S*x hotline for memes, renting out a movie theater, and learning manners

Sup memelords,

I just had one of the silliest weeks of my life:

• I sponsored a hackathon where someone built a sex hotline for memes

• I went to a manners workshop for tech bros (I needed it)

• Memelord got featured in the #1 product newsletter in the planet

• I went to the X office

• Oh yeah, I rented out a movie theater to watch Instagram Reels (fr fr)

One of the wildest weeks of my life.

Here’s how it went down:

Thursday 3/26:

I pay $4,000 to sponsor a hackathon in New York on Saturday.

I’m in Miami.

Fuck, I should probably figure out how to get to New York.

Fuck it, we ball. Buys a flight.

Friday 3/27:

Get first class seat for $200 and some points.

Let’s gooooo.

“You’re gonna do important work with that iced champagne and warm mixed nuts, right?”

Absolutely.

Make memes the whole time.

It’s called UX testing boys.

I was John Locked In coooking up in first class baby.

@john__lockedin

Thou shall John Locke in #biblequotes #philosophy

Saturday 3/28 (Silly Hacks)

Wake up at 7:30.

Head down to Brooklyn and get some coffee in me to start filming.

I decide fuck it, let’s film our first Silly Valley episode since raising $3M.

YEAH THAT’S RIGHT SILLY VALLEY IS BACK!!!

We didnt have time the last 7 months because I’ve been locked in on building you the most beautiful meme editor on the planet, but we are finally back.

If you’ve never seen Silly Valley, every week me and my buddies used to build stupid software.

I built Duolingo for cursing (DuoFucko)

I built a dating app with 1 man on it.

I took ayahuasca to think of startup ideas.

And now I sponsored a silly hackathon with our own software.

Coming out here…

If you can’t wait, don’t worry, here’s how it went down.

Today is the day.

100+ engineers are building using the new Memelord AI meme API (try here).

And I decided to give out cool prizes:

• job interviews at Memelord

• 10,000+ API credits

• A flight to Miami for the winner!!

“So what kinda weird projects did people build with the Memelord API???” you’re probably wondering. 

There were a bunch, but my personal favorite was sex hotline that talks dirty to you and sends you memes (1-800-MEMES).

It’s genius, really. In the same way a sex hotline edges you to make you pay for more minutes, the AI voice talks dirty while the AI is loading the memes. The same mechanic. Brilliant. I’m hiring this guy no lie.

Overall huge success. If you are a startup with a) an API, b) are hiring engineers, and c) are very content-heavy, then I would do 12/10 recommend sponsoring a hackathon. We got tons of new users and demos PLUS 3 very good engineering candidates PLUS a lot of content for a new video. All for $4k.

I get home mad late and ptfo.

Sunday 3/29

I have no recollection of this day. I think I blacked out from the silliness. No lie. I slept all day and drank tea.

Monday 3/30

3 meetings with investors I’d been wanting to meet for a minute.

Hung out in the park with one of our early angels for an hour and yapped. Got omakase with another that night. Nothing better than aligned incentives and sushi.

Tuesday 3/31

Our lead investor Slow Ventures hosted an Etiquette event - basically a how to have manners for founders event featuring a grooming expert, a caviar expert, and more.

I ate caviar. I yapped with my investors on a couch. I met some new customers.

Did I learn manners? Probably not.

You can’t see it but my hankerchief says “Fuck Off” in cursive.

While I was sitting there, I also got a text saying I was featured in Lenny’s Newsletter, the #1 product newsletter in the world.

Lenny featured the Memelord API in an OpenClaw breakdown AND TWEETED WE HAVE THE BEST ONBOARDING FLOW ON THE INTERNET WHAT THE FUCK.

I was reading Lenny’s Newsletter 4+ years ago. Now we’re in it. Surreal.

Tweet.

Freak out.

Back to caviar and IRL.

My homie Oren John made a good video breaking down the vid here.

Wednesday 4/1 (Reels: The Movie)

Ok now the real reason I flew up to NYC.

I rented out a movie theater to play IG Reels.

This will be a whole other episode of Silly Valley, so make sure to subscribe cough cough if you haven’t yet!

Today is the day.

We ride the Uber down filming. I show the book that started it all. It’s crazy man, I wrote the book 4 years ago everyone thought I was nuts then I went and made the millis. At this point I’m just reading pages out of my own book to find out what happens next.

We get to the theater.

I start interviewing people about why they came to a movie theater to watch IG Reels.

At 6:30 we start playing Reels.

It’s hard to even describe how weird it is.

We all passed around a phone scrolling IG reels, people DMed the reels to the main phone, and we liked and commented largely depending on people’s laughing and booing.

It was absolutely unhinged.

Everything from unhinged meme reels and SpongeBob edits to hyper modernist cyberpunk edits to AI Donald Trump talking about gooning

A true social experiment.

My Instagram does it better justice.

And the Hoopify guy gave a great review.

We’ll be tryna do it in more locations soon.

Thursday 4/2

I joined X (for lunch).

Then went on a podcast where we built software and ate pizza.

We built a birthday calendar that sends people memes on their birthday using Memelord’s new API.

Then I ptfo.

What a week.

The world is getting sillier everyday.

“The most entertaining outcome is the most likely outcome.”

Memelord is the most likely outcome because we shall always be the most entertaining.

Start hacking with our API here and download our iOS app to start going viral with memes marketing.

GO WATCH SOME MEME VIDEOS ON THE BIG SCREEN BABY.

Thanks for reading memelords.

Create some cool shit this week.

Jason “The Memelord” Levin

Founder of Memelord.com

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