If we haven't talked since summer 2025, here is the quick tldr: I left TogetherCrew during the summer as we had different vision for the company. After observing only, I'm back building and writing. I did a contribution for Our Network on Cow Protocol and dived into Gnosis Pay Card. I used the ETHOnline 2025 hackathon as a time block for building a mini-app

Being into data, it's not too surprising that I'm curious about Intuition. Their reason d'etre is easier to grasp than Irys, another data protocol. Intuition provides the tool to curate data and make this curation visible to others. It is akin to a market place with data providers and data users. Of course, as it's crypto, there's also an economic component to incentive users to take actions. In Intuition's case, the actions users can take is (a) curating data, (b) querying data, (c) staking on data by asserting its truthfulness or relevance or nay-saying.

For example, you can create data about the books you read. For every book you can make statements that describe the book. For example, one entry about the author of the book (e.g., Martin MacInnes is author of In Ascension), another entry about it's genre (e.g., In Ascension is science-fiction), and another entry reviewing the book (e.g., In Ascension is good). I know these entries sound childish, but statements in Intuition are structured as subject - predicate (verb) - object.

You can signal your agreement with an entry by putting your money behind it (staking). If you also read In Ascension and liked it, you would stake on it's vault. But if you did not like it, you would signal it by staking on it's counter-vault. Of course you could also create a counter claim phrased as In Ascension (subject) is (predicate) bad (object). Now there are two claims, each with a vault and counter-vault and with different costs - benefit for staking on their vault and counter-vault. In essence you end up with 4 different "things" you can bet on.

• In Ascension (subject) is (predicate) good (object)

• In Ascension (subject) is (predicate) bad (object)

And this is where Intuition gets messy as a fact-finding machine.

Intuition's solution to this mess is that the market will sort it out. But the market is a collection of, at times, degenerate, young bros and hence the universal truthfulness of any high value claims on Intuition is only a local assertion. Local in the sense that it represents a sub-set of the market: A statement that carries a high economic value signals relevance and truthfulness within the limits of who participates in the market.

That does not make Intuition useless. But is a limit to keep in mind for all those who are building on top of the data available in Intuition.

To overcome the problem with data availability, I wanted to make it easy to upload entries to Intuition. The easier it is, the more people upload data, the closer the gap between the economic value of an entry and it's objective usability or truth fullness among humans. That's a mouthful! It's like crowd sourcing opinions. The more people you ask for recommendation about what book to read, the more opinions you get. But after some time, you'll get fewer and fewer new recommendations. Stuff starts to repeat. And that's the point you're approaching objective reality.

As social media posts are full of facts and wild assertions, I thought that this is a great source of data to upload to Intuition. You take a social media posts, distill the entries in it, and then upload it to Intuition, bullshit, thirst trap and deep philosophical arguments and all. All while doom scrolling.

My first instinct is to say that I'm 80% there. The individual pieces work and entries are created on Intuition. But I have neglected the why. Of course, I could claim I'm building something for myself, it's a side project to learn how to code and so on. But while these are true, why not also make it a side project to learn how to grow an app and make money?

On the topic of who would want to upload data to Intuitoin, one idea came to me while coding. I was testing the creation of entries and picked a cast describing Russian's drones bombing a Ukrainian village. Would people be willing to upload local events, such as a drone attacks, launch of a project, or local artist painting auction? If others support this entry by staking on it, would it help make it visible and become a news item? Would we be able to attest to the truthfulness of events? Or would crypto degen traders ruin it by getting rich on the sorrow and joys of others?

Where do I go from here? I should focus on branding as this is outside my comfort zone (please help!). But far more exciting is improving the algorithm to turn a cast into a clear statement people like to bet on.

On a more personal note I learned that insulting your coding agent is a sign to turn it off and turn on your brain and better planning makes for less headaches later on. I should have taken better notes of what the attributes of the different data objects are. I still have no clue about React and Typescript. I recognize patterns and towards the end started to to code first, ask later.