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
Thanks for the shout out!

Looks like @dazzle.fm even picked this conversation up as a trend

dazzle.fm/trends/0195e...
March 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The Nintendo Direct Effect
March 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Goodbye Seattle ✈️

Hope to be back for the next #ATmosphereConf
March 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hi! You may like what we've been building over at dazzle.fm

It's an alternative Bluesky trending topic system that's great at highlighting these types of posts
February 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hi! You may like the Bluesky trending topic system we've been building over at dazzle.fm

The topic categories allow you to see what's trending outside of politics
February 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Hi! You may like the Bluesky trending topic system that we've been working on over at dazzle.fm
February 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Hi! You may like the Bluesky trending topic system that we've been working on over at dazzle.fm
February 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hi! You may like the trending topic system for Bluesky that we've been working on over at @dazzle.fm
February 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hi! You may like the trending topic system for Bluesky that we've been working on over at @dazzle.fm
February 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hi! You may like the Bluesky trending topic system that we've been working on over at @dazzle.fm
February 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Hey James! You may like the Bluesky trending topic system that we've been working on over at @dazzle.fm
February 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hey Witty! You may like the Bluesky trending topic system that we've been working on over at @dazzle.fm
February 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
The GRAMMYs effect from last night

An anomalous surge of music related discussion
February 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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
You can generate your own post volume graphs here:
bsky.dazzle.tools

The trending page isn't public yet as it needs some additional safe guards put in place before release, mostly due to unlabeled nudity like this trend states:
December 27, 2024 at 7:26 PM
behind-the-scenes dashboard
December 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM
December 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM
December 27, 2024 at 7:17 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