FSD for ~$1/day Tesla's gamification of FSD creates a powerful incentive to let the car drive. Last month, ~98% of my miles were driven with FSD which, through Tesla Insurance, saves me $66/month. Safer. More comfortable. Cheaper. Every mile makes FSD better.

We're heading towards increased gamification of DeFi. Trading never really had an interesting "content layer", but that's changing now with apps like Euphoria and Clash of Perps. Curious if any other teams are thinking about implementing this in a more game-like experience.

Live shopping is fast becoming a popular way to sell online, but experts warn that the gamification of shopping and other auction tactics used to move product could fuel unhealthy habits.

Duolingo founder on the key to solving retention “The way we solved [retention] was just through trial and error,” Duolingo founder Luis Von Ahn explains. “By now, some of us have some intuition about what is good for gamification, but the reality is that most of it is just trial and error.” He continues: “In the history of Duolingo, we have run 16,000 A/B tests. Each one of those is trying to figure out if we change these little things — “should this button be red or blue?” — to try to get you to come back. And its these 16,000 A/B tests that have made our retention outstanding. At this point our user engagement is starting to get comparable to social networks.” Source: @StanfordGSB (May 2025)

Good Morning $SLEEP Fam ☕ Starting up my day with @sleepagotchi, Most Web3 projects start with tokens and then look for utility. sleepagotchi started with utility and built the ecosystem around it. Sleep is something every person already does. By adding gamification, rewards, collectibles, progression systems, and social engagement, Sleepagotchi turns a daily habit into an interactive experience. That's a much stronger foundation than relying on speculation alone. The projects that win long term are often the ones people can use without even thinking about crypto. Sleepagotchi is moving in that direction. Can I get a GM or gsleep Back 🫵

There are ton of new and old devs building on NEAR in the past couple of weeks. Building itself got easier too, so it's really about what to build and how stand out to get distribution. Few ideas I wanted to share: - AI Tamagochi - use @near_ai to run verifiable inference from prompt encoded onchain, have each character as NFT with some $NEAR attached that pays for it's inference, add gamification with feeding, dressing. Can add all kinds of things on top with battle arena, competitions, etc. - Universal checkout widget - let any merchant/app to add "checkout" button that allows to pay via intents from whatever wallet and chain user has. Offer it to merchants, try to get it into Shopify. - AI encyclopedia with prediction markets - instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth seeking market (Augur style). The final pages are generated by AI based on current market understanding. - Private OTC market using 'private deals' from NEAR Intents. Currently there is no way to find counter party unless you already know you are transacting with. Create a more open way to communicate what are deals open and allow people to fill them via NEAR Intents. - "Never get liquidated" - manage positions via NEAR Intents to keep lending and perp positions to maximize interest while not getting liquidated - Event registration where funds get escrowed and let the host to check in guests. If guests have showed up - they split all contributed funds (prev project was called Kickback). Make crypto side events signups reliable again, now across any chain and any asset. - Code review that is fully private - agent that verifiably privately runs code review on private PRs using @near_ai - Company cap table + all instruments around it to raise funds, accept crypto and support banking - Delta neutral anything - take spot + perp controlled via NEAR contract that manages it via NEAR Intents. - Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private and so one can have a social trading app where people sell "keys" for only select people to see. PnL can be publicly displayed so people can choose to buy-in. - Private medical second opinion - medical frontend that e2e encrypts and sends your data to NEAR AI to get second opinion from AI in guaranteed private way. Use it in combination with crypto and fiat payments. Allow to have custom prompts in NFTs that people can use as a way to get better expertise out of agents. - Private Granola - desktop app that uses @near_ai to do private transcriptions but keeps all your records with you (and encrypted with your key backups). Use $NEAR staking as an alterantive to pay subscriptions. - AI benchmarking with private test sets. Submit harness (or new model in hosted privately in @near_ai) and evaluate on private tests sets and see results that are certified for given model and given hash of test set, without revealing any data. Distribution: - Engage @NEARLegion - Make sure your app supports every wallet via @aurora Intent Connect, so user from any chain can engage with it without bridging/figuring out NEAR - Engage other communities by cross pollinating - Don't forget about Product Hunt & similar product distribution - And ofc X

Kudos @boringcompany ! In their latest round, they are allowing investors only if they commit to adding value. “If they fail to [add value in tangible ways], The Boring Company has the right to buy back some of their shares, they said.” If you can choose who you take money from, this is an awesome clause to add to your financing documents. Great way to filter out valueless investors. Incentives drive behavior, including among venture investors. There are easy ways to prevent gamification of this by either side.