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Max's timeline planning session โ roadmap initiatives from granular deliverables to two-year moonshots.
Summary
A roadmap planning session in which Max walks through his "timeline" of initiatives โ a mix of granular deliverables and far-reaching moonshots โ for the Hitchhiker / Game of 42 project. The organising idea is to stop treating hackathons, conferences and grant outreach piecemeal and instead announce them up front as ongoing "meta" series, using the early wave of attention to drive funding and momentum. Built on the team's core trust-graph architecture and the emerging "guide" (gu.id) vibe-coding unit, the plan threads together brand and social launches, a podcast series with OpenServe, advisory "bodies" for crypto/token credibility, an incubator-style Hitchhiker's Guide to Startups, and a carefully finessed public tech roadmap tied to tokenomics.
Key points
- Hitchhiker Hackathons: a meta-series that hitchhikes on existing hackathons (Zcash, Ethereum, +Solana), letting teams build on the shared trust-graph stack and routing them to opportunities.
- Funding push: use launch attention to approach foundations; target
42 groups x 42k (1.75M); leverage academic/builder crypto contacts. - Moonshots: a 2-year goal for an Apple local-AI partnership; a Game Olympics newsjacking the 2026/2028 Winter & Summer Olympics; 42 global conference appearances per year.
- The guide (gu.id on id.earth): core vibe-coding unit on the trust graph + wikis; vibe-coding workshops from September; request-for-guidance and a creative writing competition around Nov 5th.
- Brand & socials: brand identity v1 in July-Aug (Henry/OpenServe); launch signal-social (X, LinkedIn) ~July 4th and community-social (Telegram, Discord) ~Burning Man, staggered at the speed of trust toward the Not Panicking Festival; future Hitchhiker TV/Radio.
- Crypto/token: engage LFG and advisory bodies (Foresight, Internet Identity Workshop, a Davos concept for Feb 2028) for market-making/liquidity; likely a fair launch; tokenomics confidence should pace tech-roadmap promises.
- Venture/incubator: a Guide Venture Builder โ a Hitchhiker's Guide to Startups based on MIT's 24 Steps (Disciplined Entrepreneurship) + slicing-the-pie, needing an author/partner and a university pilot.
- Tech roadmap: announce gently and only promise what's already built (promise graph vs trust graph vs knowledge roadmap) to avoid reputational risk.
Action items
- Crypto white paper โ early priority, tied to the OpenServe announcement (possibly by Burning Man).
- Brand identity v1 + social templates โ July-August (Henry).
- Launch X + LinkedIn ~July 4th; Telegram/Discord ~Burning Man/September; secure finance + community-management team first.
- Means-of-automation announcement as a podcast (~July 4th); invite guests such as Audrey Tang.
- Stand up gu.id on id.earth; begin vibe-coding workshops in September.
- Request-for-guidance shout-out + writing competition ~Nov 5th.
- Game Olympics announcement (Burning Man / start of term); Winter-Olympics pilot, full version by Summer 2028.
- Approach advisory bodies / LFG re token liquidity; line up market makers ~a year ahead of any launch.
- Secure an author + university partner before greenlighting the Hitchhiker's Guide to Startups.
- Draft a gently-worded public tech roadmap framed via the promise/trust graph.
See
- Workshop Videos
- Video Template
- Mitch Timeline
- David Timeline