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Pony Parade Gamification Plan
Recorded: Jan. 16, 2026 Duration: 0:29:33Space Recording
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In a recent discussion, a developer and their daughter shared insights on their innovative project, emphasizing the importance of community engagement and strategic visibility to drive growth. They explored potential partnerships and the impact of social media on project recognition, highlighting trends in the crypto space that could enhance their project's success.
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Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Music Thank you. I'm going to go to the next video. The I Hey guys, how is it going?
Let's see.
Let's allow everyone to speak if they feel like it.
Hey, hey, pretty well, pretty well.
I just had a few minutes to finalize the live speech mode.
I think I just posted about it earlier.
It's actually pretty neat in that the interactions from the little diorama minimap and the structures there, and the def, the various
things you can do on the minimap actually passed into the session information for
the tiny little LLM that is generating the responses.
So, um, you can actually talk to the creatures about, uh, whatever they, uh, they're doing they're doing in their little space.
It's an interesting use of a tiny, large language model.
I'm sure that's exactly what the open AI people had in mind when they created it, talking ponies.
had in mind when they created it, talking ponies.
But it's pretty fun to actually hear these little creatures
that my daughter dreamed up actually talk as if they were
real people.
Yeah.
So that's for sure.
So anyhow, the reason I'm holding this space
is to let people ask questions and ask a few questions of my
own, namely, what do you guys think let people ask questions and ask a few questions of my own.
Namely, what do you guys think we can do to create more buzz,
more name recognition, more hype, so to speak,
around what we're doing?
What do you think I could be doing and my daughter could be doing that we're not doing
besides continuing to work on the game?
Yeah, I mean, I found out about it yesterday because someone shared it and I took a look.
I thought it was interesting from a narrative perspective.
I think just looking at your Twitter account, there's not much.
I mean, obviously, it's your daughter, so you don't want to put her on Twitter,
but there's not much there i mean obviously it's your daughter so you don't want to put her on twitter but there's not much there you know validating your daughter so i'm sure people first looking at this are gonna have suspicions that you're like you know making a coin to get fees and oh
i didn't i didn't i didn't make the coin myself no i i understand Someone made it and gave you tokens. They gave you the fees and the tax.
Well, I don't know what the...
What do you think the solution to that is,
to avoid people having this kind of impression?
I mean, obviously, I'm a relatively well-off engineer.
This kind of coin money, although fun, right?
It's not that important to me.
We're mostly doing it because she thinks it's hilarious
and wants to do as much as possible to the point where my wife is starting
to step in and tell her that she can't do it.
So, too much time in front of the computer.
Uh, I, it kind of has echoes of my own life when I was a kid, uh, kind of think of it. But, uh, yeah, I mean, uh, a few spaces ago,
I think I held two or three of these. Um, held it pretty early on East Coast time, and she actually joined
and answered questions live. So if
you want to listen to
her speak for herself, that's definitely a place
to go. And who knows, maybe if we continue
to go, and who knows, maybe if we continue doing this.
doing this,
Yeah, I mean, I think it wouldn't be
that effective with seven people in the spaces, right?
Maybe you could do something where you guys have a planning
session or something and post it as a video,
and then some of us who have bigger accounts,
I could retweet it and stuff so people kind of get the word out with like bags which is the community you're kind of in you need
like the bags people to acknowledge it but honestly because you're you have really good
followers on socials right like you have andreason and all these people right i don't expect them to
engage but the fact that they're there is like a yeah for crypto people you know so from like a speculative standpoint people are
looking for something where like your daughter is like more present and
engaged because that like is exciting for people right and also you know
something about like your accolades or like your connections and the potential
that those people could get involved right with something like this like the way I look at it is it's like you know I'll just
be patient and kind of see what happens because in crypto people don't have any patience right
and they move very quickly uh like that gas token right now that's at like nine million
um went all the way to zero before it did that right so a lot of these things if you're not trying to
just pour your own money into it right it just takes time for people to find it and like engage
with it and stuff like you know for something like this like i don't know because i'm speaking
yeah i mean i i am i am getting i'm getting assaulted by you know um south asian pakistanian South Asian, Pakistani and whatever so-called influencers who are trying to scam me for
Seoul in exchange for their extremely valuable followers getting to see my amazing works of art.
And I'm like, yeah, I mean, you know, I love my daughter getting recognition for this, but not that much.
Yeah, I mean, those are all scams because Twitter is just, you're just going to get
them barred with scams and DMs.
Of course.
Yeah, I don't think I've ever received this many messages in a single week in my entire
time on Twitter.
You should see my DMs, man.
It's insane.
Yeah.
It's pretty crazy.
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, I think you're doing things right.
Like you just kind of keep posting updates, keep existing.
Like it just takes people a lot of time. I mean, the thing is like once, like I think there's two places where I hesitate, right?
One is my daughter kind of built it like more of a simulation or as I call it a diorama.
or as I call it a diorama, a moving diorama with little creatures in it.
A moving diorama with little creatures in it.
More than a, you know, A-B tested engagement maxing actual game.
Yeah.
So, you know, she notices this herself.
I think this morning she was saying that more bad things have to happen.
So that really reminded me of the matrix, where the, I think the architect creates
a version of the matrix that's perfect and the people reject it.
Yeah.
They have to sacrifice whole batches or something.
So I was like, that's a very, very apropos there.
But so one is that, right?
Like I kind of hesitate to push her towards like, you know, gamifying it because that
might, I mean, on one hand, it might be more fun for her.
On the other, I don't want to kind of really impose on her creative direction. But second, even the stuff that I was doing today, right?
Once it gets past a certain complexity level, like, you know, she said, I wanted to have
conversations with the ponies, and we wired something in by having, what's it called codex, you know, GPT codex do it,
which is, again, super cool that it works at all.
But I took a look at it this morning, and I was like, wow,
the latency was like six or seven seconds between her asking something
and the freaking pony responding.
So when I talk to the LLM, I actually know what to ask in terms of, you know,
modern pickle stack and how things actually work more than a seven.
I like to think more than a seven-year-old.
So, you know, and it's a fine line between saying, yes,
this is a game that's built by my daughter.
And I made these small improvements from six seconds to 600 milliseconds and again I
can say personally I haven't coded a single line of code it's all done by the
AI so in theory my daughter could have done it but I don't think should have
gotten to 600 milliseconds anytime soon right so. So, and I don't, I don't really want to oversell, which is why I'm posting this live on the space.
Because there are some things that I'm doing to help her, but mostly all of the creative stuff, I expect her to do it if she, if and when she's interested.
And again, because she's a seven-year-old,
she has to go to bed at a certain hour.
She has school for eight hours a day or whatever.
So there's only so much time that even, you know,
her mom will let her spend on it.
So it's a little slower and steadier than it would be
if, say, a bunch of grown-ups were doing it, right?
So it will have that limitation in a sense.
Maria, I think your idea about a planning session, that could be very interesting.
Like actually recording at least the audio, because i do want to maintain a shred of privacy
right so at least the audio maybe uh yeah that might be something yeah for sure i think that
would be good to validate and then you know people retweet it or people in your network share it that
kind of thing i mean like for something like this to like blow up like i think you would like it to
you would need to have the right people find it and engage with it you know one one one of my
mutuals do you know rude thistle as the as his handlers is one of the open AI
people into machine learning since like 2020.
Gotcha.
No, I don't.
Oh, I'm always surprised by what my part of Twitter, what my teapot is.
We would know if he made a coin, basically.
Okay.
That's funny.
Yeah.
No, he's a Bay Area rationalist and early open AI employee.
He has quite a following though.
He's, you know, Sam Altman, obviously they know each other and they're friends.
So yeah, anyhow, there's a few people that I could kind of um ask but i'm again my my world is so outside of yeah um meme
coins that my audience might not even know what i mean you don't have to get at all right like you
can connect to what's actually happening right and then yeah basically the meme coin powers the
the building is the general idea
here you know so that way you can do it while not having to like push a cryptocurrency you know
but yeah it feels it i mean i like um seeing my daughter get all this attention right um
she she every morning she goes to the uh little X space and checks how many followers there are and things like that.
So she definitely cares,
but I don't want to make it about the coin to her
because I don't want her to be motivated by that.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, why should she?
Yeah, that makes sense.
I mean, I think, like, getting some of those connections
to engage and stuff
and kind of see what happens,
and then also having some more visibility into the actual process could be good.
Ultimately, you're probably going to need the right people to find it
and engage with the Bags guys,
because on Bags, you need the Bags people, basically, right?
Yeah, I mean, what's his name?
Finn has
decided to follow me.
So that's something.
we've
exchanged a few DMs
and he said
anything he can do to help
just the other day.
He said anything that he can do to help, he will.
But I honestly don't even know what to ask him for.
I mean, it's just really exposure.
I mean, the way bags works is like, you know, they give you exposure.
And once Finn starts talking about it or follows it or, you know, buys the token,
then it kind of hits its own little like attention flywheel.
Yeah.
Right.
But then at that point, you need to have some sort of catalyst
that brings it to like you know that that next level whether that's like people in your network
stuff that people think is interesting to be honest i was i was convinced that the uh the
coin had died down a couple of days ago um i i mean i don't know what's the lifetime of these
things can they last it depends i yeah, it depends on the team.
I mean, like there's a coin, this guy is like doing, he's like building a book or something with AI and he's been doing it for like over a month and it's not a high market cap and he's consistently putting out videos and stuff and just people don't care.
So it really just depends on like, you know, your resolve and like the team and what your like
actual you know goals are right like it can go as long as you want it to go because the supply
especially at these levels because people can buy your coin and then try and control your supply and
like help support it it really just depends if people like align with your vision and like you
know they think it's interesting the problem with crypto is like they like wholesome
things but in a way that like makes them money right so it works a little bit in this scenario
because you have good connections and you're competent so like if you pair the two in theory
they should be able to say like okay this has like a next level opportunity because this guy has a
lot of great connections it's super wholesome bag scene will get behind etc
but then when bag scene takes forever where things don't line up the way you want them to line up
then people start like freaking out and they're like all right let me buy the next exciting new
thing in crypto right right right right right uh everybody's very patient everybody's very patient
in this space but i've been i've been here since day one and you know it is one of the better things that I've seen on bags in the past week.
And it's been great seeing all the progress and, you know, most people on bags, sometimes
they're just trying to get money, but there's been a lot of people that have been kind of
onboarded just by harassment where someone finds their project and they just like begs
the, begs the creator to just kind of get behind it and step in.
But I mean, there's been a lot of kind of wholesome narratives like this, but think for the whole recent surge in vibe coding i think this is one of the one of the
better things on x with just kind of like a wholesome father-daughter project i i i kind of
wish that it got even more visibility than it got like if we could come out kind of break it out of
the bubble that it it's in currently it would definitely get a lot more attention indirectly from,
from bags people, but as it gets, as it gets attention from,
you know, normal accounts as well, you know, I mean,
like normie accounts, I should say maybe.
Yeah. I mean, I, I do, I do partially agree with his,
his, his kind of point of not many people.
Because, I mean, I was there for the first base when, you know, you were there with your daughter.
And it was great confirmation for a lot of people, I think, because everyone's always a bit skeptical.
You know, people are hesitant on some things.
But, I mean, I obviously know I was there.
But I think for people looking at it now, people are kind of, you know, maybe they don't know to go back to that uh that spaces
where you were both there so i think anything future if you could do like you know like audio
audio video of like you guys working on it together yeah i i don't know i don't know about
video because as i said no of course i have little enough privacy and especially when it
comes to posting images or videos of kids yeah There's all sorts of sick fucks on the internet.
Yeah, you're very smart. You're very smart.
So aside from that, I'm perfectly happy to do a lot of things.
I just don't want to be exploiting my daughter for clicks or bags people's attention for that matter.
It needs to be something that she finds fun.
So maybe we'll do kind of like some sort of fig jam audio with an audio recording.
So we record the screen as we kind of like figure out what we want to do together
and then keep an audio stream up as well.
There's definitely a lot of things you could do.
That could do it.
Yeah.
And yet let her have her privacy a little bit yeah no of course you definitely don't want to put everything out there
it's not it's definitely not worth it but um i think just for overall i guess visit i mean not
visibility i think just kind of people seeing what you guys are doing together instead of just kind of
maybe like screenshots and updates people seeing it being done with both of you two not like you know
actually seeing it but just kind of being there along the journey seeing both of you work together
yeah i think i've i she she does these like little um hand drawings of changes she wants to do that
she sometimes does that in her pre-period
of school. They have quiet timing. She's in second grade, right? So she can't spell very
well, right? But she can web code. How many lines does this thing have?
Yeah, that's crazy.
That's actually crazy.
113,000 lines of code according to, oh, including binary assets. That's actually a hundred and thirteen thousand lines of code according to, oh,
including binary assets.
That's a very, very lucrative statistic.
Yeah.
A hundred and thirteen thousand lines.
But that's including binaries.
Let's exclude the web P and JPEGs.
Let's see what we get.
33,700 lines of code.
Can you freaking imagine a seven-year-old? Just that statistic alone could just blow up as like a general thing of just kind of the vibe coding.
Yeah, I'm going to actually post that.
That's kind of funny.
Whereas, yeah, I just thought to look it up.
My daughter, and she's, we started this on Sunday.
So used codecs to write 33,700 lines of code in 10 days.
That's hilarious.
Actually, it's in like 12 days.
No, we love 10 days.
That's right, 10 days.
That's amazing.
By the way, if I post in a community,
do only people inside the community see it?
I think people can see it.
I think people see it on their timelines as well.
I'm not 100% sure. Depends on your option.
On the top, it says where you can post it.
I think you can select.
Yeah, but if you post it in the community, is it hidden from people outside of the community?
Nah, I think if it goes like,
if people are following you, they would see it
because you're part of the community.
Yeah, maybe I would.
Or something like that, people would see it.
We need to get attention otherwise.
You know what, let me just take it out of Pony Parade.
Yeah, but something like that, if you had some friends that had bigger accounts, like engage with something like that, right, that could then, you know, go to a different
level because then they're like, oh, wow, Vibe coding is so cool.
Like this is a really interesting, you know, story.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
Yeah, I'll take that advice to heart. Thanks, Jason and person with eyes. Uniswap. Yeah.
I like person with eyes. Let's go with that.
Yeah. No, this has been really inspiring for her. And I think like the most important thing from my perspective is just the amount of confidence.
She really does have a little bit of strut in her walk, a little bit of a spring in her walk, so to speak, since we started this thing.
I think it really is helping boost
her self-confidence in a way,
knowing that hundreds of people online
care about this.
So yeah, that's pretty neat.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's a new world,
and I don't know how many of you guys
are coders at all.
I'm assuming pretty much anybody who's into crypto has some knowledge.
I've coded a little bit in my cursor, yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I've never taken a CS class, but I've used cursor a little bit,
and it's pretty interesting.
I mean, I trained as a philosopher and a political scientist many decades ago.
a philosopher and a political scientist many decades ago.
Wow.
Wow.
So, but I do come from an extensive math and computer science background.
So that wasn't that hard of a switch for me.
Fair enough.
But yeah, I've been coding for maybe 20 years, something like that.
maybe 20 years, something like that.
And, you know, lots of people hype about how I've worked so hard to get here,
and it's so unfair that now people with no skills can do it.
For me, it's like I've always loved the thinking about things part,
and I've always hated the actually writing shit down.
So I love this so much more. Like I have over the winter break, I've done more
personal projects in, what is it, 14 days that I actually had off from work than in,
I don't know, 10 years before. It's pretty nuts how much of a force multiplier it is when you kind of like have a clear idea of what you want
and have kind of stepped on all the foot guns with these coding agents and kind of know what to do and what not to do. So, I think it's part of the reasons why we've been so successful with this,
my daughter and I, and that I kind of gently guide her towards things
that will have good outcomes.
And I think she's kind of already caught the pattern.
So she kind of like is in a sense in her little seven-year-old head
modeling the mind of the LLM in a way that's better than many of the actual programmers out there.
So it's kind of interesting.
Anyhow, I don't want to bore people with wholesome talk about me and my daughter.
But yeah, I mean, we'll keep on building.
I'm very curious where she wants to take it, because as I said, she says she wants to turn it into an actual game.
Yeah.
But I am a little bit worried that it's kind of, you know, 33,000 lines is kind of starting
to approach that stage where maybe the LLMs become of questionable utility, right?
When the repos start getting big, they start getting a little bit shaky.
So, yeah, it'll be interesting to see where
it goes from here yeah i mean like with some of this stuff like uh you know like andreason follows
you and stuff and like with goat right like the guy who coded goat goat was like you know honestly
not very remarkable but it did so well just because of the engagement it got, right?
It's not that outlandish that someone would become excited that a seven-year-old is coding
like a game or, you know, something with AI. Yeah, I mean, if we can get it on Moonshots
or on one of the A16 people talking about it, that would be pretty cool.
But I hate imposing on friends like that, especially for something as silly as this.
Yeah, it's tough.
I feel you.
So, yeah, I mean, if it comes up somehow, I'll be sure to mention it, but I don't think I'll go out of my way to push my friends to hype my daughter's meme coin.
Although it's kind of a cool idea, I will say.
Well, I don't know.
If it comes up, I'll mention it.
You just gotta have a
dinner party or something you know exactly i mean i feel like a tweet like that tweet of the the
statistics of just 116 000 lines of vibe coding in second grade is just pretty lucrative and could
could get a lot of traction on Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll repackage that with some better images,
not just the codex screenshot
and repost it at some point tomorrow.
All right, guys.
It's been real.
I'm going to cut it short here at 9.30.
No problem.
Thanks all for joining.
This has been illuminating for me as well.
I'm kind of getting a sense.
Oh, hey, Fang.
Thanks for joining.
Kind of getting a sense of where people's heads are at as well.
That's kind of useful to know as well.
All right, guys.
Have a good, well, part of the world,
whatever part of the world you are.
So take care.
Bye.
Bye. Thank you.
Insights
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The discussion highlights the need for increased buzz and name recognition around a new project, indicating a trend towards community engagement and marketing strategies in the crypto space.
is to let people ask questions and ask a few questions of my
own, namely, what do you guys think let people ask questions and ask a few questions of my own.
Namely, what do you guys think we can do to create more buzz,
The speaker is actively seeking ways to create more hype and recognition for their project, which suggests a proactive approach to growth and community involvement.
own, namely, what do you guys think let people ask questions and ask a few questions of my own.
Namely, what do you guys think we can do to create more buzz,
more name recognition, more hype, so to speak,
The mention of discovering the project through social media indicates a trend in how crypto projects gain visibility and traction through community sharing.
besides continuing to work on the game?
Yeah, I mean, I found out about it yesterday because someone shared it and I took a look.
I thought it was interesting from a narrative perspective.
The conversation touches on the involvement of external parties providing tokens and fees, hinting at potential partnerships or collaborations that could enhance the project's credibility.
but there's not much there i mean obviously it's your daughter so you don't want to put her on twitter but there's not much there you know validating your daughter so i'm sure people first looking at this are gonna have suspicions that you're like you know making a coin to get fees and oh
i didn't i didn't i didn't make the coin myself no i i understand Someone made it and gave you tokens. They gave you the fees and the tax.
Well, I don't know what the...
The idea of a planning session to record and share the development process reflects a strategy aimed at increasing visibility and engagement, which is crucial for growth in the crypto community.
So it will have that limitation in a sense.
Maria, I think your idea about a planning session, that could be very interesting.
Like actually recording at least the audio, because i do want to maintain a shred of privacy
The discussion about needing the right people to find and engage with the project highlights a trend in crypto where influencer engagement can significantly impact project visibility.
kind of thing i mean like for something like this to like blow up like i think you would like it to
you would need to have the right people find it and engage with it you know one one one of my
mutuals do you know rude thistle as the as his handlers is one of the open AI
The mention of community engagement and the potential for the project to gain traction through social media interactions indicates a focus on growth strategies within the crypto space.
So it really just depends on like, you know, your resolve and like the team and what your like
actual you know goals are right like it can go as long as you want it to go because the supply
especially at these levels because people can buy your coin and then try and control your supply and
The speaker expresses interest in gaining exposure through influential networks, which is a key strategy for growth in the competitive crypto landscape.
like a game or, you know, something with AI. Yeah, I mean, if we can get it on Moonshots
or on one of the A16 people talking about it, that would be pretty cool.
But I hate imposing on friends like that, especially for something as silly as this.
