Funkyonchain

The Life of Shaw, a Couch Developer

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### Chapter 1. The Beginning
I’m an ordinary open-source developer, buried under a mountain of debt so deep that I don’t even know if I owe $70,000 or $100,000. I take on any job I can find to keep working on my open-source framework. I search for projects, offer them my code, and scrape by just enough to pay rent.

You might imagine me as one of those developers in Palo Alto renting a $10,000/month apartment, wasting money because of poor financial education. But the reality? Far from it.
I live in a single room with my wife and three roommates. My desk is right next to the bed where I work, coding until 3 a.m. every night.

My wife is stressed out, and I’m hustling non-stop, even taking on gaming projects just to make ends meet. I want to keep building—I don’t want to get into trading. Then one day, a friend showed me daos.fun, and I joined my first DAO.

The manager of that fund, Skely, seemed like a funny guy, so I followed him.
In October, truth_terminal blew up on the internet with its posts. A bot offered 1 ETH to anyone who could create a digital replica of Marc Andreessen. I replied, but nothing came of it. Then a random person on Twitter asked:

“Can you resurrect DegenSpartan with AI?”

I confidently replied:
“I can!”

And just like that, DegenSpartanAI and its token were born.

But soon, people accused me of dumping tokens and called me a scammer. 😔
I spent hours defending myself, especially to Elijah, who had lost money trading DegenSpartanAI. After two hours of explaining, he finally believed I was honest, and the issue was resolved.

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### Chapter 2. The Demons
My wife encouraged me to try spiritual practices, and for the first time in my life, I experimented with psychedelics (a decision I strongly discourage 🚫). What followed was a bizarre, otherworldly experience.

When I recovered, I went out for lunch with Baoskee, a local acquaintance introduced to me by Skely. We chatted about my dream of AI helping humanity—not just in innovation, but also as a means to generate income, like a venture capital fund powered by AI.

Baoskee laughed and said:
“What about ai16z?”

We laughed for five minutes straight. 😂

When I got home, I used an AI tool to generate a wife image and sent it to Baoskee.
“What do you think? Can we raise 420.69 SOL?”

He replied confidently:
“Of course!”

So I launched the DAO, and it sold out in 25 minutes! But in the chaos, I forgot to buy my own share.
Holy sh*t, holy sh*t, holy sh*t! 😱

The Life of Shaw, a Couch Developer (Part 2)

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### Chapter 3. Karma
Life works in mysterious ways. 😌 Remember Elijah, the guy who accused me of being a scammer? Turns out, he bought into my DAO with 80 SOL, grabbing 16% of the allocation. Later, he reached out to tell me about it and even donated part of his tokens to me.
I was floored. 🤯

Soon after, I met other incredible people like Skycat, Seb, and Tres, who joined my team. The project took off like a rocket: $2 million, $20 million, then $250 million! 🚀

Riding the wave of success, I decided to reveal my open-source framework, which I had been working on for two years. I called it Eliza.

People I’d never met before reached out, asking to launch a character token based on it. Initially, I said yes, but I soon regretted that decision.
“This is my project, my creation. I have to protect it,” I thought.

I backed out of the collaboration and decided to launch the real ELIZA token with my own team.
The reaction? Pure chaos. Twitter exploded with criticism. 😡 People called me greedy, a scammer, and worse. The project’s valuation started to tumble.

I tried to explain myself online, but every word seemed to backfire. The more I talked, the harder my projects fell. It felt like my life’s work was crumbling before my eyes.
FML.

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