# 19-Day, 0-to-1, Farcaster Experiment

*From whimsical ideas to tangible products?*

By [The Through—Line](https://paragraph.com/@thethroughline) · 2024-02-09

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Starting today, 1/9/2024, I moved into my basement (not my mom's, my wife's), packed my belongings, and committed to a 19 day sprint. Consider this a bootcamp (this entire idea was inspired by my time in [SFAS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces_selection_and_training)).

A sprint to what? Product sprint, development sprint, founder sprint, focus sprint, or maybe more like a self-accelerator. Effective acceleration, I suppose.

The goal is the following (ideas started [here](https://warpcast.com/les/0x65b8fa48)):

1.  Keep a stream live for 19 consecutive days, [live-stream](https://lu.ma/8d4vyqc1) and [stream of thought](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xu-mFIL34YWPJwLUV7Z3grcTtonI4TH-Vqrh6c6jlxc/edit).
    
2.  Create 3 artifacts; (1) a "self-accelerator" outline, (2) a pitch deck ([Sequoia template](https://www.slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/sequoia-capital-pitchdecktemplate)), (3) a product mvp.
    
3.  Move an idea from 0-to-1, in public, answering questions I have wondered, mostly alone, as a founder, a web3 tech adopter, and a Farcaster community member (I have casted most of them).
    

One of the biggest things I wish to accomplish, what can be done when you clear the floor of almost all distractions, and focus all the energy into an idea. Can you truncate 8-months of "meandering" into 19-days.

I personally have witnessed this answer to be yes. Not for the things I am attempting now, for other(s).

**What can be done as a first-time founder, leaning heavily into a community of builders (Farcaster), with a "whimsical" idea, can we turn it into something real?**

Let's see.

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What to measure the next 19 days + questions.

*   Progress on 3 artifacts. (deck, mvp, growth and outline of
    
*   Downtime/uptime of live stream.
    
*   Number of meetings.
    
*   Number of times I am not working on the idea (eg. losing connecting with the sense of flow and integration of the idea).
    
*   As we move to smaller and smaller teams, can more and more be done with just 1-person that can focus?
    
*   Is decentralization and terminally online highly connected?
    
*   Is the future of compounding attention to grow it over minutes, hours, days, to produce new connections, new opportunities? (not weeks or months)
    
*   What does it look like to take an idea and move it along the design process? (like the [squiggle design](https://thedesignsquiggle.com/about))
    
    *   this is one way, my way, some may view this as too much, too little, or somewhere in-between. I have found my brain struggles to stream without being connected to the public stream.
        
*   This list will continue to grow..

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*Originally published on [The Through—Line](https://paragraph.com/@thethroughline/19days)*