Riding the Platform Wave with Notion & Clubhouse

Travis Fischer

April 16, 2021

Overview

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• Who am I?
• React Notion X
• The Creator Economy
• Finding your Niche
• Riding the Platform Wave
• Clubhouse API & Social Graph
• Q&A

TransitiveBullsh.it

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• Brown '09 CS & Math
• Microsoft / Facebook
• Startups! 2 (tiny) exits 😄
• Saasify, Webtorrent, create-react-library
• Focused on the Passion Economy for Developers

React Notion X

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• Why?
  • Notion is awesome
  • No-code is powerful
• Using Notion as a lightweight CMS
• Reverse-engineering the API
• Demo + Code Walkthrough 🤙

Next.js Template

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• Why?
• Next.js + Vercel 🔥
• Switch from Micro SaaS => OSS
• Sponsored by Super.so 💕
• Demo + Code Overview 🤙
• Key Takeaways

OSS Developers are Creators

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• As an open source dev, YOU are a creator
• The Creator Economy is massive
• What can you learn from this trend?

Creator Economy 101

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Find your Niche

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Sign up for the beta at senpai.so

Ride the Platform Wave

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Clubhouse

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• Why's it interesting?
• Silicon Valley's newest unicorn
• Social audio
  • Pros & cons of the format
  • China, Twitter Spaces, FB...
• Invite-only => crazy large-scale social experiment

Clubhouse API

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• Riding the platform wave again...
• Reverse-engineering the Clubhouse API
• Crawling the Clubhouse Social Graph
• Using neo4j as a graph database
• Visualizing the graph with d3
• Check out clubhousesocialgraph.com

Key Takeaways

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• YOU are a creator
• Find your niche & build in public
• Consider building solutions for non-developers
• Ride the platform wave — Notion, Clubhouse, etc.
• Passion first, economy second

Reach Out

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• DMs open on twitter @transitive_bs
• I love brainstorming & helping fellow OSS devs ❤️
• Happy to help offer advice / feedback
• github.com/transitive-bullshit
• transitivebullsh.it
• senpai.so