Miguel Piedrafita

Miguel Piedrafita

Currently working at Worldcoin and building hundreds of little projects.

About me

For years I thought I'd be an indie maker, y'know, booststrapping a few SaaS apps @levelsio-style. Then I discovered Ethereum and got really into decentralization and writing smart contracts. Lately, I've been looking more into AI (like everyone else), building lil concepts to explore its boundaries. Who knows what's next?

You might know me for
  • being 21
  • having purple hair
  • (almost) buying the US Constitution
  • building and launching something new every week of 2022
  • Laravel community, indie maker circles, tpot, gen z mafia, web3 frens

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Everything* I've ever built

*

well, not everything, but still a pretty good list of things I've built/done/published over the past few years

web3 app starter

While working on a new project, I realized that everything I had built so far could be used as a template for other projects, so I decided to make it into a starter kit.

It's a Next.js app (using the new App Router and server actions) that includes Sign in with Ethereum, a basic UI and support for teams (letting you assign roles, invite people, etc.).

View on GitHub

New website!

I've felt like my old website didn't really represent who I am for a while now, and after months of trying to come up with a design I liked, I finally managed to find something unique enough.

I'll keep tweaking and adding stuff (especially to the timeline, there's years of stuff missing), but I wanted to get it out there before I started overthinking it again. Hope you like it!

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enstate.rs - querying ens information should be easy.

An API for ENS data

I really like the idea of ENS being "the universal profile", which you can set up once and every other app can follow.

To make this a little easier, I teamed up with my friend Luc to build a dead-simple API that returns all relevant attributes for an ENS name.

View on GitHub

My first real attempt at a YouTube video

I've been wanting to make YouTube videos for a while, but never really found the time to do it. A week ago I decided to challenge myself to finish a video in a week (or shave my head), and managed to do it!

The video shows how I gave GPT-4 control over a browser and taught it to browse the web, with a fun tone and a bunch of jokes. Go watch it!

Watch the video

A new design for the Worldcoin Docs

After launching World ID I felt like the docs needed a fresh coat of paint, so I deleted the previous repo and started again from scratch. A few hours later, the new site was live with new design, new content, and a new domain!

See the docs
Introducing World ID and SDK

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Introducing World ID and SDK

World ID is a new privacy-first protocol that brings global proof of personhood to the internet.

Announcing World ID

Today we're launching World ID. Sybil resistance is proving to be more important than I ever thought, and this is a foolproof solution, working on and off-chain that you can integrate in minutes.

We've been working to make World ID not only the most robust on-chain option, but also incredibly easy to integrate outside of crypto. For example, "Sign in with Worldcoin" allows regular web apps to become sybil-resistance in the same effort it takes to "Sign in with Google" ⚡

That means, if you're building "regular" apps with Next.js, Laravel, or anything else, you can integrate World ID in just a few lines of code. Actually, thanks to services like Auth0, you don't need code at all! Just add Worldcoin from the dashboard and you're good to go 😁

If you haven't gotten orb'd yet (or don't want to), we're also adding a phone signal to the app, which allows you to anonymously prove you have a valid phone number and a unique device, a weaker version of sybil-resistance but still much better than nothing.

ChatGPT for your docs

While visiting my friends from Hop, one of them mentioned it was crazy no one had built a tool that let you train ChatGPT on your app's documentation, so of course I decided to build it.

A few days (and lots of Rust) later, Clippy (MSFT don't sue plz) can "learn" your docs in ~5min and answer questions about them.

Baby's first Transformer model

Built my first Transformer model (trained on Shakespeare's works) following Andrej Karpathy's newest video lecture. It's 2:30h packed with deep knowledge, and while I definitely didn't understand everything, I learned a lot and getting the model working felt like magic ✨

Watch the lecture

An iOS widget for Worldcoin

Built an iOS widget with Scriptable, showing real-time Worldcoin onboarding stats! Uses internal APIs, so unfortunately can't share the code, but hopefully we have some public endpoints soon? 👀

Is This Image NSFW?

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Is This Image NSFW?

An extremely fast machine learning NSFW image filter, powered by open-source models.

A mature content filter using Stable Diffusion

The Stable Diffusion safety filter has always been a mystery to me. It's not documented anywhere, and overall pretty accurate. I recently came across a paper by a group of researchers that had the same questions I did. They managed to reverse-engineer not only the logic but also the types of content the filter tries to match. Turns out, it's much simpler than expected!

Stable Diffusion already has a way of figuring out which concepts an image is closest to (this is a core part of generating images), using OpenAI's CLIP model. So you can use it to measure how close the generated image is to a list of "sensitive" concepts.

I modified the example code proposed in the paper (repo below), and deployed it to Replicate. The result: an API that can check images for adult content in less than half a second, for ~$0.00022/image.

View the code
Search your favorite podcasts by topic, not quotes.

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Search your favorite podcasts by topic, not quotes.

Presenting a new era of search for podcasts, allowing you to search a complete transcript of all episodes semantically.

Contextual search for podcasts

I've been looking into semantic search this last week, and decided to build a simple demo. It indexes the Indie Hackers podcast (which I transcribed using Whisper) and lets you search through all episodes by topic of conversation. Also had lots of fun building the UI!

GitHub - m1guelpf/lil-http-rs: A Rust web framework with no external dependencies

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GitHub - m1guelpf/lil-http-rs: A Rust web framework with no external dependencies

Building a web framework from scratch 🦀

I've been learning Rust recently, and built a zero-dep HTTP server to practice (establishing TCP connections, manually parsing HTTP payloads and crafting responses, etc.). After that was finished, I kept going for a bit and built a router and some helpers to the point where it was more of a lil framework.

Wouldn't recommend using it in prod, but I'm super happy with how the DX turned out.

Copilot, but for your terminal

After failing to remember the command to check the size of a directory for the 100th time (and looking for yet another excuse to build something in Rust), I took on building a simple CLI that could bring the Copilot experience to the terminal. Works great for things like ffmpeg!

Try it out

Adding live output to my ChatGPT Telegram bot

One of the things that's made ChatGPT really magical is its ability to show you what it's thinking in real time. While I had originally skipped on this while building my Telegram bot (since Telegram doesn't support live updates), I ended up finding a hacky way to make it work!

Try it out

A Telegram bot for ChatGPT

I got tired of opening the ChatGPT website every single time I needed to ask something, so I reverse-engineered the API and built a Telegram bot that lets you chat with it directly from the app!

Try it out

A better ChatGPT interface

ChatGPT might be one of the most impressive things I've seen in a while, but its interface is a bit lacking. I decided to try my hand at building a better one, and ended up with possibly one of the most polished things I've ever made.

Deploying Stable Diffusion models to Replicate

I've been playing a lot with fine-tuned Stable Diffusion models recently and deploying them to Replicate for blazing-fast inference, so I made a quick tutorial showing you how to easily deploy any SD model (no ML knowledge required).

Watch on YouTube

Using GPT-3 to write commit messages

After someone at work told me off for naming all my commits "wip", I decided to build a tool that automatically writes the commit messages for you.

Try it out

Script-writing app progress update

I've continued to work on Scripty, my lil script-writing app (hoping to release it soon), here's a few design details from the prototype.

Feels really crazy how fast I can go from "i wish this existed" to a prototype, coding really is a magical skill ✨

Get on the waitlist
A screenshot of a fictional app (called Scripty) is shown with a slight 3D tilt on a purple background. The screenshot shows a web app with a 3-column layout. The first column shows the navigation (with items "Script", "Scenes", "Inspiration", "Feeling Stuck?", and "All Projects"), while the second shows an editor view with some text. Sections of the text are highlighted with different background colors, to indicate the scene. On the right column, an "Edit scene" menu is shown, with some form fields ("name", "highlight color" and "description"), and a list of scene appearances.

Concept for a script-writing app

I've been writing some scripts for videos I wanna record recently, which usually has me thinking about both the script and editing details at the same time.

I tried to find something that would let me annotate both of these things at the same time, but couldn't find anything, so I made a concept for an app that allows you to define both the script and the scenes in the same place.

Get on the waitlist

Explaining web3 to a non-crypto friend

I had to improvise an explanation for what "web3" means for a non-crypto friend recently, and thought it might make a useful resource for others too, so I turned it into a lil video.

New World ID docs

When we started working on World ID, we used Gitbook for the docs. With a little more time in our hands, we decided to move to a fully-custom docs site, and it turned out pretty nice!

Check them out!

Image support for Lens Reflect

Finally managed to add image support to Reflect! After you enable the images option from your dashboard, your Lens posts will keep their images when cross-posted to Twitter.

Try it out!
// Reference: https://replicate.com/m1guelpf/whisper-subtitles

fetch('https://api.replicate.com/v1/predictions', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        Authorization: `Token ${process.env.REPLICATE_API_TOKEN}`,
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        version: '7f686e243a96c7f6f0f481bcef24d688a1369ed3983cea348d1f43b879615766',
        input: { audio_path: 'https://path/to/audio.mp3', format: 'srt' },
    }),
})

A simple API for Whisper

Need an API to quickly transcribe some audio? I just pushed a version of OpenAI's Whisper specialized in generating subtitles (both SRT and VTT) to Replicate, which lets you transcribe audio in the cloud with no markup from the compute cost!

Try it out!
How Twitter hacked an AI (and how to prevent it)

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How Twitter hacked an AI (and how to prevent it)

Last week, a job board company decided to make a Twitter bot that would reply to tweets about remote work automatically. It didn't work out great for them......

My first video

Yesterday I promised I'd stop procrastinating on video content and make a video on something. It's super basic (me talking to a camera), the editing is somewhat annoying, and could generally be improved A LOT, but it's here, and the next one will be better.

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✨ Stable Diffusion is amazing, but unfortunately it isn't trivial to setup (especially for people without good GPUs). Instead, I made a Twitter bot that turns any reply to this tweet into an image, using SD! Let's see what you can come up with! 👇
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A Stable Diffusion Twitter bot

Stable Diffusion is amazing, but unfortunately it isn't trivial to setup (especially for people without good GPUs). To share it with everyone, I made a Twitter bot that turns any tweet reply into an image, using SD.

Dynamic location for my website

As part of my quest to make my website more personal, I added a map showing where I am. It dynamically updates the location every day when I wake up, generates an Apple Maps screenshot, and a low-res placeholder.

Here's how I built it

"Now Playing" tile for my website

I've been trying to make my website feel a bit more personal, and I thought a peek into my music would be a fun start, so I built a real-time Spotify tile that shows what I'm listening to at the moment.

Prototype for ⌘K authentication

Still from a project I never got to release, which used a ⌘K menu for wallet management.

Twitter cross-posting for Lens

With new social networks come new possibilities, but also the hassle of manually cross-posting content. To fix this, I built a simple tool that automatically tweets your Lens posts.

Lenster for iOS

I've been using Lenster a lot, and was getting tired of using Safari all the time, so I wrapped it into its own little app.

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Lens Leaderboard: Most followed, active, collected & shared profiles

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Lens Leaderboard: Most followed, active, collected & shared profiles

Open protocols offer new levels of transparency. This leaderboard uses 100% public data to rank notable profiles on the Lens Protocol.

A leaderboard for Lens

With every new social network, it's always interesting to keep track of the most active users and see how engagement evolves. Fortunately, Lens Protocol makes this super easy, since all the data is on-chain and indexed. So I built a little tool to look over the metrics.

Cleaning up my Twitter timeline

My timeline has been a bit of a mess lately, so I built a tool to improve it. It helps you go through every user you follow, view their most recent tweets and some useful stats (like % of RTs, tweets/day, time since last activity, etc.), then choose to unfollow or hide their retweets from your feed.

Recording a TV documentary

I've been helping out with a TV documentary about the future of tech for the biggest news channel in Spain. Today was recording day!

Running an Ethereum archive at home

Finally managed to get an Ethereum archive node running at home, and point all my wallets & apps to it. Self-sovereignty feels great, and RPC calls are much faster too!

Explaining crypto, Ethereum, NFTs & more FROM SCRATCH

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Explaining crypto, Ethereum, NFTs & more FROM SCRATCH

Over the last few months, I went from knowing nothing about crypto to getting a job at a crypto startup. Then, I decided to rely my knowledge to a non-techni...

A 1h web3 crash course, for non-technical people

A few months ago, I made a stream where I got a non-technical friend and explained everything crypto to them, from blockchains and PoS, to smart contracts, ENS & more. I finally had time to edit the 5h of stream into a consumable video.

Making web apps in Solidity

Have you ever wanted to build a web app in Solidity? Me neither, but I built a barely-working server for it anyways.

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Animated fractal experiments

Played around with some fractal simulations now that I finally have a M1. Above is a Mandelbulb, a 3D version of the Mandelbrot set

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@ConstitutionDAO profile pictureConstitutionDAO (📜, 📜)@ConstitutionDAO
We didn't get the Constitution, but we made history nonetheless. We broke records for the largest crowdfund for a physical object and most money crowdfunded in 72h, which will of course be refunded to everyone who participated. To all our 17,437 contributors, THANK YOU ❤️
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ConstitutionDAO

Last month, my friends and I embarked on the crazy journey of trying to buy a copy of United States' Consitution. We built the DAO in less than a week and raised $42M in 4 days. Didn't end up winning, but it was a hell of a ride.

necromint.sol

//SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
pragma solidity ^0.8.0;

import "solmate/tokens/ERC721.sol";

struct Ghost {
    address contractAddress;
    uint256 tokenId;
}

contract Necromint is ERC721 {
    uint256 private _tokenIds;

    mapping(uint256 => Ghost) internal _ghostMap;
    mapping(bytes32 => bool) internal _uniqueMap;

    constructor() ERC721("Necromint", "DEAD") {}

    function resurrect(ERC721 spirit, uint256 soul) external returns (uint256) {
        uint256 tokenId = _tokenIds++;
        Ghost storage ghost = _ghostMap[tokenId];

        require(tokenId < 6669, "max supply");
        require(!_uniqueMap[keccak256(abi.encodePacked(spirit, soul))], "already resurrected");
        require(spirit.ownerOf(soul) == address(0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dEaD), "token not in cementery (yet?)");

        ghost.tokenId = soul;
        ghost.contractAddress = address(spirit);
        _uniqueMap[keccak256(abi.encodePacked(spirit, soul))] = true;

        _mint(msg.sender, tokenId);

        return tokenId;
    }

    function tokenURI(uint256 tokenId) public view override returns (string memory) {
        require(_ownerOf(tokenId) != address(0), "token does not exist");
        Ghost memory ghost = _ghostMap[tokenId];

        return ERC721(ghost.contractAddress).tokenURI(ghost.tokenId);
    }
}

Necromint contract

Built an ERC721 contract that allows you to resurrect burned NFTs, inspired by Dom Hofmann

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Roam Research iOS app

Got tired of waiting for a Roam Research app so I built my own! It comes with a native "Share to Roam" extension so you can finally send notes to Roam from the native iOS menu.

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DM Newsletters on Twitter

While playing around with the Twitter API, I discovered a hacky way to bring newsletters into the platform using a DM feature meant for business chats.

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Spoke at Laravel Worldwide Meetup

Gave a talk about different methods of authentication for Laravel at the Laravel Worldwide Meetup. Was a lot of fun!

Watch on YouTube

3D experiments

Played around with physics-based animations in Blender. Not super fancy-looking but hey, physics!

A WebAuthn Laravel package

Built a simple Laravel package that makes integrating WebAuthn into your app a breeze.

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Sell access to your GitHub repos with Gumroad

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Sell access to your GitHub repos with Gumroad

GumHub is a one-click solution to sell access to your GitHub repos with Gumroad.When you purchase GumHub, you'll get access to the source code, along with instructions for getting it up-and-running with your own repos. The process is as simple as clicking a "Deploy to Vercel" button and filling in five fields.

Selling access to GitHub repos

After seeing a few people sponsor-lock their repos, I thought I'd build a one-time payment version. GumHub uses Gumroad and Vercel to easily sell access to your GitHub repos.

Landing page design

A landing I designed for a product that never ended up getting announced. I designed this in Sketch, taking inspiration from the old Tuple and Level landing pages, and then built it with Tailwind CSS.

A new book-reading experience

To celebrate a few months with my girlfriend, I bought her an eBook. However, she doesn't have an eReader, so I built a simple web app to read it on following the stories format.

See the process

Shortcut macOS app

I wanted a desktop app for Shortcut (previously Clubhouse), but they aren't planning to release one soon, so I made it myself.

Neumorphic Sitesauce prototype

Over the last few days, I scratched the whole Sitesauce codebase (while keeping a copy on git obviously) and started over, focusing on the best UI & UX I could provide.

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Reverse-engineering Byte

Spent some time reverse-engineering the Byte API, and managed to upload a video from outside the app!

Sitesauce UI refresh

I took some time this weekend to rebuild the entire Sitesauce UI from scratch (for like 3rd time!). Happy with this iteration so far.

Skeuomorphic credit card input

A very unique credit card input for Sitesauce (using Stripe Elements behind the scenes). Didn't end up making it onto the final product, but I still love it.

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🎉 I'm incredibly excited to finally unveil what I've been working on for the past month. Sitesauce generates static sites from ANY dynamically-generated site and keeps them updated. Learn more and sign up for early access 👇
A static site for your dynamically-generated website

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A static site for your dynamically-generated website

Sitesauce converts your dynamic websites into static sites, so you can keep your existing workflow while enjoying all the benefits static sites provide.

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Announcing Sitesauce

Sitesauce generates static sites from ANY dynamically-generated site and keeps them updated. I've been working on it for over a month now, and I'm super excited to see where it goes!

Secret project prototype

Secret project video update: Been working on polishing UX & onboarding experience. Hoping to announce it very soon!

[1.x] Try to get CSRF token from cookie by m1guelpf · Pull Request #242 · laravel/echo

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[1.x] Try to get CSRF token from cookie by m1guelpf · Pull Request #242 · laravel/echo

The Laravel skeleton was recently updated to stop explicitly setting the CSRF token on the axios client, as it can automatically get it from the XSRF-TOKEN Laravel adds by default. This PR introduc...

Contributing to Laravel Echo

Just opened a PR to make Laravel Echo automatically get the CSRF token from the XSRF-TOKEN cookie Laravel adds by default. Should improve developer experience a lot!

My first ever (un)conference talk!

I gave my first talk ever at the LaraconEU Unconference, and it was a great experience. Maybe I'll be on the main stage next year?

Custom backgrounds

Designed some new backgrounds for my devices, showing all the logos from past projects and my branding ✨

A Chrome extension to focus on your email

Inspired by Christian Genco, I buily a simple Chrome extension that strikes out the text of every single email except for the first one, forcing you to actually focus instead of just skimming through them.

Install extension

A theme uploader for Ghost

A Ghost theme marketplace prototype that could directly upload and update Ghost themes using undocumented API endpoints. Built in under two hours while streaming!

Launchpad OBS controls

Managed to get a really cool scene switching setup with my launchpad, using MIDI to control OBS Studio. I can now switch scenes and toggle sources with the push of a button!

Blog redesign prototype

An early version of my website's redesign which I ended up discarding.

Things web logger

I LOVE Things, but it's only available for iOS devices and I wanted to add tasks from my school Chromebook, so I made a little PWA that lets you add tasks from any device.

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Blogcast onboarding prototype

Built a nice onboarding for Blogcast, which explains the service and guides you while adding your first article, importing and enabling sync.

Snaptier designs

Snaptier was an automation project I worked on with some friends. We ended up shutting it down after a few months, but the designs were pretty cool.

Turn your blog into a podcast

Blogcast uses advanced text-to-speech technology to turn your blog into a podcast. I set myself the goal of going from idea to first paying customer in less than a week, and I'm happy to say I did it!

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Website redesign

Redesigned my website yet again, this time with a much cleaner look and cards for the articles. Also, dark mode!

Blogcast UI

Finally finished working on the UI flow for my new article-to-audio product! Still things to tweak, but here's an early preview.

A better Patreon for makers

Built a landing page for a product that never ended up launching. It was supposed to be a better Patreon for makers, with better integrations and an actually usable API.

An extension to toggle CSS from a website

I challenged myself to build something in an hour, and the result was a very simple Chrome extension that let you disable CSS on a website. It's now available on the Chrome Web Store!

Install extension

Personal Dashboard

A dynamic dashboard showing my calendar, Twitter interactions, current music, and more. Built with Laravel and Vue.js.

Video Embeds for Statamic

My second Statamic addon, which lets you embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia. It also supports custom embeds, and is fully configurable.

Beautiful docs for everyone

Since last summer, I've been working in my first real product. It aims to help everyone create beautiful documentation for their projects. Try it out!

{{-- Tired of doing this? --}}

@if (Auth::check())
    @include('super-secret-stuff')
@else
    @include('nothing-to-see-here')
@endif

{{-- Maybe it's even worse... --}}

@if (Auth::guard('api')->check())
    @include('super-secret-stuff')
@endif

{{-- Now you can simply --}}

@auth
    @include('super-secret-stuff')
@endauth

@auth('api')
    Yay, Auth Guards!
@endauth

Contributed to the Laravel framework

Added an @auth Blade directive, so you can easily check if a user is logged in or not.

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My first 3DS homebrew

Finally managed to get DevKitPro working, and write my first 3DS homebrew!