John Sabath
johnsabath.com
John Sabath
@johnsabath.com
Midwestern indie-hacker, ex-StabilityAI

Building @dazzle.fm, what’s happening on Bluesky
@dazzle.fm's internal topic heatmap for Bluesky is now available to the public

dazzle.fm/stats

Seeing surges of discussion around a topic and working backwards to figure out what caused the spike is a fun past time

The 1am science spike is still a mystery though
April 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by John Sabath
We're excited to preview "custom algorithms" for Bluesky on dazzle.fm/algorithms!

This is a really early beta which allows you to create your own algorithms through simple text prompts.
March 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Reposted by John Sabath
We got mentioned in TechCrunch’s article about upcoming apps in the ATProto ecosystem

Thanks @sarahp.bsky.social!
Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol | TechCrunch
A year ago, Bluesky was opening up to the public and was known as one of the many X competitors that emerged after Elon Musk acquired the network formerly
techcrunch.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Nintendo Direct Effect
March 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Glad to see the ATProto conference generated enough chatter to get picked up by the Dazzle algorithm
ATProto Community Launches First Conference
The ATProto community gathered in Seattle to discuss decentralization and the future of web governance, emphasizing the importance of accountability and grassroots development.
dazzle.fm
March 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Goodbye Seattle ✈️

Hope to be back for the next #ATmosphereConf
March 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Unsurprisingly, a significant portion of #ATmosphereConf attendees have their own PDS 🧑‍💻
Next week we'll be improving the OAuth login flow at dazzle.fm with custom PDS support!
March 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Reposted by John Sabath
Hey #atmosphereconf! Check out dazzle.fm and come chat with us if you’re curious how it works.

IMO it’s the best source for trends on Bluesky.
Dazzle.fm – What's happening on Bluesky
Dazzle highlights trending discussions on Bluesky
dazzle.fm
March 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
On the way to #AtmosphereConf!
Hyped for #AtmosphereConf!

We'll be sharing our custom algorithms preview with attendees once things kick off. 🎉
March 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reposted by John Sabath
We’ve updated dazzle.fm/trends with much better Bluesky posts!

Figuring out what’s trending without custom feeds works really well…
Bluesky Trending by Dazzle.fm
Discover the top Bluesky discussions in your niche
dazzle.fm
March 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Here's another one. You can clearly see surges in discussion around the Super Bowl and the half-time show.
February 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
February 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Ask and you shall receive

Now live on @dazzle.fm
February 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by John Sabath
Trends on dazzle.fm now link to other related trends.
February 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The GRAMMYs effect from last night

An anomalous surge of music related discussion
February 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
@dazzle.fm just shipped Trending Topic Categories for Bluesky

dazzle.fm/trends
Bluesky Trending by Dazzle.fm
Discover the top Bluesky discussions in your niche
dazzle.fm
January 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by John Sabath
While on the one hand, I appreciate the new "Trending" section on @bsky.app, I really want to see slightly less trendy trends. What's popular to a few thousand of us, rather than hundreds of thousands of us.

My suspicion is there are more trends related to cats and kindness at that measure.
January 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Finally got around to shipping some critical performance improvements on the firehose side of @dazzle.fm

I should have done it sooner, it took a ton of DB pressure off
January 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I rolled out a new ensemble of models to Dazzle's trending topics page for Bluesky. Really happy with the results I'm getting so far.

Check it out here: dazzle.fm

#bskydev #bsky
January 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Can Claude with Computer Use beat Stimulation Clicker?
January 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Bsky trending topics page we've been working on is now available in a public beta.

We didn't manage to beat Bsky to the punch, but we're still pretty proud of it.

dazzle.fm
Check out the trending page we made for Bluesky...

dazzle.fm
January 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
give me a firehose and a gpu stand, and i will replicate x's radar and trending features on bsky.

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this project has been a ton of fun. it gave me an reason to dust off my golang skills, and also to fine-tune a custom embed model on bsky threads.
December 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM
This is a neat idea to make desktop agents more knowledgable. Reminds me of LSPs for IDEs.
Anthropic released an interesting thing today: an attempt at a standard protocol for LLM tools to talk to services that provide tools and extra context to be used other the models modelcontextprotocol.io
Introduction - Model Context Protocol
Get started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
modelcontextprotocol.io
November 25, 2024 at 4:54 PM