Founder @couch_labs · building cou.ch Prev: Eng Director @optimism · Meta · Cloudflare · OpenTable Life is like an npm install

🇺🇸 / 🇨🇭
Joined August 2009
Building on @base and want to accept $USDC recurring payments? We’re building the best spend-permission orchestration layer ⚡ Builders, let’s talk — my DMs are open.
OMFG.... this is sick and probably will be the only thing that will make me learn effects..
After a month in trade-off purgatory, I'm opening up alchemy-effect 🧪 Still need to build the Resources, but the core functionality is ready: 1. Resources and Bindings 2. Type-checked IAM Policies 3. Plan & Deploy Excited to share more this week. github.com/alchemy-run/alche…
1
I will publish tomorrow the checkout demo we built... stay tune is pretty awesome and you will be able to give it a spin!!!
🚀 Time to build our demo for @base Batches 002! We’re making it incredibly easy for anyone to accept Base subscriptions. Think recurring payments onchain, no code, simple setup. This thread is for demo ideas 💡👇 Please retweet/like your fav or suggest your own — we’ll pick one (or more) to ship!
2
Super productive day - updated couch to the latest @base account sdk - new requireBalance is pretty cool, avoiding signing a subscription if not enough balance to pay it first period. - using the new subscribption.revoke() on the backend as we added new endpoint to revoke subscription on couch api
1
6
Functions are probably the closest thing to an hammer in programming. The closest a framework get to be “just” function, the more likely it will allows devs to see everything like a nail. Few examples: React, Lambda/FAAS/Alchemy
1
Imagine being able to sell subscription without requiring you to have a bank account, setup a merchant account, setup your subscriptions, setup a website to sell them... just create and share a link! Thats it :)
Wow demo is shaping up to be FIRE. Imagine stripe stablecoin subscriptions, but permissionless for a merchant, with a Polar like checkout-link DevX and with a stripe-link like UX for the enduser... web3 doesn't have to be as good as web2 in term of UX, it should redefine UX
2
0
The reality tough is that there only two coins which you can truly self custody
The bankless paradigm imho is totally underrated
1
1
This Alchemy thing is out of control 😂🤣😅
1
This week we achieved continous delivery and fully isolated full stack, full infra previews deployments , time to accelerate!
When React was created there were many FE fw already, but React nailed it. Now i feel the same way with Alchemy, IaC is not new, but alchemy.run jus nail it!
1
1
7
“3/4 of web3 is web.” Every layer of a tech stack has its own strengths. Each piece can be leveraged to solve specific problems. I feel incredibly lucky to have onchain systems as our source of truth for payments. It’s efficient, transparent, and easy to integrate. Huge respect to the engineers and fintech builders who scaled without it. What they achieved is truly impressive! But now, it feels like we can build Stripe-scale companies with tiny teams. AI helps, but for financial products, blockchain adds massive leverage too. 10 people + AI + Crypto = Billion-dollar company - ycombinator.com/rfs#first-10… - ycombinator.com/library/LD-1…
Went though a nice little refactor yesterday - replaced 2 polling schedulers (worker based) with a single DO, leveraging their alarm system and guarantees. Durable Objects alarms are extremely powerful
Wow demo is shaping up to be FIRE. Imagine stripe stablecoin subscriptions, but permissionless for a merchant, with a Polar like checkout-link DevX and with a stripe-link like UX for the enduser... web3 doesn't have to be as good as web2 in term of UX, it should redefine UX
1
2
Truck driver is the best suited job for dual full time employment
Grok in my tesla is an awesome feature! Now give me Claude and rethink the PR review UI in Github, and instead of working from home, I'll be just roadtripping around the world!
💡 Idea 3: Stablecoin Subscription Entitlements Automate private GitHub repo access or Discord invites via Base subscriptions. Access stays active while the subscription is paid. If a payment fails, access automatically expires — no manual tracking, no middlemen. Stablecoin payments → automated entitlements 🔷
💡 Idea 2: OSS Donations Made Easy Drop a one-line embed in your GitHub README → instantly get a “Donate on Base” button. Open-source devs deserve easier support 💙 Visitors choose how much + how often. Funds go straight to your wallet in USDC. No signups. No intermediaries. 100% permissionless.