A couple months ago I launched Bookmarked as a library of book recommendations from interesting people.
Each book recommendation requires collecting a lot of data from different sources. Books all have images, genres, synopses, and people recommending books may share their recommendation on Twitter, on YouTube, on podcasts, or even in the foreword of the book itself.
To streamline this data collection process I’ve been working with Stakwork to build an automated workflow that can collect new book recommendations from interesting people faster than a human can.
This week we did our first test run, and I’m optimistic that it will continue to generate 10-100x cost savings at scale.
This week's workflow cost 1,358 sats (paid over Lightning) and saved me 30 minutes of data collection.
There are a number of steps in the workflow. Some rely on APIs to fetch and filter data, while other parts of the workflow send mini-tasks to be solved by human workers (ex. to determine whether someone’s mention of a book is an actual recommendation or simply a mention).
Pretty cool way to use Bitcoin to cut down on data collection costs and help me scale up the Bookmarked library.
Easy fix: radically increase your default zap. ;)
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Bounties always get my attention. It seems like they should be a bigger part of SN. At the same time, I've never posted one myself. I'm trying to figure out why.
Zapping is mostly something I do after I read a post or comment. Bounties are kinda like pre-zapping (agreeing to zap before you read) but also not because you don't have to assign the bounty until you are satisfied it has been fulfilled.
I wonder if I haven't done any bounties because it feels more like paying while zapping feels more like tossing some money to a street musician. Paying doesn't feel as good. It's more serious. (I don't think there's anything wrong with paying for a thing, just examining why it feels different than zapping.)
I agree with @Undisciplined and @jasonb that it would be cool if you could find all open bounties in one place (and sort them by value or something). I often give a shot to bounties people post that are in my wheelhouse and I would probably do more of this if there was an easy way to check what bounties are open.
A prototype for Joinstr Apps
ppl who care about low transaction fees on the main chain have lost the plot
i hope the unlimited file sharing will have an immediate impact for a lot of people.
it’s incredible how hard it is to send large files (1GB or more) from a phone or even a computer today. hopefully this becomes one of the preferred tools to use moving forward.