts the best people. There is no doubt about that.
The only thing we are leading now is regulation. It's hilarious to say but very sad at the same time.
I don't know where this ends. All I can tell you is that there will be no one left to pay for all the great social services that exist today. Of course I will never start a business in Germany ever again.
I'm half German. I lived in 🇩🇪 for 10 years. But jesus christ have we lost the plot.
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𝚏𝚡 by @vercel is extremely snappy!
The one thing it can't do is spend. So I gave it a wallet and native x402 support.
Now 𝚏𝚡 has access to the paid internet.
fx.sh is 6.3mb. It starts up in 10µs¹. It's a Zig-compiled static ELF binary, or an even smaller 𝚕𝚒𝚋𝚏𝚡.𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚖²
AI will make most infrastructure natively optimized. Case in point: fx can literally finish tasks faster than other agents can boot.
Fast is a one-way street.
¹ that's microseconds
² fun fact: the wasm build is actually *smaller*. A lot of binary weight comes from the TLS/HTTP stack. In WebAssembly, fx delegates 𝚏𝚎𝚝𝚌𝚑() to the JS runtime instead. You can try this on fx.sh/try
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Shafu says agents will spend billions online, and that 99.9% of agent commerce already runs on USDC.
"The grand vision is obvious to me: agents are going to spend billions of dollars on the internet."
"I'm not going to go to Amazon to buy a mug. I'm going to hit up my Claude Code, or whatever the equivalent is in three years, and say 'hey, buy me this.'"
"And it has access to a bunch of USDC in the background, and can do the checkout. That's the agent-commerce vision."
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Welcome to the team @shafu0x -- agentic cooking !
Excited to share that I'm joining @circle
Agents are going to spend billions of dollars, and @circle is uniquely positioned for that future with what @jerallaire and the team are building around @USDC and @arc.
I joined to make that future a reality.
More coming soon!
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Excited to share that I'm joining @circle
Agents are going to spend billions of dollars, and @circle is uniquely positioned for that future with what @jerallaire and the team are building around @USDC and @arc.
I joined to make that future a reality.
More coming soon!
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"The way we try to solve reputation problem is an aggregated score."
@shafu0x explains how x402scan aggregates data points on uptime, latency, successful requests and volume, so an agent can be told to use and spend on calls with a good enough quality.
