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@doodles DOOD jumps into big trouble

use Doodles AI to send a DeLorean to any moment in time. entries judged on creativity and presentation. 1st - $3k + DoodLorean figure 2nd - $2k + Dood McFly figure 3rd - $1.5k + Doc Dood figure random - $500 no entry limit. deadline May 6, noon ET. makedoodles.ai

where we're going, we don't need roads. Prompt Comp #2: TIME TRAVEL with @DeLoreanlabs QT this post with your submission to enter. details ↓

@contraben Taste will be the ultimate differentiator. Lots of "nice" looking work being produced, but it's a sea of sameness. Currently exploring: @midjourney for concept inspiration. @GeminiApp for auditing. @OpenAI ChatGPT for brainstorming. Up next: @floraai

Introducing the Human Creativity Benchmark. The first eval that scores AI models the way creative experts do.

I regret to inform you that the tool will only reveal what you are already capable of

@LosTalksPats one of my fav mock-drafts. Love the top 4 picks

#Patriots Mock Draft 2.0! I have New England selecting their right tackle of the future (or present), while also addressing key positional needs and adding depth in the later rounds. What do you think? ⬇️

@lucas__crespo 🎯🎯🎯

Google Stitch is interesting but let’s be honest about what it is. Spell check didn’t make anyone a better writer. It just made bad writing less frequent. That’s what AI design tools do. They clean up the mess. They don’t create the vision. You can prompt claude code, gemini, or any of them and they will all give you something competent. Not bad. Just not interesting. When everyone has access to “pretty good,” pretty good stops working. It becomes noise. The baseline shifts and very rapidly the only stuff that cuts through the noise is the stuff that has a point of view. That takes an eye and imagination and I promise you no prompt box is ever gonna give you that. In summary, good designers are definitely not cooked.

@PhilHedayatnia 🎯

We live in an age of rage-bait marketing, rage-bait politics, and, increasingly, rage-bait products. The Gamma team knows that if they pitched their product for what it actually is—a slide deck editor that helps you make better-looking slides—it would just get lumped in with a bunch of other options. Tome was trying to build that two years ago. Chronicle is building that right now. I’ve tried a bunch of these editors. They’re a good reminder that the hard part of putting together a deck, a proposal, a pitch isn’t really the design. Grant says that “every proposal expects you to show up with something a designer made.” That just isn’t true. Maybe in some specific contexts, like a consulting document. But if you think about the total spend of a consulting firm—how much talent they hire, how much they pay that talent, the value of the work they do—the amount they spend on *visual design* is negligible. (And often outsourced anyhow!) The hard part, and the reason deck design is even a service design firms can sell, is crystallizing and synthesizing your ideas into something people can understand and that actually resonates with them. Gamma, as a product, advertises that it helps you do this. But it, like its competitors (including Chronicle), is limited by what current large language models can do. I kind of wish they’d go much deeper on building software to help people really crystallize their ideas and create amazing decks. That would be a substantial undertaking. You’d have to study hundreds of different types of deck designs across purposes, industries, and use cases; the way someone pitches an idea when they’re pitching a startup is fundamentally different from the way they pitch an investor, and even then it’s fundamentally different between startups and private equity, for example. The amount of depth on each slide is very different. And it changes by industry too. If I was pitching a developer tool versus pitching enterprise software versus pitching a consumer app, I’d use vastly different styles, narrative voices, color schemes, you name it. Each of those is a design decision, and each of those takes real expertise. I can imagine, hypothetically, a system or product that looked at all of that and came up with hundreds of possible directions and formats for decks, using thousands of templates to create some reasonably good outcomes. But Gamma doesn’t do that. It leans on LLMs to spit out a reasonably good set of slide topics and slide text, and uses preset layouts to quickly make slides that “look polished.” But looking polished has never been the problem. If you buy a slide deck template from a marketplace with a bunch of preset layouts, you’ll spend about $50 and have an okay-looking deck in an hour or two. Gamma is advertising itself as if it goes much further than that, when it really doesn’t. But like Icon, Cluely, and like so many others part of this wave of AI startups, overpromising is the point. The more Gamma rage-baits designers into saying, “No, that’s not true, you can’t actually do that,” the more press, promotion, and growth they get. And that growth buys founders time to raise more, build more, and hopefully, eventually, make the product actually work.

@tylermilliken_ @alexspeier Assuming he will play all over, but they haven't had a longer term answer at 2B since Pedroia, like his floor and upside.

Multiple industry sources identified Brewers infielder Caleb Durbin as a potential Red Sox target, per @alexspeier. He finished 3rd in Rookie of the Year voting in 2025. Had a 101 OPS+ in 136 games. Played a strong 3B. Has experience at 2B/SS/3B and the outfield.

@Shwinnabego will check this out, just wanted to comment I wish the cover design was more appealing!

“Differentiation doesn’t matter And loyalty is bullshit” How brands actually grow:

@mattyglesias Why haven't they already embraced candidates like Peltola in these states? Seems weird they can't find someone to run with more favorable messaging on energy

@scoutdnfl Where should the pats look in round 1? I’d love OT or edge

EDGE is the deepest position in this year’s draft class. The amount of high-end talent is absurd. Wouldn’t be surprised at all if around 20% of the top 65 picks are edge rushers.

@ryancarson Creatives can be great leaders

Because of LLMs, the only type of people I’d hire now are what I’d call “super-unicorns” - Developer - Designer (or great design taste) - Product-focused (vs feature-focused) - Marketer - Agent expert - High emotional intelligence - 5+ years experience creating web app products - Extreme ownership (h/t @jockowillink) There are very few folks with all these traits … but I just wouldn’t want to work with someone who didn’t have all these skills/behaviors. This will keep team sizes very small. 2026 is going to be very interesting for the whole industry.

@0xhoang @doodles welcome dood

Hey @doodles, are we still vibing or what? happy to be back in the fam. 🌈

@zkpawky @solanagaming This Doop is elite

@solanagaming can vouch. just ask this lil guy gm

GM GM 👾 It's a great day to be on Solana.

@charleskoh 🎯

you’re safe designers

@micahfattahi Somehow always ends up back in the library, although I’ve deleted numerous times. Most annoying thing Apple has ever done

the death of apple music began when they downloaded the U2 album on everyone's libraries without asking for permission

@jbondwagon @doodles 🎯

Okay, so it seems like the problem is with @doodles communications to holders Since the new doopies drop is on Sol, holders on Eth will have to register to claim The team could have done better here on this front GG 😔

Only 28% of Doopies got minted before Public Mint 👀 1️⃣ Only 2368 out of 4420 Doodles holders claimed free mints. That’s 4736 total claimed in the first window 2️⃣ Only 1171 out of 4790 Dooplicator holders claimed free mints 3️⃣ 1116 were sold in WL phase The low claim figures coming from Doodles holders confirms to me the state of the NFT market rn: It’s dead, yes. Not just in price but also in holder participation If Doopies dropped say 2 years ago, OG claims would likely have been 75% or higher Now, only roughly 50% of Doodles holders claimed their 2 free Doopies and 25% of Dooplicator holders claimed their free NFT It’s telling that a lot of Doodles holders may have already left, moved on, or just don’t care anymore They’re now headed to a 2-day Public mint with just 28% minted from their initial phases Do you think Doopies will mint out? It seems unlikely imo 😔

@MagicEden 82TjAdyJoNwqwkafHrwMS28XbDi1dnaZA4n3MCjx3C1V

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE DROP YOUR WALLET ADDRESS ANY ADDRESS NOW! DO IT! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

@JordyHalo80 @JeffPassan 🎯

@JeffPassan O’s get their Chris Davis again.

BREAKING: First baseman Pete Alonso and the Baltimore Orioles are finalizing a five-year, $155 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Alonso leaves the Mets to make a loaded AL East even better.

@youngsun @doodles Great constructive feedback here, comms has been a consistent struggle in this space across the board. Some good lessons to be learned

Why did we rush the doopies? I love the doopies from @doodles and can't wait to reveal them. I've reserved some comments until today as I wanted to give some benefit of doubt to the team. But from what I've seen today, I have several painful comments I want to make as a long-time community member. tldr; It's an awesome art collectibles with potential. It was a disastrous execution in terms of minting mechanics and operations. 1. Rushed minting process I personally think the doopies were something to be celebrated, but we could have definitely enjoyed more time to get the news out, spread the fun videos to get people's awareness up. Even before the news got out and started to spread, the registration was closed and lots of my OG friends weren't able to register in time. I also had to really rush my way back into the hotel from a business meeting to make the 2-3 hour mint window for OG claims. Not sure if all of this rush was necessary and was beneficial. We could have given doopies the ample time to spread and be talked about. Set a date with a bit more cushion so that more people can have time to register / mint The rushed launchpad without building demand will inevidently lead to bad sentiment / results overall. 2. The mechanics I don't think it would have been so hard for OGs to either 1) be airdropped doopie collector boxes or 2) have ample time to claim from a dedicated portal for a prolonged duration without having to go through a separate registration (like dooplicators) For dooplicators, I think it was actually a good chance (maybe the best chance) to retire dooplicators and replace them 1 to 1 with doopies, close the debt and move on with exciting IP. That way, 10K for OG, 10K for Dooplicators, 5K for public and WL mints will have been an awesome distribution for the ecosystem and would have had a better demand overall and supply crunch too. Sidenote, if distribution was goal, personal preference would be if this was generative, then I think unlimited mint (open mint) for doopies with a low price, and setting trait rarities would have really been a fun mechanic for all of web 3 community to enjoy the infinite gachas. I think @ArtOnBlockchain's heart+craft was a prime example of that. Very accessible entry point for everyone. 3. The platform Magic Eden had its days. However, @opensea is where momentum is regards to NFTs, especially with their chests and farming going on. The volume is much much larger on OS these days. The tech was not smooth and people were not able to claim correctly, connection issues across the board with ME having issues on mobile chrome. Clearly, it was far from ready technically. Also, most of our collector base is on ETH NFT ecosystem. Why choose @solana and @MagicEden suddenly? Not saying they are bad, but we don't have much presence there. Maybe we have a future plan with Solana Gaming, but the mint itself was a bit awkward when most of the user base we are giving away slots are on ETH. 4. The communication It was so confusing on the timeline. The dates and times were not clearly laid out in a single source of truth on registration window or minting window. It was all scattered X posting. There needed to be a page or something... The collector box and hyper cube differences were clearly not communicated well, how rare the 3 tier evolution is, how many are they in total, etc. while the price was just 3x expensive. Also, very unclear if OG can claim it for free or still needed to pay. Tons of messages in discord, X, and telegram shows that the posts didn't have the clarity it required. - Overall, I love the art coming out, but there are valid criticisms from both internal community and external web3 community at large. I know some are just PvP enjoyoors but some are genuine people who care about the industry voicing out concerns. The fact that only around 5K-ish were minted out of 10K doodles + 10K dooplicators (even with doubling allo) show that there was something massively wrong about distributing mechanics / comms to the OG community. I hope we can really fix this going forward. There are so many experts in the OG community. Please reach out to some of them for advice before doing something like this. It can really change the outcome.

@DrewAustin @doodles same feels - have two OG's, missed registration window

So I’m discovering we had to register for a mint 24 hrs before the actual mint that I didn’t see in any of the threads from @doodles discussing the mint. What was the point to this? If we own the nft isn’t that our registration? This space kills me sometimes 🤦‍♂️